Friday, July 08, 2005

Placebo ergo sum = You hallucinate yourself into being.

I used to hallucinate as a child by pressing my hands against both closed eyelids, pressing firmly against my eyeballs. I would start to see geometric patterns and gears moving and bright spots, etc. You see what you want to make your body see. I would submit the actual visual process is rational hallucination, by which you envision objects in the distance when they are really occurring in your headspace and on your retina. Take for an example a tree, when you look at a tree, you probably dont think much about it, because you have a category in your head to store it in unconsciously. You look at a tree, and your nervous system transforms the photonic (light) information into a coherent visual image. The concept of a tree is constructed by humans. I guarantee a tree doesn't know it is a tree. It is instead a pulsing quantum collaboration of organized systems functioning on the same organismal level- the same as us humans, accept we learn to conceive and define ourselves and reality- therefore we solidify our hallucinations as an objective reality that everyone shares.

But reality is the endless muse. The tree is there, yes, but the experience of the tree depends on your state of consciousness. An ant would have different experience than a human, a treehugger would have a different experience than a arborist or a logger.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Maybe Gods are physical anachronisms in their original forms, yet their spirits and behavior parallels great portions of humanity. Let's expose then defeat the bad ones while magnifying the good spirits.
From Pantheon.org:
Ares, the Greek god of war, is tall and handsome, but vain and as cruel as his brother Hephaestus was kind. His sister Eris, the goddess of strife, is his constant companion, but he is also attended by his sons Deimos and Phobos, as well as Enyo, an old war-goddess.

Ares is the God of War. Fuck him in the age of quantum mechanics and astrocivilizations. Fuck him in the age of instant information. Fuck him with the realization that war is motivated by profit. Fuck him for retarding our infinite potential. The Truth Force shall destroy Ares' power and expose him as naked insanity fueled by obedience.

Carbon is the backbone of life's organic chemistry. Intelligence interacting information guides uvolution (evolution of the universe for almost 14 billion years previous). Carbon is integral to the self-organizing and cyclical systems utilized by all life, from bacteria to ants to dogs to humans to trees. The truth force rides along carbon's strong backbone. Carbon nanotubes (pure sheets of graphite rolled into cylinders) are the strongest material known to man, can ballistically conduct loads of current, and have many other exploitable properties. Don't forget that diamond is made of pure carbon, just like graphite. Carbon is a beautiful elemental chimera, a jester of infinite roles.

And while we're on the subject, Eris shall too perish in the flames of satyagraha.
From Pantheon.org:
Eris is the Greek goddess of discord and strife. She is Ares' constant companion and follows him everywhere. Eris is sinister and mean, and her greatest joy is to make trouble. She has a golden apple that is so bright and shiny everybody wants to have it. When she throws it among friends, their friendship come to a rapid end. When she throws it among enemies, war breaks out, for the golden apple of Eris is the Apple of Discord. She did this once during the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and this act brought about the Trojan War.