paigetheoracle Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 The love in our hearts not only causes the sadness, but overwhelms it. A critical mass can fix a critical mess, and our collective selves can serve as a gravity well of advancement if we focus it. We're on the same train bro, loving the countryside and humidifying our tear ducts upon witnessing it. Well said - very amusing and quite amazing! I was just thinking Shirley there must be more to life than this but she wouldn't answer? No but seriously I think I'd started to lose the plot even though I'm no great smoker of pot. I started to look into the future and thought there isn't one (at least not for me). My parents are dead. Me and my brother don't speak. My partner/wife has gone back to Glasgow and wants me to follow. I hate the place as it seems to be an enemy of thought and peace (You can't sit and watch the world go by and contemplate your navel, you've got to be doing something, going somewhere - buying this, watching or listening to that. Everywhere you go is noise and motion (The thump, thump of pounding bass in passing cars - the big 'I am's' screaming "Here I am!' No blending into the background, modestly and noticing something but your own glaring ego). Up here I walk the dog and meet fellow dog walkers or others just out for a stroll (This is the country, not a big town). I used to be poetic and artistic - write stories, poems, draw - now I'm not sure what I am but a burnt out shell, no better than those I criticize for wanting attention. Failed relationships, failing health and hope. An old man at 54 or of 54? What have I got to gauge it on? I was going to change the world but instead it changed me and here I am a migraine suffering arthritic, critic. I relax occasionally and have finally found a forum that I haven't abandoned after five minutes because it is boring and unchallenging: Most I've visited don't understand me and I sadly understand them too well. Here, the only things most people don't understand about my threads is why I bother to post them at all or the glaring mistakes (See poll in Medical forum under Cannabis - cure or cure?) or misunderstandings that come from being divided by the same language (English/ Yanklish).:( By the way the only thing that would encourage me to go back to the hell hole of Glasgow is 'acting'. I used to belong to an improvisation class and enjoyed it but I failed to get into Drama class, like I failed to find a publisher for my English language teaching series or any interest in my philosophical ramblings (till now and here - sadly, I have to say that I sometimes laughed like a drain at my own and others ramblings and jokes but unlike some places I've been, it hasn't been enough to get me kicked out i.e. Scientology/Findhorn (my best friend in a long time - I can count them all together on one hand - was like me thrown unceremoniously out of both for questioning what was happening within their portals but he can go one better as he was also thrown out by Osho (Rajneesh)).:beer: :) ('Conform, conform - do things my way! Conform, conform - do as I say!' To quote the lyrics of a ranting song that never saw the light of day: Pen to paper, paper to dustbin - memory to head).
Tarantism Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 Well you know me, I believe consciousness is going to experience an orgasm sometime soon.its all probabilities...it may or it may not. i.e. conciousness happened to have evolved the way it has so far.
paigetheoracle Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 I don't know if we are getting any better and evolving into something worthwhile - look at the fact GW is in power, the typographical errors on this site as well as Newspapers (In Britain it just used to be The Grauniad (Guardian) as it was affectionately known because of this), which crept into the columns and now pepper the Headlines as well. Then there is the noise (Heavy bass notes from music systems, which studies have shown to be destructive to the ability to concentrate as well as the health of plant life). Then there is the high CO2 levels. Education going down the drain etc. I'm not sure that this bad news is confined to The West or whether it is worldwide (If it is worldwide then I believe we're in deep **** becaue it means there is no place of safety for any of us). A rise in consciousness? More like self-delusion and collapse of the ego to me. I'd like to think things were getting better but the evidence doesn't look hopeful to me. I'd like to believe different but I personally can't on the evidence I see before me - however things can have upturns as well as downturns but I see none of the former at the moment, except as minor blips on the horizon.
Tarantism Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 eh, who is "in charge"" really has nothing to do with it. the rumblings are there, the tremors deep and rolling forth...im eager to see what humanity does with...erm...dare i say "its gift"?
Tarantism Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 the problem i think we will see is our fellow humans progressing, yes, but poking thier beaks in the wrong places.
Queso Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 Our evolution of technology, our knowledge of neurobiology and artificial intelligence as well as our experience with cloning (all of this of course in the near future) is going to contribute to a massive change in our consciousness. It isn't about old, sterile evolution. This thread is about a new kind of evolution,one we humans are self inflicting upon ourselves as we speak. We can't forsee what is to come, because these technologies are barely being developed, (although people have seen this in visions for thousands of years.)
Tarantism Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 i have a question. lets say all this pans out as you forsee, will it be a "good" thing? will humanity benifit from any "neo" evolution that may occur? i think that we are going to destroy ourselves right quick once the world gets a clue.
Queso Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 Every 5 yearsall of the technology ever developed everDOUBLES. With that said, Humans are going to develop things we can't even imagine to further our evolution of our consciousness. It's inevitable. That's what this thread, and my neo-human evolution thread are all about. Think about what is going to happen when AI is smarter than any human? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Queso Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 Psh, it will be good and bad. Just like everything else.
Tarantism Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 Every 5 yearsall of the technology ever developed everDOUBLES. With that said, Humans are going to develop things we can't even imagine to further our evolution of our consciousness. It's inevitable. That's what this thread, and my neo-human evolution thread are all about. Think about what is going to happen when AI is smarter than any human? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAlike i said,we shall be the end of ourselves. but i think that has been evident for some time now yeah>?
Tarantism Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 Psh, it will be good and bad. Just like everything else.ugh. you didnt answer my question, will humanity benifit? PROBABLY NOT. i meean...perhaps in the short term, but our sucess will mean our ending.
Queso Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 Success? c'mon man. It's not about success. This is simply about one word: FURTHER.
Queso Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 I do not know where this will take us. The end? hmmph, that'd be awkward :eek2:
Tarantism Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 This is simply about one word: FURTHER.damn right.
Queso Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 Think about the internet. You can look at it as a first step, if you will. Now we can sit down and meditate and communicate with people all over the world INSTANTLY. Something sorcerers have been desperately trying to accomplish for thousands of years. They never had any idea there would be "computers" to do it. We have no idea what kind of technology is going to be developed that is going to further our evolution (of consciousness) You know about the evolutionary paradigm, right?How everything keeps getting fasterand fasterand faster. It is called a crescendo. And uh, it's amazing.
Tarantism Posted July 13, 2006 Report Posted July 13, 2006 ah, i think i have caught on. you are talking about enhancing the human mind through analog i.e. technology???
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