AIM (thread thoughts weaving)

[wine]

Our youth is now telepathic

and through an executable file

our crown chakras blast open.

 

AOL Instant messenger, and all programs alike

allow us to communicate instantly.

An ability that is provoking a speedy evolution, a self-induced opiate addiction to information.

Taken for granted,

this ability has been much pondered for beyond millenia.

 

Astral projection was a vision.

Humans believed they could communicate with others, but...

how is that possible?

I believe Instant communication on a worldwide, even universal scale has been an archetype since ... well, I don't know. A long, long time ago.

 

I don't see how astral projection can, and could have been possible, without the internet, even after studying the physical methods of Lucid dreaming, which in my opinion, is completely internal-

 

The communication through AIM, IRC, ICQ, et cetera, is only a partition of our collective conciousness.

A big portion.

It's the truth.

It's pure information straight from the human mind.

How we feel about our world, what we do...

 

Wouldn't the government be interested in this information?

 

I've heard of people who discuss illegal matters amung forums being arrested, for what they type on internet websites.

 

The government must obviously filter through words, IP addresses, hard-drives,

to keep this drunk society in order.

 

Is there any proof?

 

Probably not, the government has sure learned a lot about Secrets since the CIA's MKULTRA.

 

I'm just curious if anyone has any information on if, and how they monitor the collective conciousness of the world.

 

I, being an old civilian,

do not have access to the information I wish I did.

I want to know what's really going on on the world.

[wine]

No one has any thoughts to contribute to this collective thread?

[Cedars]

I remember the software Carnivore which was suppost to monitor all emails but I dont think it went further than that, like with forums, IM, chats, blogs, ect. And Carnivore worked with keywords to watch for, flagging certain messages for people to review the content later.

 

Most of the internet arrests come from actual people who monitor sites for information, then alert law enforcement, such as we see with the Dateline online predator series. With all the meaningless chatter going on out there on the www, I dont know how many servers it would take to monitor all the websites (forums included) that post the keywords. Thats probably why the government was enlisting the help of places such as google, ISPs such as AT&T to do such on site info gathering.

 

The alarming part of the gov. asking for this data (which was supposedly anonymous data) is my belief that they were using it to fish for legitimacy to introduce the Carnivor type programs in large areas of the www. I think back on the things I have googled for, just to argue in this forum is enough to skew this data because a listing of how many persons searched the term "pedophile" or ["islamic terrorism" and "iraq" ] doesnt give you information on whether there is an increase in the number of potential pedophiles or fundy terrorists.

[wine]

Thank you for the insight.

[CraigD]

Our youth is now telepathic

and through an executable file

…

AOL Instant messenger, and all programs alike

allow us to communicate instantly.

An ability that is provoking a speedy evolution, a self-induced opiate addiction to information. …

I believe wine overstates the capabilities and cultural significance of text-based chat software.

 

Telepathy, literally “distant feeling” is usually defined as the paranormal acquisition of information concerning the thoughts, feelings or activity of another person. Acquiring information in a normal manner – speech, sign language, telephone, text chats, or even fully immersive virtual reality – is by definition not telepathy, but telecommunication.

 

Of the many kinds of realtime telecommunications available worldwide, the telephone is most popular. It’s very widely available – in the US, most people have one, often a mobile device carried on their person, robust, easy to use, and reasonably affordable. It’s practical bandwidth is high – people typically speak faster than they type, and many vocal nuances can be communicated naturally. It doesn’t require literacy, and is language and character set independent.

 

Email and text chats’ main advantage over telephony seems to me primarily twofold:

• Compactness – as text, this post requires about 16000 bits, uncompressed. As a telephone signal, it requires about 1000 times that, even noticeably compressed.
  
• Precision – communicating data such as strings of numerals (eg: 9786742705) are more accurately and quickly communicated as text than spoken, especially in the less-than-optimal audio environment often encountered in conference calls and noisy rooms.
  

… our crown chakras blast open.

Though my own higher chakra-blasting experience is far less than some people I’ve known, few of the more charka-y folk I’ve known seemed especially attracted to telecommunication of either the audio, textual, or graphical variety, preferring more direct, visceral interaction with nature and their fellow beings. In addition to the more “organic” quality of real meatspace interaction, there’s a plain bandwidth issue – while it’s actually possible to sit with a couple of tens of thousands of people and, in some sense, interact with all of them, a text chat approaching even a hundred people tends to narrow to a few senders and a lot of receivers, much resembling many isolated people watching a few actors via television. It’s difficult, in my experience, to feel truly part of a large crowd via a chat system.

 

In summary, I believe that greatly enhanced communication via computer systems is possible, but has not yet been commonly achieved.

 

I’ve been somewhat surprised that early efforts to do so have been so unpopular. Corporate America is littered with abandoned teleconferencing equipment from before the year 2000, while the business communication medium of choice (at least in my work organization) appears to be tending away from combined audio-video and shared whiteboards to a combination of telephone “bridge” conferences and text chats. Multi-user gaming appears to be tending away from the expected immersive first-person (eg: Unreal Tournament, or virtual reality (eg: the now defunct Virtuality Limited; CAVE) toward third-person (eg: WoW). Despite expectations of widespread acceptance and popularity of the former by people as celebrated as Neil Stephenson and as obscure as me, people seem unexpectedly reticent, preferring the more “old fashioned” media of voice and text.

[wine]

Ah yes, Telepathy is an old word

for something without.