Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18

physical realities are limited, spiritual realities are limited … actions are limited, intentions are limitless #
"The first intelligence out there in the cabin disliked him and still did. It was this second intelligence that had come in and made love… #
These cellular patterns have been lovers for millions of years and they aren't about to be put off by these recent little intellectual #
patterns that know almost nothing about what is going on. The cells want immortality … which is why they make such a commotion. #
They are so old. They began to distinguish [these bodies]…more than a billion years ago…of course they pay no attention 2 mind patterns. #
The mind sitting detached, aloof and discerning is suddenly rudely shoved aside by this other intelligence which is stronger than its own. #
Then strange things happen that the mind sees as vulgar and shunnable. #
The language of mental intelligence has nothing to say to the cells directly. They don't understand it. #
The language of thecells has nothing 2say 2the mind directly. It doesn't speak that language either. They are completely separate patterns. #
The language we've inherited confuses this… 'my' body and 'your' body … it isn't that way. #
That's like a FORTRAN [computer programming language] program saying, 'this is my computer'. #
This … 'Me' … who sits behind our eyeballs looking out … to pass judgment on the affairs of the world, is just completely ridiculous. #
This… 'Me' is a software reality not a hardware reality. This body on the left and this body on the right are runnign variations of the #
same program, the same 'Me' which doesn't belong to either of them… This program based on 'Me's' and 'We's' is the alien. #
'We' has only been here for a few thousand years or so. But these bodies that 'We' has taken over were around for ten times that… #
and the cells – my God, the cells have been around for thousands of times that long. #
These… bodies that 'We' has invaded… every once in a while they overthrow the program and go about their ways leaving 'We' mystified… #
Mystified, and somewhat horrified too at the things bodies do without its permission. #
These cells make sweat and snot ant phlegm. They belch and bleed and fuck and far and piss and shit and vomit and squeeze out more bodies #
just like themselves all covered with blood and placental slime that grow and squeeze out more bodies, on and on. #
'We',the software reality,find these hardware facts so distressing that it covers them with euphemisms &clothes &toilets &medical secrecy. #
The cells have gotten to their advanced state of evolution through all this fucking and farting and pissing and shitting. That's quality! #
Particulary the sexual functions. From the cell's point of view sex is pure Dynamic Quality, the highest Good of all. #
… Talk about ingratitude. These bodies would still be a bunch of dumb bacteria if it hadn't been for sexual quality. #
That's who lay here beside him tonight:a judge of hundreds of millions of years…& in the eyes of this judge he was nobody very important. #
… His own cells were sick of all this intellectualizing…They'd had way too much … and were starting to switch him off. #
Tomorrow they'd need him when they got hungry, and they would turm him on again to find some food, but for now they were rubbing him out." #
my default breakfast: red pepper, cucumber, olives, tehini http://bit.ly/4ioy6y and bread…today is a default breakfast day 🙂 tudulu #
Design is an opportunity for assigning (DESIGNating!) purpose http://bit.ly/aBoA9T #
our cat comes around the house to the same place on the balcony every evening to watch the sunset! amazing! #
thoughts from the past about spaces & places, male & female http://bit.ly/cpA0Mj #
"The metaphysics of substance makes it difficult to see the Giant.It makes it customary to think of a city like New York as a 'work of man', #
but what man invented it? What group of men invented it? Who sat around and thought up how it should all go together? #
If 'man' invented societies and cities, why are all societies and cities so repressive of 'man'? #
A metaphysics of substance makes us think that all evolution stops with the highest evolved substance, the physical body of man. #
It makes us think that cities and societies and though structures are all subordinate creations of this physical body of man. #
Bit it's as foolish to think of a city or a society as created by human bodies as it is to think of human bodies as a creation of the cells, #
or to hink of cells as created by protein and DNA molecules, or to think of DNA as created by carbon and other inorganic atoms. #
If you follow that fallacy long enough you come out with the conclusion that individual electrons contain the intelligence #
needed to build New York City all by themselves. Absurd. #
If it's possible to imagine two red blood cells sitting side by side asking, 'will there ever be a higher form of evolution than us?" and #
looking around and seeing nothing there, deciding there isn't, then you can imagine the ridiculousness of two people walking down a street #
of Manhattan asking if there will be any form of evoluion higher than 'man', meaning biological man. #
Biological man doesn't invent cities of societies any more than pigs and chickens invent the farmer that feeds them. #
The force of evolutionary creation isn't contained by substance. Substance is just 1 kind of static pattern left behind the creative force. #
This city is a higher pattern than either a substance or a biological pattern called man. #
Just as a farmer raises cows 4the sole purpose of devouring them,this pattern grows living human bodies 4the sole purpose of devouring them. #
That is what the Giant really does. It converts accumulated biological energy into forms that serve itself. #
When societies and cultures and cities are seen [this way] the phenomena of war & genocide & all the other forms of human exploitation #
become more intelligble. 'Mankind' has never been interested in getting itself killed. But the superorganism, the Giant, who is #
a pattern of values superimposed on top of biological human bodies, doesn't mind losing a few bodies to protect his greater interests. #
Once you understand something well enough, you don't need to run from it. #
From a Metaphysics of Quality point of view this devouring of human bodies is a moral activity because it's more moral for a social pattern #
to devour a biological pattern than for a biological pattern to devour a social pattern. A social pattern is a higher form of evolution. #
This city, in it's endless devouring of human bodies, was creating something better than any biological organism could achieve by itself. #
Sure: dirty, noisy, rude, dangerous, expensive. Always has been and probably always will be … #
if you're looking for stability and serenity, go to a cemetery, don't come here! This is the most Dynamic place on earth!" #
wait a minute … do you mean that any website that uses Flash (like my photography site: http://bit.ly/9Gnqbg) won't work on an iPad? #
It's ironic that although the philosophy of science leaves no room for any undefined Dynamic activity, it's sciences unique organization #
for the handling of the Dynamic that gives it is superiority. Science superseded old religious forms, not because what it says is more true #
in any absolute sense… but because what it says is more Dynamic. If scientists had simply said Copernicus was right and Ptolemy was wrong #
without any willingness to further investigate the subject, then science would have simply become another minor religious creed. #
Science always contains an eraser,a mechanism whereby new Dynamic insight could wipe out old static patterns w/out destroying science itself #
That's the whole thing: to obtain static and Dynamic Quality simultaneously. #
If you don't have the static patterns of scientific knowledge to build upon you're back with the cave man. #
But if you don't have the freedom to change those patterns you're blocked from any further growth. #
… political insitutions have improved throughout the centirues [due to] … a static-Dynamic combination: a king or constitution to #
preserve the static, and a parliament or jury that can act as a Dynamic eraser…a commentary on Robert's Rules of Order http://bit.ly/SYWky #
No minority has a right to block a majority from conducting the legal business of the organization. #
No majority has a right to prevent a minority from peacefully attempting to become a majority. #
It seems as though any static mechanism that is open 2 Dynamic Quality must also be open to degeneracy..falling back 2lower forms of quality #
… how do you tell the saviors from the degenerates? Particularly when they look alike, talk alike and break all the rules alike? #
When something new and Dynamic wants to come into the world it often looks lke hell, but it can get born in New York. It can happen. #
This is one of the few places in the world where people don't ask whether something's been approved somewhere else. #
What you see u c in New York depends on your static patterns. What makes the city Dynamic is the way it always busts up … those patterns." #
"Sex&celebrity..there's something obscene about the whole celebrity feeling.It's that same feeling you get from sex magazines on newsstands. #
…One part of you wants to get rid of the magazines; one part wants to take a look at them. #
There's a conflict of two patterns of quality, social patterns and biological patterns. #
In celebrity it's the same – except that the conflict is between social and intellectual patterns! #
Celebrity is to social patterns as sex is to biological patterns…It looks and feels like pure Dynamic Quality for a while, but it isn't. #
…Celebrity is the Dynamic Quality that primitive social patterns once used to organize themselves… #
… an organizing force of the whole social level of evolution. Without this … advanced complex human societies might be impossible. #
… When you look back into the very first writing in the history of the western world… Babylon… they're about celebrity: I, Hammurabi #
am the big wheel here. I have this many horses… concubines… slaves…oxen.. I am one of the greatest … kings there ever was… #
The Pyramids were celebrity devices. All the statues…palaces…robes… jewels of social authority: those are just celebrity devices. #
The feathers of the Indian headdress. Children being told they would be struck blind if they ever accidentally looked at the emperor. #
All the Sirs & Lords & Reverends & Doctors of European address…badges & trophies…promotions up the business ladder… #
election to 'high office'… feuding and battling for prestire among academics and scientists… Celebrity. #
Even a policeman's uniform is a kind of celebrity… without celebrity nobody would take orders from anybody and there would be no way #
you could get the society to work… High school was really the place for celebrity… jocks out playing football… pom pom girls. #
… You can measure the quality of a university by comparing the relative strengths of the celebrity patterns and the intellectual patterns. #
U never got rid of the celebrities,even at the best universities,but there the intellectuals could ignore them &be in a class by themselves. #
… the Metaphysics of Quality says that movement upward from the social mirros of celebrity is a moral movement from a lower form of #
evolution to a higher one. People should go that way if they can." #
getting away from it all http://nyti.ms/c8q00I #
Eric Shiffman talks about studying with Desikachar "wait for the student to ask": http://bit.ly/cE6YEj #
"Intellect has its own patterns and goals that are as independent of society as society is independent of biology. #
Biology beat death billions of years ago. Society beat biology thousands of years ago. But intellect and society are still fighting it out, #
and that is they key to understanding of both the Victorians and the 20th century. What distinguishes the pattern of values called Victorian #
from the post-World War 1 period that followed it is,according to the Metaphysics of Quality, a cataclysmic shift in levels of static value; #
an earthquake in values… of such enormous consequence that we … haven't yet figured out what has happened to us. #
… The 20th century collapse of morals is a consequence of it. Further consequences are on their way… #
Victorians were the last people to believe that patterns of intellect are subordinate to patterns of society. What held the Victorian #
pattern together was a social code. They called it morals, butb really it was just a social code. #
As a code it was just like their ornamental cast-iron furniture: expensive looking, cheaply made, brittle, cold,and uncomfortable. #
The new culture that has emerged is the first in history to believe that patterns of society must be subordinate to patterns of intellect. #
… The reason the Victorians sound so superficial and hypocritical to us today is because of this gulf in values… #
What we today call Victorian hypocrisy … was a virtuous effort to keep one's thoughts within the limits of social propriety… #
The test of anything in the Victorian mindwa,'Does society approve?"..society was God…[they] feared scandal more than they feared disease. #
.. It explains why Victorians so despised the frontier part of the American personality and went to ridiculous extremes to conceal it. #
…..It explains why the Victorians were so vehement in their loathing of Indians… 'The only good Indian is a dead Indian'… #
The idea of extermination ofall Indians was not commonbefore the 19th century. Victorians wanted to destroy 'inferior' [evil] societies… #
Colonialism, which before that timewas an economic opportunity, became with Victorians a moral course, a 'white man's burden'… #
But…once intellect has been let out of the bottle of social restraint,it is almost impossible to put it back in..and it is immoral to try. #
A society that tries to restrain the truth for it's own purpose is a lower form of evolution than a truth that restrains society for it's #
own purpose. #
Victorians repressed the truth whenever it seemed socially unacceptable, just as they repressed thoughts about the powdery horse manure dust #
that floated about them as they drove their carriages … They knew it was there… but didn't consider it social proper to talk about it. #
Because it was evil to speak the truth openly, their appartus for social self-correction became atrophied and paralyzed. #
… Ultimately their minds became the same way… all avenues to any quality other than social quality were closed. #
And so this social base… helplessly drifted toward its own stupid self destruction… #
toward the senseless murder of millions of its own children on the battlefields of World War 1." #
@raymondpirouz then that obliterates any excuses for lack of empathy amongst humans 🙂 except of course for those missing the cells 🙂 in reply to raymondpirouz #
@raymondpirouz empathy enhancement implants (the rich can get stuff harvested from buddhists), empathy increasing viagra…there is hope 🙂 in reply to raymondpirouz #
beautiful Shakuhachi playing: http://bit.ly/aMdGcu #

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