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• @adambn can .htaccess contain hebrew characters (for 301 redirects from URLs containing hebrew to new english only URLs)? in reply to adambn #
• new series about reading illustrated yoga asana practices – starting with breath & repetition: http://bit.ly/abrTcF #
• going to cleanse my body on the outside by showering and on the inside with yoga #
• @msurman re: Pics from drumbeat Toronto: http://bit.ly/9i0PyO [me: looks like a soft, open and happy gathering of people … beautiful!] in reply to msurman #
• on WordPress: when I use it I love it, when I partake in it I hate it #
• I have put off this next reading for some days… a challenging and important chapter… here goes nothing #
• "…[on] the doctrine that says,'Science is not concerned with values. Science is concerned only with facts' … #
• the Metaphysics of Quality asks: which values is science unconcerned with? … #
• A scientist may argue rationally that the moral question 'Is it all right to murder your neighbor?" is not a scientific question. #
• But can he argue that the moral question, 'Is it all right to fake your scientific data?' is not a scientific question? #
• … What the Metaphysics of Quality makes clear is that it is only social values and morals … that sciences is unconcerned with. #
• There are important historic reasons for this: … [to] the ancient Greek belief that thought is independent of society … ancient Greeks #
• such as Socrates & Pythaguras paved the way for the fundamental principle behind science: that truth stands independently of social opinion. #
• It is determines by direct observation & experiment,not by hearsay. Religious authority always has attacked this principle as heresy… #
• The defenders who fought to protect science from church control argued that science is not concerned with morals. Intellectuals would leave #
• morals for the church to decide… But the Metaphysics of Quality makes clear is that this political battle …was in fact a moral battle. #
• It was the battle of a higher, intellectual level of evolution to keep itself from being devoured by a lower, social level of evolution. #
• Once this political battle is resolved, the Metaphysics ofQuality can then go back and re-ask the question, #
• 'Just exactly how independent is science, in fact, from society?' The answer it gives is, 'not at all'. #
• A science in which social patterns are of no account is as unreal and absurd as a society in which biological patterns are of no account. #
• … If the observer is totally objectiveand records only what he observes, then where does he observe a hypothesis?… #
• Our scientific description of nature is always culturally derived. Nature tells us only what our culture predisposes us to hear. #
• … Descarte's 'I think therefore I am' was a historically shattering declaration of independence of the intellectual … from the social… #
• If Descartes had said 'The 17th century culture exists, therefore I think, therefore I am' he would have been correct. #
• The Metaphysics of Quality resolves the relationship between intellect and society, subject and object, mind and matter by embedding them #
• all in a larger system of understanding. Objects are inorganic and biological values; Subjects are social and intellectual values. #
• …They have a matter-of-fact evolutionary relationship. That evolutionary relationship is also a moral one. #
• The intellect's evolutionary purpose has never been to discover an ultimate meaning of the universe. That is a relatively recent fad. #
• It's historical purpose has been to help a society find food,detect danger, and defeat enemies. It can do this well or poorly, depending on #
• the concepts it invents for this purpose. #
• … Knowledge has grown away from this historic purpose and become an end in itself, just as society has grown away from it's original #
• purpose of preserving physical human beings … and this growing away … towards greater Quality is a moral growth. #
• But those original purposes are still there. And when things get lost … it is useful to remember that point of departure. #
• The Metaphysics of Quality suggests that the social chaos of the 20th century can be relieved by going back to this point of departure… #
• Intellect can support static patterns of society without fear of domination by carefully distinguishing those moral issues that are #
• social-biological from those that are intellectual-social… what's at issue here .. [is] a clash of 2 entirely different codes of morals #
• in which society is caught in the middle… You have a society-vs.-biology cored of morals and… an intellect-vs.-society code of morals. #
• … In the battle of society against biolog, the new 20th century intellectuals have taken biology's side. #
• Society can handle biology alone by means of prisons & guns & police & the military. But when the intellectuals in control of society take #
• biology's side against society, then society is caught in a cross fire from which it has no protection. #
• … The Metaphysics of Quality says … what's good in life isn't defined by society or intellect or biology. What's good is freedom from #
• domination by any static pattern, but that freedom doesn't have to be obtained by the destruction of the patterns themselves. #
• … The Hippie revolution of the 60's was a moral revolution against both society and intellectuality … children of well-to-do … people #
• of the world who suddenly turned upon their parents & schools & society with a hatred no one could have believed existed… #
• The reason this movement has been so hard to understand is that "understanding" itself, static intellect, was it's enemy. #
• Whatever the intellectuals of the 20's had fought to create,the flower children of the 60's fought to destroy… #
• Drugs that destroyed one's ability to reason were almost a sacrament. #
• Oriental religions such as Zen & Vedanta that promised release from the prison of intellect were taken up as gospel. #
• …By the end of the 60's the intellectualism of the 20's found itself in an impossible trap. #
• If it continued to advocate more freedom from Victorian social restraint, all it would get was more Hippies. #
• If, on the other hand, it advocated more constructive social conformity in opposition to the Hippies, all it would get was more Victorians, #
• in the form of the reactionary right. This political whip-saw was invincible and cut down one of the last of the great intellectual liberal #
• leaders of the New Deal period, Hubert Humphrey, the Democractic candidate for president … the great intellectual revolution of #
• the first half of the 20th century, the dream of a 'Great Society' made humane by man's intellect, was killed, #
• hoist on its own petard of freedom from social constraint. #
• … this 'Dynamic' 60's revolution made a disastrous mistake that destroyed it before it really got started. #
• The Hippie rejection of social and intellectual patterns left just 2 directions to go: toward biological quality & toward Dynamic Quality. #
• The revolutionaries of the 60's thoughts that since both are antisocial & anti-intellectual…they must be the same. That was a mistake. #
• …When biological quality and Dynamic Quality are confused the result … [is] an extremely destructive form of degeneracy of the sort #
• seen in the Manson murders, the Jonestown madness & the increase of crim and drug addiction throughout the country. #
• In the early 70's,as people began to see this, they dropped away from the movement #
• and the Hippie revolution, like the intellectual revolution of the 20's, became a moral rebellion that failed. #
• Today…the overall picture is one of moral movements gone bankrupt… the result has been a drop in both social and intellectual quality. #
• The end of the 20th century in America seems to be an intellectual, social, and economic rust-belt, a whole society that has given up on #
• Dynamic improvementand is slowly trying to slip back to Victorianism,the last static ratchet-latch. #
• More Dynamic foreign cultures are overtaking it and actually invading it because it's nowincapableofcompeting. #
• What's coming out of the urban slums …[is] the oldbiological might-makes-right morality of prehistoric brigandage that primitive #
• societies were set up to overcome." #
• are early adopters the Pied Pipers of Facebook? http://bit.ly/b0Gyvw #
• second article in series on reading illustrated yoga practices – this time on sequences: http://bit.ly/abDx0m #
• "…the Metaphysics of Quality says that what is meant by 'human rights' is usually the moral code of intellect-vs.-society, the moral right #
• of intellect to be free of social control. Freedom of speech; freedom of assembly, of travel; government by consent… #
• According to the Metaphysics of Quality these 'human rights' have not just a sentimental basis, but a rational, metaphysical basis. #
• They are essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a lower level of life. They are for real. #
• But what the Metaphysics of Quality also makes clear is that this intellect-vs.-society code … is not the same as the society-vs.-biology #
• codes of morals that go back to a prehistoric time. They are completely separate levels of morals. They should never be confused… #
• Is society good or is society evil? … in one level society is the higher evolutionary pattern and in the other it is the lower. #
• Unless u separate these 2 levels of moral codes u get a paralyzing confusion…[that] dominates all thoughts about morality & society today. #
• … There are no chains more vicious than the chains of biological necessity into which every child is born. Society exists primarily to #
• free people from these biological chains..has done that job so stunningly well intellectuals forget..&turn on it..with shameful ingratitude. #
• [because of this] Today we are living in an intellectual and technologiical paradise and a moral and social nightmare. #
• the 20th century intellectual faith in man's basic goodness as spontaneous and natural is disastrously naive… a devastating fiction… #
• cannibalism,not cooperation, was a pre-society norm… American Indians …ambushe & tortured [other tribes]… #
• … maybe it is man's basic goodness which invented social institutions to repress this kind of biological savagery in the first place. #
• .. the Metaphysics of Quality concludes that the old Puritan & Victorian social codes should not be followed [or attacked] blindly… #
• They should be dusted off and re-examined, fairly and impartially, to see what they were trying… and actually did accomplish towards #
• building a stronger society. We must understand that #
• when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, #
• but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good. #
• These moral bads and goods are not just 'customs'. They are as real as rocks and trees. #
• … the Metaphysics of Quality concludes that [the destructive sympathy by intellectuals toward lawlessness in the 60's] was really stupid. #
• … The idea that biological crimes can be ended by intellect alone, that you can talk crime to death, doesn't work… #
• The instrument of conversation between society & biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and hhis gun. #
• All the laws of history…Constitutions & the Bills of Rights & Declarations of Independence are … instructions to the military & police. #
• …'racism' … goes all the way back to square one, to the subject-object metaphysics wherein man is an object who possesses … culture… #
• it goes on to reason that because it is immoral to speak against a people because of their genetic characteristics it is therefore also #
• immoral to speak against a people because of their cultural characteristics…& Science sayd there is morality outside of cultural morality #
• , therefore any moral censorship of minority patterns of crime … is itself immoral. That is the paralysis… #
• the Metaphysics of Quality says… that to say a cultural pattern is an integral part of a biological person is like saying #
• the Lotus123 program is an integral part of an IBM computer.Not so. Cultures are not the source of all morals,only a limited set of morals. #
• Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life. #
• A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and #
• a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not. #
• It is immoral to speak against a people because of the color of their skin, or any other genetic characteristic… #
• But it is not immoral to speak against a person because of his cultural characteristics… these are changeable and they do matter. #
• … The fight to sustain social codes isn't a war of blacks vs. whites… or poor people vs. rich … or…stupid people against intelligent #
• ..It's a war of biology vs. society…and intellect, to end the paralysis of society, has to know whose side it is on, and support that side #
• Where biological values r undermining social values, intellectuals must identify social behavior..& support it alltheway without restraint. #
• Intellectuals must … limit and destroy destructive biological patterns with complete moral ruthlessness the way a doctor destroys germs." #
• "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet" http://huff.to/cthiyz #
• "minimum wage" is a socially acceptable alternative to slavery #
• a shakuhachi recording from this morning: http://bit.ly/d06Wce #
• a 3rd part in the series about reading asana illustrations – this time covering alternating between 2 sides : http://bit.ly/bsRjeR #
• "No one wants to admit it, but that's really the reason the insane get locked up. It's not just that they have absurd ideas that no one else #
• believes. What makes them 'insane' is that they have these ideas and are a nuisance to somebody else. #
• The only thing that's illegitimate is the cover-up, the pretense that you're trying to help them by getting rid of them. #
• … As long as you're stuck with the old conventions,insanity is going to be a 'misunderstanding of the object by the subject'. #
• The object is real, the subject is mistaken. The only problem is how to change the subject's mind back to a correct comprehension… #
• But with a Metaphysics of Quality the empirical experience … is an experience of value patterns produced by a number of sources… #
• When an insane person – or a hypnotized person or a person from a primitive culture, advances some explanation of the universe that is #
• completely at odds with current scientific reality, we do not have to believe he has jumped off the end of the empirical world. #
• He is just a person who is valuing intellectual patterns that, because they are outside the range of our own culture, #
• we perceive to have very low quality. Some biological or social or Dynamicm force has altered his judgment of quality. #
• It has caused him to filter out what we call normal cultural intellectual patterns just as ruthlessly as our culture filters out his. #
• Obviously no culture wants its legal patterns violated…That's what mental hospitals are partly for. And also heresy trials. #
• They protect the culture from foreign ideas that if allowed to grow unchecked could destroy the culture itself. #
• … [he] had seen that the psychiatrists were … required to deal with insanity as cultural representatives… priests saving heretics. #
• Psychiatrists seemed to fear the taint of insanity, much as inquisitors once feared succumbing to the devil. #
• Psychiatrists were not allowed to practice psychiatry if they were insane. #
• It was required that they literally did not know what they were talking about. #
• To this… they could counter that you don't have to be infected with pneumonia in order to know how to cure it and you don't have to be #
• infected with insanity to know how to cure it either. But the rebutal to that goes to the core of the whole problem. #
• Pneumonia is a biological pattern…scientifically variable. Insanity…is an intellectual pattern…it has no physical/biological reality. #
• No scientific intrsument can be produced…to show who is insane and who is sane. The scientific laws of the universe r invented by sanity. #
• There is no way by which sanity, using the instruments of its own creation, can measure that which is outside itself and its creations. #
• Insanity isn't an 'object' of observation. It's an alteration of observation itself. #
• …Insanity always exists in relation to others. It is a social and intellecual deviation, not a biological deviation. #
• The only test for insanity is conformity to a cultural status quo. That is why the psychiatric profession bears such a resemblance to the #
• old preisthoods. Both use physical restraint and abuse as ways of enforcing the status quo. That being said, it follows that #
• the assignment of medical doctors to treat insanity is a misuse of their training….[they] are trained to look at things from an inorganic #
• and biological perspective… their cures are biological:shock,drugs, lobotomies, and physical restraints… #
• … [he] had seen that if you want to get out of an insane asylum…is 2 persuade them that u fully understand that they know more than u do #
• and that you are fully ready to accept their intellectual authority. That is how heretics keep from getting burned. They recant. #
• …In time this strategy has brought [him] enough smiles to get out. It made him less honest…more of a conformist… #
• It wasn't a happy solution, to always role-play with people he had once been honest with. It made it impossible to ever really share #
• anything with them. Now he was more isolated than he had been in the insane asylum… #
• Now, years later, his resentment … had lessened…somebody has to deal with the degenerate forms of society and intellect. #
• The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you #
• don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do… #
• is stay out of their way." #
• my greatest Microsoft memory – Eddie Brickell's Good Times – came with Win95 – multimedia demo: http://bit.ly/701E0j #
• originally assembled this PC (I'm working on now) to be my Ubuntu based home made RAID server http://bit.ly/bBARNn .. but now #
• it's my primary workstation and I'm kinda kicking myself for not getting better hardware (processor & memory) at least RAID is super fast 🙂 #
• an advanced Yoga energy experiment combining asana and structured breathing: http://bit.ly/d0LZt3 #
• when you hug someone – try bringing your hearts together 🙂 instead of the more common hearts-apart variation #
• "Anthropologists,when they are not being self-consciously 'objective',tend to be very interested in new things… #
• …Anthropologists see over & over again that insanity is culturally defined… each culture has different criteria for what constitutes it. #
• … Anthropologists found that schizophrenia is strongest among those whose ties with the cultural traditions are weakest… #
• …psychoses, which are an extreme form of culture shock, emerge… because the cultural definition of values … has been changed… #
• pshychiatry can't really deal with all of this because it is pinioned to a subject-object truth system which declares that #
• 1 particular intellectual pattern is real & all others are illusions. Psychiatry is forced 2take this position in contradicition 2history, #
• which shows…that 1 era's illusions become another era's truth…in contradiction 2georaphy… 1 area's truth are another area's illusions. #
• … not only does insanity vary from culture 2 culture, but sanity itself also varies from culture 2 culture … #
• …in the psychiatric wards… what the patients showed wasn't any one common characteristic but an absence of one. #
• What was absent was the kind of standard social role-playing that 'normal' people get into …the insane see this role-playing & resent it. #
• …Ur static value system filters out the undesirable opinions & preserves the desirable ones…it isnt just opinions that get filtered out. #
• It's also data. #
• We build up whole cultural intellectual patterns based on past 'facts' which are extremely selective. When a new fact comes in that does not #
• fit the pattern we don't throw out the pattern. We throw out the fact… a contradictory fact has 2keep hammering…sometimes for centuries #
• , before maybe one or two people will see it. And then these one or two have to start hammering on others for a long time b4 they see it 2. #
• Just as the biological immune system will destroy a life-saving skin graft with the same vigor with which it will fight pneumonia, #
• so will a cultural immune system fight off a beneficial new kind of understanding with the same kind of vigor it uses to destroy crime. #
• … there's nothing immoral in a culturenotbeing ready to accept something Dynamic. Static latching is necessary to sustain the gains the #
• culture has made in the past. The solution is… to look for those factors that will make the new information acceptable: the keys. #
• The Dharmakaya light…a huge area of human experience cut off by cultural filtering… #
• he didn't think of this light as some sort of supernatural occurence that had no grounding in physical reality … #
• nobody c's it bcause the cultural definition of what is real&what is unreal filtersout Dharmakaya light from 20th century American 'reality' #
• just as surely as time is filtered out of Hopi reality, and green-yellow differences mean nothing to the Natchez. #
• …he thought that the light was nothing more than an involuntary widening of the iris of the eyes … makes things look brighter… #
• but despite filtering by the cultural immune system, refernces to this occur in many places, scattered, disconnected and unrelated. #
• Lamps are sometimes used as symbols of learning.Why should they be? A torch…symbol of idealistic inspiration… 'I've seen the light' … #
• When a cartoonist want to show someone getting a great idea he puts an electric bulb over the character's head. Everybody understands…Why? #
• In a Metaphysics of Quality…this light is important because it often appears associated with undefined auspiciousness…Dynamic Quality. #
• It signals a Dynamic intrusion upon a static situation. When there is letting go of static patterns the light occurs. #
• It is often accompanied by a feeling of relaxation because static patterns have been jarred loose… #
• it was probably the light that infants see when their world is still fresh and whole,before consciousness differentiates it into patterns; #
• a light into which everything fades at death … the breakup of static patterns of the person's intellect #
• as it returned into the pure Dynamic Quality from which it had emerged in infancy… #
• …when he had wandered freely outside the limits of cultural reality, this light had been a valued companion.." #
• there's a subtle element of denial & resistance in looking for a 'reason' to explain something objectionable – a false hope for causality? #
• @raymondpirouz re:Apple (1) yes kicking off with "Open" is cynical; (2) they can make a case with hypocritical thinking; (3) they did in reply to raymondpirouz #
• @raymondpirouz re:Apple – they are arrogant: "to provide the most advanced and innovative platform…the best apps the world has ever seen" in reply to raymondpirouz #
• @raymondpirouz re:Apple – they have marked their greatest contender – "Open"… in reply to raymondpirouz #
• @raymondpirouz re:Apple – but, lucky for them, "Open" still hasn't pulled it's act together… to do that it needs an injection of "design" in reply to raymondpirouz #
• @raymondpirouz the core values of "openness" are the greatest threat to Apple… but those values have yet to manifest as good products! in reply to raymondpirouz #
• the book is nearing the end… I'm going for a 2nd reading today… this one is close to my heart… #
• "'What makes people sane?' … the way to really deal with insanity … is to turn the tables and talk about truth instead. #
• If objects r the ultimate reality then there's only 1 true intellectual construction of things: that which corresponds 2the objective world. #
• But if truth is defined as a high-quality set of intellectual value patterns, then insanity can be defined as just a low-quality set of #
• intellectual value patterns, and you get a whole different picture of it. #
• When the culture asks 'Why doesnt this person see things the way we do?" you can answer that he doesnt c them because he doesn't value them. #
• He's gone into illegal value patterns because the illegal patterns resolve value conflicts that the culture's unable to handle. #
• … In a subject-object world trance and hypnosis are big time platypi. That's why there's this prejudice… #
• … They're best nudged as close as possible to the empirical trash heap called 'the occult' … #
• But since they do exist, what you have is an empirically observable case of empiricism being overthrown. #
• The irony is that there are times when the culture actually fosters trance and hypnosis to further its purposes. #
• When you enter a movie theatre you know that all you are going to see is 24 shadows per second …an illusions of moving people & objects. #
• Yet despite this knowledge u laugh when the 24 shadows per second tell jokes and cry when the shadows show actors faking death. #
• U know they r an illusion yet u enter the illusion&become part of it&while the illusion is taking place u r not aware that it is an illusion #
• This is hypnosis. It is trance. It's also a form of temporary insanity. But it's also a powerful force for cultural reinforcement… #
• … in the case of permanent insanity the exists to the theater have been blocked, usually because of the knowledge that the show outside is #
• so much worse. #
• the insane person is running a private unapproved film which he happensto like better than the current cultural one. #
• If U want him to run the film everyone else is seeing,the solution would be to find ways to prove to him that it would be valuable to do so. #
• Contrarians sometimes just seem to savagely attack every kind of static moral patern they can find… as though … a kind of revenge… #
• The Cheyenne had a whole society of contrarians to assimilate the phenomenon within their social fabric… #
• [they] rode their horses sitting backward, entered teepees backward…Members seemed to enter the contrary society when they felt #
• a great wrong, a great injustice, had been done to them and apparently it was felt that this was a way of resolving the injustice. #
• …When u add a concept of 'Dynamic Quality' toa rational understanding of the world, you can add a lot to an understanding of contrarians. #
• Some of them aren't just being negative toward static moral patterns, they are actively pursuing a Dynamic goal. #
• ..negative contrarian streaks…sometimes it's a degenerative negativism…sometimes an ego pattern…sometimes a static pattern of it's own #
• … But sometimes it's Dynamic, where your whole being senses that the static situation is an enemy of life itself. #
• That's what drives the really creative people… the feeling that if they don't break out of this jailhouse… they're going to die. #
• They're way too energetic and aggressive to be decadent. They're fighting for some kind of Dynamic freedom from the static patterns. #
• …It's often confused with degeneracy but it's actually a form of moral regeneration… #
• … in addition to the usual solutions to insanity – stay locked up or learn to conform – there was a third one #
• , to reject all movies, private and cultural, and head for Dynamic Quality itself, which is no movie at all… #
• … evolution doesn't take place only within societies, it takes place within individuals too… #
• Sometimes the insane & the contrarians & the ones who are closest to suicide are the most valuable people society has. #
• … They have taken the burdens of the culture onto themselves, and in their struggle … they're solving problems for the culture as well." #
• "Dynamic Quality is a higher moral order than scientific truth, and it is as immoral for philosophers of science to try to suppress #
• Dynamic Quality as it is for church authorities to suppress scientific method. #
• Dynamic value is an integral part of science. It is the cutting edge of scientific progress itself." #
• "What's wrong with insanity is that she's outside any culture… a culture of one. That's what had to be reconciled… #
• At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust… they wouldn't see .. that she is adjusting. #
• …insanity is the adjustment…[it] isn't necessarily a step in the wrong direction, it can be an intermediate step in the right direction. #
• … the problem of 'curing' an insane person is like the problem of 'curing' a moslem … or 'curing' communist …or 'curing' a republican #
• … You're not going to make progress by telling them how wrong they are… #
• The important thing was to support her delusions and then slowly wean her away from them rather than fight them. #
• The catch here,that almost any philosopher would spot, is the word 'delusion'. It's always the other person who's 'deluded'… #
• Delusions can be held by whole groups… as long as we're not a part of that group. If we're a member…[they] become a 'minority-opinion'. #
• .. A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way … then it's a religion. #
• … It sounds quite blasphemous to put religion and insanity on an equal footing for comparison,but his point was… to illuminate insanity. #
• … The current subject-object point of view of religion, conventionally muted so as not to stir up the fanatics, is that #
• religious mysticism and insanity are the same. #
• Religious mysticism is one of those dellusions that isn't called insane only because there are so many people involved… #
• The Metaphysics of Quality … says the subject-object people are almost right when they identify religious-mysticism with insanity… #
• Both lunatics and mystics have freed themselves from the conventional static intellectual patterns of their culture. The only difference is #
• that the lunatic has shifted over to a private static pattern of his own, #
• whereas the mystic has abandoned all static patterns in favor of pure Dynamic Quality … #
• as long as the psychiatric approach is encased within a subject-object metaphysical understanding it will always seek a patterned solution #
• to insanity, never a mystic one… When Socrates says in one of his dialogues, #
• 'Our greatest blessings cometo us by way of madness provided the madness is given us by divine gift', #
• the psychiatric profession doesn't know what in the world he is talking about… #
• The Metaphysics of Quality suggests [there is another] solution to insanity… to dissolve all static patterns, both sand and insane #
• and find the base of all reality, Dynamic Quality, that is independent of them all. #
• The Metaphysics of Quality says that it is immoral for sane people to force cultural conformity by suppressing the Dynamic drives that #
• produce insanity. Such oppression is a lower form of evolution trying to devour a higher one. #
• Once this theoretical structure is available, it offers solutions to some mysteries in the present treatment of the insane… #
• For example… The value ofshock treatment is not that it returns a lunatic to normal cultural patterns. It certainly does not do that. #
• It's value is that it destroys all patterns… cultural & private, and leaves the patient temporarily in a Dynamic state. #
• All the shock does is duplicate the effects of hitting the patient over the head with a baseball bat. It simply knocks him senseless. #
• In fact it was to imitate the effect of hitting someone over the head… without the risk of skull injury that Ugo Cerletti developed [it] #
• … but what goes unrecognized .. is the fact that this senseless unpatterened state is a valuable state of existence… #
• psychiatrists of course don't know what to do with it,and so the patient often slips back into lunacy and has to be knocked senseless again. #
• But sometimes the patient, in a moment of Zen wisdom,sees the superficiality of both his own contrary patterns and the cultural patterns, #
• sees that one gets him electrically clubbed… and the other sets him free from the institution… #
• and thereupon makes a wise mystic decision to get the hell ouf of there by whatever avenue is available. #
• … Another mystery in the treatment of the insane …is the value of peace and quiet and isolation… Leave them alone… #
• Ironically the one thing that the mental hospitals and doctors to best is the one thing they never take credit for… #
• They know it works, but there's no way of justifying that because the whole cultural set they have to operate in says #
• that doing nothing is the same as doing something wrong… what sometimes occurs in an insane asylum but occurs deliberately #
• in a mystic retreat is a natural human process called dhyana in sanskrit. In our culture … ambiguously called 'meditation'. #
• Just as mystics traditionally seek monasteries&ashrams…so r the insane treated by isolation in places of relative calm&austerity&silence. #
• The Western treatment of dhyana is a beautiful example of how the static patterns of a culture can make something not exist… #
• People in this culture are hypnotized into thinking they do not meditate when in fact they do. #
• … boats… seaside cottages… lake cabins… hiking trails… golf courses… It's the need for dhyana that is behind all these. #
• Vacations too…how perfectly named that is… an emptying out…of all the static clutter…settling into an undefined sort of tranquility. #
• …sectarian religion was a static fallout from Dynamic Quality … none of them told the whole truth… #
• There's an adage that, 'Nothing disturbs a bishop quite so much as the presence of a saint in the parish'… #
• The saint's Dynamic understanding makes him unpredictable and uncontrollable but the bishop's got a whole calendar of static ceremonies… #
• In all religions bishops tend to gild Dynamic Quality …because their cultures require it … #
• but these become like gold vines that cling to a tree, shut out its sunlight and eventually strangle it." #
• an Irish-German gift to the world – great band great album great fun!!! ♫ http://blip.fm/~pjpei #
• using breath to generate heat in yoga asana practices: http://bit.ly/dDohKL #
• "… once this integration occursand Dynamic Quality is identified with religious mysticism it produces an avalanche of information… #
• a lot of this religious mysticisim is just low-grade 'yelping about God'… but if you search for the sources… interesting things turn up. #
• …The logical order of things which the philosophers study is derived from 'mythos'. #
• The mythos is the social culture and the rhetoric which the culture must invent before philosophy becomes possible. #
• Most of this old religious talk is nonsense, of course, but nonsense or not, it is the parent of our modern scientific talk. #
• … Digging back into ancient Greek history, to the time when this mythos-to-logos transition was taking place … #
• the ancient rhetoricians of Greec, the Sophists, had taught what they called arete, which was a synonym for Quality. #
• …It is said that by following linguistic analysis u could go even further back into the mythos…Ancient Greek wasn't an original language #
• It was descended from a much earlier one … the Proto-Indo-European language … it has left no fragments but has been derived … #
• from similarities between such languages as Sanskrit, Greek and English which have … a common prehistoric tongue. #
• After thousands of years of separation from Greek & English the Hindi word for 'mother' is still 'ma'. #
• Yoga both looks like and is translated as 'yoke'…. an Indian rajah's title sounds like regent… #
• The Proto-Indo-European root of arete was the morpheme rt. There besides arete, was a treasure room of other derived 'rt' words: #
• aristocrat, art, rhetoric, worth, rite, ritual, wright, right (handed), & right (correct)… #
• All of these words except arithmetic seemed to have a vague thesaurus-like similarity to Quality… #
• in aristocrat&arithmetic Rt meant first…in art&wright it seemed to mean 'created' and 'of beauty'…'ritual' suggested repetitive order… #
• the word right has two meanings: 'right-handed' and 'moral and esthetic correctness'… #
• When all these meanings were strung together a fuller picture of the rtmorpheme emerged. #
• Rt referred to the 'first, created, beautiful repetitive order of moral and esthetic correctness.' #
• … condemntation of left-handedness as 'sinister' is an almost universal anthropological characetristic… #
• even today when legal oaths are taken … people shake hands …a president is inaugurated … it is mandatory that he raise his right hand. #
• Prehistoric rt is still with us. #
• There was just one thing wrong with this… the meanings… suggested 'importance' … that was social and procedural and manufactured… #
• Rt meant 'quality'…but … static, not Dynamic… then his mind dredged up a word he hadn't thought… of for a long time… Rta. #
• Rta [sanskrit] was the 'cosmic order of things'… the Sanskrit language was considered the most faithful to the Proto-Indo-European root… #
• …Rta, from the oldest portion of the Rg Veda, which was the oldest known writing of the Indo-Aryan language… #
• Varuna… was the chief support of rta … [a] ominiscent god …[of] unswerving adherance to high principles… #
• The physical order of the universe is also the moral order of the universe. Rta is both… It was the oldest idea known to man. #
• Rta also meant ritual … a decay [during the Brahmanas Hindu period] of Dynamic Quality into static quality… #
• then came the Upanisadic period &the flowering of Indian philosophy. Dynamic quality reemerged within the static patterns of Indian thought. #
• Rta…almost ceased to be used in Sanskrit…but under the name of dharma [it] occupies averyimportant place inthe later Indian view of life #
• The more usual meaning of dharma is religious merit…but it is sometimes used as a purely moral concept & stands for right/virtuous conduct #
• Dharma is duty… not external duty which is arbitrarily imposed by others…neither internal…arbitrarily decided by 1's own consciousness #
• …Dharma is Quality itself, the principle of 'rightness' which gives structure and purpose to the evolution of all life… #
• Within the Hindu tradition dharma is relative & dependent on the conditions of society… it is the bond which holds society together. #
• … But within modern Buddhist thought dharma becomes the phenomenal world – the object of perception, thought or understanding. #
• A chair, for example, is notcomposed of atoms of substance, it is composed of dharmas. #
• This statement is absolute jabberwocky 2a conventional subject-object metaphysics. How canachair b composed of individual littlemoralorders? #
• But if 1 applies the Metaphysics of Quality & sees that a chair is an inorganic static pattern and sees that all static patterns are #
• composed of valueand that value is synonymous with morality then it all begins to make sense. #
• …this was one answer…to why workmen in the Far East are able to maintain quality levels that compare so favorably to those in the West. #
• If one comes from a cultural tradition where an electronic assembly is primarily a moral order rather than just a neutral pile of substance, #
• it is easier to feel an ethical responsibility for doing good work on it… #
• Oriental social cohesiveness… resulted from the working out, centuries ago, of the problem of dharma&the way…it combines freedom&ritual #
• In the West progress seems to proceed by a series of spasms of alternating freedom and ritual. A revolution of freedom against old rituals #
• produces a new order, which soon becomes another old ritual for the next generation to revolt against, on and on. #
• The Zen monk's daily life is nothing but one ritual after another, hour after hour, day after day, all his life. They don't tell hime to #
• shatter those static patterns to discover the unwritten dharma.They want him to get those patterns perfect. #
• The explanation for this contradiction is the belief that you do not free yourself from static patterns by fighting them with other contrary #
• static patterns. That is …'bad karma chasing its tail'. You free yourself from static patterns by putting them to sleep… #
• You master them… you get to used to them you completely forget them and they are gone. #
• There in the center of the most monotonous boredom of static ritualistic patterns the Dynamic freedom is found. #
• … The danger has always been that the rituals, the static patterns are mistaken for what they merely represent #
• and are allowed to destroy the Dynamic Quality they were originally intended to preserve. #
• … If ritual always comes first & intellectual principles always come later,then ritual cannot always b a decadent corruption of intellect. #
• Their sequence in history suggests that principles emerged from ritual, not the other way around… #
• That is, we don't perform religious rituals because we believe in God. We believe in God because we perform religious rituals." #
• Congratulations http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu 10.04 is out, easily upgraded two computers! #
• two more short readings and that will be the end of my recent quote-floods… #
• "From the static point of view the whole escape into Dynamic Quality seems like a death experience.It's a movement from something 2 nothing. #
• How can 'nothing' be any different from death? … Allthe Buddha could say was,'See for yourself' … #
• enlightment is distributed in all parts of the world… but some cultures accept it and others screen out recognition of it. #
• The Metaphysics of Quality translated karma as 'evolutionary garbage'…the pain,the suffering that results from clinging to static patterns #
• … the only exit from the suffering is to detach yourself from these static patterns, that is, to 'kill' them. #
• A common way taken to kill them is suicide, but suicide only kills biological patterns. #
• That's like destorying a computer because you can't stand the program it is running. #
• the social and intellectual patterns that caused the suicide have to be carried on by others. #
• From an evolutionary point of view it's really a backward and therefore immoral step. #
• Another immoral way of killing the static patterns is to pass the patterns to someone else …a 'karma dump' #
• … you invent a devil group, Jews or blacksor whites or capitalists … then say that group is responsible for all your suffering. #
• If you take all this karmic garbage and make yourself feel better by passing it on to others that's normal. That's the way the world works. #
• But if you manage to absorb it and not pass it on, that's the highest moral conduct of all. That really advances everything, not just you… #
• … some of the great moral figures of history – Christ, Lincoln, Gandhi … that's what they were really involved in, #
• the cleansing of the world through the absorption of karmic garbage. They didn't pass it on." #
• "Then he remembered when he had been walking down a dirt road…on the Northern Cheyenne reservation… #
• with…John Wooden Leg, the tribe's chief and a woman … they were all walking down the road … #
• when one of those raggedy nondescript dogs that call Indian reservations home came onto the road and walked pleasantly in front of them. #
• … [the woman] asked John 'What kind of dog is that?'. John thought about it and said, 'That's a good dog.' #
• …if he were looking for proof that 'substance' is a cultural heritage from an ancientGreece rather then an absolute reality, he should #
• simply look at non-Greek-derived cultures. If the 'reality' of substance was missing… that would prove he was right. #
• … the woman… wanted 2 know what genetic,substantive pigeonhole of canine classification this object walking b4 them could be placed in. #
• But John Wooden Leg never understood the question. He wasn't joking when he said 'That's a good dog'. #
• He probably thought she was worried the dog might bite her. #
• .. John had distinguished the dog according to it's Quality, rather then according to its substance. #
• That indicated he considered Quality more important. #
• …American Indian mysticismis not something alien from American culture. It's a deep submerged hidden root of it. #
• Americans don't have to go to the orient to learn what this mysticism stuff is about. It's been right here in America all along. #
• In the Orient they dress it up with rituals & incense & pagodas & chants…& huge organizational enterprises that bring in …millions of $ #
• …American Indians haven't done this. Their way is not to be organized atall. They don't charge anything, they don't make a big fuss, #
• and that's what makes people underrate them. #
• … The Dakota Indian considers goodness to be a noun rather then an adjective. #
• He will tell someone, 'Take care of your goodness, rather than 'Be Good'. #
• Good is a noun. That was it. #
• Good as a noun rather than as an adjective is all the Metaphysics of Quality is about." #
• The End! #
• TED http://www.ted.com has stagnated from dynamic & inspiring to predictably (static) over-intellectualized #

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• today's reading is a late… but here goes… #
• "Where thy physical climate changes suddenly from high to low temperature … or … atmospheric pressure …the result is usually a storm. #
• When the social climate changes from preposterous social restraint of all intellect to a relative abandonment fo all social patterns, #
• the result is a hurricane of social forces. That hurricane is the history of the 20th century…November 11, 1918…the end of World War 1.. #
• ..President Woodrow Wilson belonged in both worlds,Victorian society and the new intellectual world of the 20th century: #
• the only university professor ever to be eclected president of the United States. Before Wilson'stime academicians has been peripheral #
• within the Victorian power structure…. intellectuals were not expected to run society itself. They were valued servants of society… #
• Leadership was for practical, businesslike 'men of affairs'. #
• The Victorians social system and … morality that led to World War 1 had portrayed war as an adventorous conflict between noble individuals #
• engaged in the idealistic service of their country: a kind of extended knighthood. World Wart 1 wasn't like that. #
• … The Gatling gun removed the nobility and heroism. The Victorian painters had never shown a battlefield of mu and shell holes and … #
• half a million rotting corpses… that many had been murdered in one battle alone. #
• Those who survived… felt bitter toward the society that could do that to them. They joined the faith that intellect must find some way #
• out of old Victorian 'nobility' & 'virtue' into a more sane and intelligent world. In an instant it seemed the snobish fashionable #
• Victorian social world was gone. New technology fueled the change… shufting fromagriculture to manufacturing. #
• Electrification was shifting night into day and eliminating hundreds of drudgeries. Cars and highways were changing the speed with which #
• peopledid things. Mass journalism had emerged. The mastery of all these new changes was no longer dominated by social skills. #
• ..A horse could be mastered if your resolve was firm,your disposition pleasant and fear absent.The skills required were biological & social. #
• But handling the new technology was something different. Personal biological & social qualities didn't make any difference to machines. #
• A whole population,cut loose physically by the new technology..was also cut adrift morally & psychologicallyfrom the static social patterns. #
• …No one knew what to do about the lostness… people raced from one fad to another… a chaos of social patterns ONLY. #
• The events that excited people in the 20's were events that dramatized the new dominance of intellect over society… #
• abstract art, discordant music, Freudian psychoanalysis…contempt for alcohol prohibition…The test of what was good, of what had Quality, #
• was no longer 'Does it meet society's approval?' but 'Does it meet the approval of out intellect?'. #
• The hurricane of social forces…was most strongly felt in Europe, particularly Germany where the effects of WWI were the most devastating. #
• Communism & socialism, programs for intellectual control over society, were confronted by..fascism a program of social control of intellect. #
• Nowhere were the intellectualsmore intense in their determination to overthrow old order. #
• Nowhere did the old order becomemore intent on finding ways to destory the excesses of the new intellectualism… #
• a conflict of levels of evolution… explains that driving force behind Hitler not as aninsane search for power but as an all consuming #
• glorification of social authority and hatred of intellectualism. His anti-Semitism…[and] communists …was fueled by anti-intellectualism. #
• In the United States … Franklin Roosevelt & the New Deal… became the center of a lesser stormbetween social and intellectual forces… #
• at the center of it all was the belief that intellectual planning by the government was necessary for society to regain its health… #
• it was also a new deal for the intellectuals of America… for the 1st time they were at the center of the planning process…were in a #
• position to give orders to AMerica's finest and oldest and wealthiest groups. #
• …Suddenly, before the old Victorians' eyes, a whole new social caste…of intellectual Brahmins,was being created above their own military #
• and economic castes…Social snobbery was being replaced with intellectual snobbery…academic foundations were taking over the… country. #
• … It was like the replacement of Indiansby pioneers… too bad for the Indians but it was inevitable form of progress… #
• …from the idea that society is man's highest achievement, the 20th century moved to the idea that intellect is man's highest achievement. #
• …The Ph.D. was on its way to becoming the ultimate social status symbol…academic fields were expanding into new undreamed-of territories #
• …among the most rapidly expanding was… anthropology… [and it's] unassailable 'objectivity' had some very partisan cultural roots… #
• it had been a political tool with which to defeat the Victorian's and their system of social values. #
• ..The Victorians…presumed all primitive societies were early forms of "Society" itself & were trying to grow into a complete #
• 'civilization' like that of Victorian England. The relativists… stated that there is no empirical scientific evidence for a 'Society' #
• toward which all primitive societies are heading…[they] virtually wiped out the credibility of the older Victorian evolutionsists and #
• gave to anthropology a shape it has had ever since… presented as a victory of scientific objectivity over unscientific prejudice, but the #
• Metaphysics ofQuality says deeper issues were involved…intellect could now pass judgment on all forms of social custom… #
• When peopleasked, 'If no culture, including a Victorian culture, can say what is right and what is wron, then how can we ever know what is #
• right and what is wrong?' the answer was, 'that's easy.Intellectuals will tell you… what they say is absolute… because intellectuals #
• follow science,which is objective.An objective observer does not have relative opinions because he is nowhere within the world he observes'. #
• … An American anthropologist could no more embrace nonobjectivity thatn a Stalinist bureaucrat could play the stock market. #
• … the Metaphysics of Quality supports this dominance of intellect over society. It says intellect is a …more moral level than society. #
• But having said this,the Metaphysics of Quality goes on to say that science, the intellectual pattern that has been appointed to take over #
• society, has a defect in it… subject-object science has no provision for morals… is only concerned with facts. #
• Morals have no objective reality. You can look through a microscope or telescope or oscilloscope for the rest of your life and you will #
• never find a single moral. There aren't anythere. They are all in your head. They exist only in your imagination. #
• From the perspective of subject-object science, the world is a completely purposeless,valueless place. There is no point in anything. #
• Nothing is right and nothing is wrong. EVerything just functions like machinery. There is nothing morally wrong because there are no morals. #
• Now that intellect was in command of society for the 1st time in history,was this the intellectual pattern it was going 2 run society with?" #
• drinking tea from first of the season & fesh picked leaves: peppermint, spearmint, verbena & sage… heavenly! #
• "The new intellectualism of the twenties argued that if there are principles for right social conduct they are to be discovered by social #
• experiment to see what produces the greatest satisfaction … of the greatest number. For example,drink that causes car accidents or #
• loss of work or family problems is irrational…a vice. On the other hand,drinking is not irrational when it produces social… relaxation. #
• Of all the 'vices' none was more controversial than premarital and extramarital sex… It was expected that with the new application #
• of reason, sex could be handled much like other commodities without the terrible tensions and frustrations of social repression… #
• …throught this century we have seen over and over again, that intellectuals weren't blaming crimeonman's biological nature bu on the #
• social patterns that had repressed this biological nature…[believing] that this would be the cure of man's criminal tendencies… #
• intellectuals became excited about anthropology in the hope that the field would provide facts upon which to base new scientific rules… #
• Here in this country, American Indians were suddenly revived as models of primitive communal virtue… 'anthros' … swarmed to huts and #
• teepees and hogans of every tribe they could find,jockeying to be in on the great treasure hunt for new information about possible new moral #
• indigenous American ways of life. This was illogical since, if subject-object science sees no morals anywhere, then no scientific study #
• of any kind is going to fill the moral void left by the overthrow of Victorians society. #
• Intellectual permisivenessand destruction of social authority are no more scientific than Victorian discipline. #
• this lapse in logic magically fit the thesis… that the American personality has two components, European and Indian. #
• The moral values that were replacing the old European Victorian ones were the moral values of American Indians: #
• kindness to children,maximum freedom, openness of speech, love of simplicity,affinity for nature. #
• Without any real awareness of where the newmorals were coming from, the whole country was moving in a direction that if felt was right. #
• The western movie was another example of this change, showing Indian values which had become cowboy values which had become 20th century #
• all-American values. Everyone knewthe cowboys of the silver screen had little to do with their actual counterparts, but it didn't matter. #
• It was the values, not the historical accuracy,that counted." #
• @nivertech please remove me from your 'Israel' list #
• @gervis thank you for your attention. These are not my thoughts … I am quoting an inspiring book- I'll reveal it soon 🙂 in reply to gervis #
• @nivertech thank you very much. #
• @nivertech I know 🙂 & tags just say something about people …& good luck finding a photo of me on flickr 🙂 in reply to nivertech #
• some thoughts on making donating to WordPress plugin authors easy and effective: http://bit.ly/cBdnwd #
• @adambn thank you for the heads up on Breaking Bad, didn't know is existed,enjoying it greatly! #
• I feel so remote, that getting close hurts #
• Economics is not science http://bit.ly/bPv5Eo [ via @raymondpirouz ] #
• Firework http://bit.ly/aRM1S8 #
• @buffdesign thank you for getting back to me. do you have space/interest now? iamronen[at]iamronen[dot]com in reply to buffdesign #
• "The drift away from European social values worked all right at first, and the 1st generation of the Victorians, benefiting from ingrained #
• Victorian social habits seem to have been enormously liberated intellectually by the new freedom. But with the 2nd generation … #
• problems began to emerge. #
• Indian values are all right for an Indian style of life, but they don't work so well in a complex technological society… #
• An upbringing that allows the child to grow 'naturally' in the Indian fashion does not … guarantee the finest sort of urban adjustment. #
• …The world was no doubt in better shape intellectually and technologically but … the 'quality' of it was not good. #
• There was no way u could say why this quality was no good. U just felt it … He remembered seeing The Glass Menagerie http://bit.ly/d1laaw #
• in which one edge of the stage had an arrow shaped neon sign flashing onand off… beneath the arrow was the word 'PARADISE', also flashing #
• PARADISE> PARADISE> PARADISE>… But the Paradise was always somewhere pointed to, always somewhere else. .. #
• Paradise was always at the end of some intellectual, technological ride, but u knew that when u got there paradise wouldn't be there either. #
• … You had to be a rebel without a cause http://bit.ly/2k3Xba . The intellectuals had preempted all the causes. #
• Causes were to the 20th century intellectuals as manners had been to Victorians… They had everything figured out… #
• 'pursuit of happiness' seemed to have become like the pursuit of some scientifically created mechanical rabbit that moves ahead at whatever #
• speed it is being pursued. If you ever did catch it for a few moments it had a peculiar synthetic,technological taste that made the pursuit #
• seem senseless. #
• Everyone seemed to be guided by an 'objective', 'scientific' view of life that told each person that his essential self is his evolved #
• material body. Ideas and societies are a component of brains, not the other way around. #
• No two brains can merge physically,and therefore notwo people can ever really communicate except … [for] sending messages back and forth. #
• A scientific, intellectual culture had become a culture of millions of isolated people living and dying in … psychic solitary confinement, #
• unable to talk to one another, really, and unable to judge one another because scientifically speaking it is impossible to do so. #
• Each invididual in his cell of isolation was told that no matter how hard he tried…his whole life is that of an animal that lives & dies. #
• ..He could invent moral goals for himself, but they are just artificial inventions. Scientifically speaking he has no goals. #
• Sometime after the 20's a secret loneliness,so penetrating and so encompassing that we are only beginning to realize the extent of it, #
• descended upon the land. This scientific, psychiatric isolation and futility had become a far worse prison … than…Victorian 'virtue'. #
• They had lost some of their realness … living in some kind of movie saying … PARADISE> PARADISE> PARADISE>… " #
• progressing in ripping my CD collection… now Pearl Jam followed immediately by Peter Paul & Mary 🙂 #
• @raymondpirouz re:HTML5 – maybe there is an element of vision and inspiration that is being overlooked by technical critics? in reply to raymondpirouz #
• it's been my most difficult open-source transition: 1st time saving PSD file as GIMP XCF to continue work http://www.gimp.org/ #
• Insights courtesy of the Dalai Lama, Barack Obama & Twitter: http://bit.ly/aLBjJW #
• wading into new linux territories: using GParted to resize an existing Windows Vista partition on Dell laptop… making room for Ubuntu #
• unless you have good reason for it, avoid Ubuntu 64bit, the 32bit install makes for an easier life #
• @ennyman3 "art is not necessary" is a misapprehension I carried around 4 a long time … art gives life direction in reply to ennyman3 #
• change & clinging #
• had an emotionally painful day, now food, TV and ice-cream … and let this day come to a peaceful end #
• when they are sent out to war they are called soldiers, when they die or go missing they become boys #
• working on Yoga asana illsutrations with fresh coffee and Jeff Buckley #
• listening to "Jeff Buckley Strange Fruit" ♫ http://blip.fm/~p8p1h #

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• 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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• glimpses catch up with the present moment: http://bit.ly/cquU3y #
• “No one has the right to live without being shocked” http://bit.ly/c5JRDx #
• the internet is like a gold mine, you have to sift through loads of dirt to find small shiny specks #
• @ronenk מצאתי את @fireland וחשבתי עלייך… #
• picking up reading where I left off a few weeks ago … #
• ""Determinism is the philosophic doctrine that man,like all other objects in the universe,follows fixed scientific laws…without exception. #
• Free Will is the scientific doctrine that man makes choices independent of the atoms of his body. #
• This battle ["free will versus determinism"] has been a very long and very loud one because abdandonment of either position has #
• devastating logical consequences. In the Metaphysics of Quality this dilemma doesn't come up.To the extent that one's behavior is controlled #
• by static patterns of quality it is without choice. But to the extent that one follows Dynamic Quality … one's behavior is free. #
• ..The Metaphysics of Qualiity says that if moral judegments are essentially assertions of value and if value is the fundamental ground-stuff #
• of the world, then moral judgements are the fundamental ground-stuff of the world. The "Laws of Nature" are moral laws. #
• … it sounds peculiar at 1st … to say thath hydrogen and oxygen form water because it is moral to do so. But it is no less peculiar..than #
• to say chemistry professors smoke pipes and go to movies because irresistible cause-and-effect forces of the universe force them do to it. #
• In the past the logic has been that if chemostry professors are composes exclusively of atoms and if atoms follow only the law of #
• cause & effect,then chemistry professors must follow the laws of cause and effect too.But this logic can be applied in a reverse direction. #
• ..If chemistry professors excercise choice, and chemistry professors are composed exclusively of atoms, then it follows that atoms must #
• excercise choice too. The difference between these two point of views is philosophic not scientific. The question of whether an electron #
• does a certain thing because it has to or because it wants to is completely irrelevant to the data of what the electron does. #
• When inorganic patterns of reality create life the Metaphysics of Quality postulates that they've done so because it's 'better'. #
• – this 'betterness' … response to Dynamic Quality – is an elementary unit of ethics upon which all right and wrong can be based." #
• had a short and welcome visit on the Yoga mat this morning… small steps #
• today I can see the tiredness that consumed me yesterday #
• Evernote is now available for iPad, still nothing for Linux!!! go KeepNote http://bit.ly/9f5XWn #
• "What the evolutionary structure of the Metaphysics of QUality is that there is not just one moral system. There are many. #
• … 'laws of nature' by which inorganic patterns triumph over chaos; #
• … 'law of the jungle' where biology triumphs over the inorganic forces of starvation and death; #
• there's a morality where social patterns triumph over biology, 'the law'; #
• and there is intellectual morality, which is still struggling in its attempts to cotrol society. #
• Each of these sets of moral codes is no more related to the other than novels are to flip-flops. #
• What is today conventionally called 'morality' covers only … the social-biological code. In a subject-object metaphysics this single #
• social-biological code is considered to be a minor 'subjective' physically nonexistent part of the universe. #
• But in the Metaphysics of Quality all these sets of moral, plus another Dynamic Morality, are not only real, they are the whole thing. #
• 'It's more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than to allow the germ to kill his patient'… the patient has moral precedence because he's at #
• …This is not just an arbitrary social convention… It's true for all people and at all times…a moral pattern of reality as real as H2O. #
• We're at last dealing with morals on the basis of reason… analyze moral arguments with greater precision than before. #
• ..vegetarianism..it's scientifically immoral for everyone because animals are at a higher level of evolution, that is, more Dynamic, than #
• are grains and fruits and vegetables… this moral principle only holds where there is an abundance of grains and fruit and vegetables. #
• It would be immoral 4 Hindus not to eat their cows in a time of famine,since they would be killing human beings infavor of a lower organism. #
• Is it scientically moral for a society to kill a human being? #
• An evolutionary morality would at first seem to say yes, a society has a right to murder people to prevent its own destruction. #
• When the United States drafted troops for the Civil War everyone knew that innocent people would be murdered… an evolutionary morality #
• argues that the North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body, #
• and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation. #
• When a society is not itself threatened, as in the execution of individual criminals, the issue becomes more complex… #
• an evolutionary morality would argue that there is no moral justification for killing him. He is not even a defective unit of society. #
• Whenever you kill a human being you are killing a source of thought… ideas take moral precedence over a society. They are at a higher #
• level of evolution than social patterns of value. Just as it is more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than a patient, so #
• it is more moral for an idea to kill a society than it is for a society to kill an idea. #
• … The strongest moral argument against capital punishment is that it weakens a society's Dynamic capability… for change and evolution. #
• It's not the 'nice' guys who bring abour real social change… [they] look nice because they're conforming. #
• It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice 100 years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution. #
• … static pattens that hold one level of organization together are often the same patterns that another level of organization must fight #
• to maintain it's own existence. Morality is not a simple set of rules… it's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. #
• 'Vice' … is a conflict between biological quality and social quality… sex & booze & drugs & tobacco have a high biological quality… #
• they feel good, but are harmful for social reasons. #
• They take all your money. They break up your family. They threaten the stability of the community. #
• … this whole century's been about … struggle between intellectual and social patterns. That's the theme sonf of the 20th century. #
• Is society going to dominate intellect or is intellect going to dominate soceity? #
• …Intellect is not an extension of society any more than society is an extension of biology. #
• Intellect is going it's own way, and in doing so is at war with society, seeking to subjugate society, to put society under lock and key. #
• An evolutionary morality says it is moral for intellect to do so, but it also contains a warning: #
• … an intellectual pattern that weakens and destroys the health of it's social base also endanger it's own stability. #
• there is creature outside beeping like a UPS in a power out, and a notification on the computer that sounds like a bird #
• speak your mind and mind your speak #
• my father taught me commitment, my mother compromise, my older sister forgiveness and my younger sister compassion #
• @raymondpirouz this is what came out after 2 viewings, 5 pages of notes and many days of pondering: http://bit.ly/aBoA9T thank you 🙂 in reply to raymondpirouz #

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• yuck #
• the rush for the iPad demonstrates that the hypocrisy of American consumerism is as much in it's consumers as it is in it's corporations #

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• מישהו מנגן או מכיר מישהו שמנגן באקורדיון? אני מחפש עצה. ברכישת אקורדיון משומש. תודה מראש 🙂 #
• “Truth is indestructible. It seems history shows (and it’s the same way today) that the innovator is more often than not met with some #
• degree of condemnation; usually according to the degree of departure from the prevailing modes of expression or what have you. #
• Change is always hard to accept…. Quite often they are the rejects, outcasts, sub-citizens, etc. of the very societies to which they bring #
• so mush sustenance…Whatever the case, whether accepted or rejected, rich or poor, they are forever guided by that great and eternal constant #
• – the creative urge. Let us cherish it and give all praise to God.” John Coltrane #
• get Ubuntu compatible, competitive hardware from System76 – checkout the added value: http://bit.ly/940yLs #
• is WordPress evolving into an operating system – a potential home for personal online presence? http://bit.ly/aXeC5D #
• wonderful WordPress plugin for translations, a gr8 opportunity for non-develpers to contribute to the community: http://bit.ly/c6ElIk #
• @photomatt it would be great to have Gravatar as an OpenID provider too… #
• if you take away rewards for success & punishment for failure… you are left with intention #
• @raymondpirouz WordPress & open source are not exactly "about people" – rather about a a small&closed circle of people http://bit.ly/3tHBEq in reply to raymondpirouz #
• "Rock-bottom became a solid foundation" http://on.ted.com/8DdN an awesome talk by the author Harry Potter books via @JudithYoga #
• @raymondpirouz why do u believe that open-source is primarily JUST another business model? http://bit.ly/aB75g6 http://bit.ly/9RPZMT in reply to raymondpirouz #
• @raymondpirouz I believe murkiness in "open source" is rooted in naivete, in business it is rooted in misperception & deception in reply to raymondpirouz #
• @raymondpirouz open-source has a leg-up on business – it needs to mature and grow into design awareness while in reply to raymondpirouz #
• @raymondpirouz business has a-lot of growing-out (of old-die-hard habits) to do before it can approach and appreciate design in reply to raymondpirouz #
• @raymondpirouz I feel that if design were 2find a way into open-source software, they could do wonderful things 2gether http://bit.ly/3nivEJ #
• @janeforshort the WordPress UI group is (4now) mostly about usability tinkering, design is (can be) so much more! cc: @raymondpirouz in reply to janeforshort #
• 4th article on Doshas – how to manipulate a fire http://bit.ly/9qsRa2 #yoga #ayurveda #

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