[click image, video that is really audio playlist, about an hour — and had to be replaced with something only similar because of YouTube ripping down the first]
No one has to "marry" anyone else politically; no one has to embrace every tenet or belief that an anti-imperialist ally might hold. You simply have to say: "All of us, regardless of our other views, believe this truth to be self-evident: dismantling the empire will bring immediate and enormous benefits to our nation and to the world."
If in your travels you meet the Buddha, throw him through your tv set.
—Davis Fleetwood
I've found that culture, however useful and important, is neither the foundation nor the ceiling of human experience, even if it is commonly used for walls.
I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States. —Hillary Clinton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7COSslcGWGo&feature=related
ReplyDeletecount me with the 1000 other people who didn't make it to #3 of whatever
ReplyDeleteweird science creates more problems than it solves
Well, as you probably have seen, I have been doing a lot of listening to this way out stuff, as practice, as thought experiments for those who care to engage in them, and the one clear point that has come up from it that I didn't know, and appears to be so, is that Einstein's Unified Field Theory wasn't the disaster it's been painted to be by certain "mainstream" forces. This is an extremely valuable bit of information.
ReplyDeleteI know I'm more inclined to be accepting of these "alternative" type histories and sciences because I have stacks of translations of extremely old, thousands of years old, works by spiritual masters, the guys we call The Ancients, and they ALL refer to Ancients from thousands of years before, and talk of antiquity vastly more antiquated than what is generally accepted as the starting point for humans on earth. This doesn't mean I believe we came from outer space, but it does make me as skeptical of evolution as of creationism.... It occurred to me long ago that the alien origins theories are in fact more plausible than what everyone's fighting over in the mainstream.
Anyway, with respect to these thought experiments, the bit about Einstein and the broader scope of investigation of things in general, I consider to be valuable contributions.