Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Regarding government totalitarianism in Nazi terms: Carl Schmitt reasoned that corporations have the potential to become states. If the government doesn't keep their authority in check, they will enslave people and government through market influence. We're perhaps still running dominance over

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding government totalitarianism in Nazi terms: Carl Schmitt reasoned that corporations have the potential to become states. If the government doesn't keep their authority in check, they will enslave

A definition of existence (being twofold)

2013-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Leibniz said that space, being massless, is a nonphysical nonentity. All that physically exists then consists of physical objects with mass-- these together with their nonphysical mental massless representations (as mind or will, consciousness, monads). Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.)

Re: Ryle's category mistake and why spacetime, to a platonist, is contained in Mind

2013-11-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Nov 2013, at 14:36, Roger Clough wrote: Ryle's category mistake and why spacetime, to a platonist, is contained in Mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake This is a very subtle issue. The term category-mistake was introduced by Gilbert Ryle in his book The Concept of

Ternary (platonic) perception in Leibniz and Peirce

2013-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Ternary (platonic) perception in Leibniz and Peirce In any mental operation, it take 3 to tango. In Leibniz, in perception brainmind operates in 3 stages: A neuron or neurons emit an optical neve signal Raw perception of this signal by the One and converison of this into an image Return of the

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
In the meantime, the corporates are doing their best to enslave world via the internet... http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/298-185/20253-focus-were-about-to-lose-net-neutrality-and-the-internet-as-we-know-it On 6 November 2013 02:24, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Tue,

Re: A definition of existence (being twofold)

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
That just sounds like definitions. Do they get us anywhere useful? On 6 November 2013 03:21, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Leibniz said that space, being massless, is a nonphysical nonentity. All that physically exists then consists of physical objects with mass-- these together

Re: A definition of existence (being twofold)

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
Yes. It proves that Leibniz was incorrect. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:27 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: That just sounds like definitions. Do they get us anywhere useful? On 6 November 2013 03:21, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Leibniz said that space, being massless, is a

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
The so-called Deep Net is according to this last issue of Wired is many times bigger than the Internet we all know and apparently almost impenetrable. Perhaps we will all switch to the Deep Net http://www.rogerdavies.com/2011/06/dark-internet/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, LizR

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Richard, On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: The so-called Deep Net is according to this last issue of Wired is many times bigger than the Internet we all know and apparently almost impenetrable. Perhaps we will all switch to the Deep Net

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
Ah yes I've heard of that. Well it's the classic response to prohibition, isn't it, to figuratively go underground? On 6 November 2013 11:34, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: The so-called Deep Net is according to this last issue of Wired is many times bigger than the Internet we all

Re: A definition of existence (being twofold)

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
OK! Moving on.nothing to see here...! On 6 November 2013 11:28, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. It proves that Leibniz was incorrect. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:27 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: That just sounds like definitions. Do they get us anywhere useful? On

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:26 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: In the meantime, the corporates are doing their best to enslave world via the internet... http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/298-185/20253-focus-were-about-to-lose-net-neutrality-and-the-internet-as-we-know-it Net neutrality

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
Well more or less. If you perform a search on wiki for corporatism, it sums it up nicely. It may be that the time for republics has passed by, but with this statism comes a less free world. Think censorship. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
As brent meeker quoated mussolini, we can call it corporatism, or plutocracy. The thing about nazi corporatism is that the nation becomes the race. A belief that somehow humans rise directly out of the soil from the land. The market influence thing seems right, hence the triumph of crony

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
Try to remember, that in Russia, and China, as well as the USA, are all partly, ruled by billionaires. People with great fortunes. Also, we humans are like any other primate, because when some of these billionaires do things we like, like Bill Gates, we become forgiving and more content with

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
No no. But as long as you don't conflate the ideal, versus the real, and like the marxists did, justify ever failure of their system, to it will be perfect in the future, comrades.. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 13:59, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Try to remember, that in Russia, and China, as well as the USA, are all partly, ruled by billionaires. People with great fortunes. Also, we humans are like any other primate, because when some of these billionaires do things we like, like

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 14:06, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: No no. But as long as you don't conflate the ideal, versus the real, and like the marxists did, justify ever failure of their system, to it will be perfect in the future, comrades.. You're calling them Marxists because they paid lip service

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
Just a few points: The advantage of individualism, is it reduces lemming marches, when everyone is running in the wrong direction. Secondly, the european and australian members here should realize that the usa has has socialized medicine for the poor, and for the elderly, for over 50 years

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
There is lots of waste in federal spending, for starters. For example, Sequestration, last January, was supposed to collapse the economy. But what was not spoken of by the Dem Party media, was that all programs were budgeted to rise in funding by 10 percent. With sequestration they only rose

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
Marxists like BHO want people taken care of. They also want people dependent on government servicesnso they, the pols, can have control over the dumb serfs. And again, all the fashionable Marxists have a bunch of crony capitalist friends to get ideas from. As far as the state withering away,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
-Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 8:08 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 13:59, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: Try to remember, that in Russia, and China, as well as

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
This could be the flaw of literature writers like Dickens and Rand. No, as a rightist, I am extremely concerned with this crony capitalism, but I am just acknowledging the human condition, conceding that they do have too much powrt, and that their policies often do not benefit the rest of us.

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
Well that's a challenge, but if someone has a great scheme, you would get people to sell it to the big banks or whats called, private equity firms. They loan the cash, for a cut in the profits. So, our idea had better be convincing. Otherwise we get green energy concepts that produce money

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 14:44, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Marxists like BHO want people taken care of. They also want people dependent on government servicesnso they, the pols, can have control over the dumb serfs. And again, all the fashionable Marxists have a bunch of crony capitalist friends to

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
The ideas had better be convincing because we don't have unlimited time to sort out the mess the world is in thanks to the 'tragedy of the commons. On 6 November 2013 14:56, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Well that's a challenge, but if someone has a great scheme, you would get people to sell it

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
One needs to distinguish Fascism and Nazism. Fascism bound the nation-state into a super-organism. Nazism added a mystic racism about blood (volk) and soil, Christianity and anti-semitism. There were fascist political philosophers who made rational arguments for fascism. The Nazis were a

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 5:21 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Just a few points: The advantage of individualism, is it reduces lemming marches, when everyone is running in the wrong direction. The disadvantage is that if the organized elite convince everyone else that they should only act as

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
According to the Wired article, deep net is the tor system invented or developed by the govt to be impenetrable hence NSA's comment that Tor sucks. You can read the Wired article here: http://www.wired.com/magazine/ but the last issue is not on the net yet. Richard On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:52

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
Not even on the deep net? On 6 November 2013 16:15, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: According to the Wired article, deep net is the tor system invented or developed by the govt to be impenetrable hence NSA's comment that Tor sucks. You can read the Wired article here:

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
I stay away from the dark side of the internet On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:17 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Not even on the deep net? On 6 November 2013 16:15, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: According to the Wired article, deep net is the tor system invented or developed by

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
Me too. Look what happened to Darth Vader... On 6 November 2013 16:29, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: I stay away from the dark side of the internet -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
I practice the primary mantras of all the principal religions having been kicked out, more or less, from all of them. But I do not practice Jediism and their mantra: 'let the force be with you'. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:30 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Me too. Look what happened to Darth

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
And also distinguish Fascism from Communism. The former is bound to nationalism as its core bonding principle; whereas communism had an internationalist dimension and framed its core binding arguments in terms of class... the workers of the world unite rhetoric. Communist states, in practice, were

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
[image: Inline images 1] On 6 November 2013 16:41, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: And also distinguish Fascism from Communism. The former is bound to nationalism as its core bonding principle; whereas communism had an internationalist dimension and framed its core binding

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
In the near future who knows. you may breath in some nano dust and within minutes begin feeling a powerful compelling love for the dear leader (or bankster) that fills you with an overriding motivation to struggle harder to do your small part in increasing their glory. And - in this dystopic

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
Yeah, let's all pour hate on government and go to Somalia where there isn't any. Maybe the reason there so many self-serving people in government is that no matter what they do there's a big faction that hates them for it - instead of understanding the idea of community and compromise. Brent

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: In the near future who knows... you may breath in some nano dust and within minutes begin feeling a powerful compelling love for the dear leader (or bankster) that fills you with an overriding motivation to struggle harder to do your small part

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 5:38 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: There is lots of waste in federal spending, for starters. For example, Sequestration, last January, was supposed to collapse the economy. But what was not spoken of by the Dem Party media, was that all programs were budgeted to rise in funding by

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
Brent – Community compromise are noble ideals, but in practice the exercise of power realpolitick – as it has in fact been practiced through history – has far more to do with facilitating and providing legal cover for predation and securing unwarranted privilege for a reigning elite… be they

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
Hehe. the armed populace will fare well against the array of AC-130 gunship, Apache helicopters, hunter-killer drones, armored vehicles and the vast array of military hardware and urban counter insurgency tactics that have been perfected in the streets of Baghdad that will and can be brought to

RE: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
A human has something like ten times as many bacteria in its body than it does cells with human DNA. Pretty much all life forms are in fact complex multi-species ecosystems that by and large have evolved to work together in ways we hardly understand. To give some perspective I've read there are

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 9:44 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Brent -- Community compromise are noble ideals, but in practice the exercise of power realpolitick -- as it has in fact been practiced through history -- has far more to do with facilitating and providing legal cover for predation and securing

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 9:52 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Hehe... the armed populace will fare well against the array of AC-130 gunship, Apache helicopters, hunter-killer drones, armored vehicles and the vast array of military hardware and urban counter insurgency tactics that have been perfected in

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 17:10, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: In the near future who knows… you may breath in some nano dust and within minutes begin feeling a powerful compelling love for the dear leader (or bankster) that fills you with an

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 11:11 PM, LizR wrote: On 6 November 2013 17:10, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: In the near future who knows… you may breath in some nano dust and within minutes begin feeling a powerful

Re: shouldn't biology get a reboot?

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
Both, I believe. (But watch Osmosis Jones for the definitive answer.) On 6 November 2013 19:14, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: A human has something like ten times as many bacteria in its body than it does cells with human DNA. Pretty much all life forms are in fact complex

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 20:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Yeah, I know. But it's a silly vision. Why would you want all these drugged out brutes around. Why wouldn't you just use of biological engineering to create animals to do labor and act as companions...Oh, right, because it's