At 10:10 AM 1/28/2005 -0600, you wrote: > >At 10:10 AM 1/27/2005 -0500, Ode wrote: >> Will your great great great grandchildren be making stone tools while >>steel rusts away? > >Most probably. > >We don't live long enough to make a lasting contribution to "civilization" >let alone figure out what's going on except in the arena of Divine Comedy. > >After all, if we could figure out what's going on maybe some would be >able to do something about it...individually...which is the only way it >will ever be done, contrary to popular belief. ## I do believe you've hit the nail on the head. If you do manage to figure anything out, it's that the only path that has any power at all, is an individual path. No one can change another mind. Differing points of view can be presented with varying degrees of force, but if a mind is to be changed, it's still that person making that decision.
Force is not power. About the best it can do is eliminate opposition. It's really more an expression of helplessness. What does have power is a point of view that stands true on it's own merit, requiring no force for it to be seen and acted upon as it is, valid in its own right without any need for agreement to make it real or possibility of dissagreement to make it unreal. Power is by it's nature, very quiet...and always as individual as reality itself. It would appear that no two people live in the exact same universe and every one of them exercizes their inability to not create it...and so often deny that that power exists. In fact, each individual is so powerful that they can create the illusion of powerlessness and have it validated to perfection. ..including the idea that an "individual" is a true possibility and not just another fantasy requiring constant validation to be 'seen as' a truth. Conflict is that validation. If 'individual' is indeed a fantasy, then the Golden Rule cannot be truely broken. And all chaos is but a fantasy based on another fantasy. If 'individual' needs no validation, as no truth does, and the Golden Rule is a true rule that cannot be broken, there must truely be only one individual. ..and conflict becomes the game it is..nothing more than drama based on the illogical bootstrap magic of relativity perception "I am I, because I am not you" Space/time is defined as "All the places I am not, validating the idea that I am here". ..and then the movie entitled "Hall of Mirrors" ends where recognition of power begins...so so quietly... "I am".... a perfect liar. [Only possible if I don't believe it's true and I 'must' be a perfect liar if I believe that.] "You are"...the perfect validation that my lies are true...proof to my satisfaction that I exist as I think I do...the conflict that makes a hole [which is nothing at all] at all perceivable. Shhhhh I once heard a mental patient say, "I know I'm alive because that car is green". ..made sense to me! [in that, perfect sense and perfect nonsense are the same thing] LOL >"We" and "they" are irrelevant no matter the calamity in the works. > >It's a do-it-yourself project. ## "They" are the scenery in which I play my me. I NEVER see 'them' as they are, only as I think they are. They are, therefore, an opinion holding an opinion...my very own arguement. If I change MY mind, I also change them in it. But in order to change my mind, I must suspend belief in my own arguements. That can be really hard for a perfect liar to accomplish. ;-) But since maintaining a lie requires immense effort, all I need do is nothing. I can't "do" nothing because "I am" what I am doing. "I AM" [unbelievably] believing what I think and thinking what I believe, proving it all to be true to my own satisfaction within the conflict scenery that holds it, and myself, as an event in spacetime. But then, there's really nothing to accomplish...nothing done to undo by doing nothing. ..not really.. Ode > >stuff > > >-- >The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > >Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] >OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.2 - Release Date: 1/21/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.2 - Release Date: 1/28/2005
