A Hill to Climb.
I’m taking an extended break to work on some big projects whose time has come. Ya’ll peeps are awesome truth seekers, I know you will keep up the good fight.
Rock on. —LG.
ps- have as many friends as you can watch the Collateral Damage video and talk to people about it, especially the ones you know might disagree. Jump on this opportunity to shake the war machine down.
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The interior of our bodies is hidden to us. What happens beneath the skin is mysterious, fearful, amazing. In antiquity, the body’s internal structure was the subject of speculation, fantasy, and some study, but there were few efforts to represent it in pictures. The invention of the printing press in the 15th century-and the cascade of print technologies that followed-helped to inspire a new spectacular science of anatomy, and new spectacular visions of the body. Anatomical imagery proliferated, detailed and informative but also whimsical, surreal, beautiful, and grotesque — a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self.
Adam Curtis (in an interview with The Register)
At a time when there isn’t anything to give you confidence beyond yourself - you live in the “empire of the self” - then it is inevitable that you will seek those like you, because it will give you a sense of collective purpose. It will give you a sense of collective security.
And that’s exactly what the internet is about - “If you like this book, others before you have bought these books…” And it works to create those little circles. All those little radio stations which tell you, “If you played this, other people have played this…”
On the internet, you’re constantly monitoring other people’s choices to see what those people who you think are like you do, and they say, “OK I’ll do that to be like that”. And what that leads to, again, is Balkanisation.
And it’s what advertisers rather like, because it gives them a definition.
The Century of the Self, parts 1 - 4
Technology transformed humanity into something different than it was before, into a new creation – flesh and technè,” he said.
“We are mutants now. What will come out of it nobody knows. It’s something unprecedented – and scary,” he said. Science fiction, in many cases, is simply “presenting the fears of the metamorphosis.”
As Cashmore explains, the human brain acts at both the conscious level as well as the unconscious. It’s our consciousness that makes us aware of our actions, giving us the sense that we control them, as well. But even without this awareness, our brains can still induce our bodies to act, and studies have indicated that consciousness is something that follows unconscious neural activity. Just because we are often aware of multiple paths to take, that doesn’t mean we actually get to choose one of them based on our own free will. As the ancient Greeks asked, by what mechanism would we be choosing? The physical world is made of causes and effects - “nothing comes from nothing” - but free will, by its very definition, has no physical cause. The Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius, in reference to this problem of free will, noted that the Greek philosophers concluded that atoms “randomly swerve” - the likely source of this movement being the numerous Greek gods.
“Conditional Free Will” is likely a better way to put it. We do have to power to choose, but usually the options that are socially condoned whether we want to believe it or not.
The FederalJack Free Ebooks Archive.
Declassified Federal Docs, FOIA Requests, Fiction and Non-Fiction Books, Survival Manuals and more.
Stock up, 2010 is going to be a bumpy ride.
Oh yes indeedy my friends. I bring to you this gem I recently found. I had actually come across another scan copy of this about a week ago, but it had separate versions for the German and English translation, and all color pictures were separate jpeg files… that was no fun. This is one PDF, with with the first half the full color scanned German original w/ pics, and the second half English translation text w/o pics.
This is a must for anyone interested in psychology and the occult. More info on it on Wikipedia.
Download | 146.73 MB
HUGE Thanks to Justin - who has been featuring some pretty nice book downloads. The sheer size of the file nearly killed my computer though, ha.
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