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Green Party Candidates on YouTube.com

monte — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:01:40 GMT

Green Party Candidates' videos can be found on YouTube.com, this is by no means an exhaustive list. Please share these videos with those who have not had a chance to hear these candidates speak. Rae Vogler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLBntU_MVfo Vogler; Telling It Like It Is 0:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9BYdueQwk4 Vogler; Another WI Senator with a Spine! 2:50 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxkyti9ED4o Vogler; John Nichols interview; Vote in your interests, not your fears 3:44 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzfVBZ0NjY Vogler; John Nichols interview; Representing working Wisconsinites 3:45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf-2GQMhPrE Vogler; John Nichols interview; The roots of her political activism 4:08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeCegTp2whw Vogler; Interview 8:45 http://www.voterae.org/ Vote Rae; website Nelson Eisman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhpQpLRX6N0 Eisman; Debate! 4:51 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWi_KQFnnxk Eisman; Priceless 0:36 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cRwKkvzpqc Eisman; Pre-debate ad 0:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1vCpCRd__s Eisman; Post-debate ad 0:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlX9ZqSu2JI Eisman; HUGE 0:45 http://voteeisman.org/ Eisman for Wisconsin; website Howie Hawkins, running against Hilary in NY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89i_KBS1VZI Howie Hawkins for U.S. Senator 2006 not Hillary Clinton! 7:18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0l66FT2xf0 Howie Hawkins Green Party US Senate - TV Spot 0:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxw6rKZ42to Hawkins at Debate Protest 6:24 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FfOGqLNweo Howie not Hillary (in less then a minute) 0:56 In this interview Hawkins presents great plans for three major planks of the Green platform. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j2FBuLor68 Hawkins Interviewed by Don DeBar WBAI 7:47 (part 1 of 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbnsbT8hUGE Green Party 06 candidates chat 8:56

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monte — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:34:22 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36b6y7vGoA The War Tapes 9:53; part 1 of 10 (the entire movie, and http://thewartapes.com/trailer/" , is on youtube free) The peoples' media are arriving, there are several new documentaries that are counting on people buying them to share with you at free showings. Also, there are increasingly trailers of such movies available on sites like youtube.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EahfkY4eo8 Congressman Ryan brings it 3:03; 12,000,000$/hr in Iraq, like it says, he loses it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbgtp-V5t6g 'Shadow Company' Trailer 2:50; the one that really got me the most of the whole following list. It hurts deep, life is ever cheaper than cheap; good thing info is even cheaper! media to the people, media to the people! right on! I thought we would be hearing from our vets in the streets, today's boys are more savy, they have it on video, and they know how to share it: New Homegrown Documentaries Industry Makes Timely Agitprop These films are following a new marketing paradigm for civically focused documentaries. Eshewing the profits that go with major markets inclined to shut out content like this anyway, they aim for direct sales motivated by hosting free screenings. As a marketing strategy this is more concerned with getting out the word than it is effective at turning a profit. In one of the following clips ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27a7Qv4Xnko , \ Preview of Interview with Robert Greenwald 2:44; of 'Walmart: High Cost of Low Prices'), Robert Greenwald speaks to the appeal that being invited to see it by co-workers, freinds, and family has for people who would not want to help fund the film. An exciting new documentary http://thewartapes.com/trailer/ 'the War Tapes', made of footage by the troops on the ground, is playing this coming week, Fri Oct 6th, thru thurs. 12th, at http://www.timescinema.com/ Times Cinema</a>, at 5906 W Vliet St, Milwaukee, WI., at 7 & 9:00pm, with a 3pm matinee on sunday. You can see the trailer at http://thewartapes.com/trailer/ , and look up screenings at http://thewartapes.com/screenings/ thewartapes.com/screenings; though it is not nearly as well developed, or populated, as the list for the following one, which is sure to propagate much better online. Recently released, and aimed effectively at small showings by citizens, is Robert Greenwald's http://iraqforsale.org/ 'Iraq for Sale', ( http://iraqforsale.org/videos.php , trailer), hook up with locals who will show it to you at http://iraqforsale.org/screenings.php . Go meet new people, or, better yet, buy the DVD ( http://iraqforsale.org/ ), and host a party ( http://iraqforsale.org/screenings.php ), where you can meet freinds new and old. Another similar documentary telling the soldiers' tale now showing locally is http://www.thegroundtruth.net/ The Ground Truth, which is also not quite as booked online as Robert Greenwald funded Brave New films' 'Iraq for Sale'. As I have yet to see any of these three, I cannot yet speak to whether the better movie was made by money, or vets, but my opinion is not one that matters. The Ground Truth screenings can be found at http://events.thegroundtruth.net/page/event/search_simple , enter your zip code and radius, or see recent Milwaukee listings http://events.thegroundtruth.net/page/event/detail/wx2 . There's more! a film that combines the others' themes, by focussing on the civilian contractor "vets" perspective. http://www.shadowcompanythemovie.com/ 'Shadow Company', the (2:50) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbgtp-V5t6g Trailer for which is quite promising. Also, http://www.empowermentproject.org/sso.html "Soldiers Speak Out" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xSYp-uOTTg Trailer 4:51), which appears to have quite the online activist community behind them. So, we have four videos from those who have fought there, and two on profiteering, one of which is both. Five fine films due largely to the efforts of those who served. Youtube.com has also given me back some of what the media used to offer, it is there for example, that I became aware of the fact that there is this one guy, Jack Cafferty ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ADlZViASo War Crimes Immunity: "What Are We Becoming?", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aetxLNWKC_M "Just Do It!"), that just might make 'TV' worth watching again, the paradigm of grassroots marketing as conciously elaborated by Robert Greenwald (in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27a7Qv4Xnko "Preview of Interview with Robert Greenwald"), and this well spoken young man's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQj1NmjX8g "Re: War Crimes Immunity: "What Are We Becoming?"" 3:56. The following is a youtube "playlist" focussed on 'Iraq for Sale' trailers and bonus footage, as well as Haliburton stuff: Preamble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyWg_rMtJQE Iraq Vets; Free Fire Zones 2:00; Rob Serra's turning point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMMIxFM4gog Vets pics; All is Not Okay 4:03; homegrown, with Seether track. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfvqMjhyZIM Falujha Finalle 3:38 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOSbpebAeM Truthout Vet; Demoralized 3:34 First, Haliburton's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Q-89tAV34 Halliburton; Proud to Serve Our Troops 0:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRDBn3CcPSI Halliburton ad; Message from CEO David Lesar 0:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXXwVwhroc4 Halliburton TV spot; It's a Girl! 0:31 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxIO0VtTiY What if Halliburton's CEO came clean? 1:13 Then the "media": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBRl3S-wG6M Cafferty File: Sweetheart Halliburton Contracts 1:18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UzG_imSHbU MSNBC; Robert Greenwald on Countdown with Keith Olbermann 6:11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH1dOS6fb5w MSNBC; 'Iraq for Sale' "plugged" 1:02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jC6EoEMCs CNBC; Robert Greenwald 4:34 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGPLchIl6p4 ABC; Robert Greenwald 3:02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbeXNS5ovzs CNN; Military contractors shoot civilians 2:20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BDByPfIavQ >Trophy video exposes private security contractors shooting 2:29; full vid on youtube, speaks for tself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91UrpJzQjwI CNN; Iraqi Imprisoned Eight Months for Having Cell Phone 3:21; "perhaps 1 in 1,000, to 1 in 10,000 could", "risky indeed", never mind, I'm cured of TV again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olDhrOtUJOk CNN; War Professor says military ops in Iran already 7:02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teEuZc5VCK4" target="blank">BBC; Why We Fight - Contractor Cheney and Facilitated Corruption 3:08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THYBCEoxlxI" target="blank">Olbermann to Bush, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" 2:43 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJJPSiZz7CA" target="blank">Journalists Targeted in Iraq</a> 5:06 Then, Brave New Films (Iraq for Sale / Robert Greenwald): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg74xX9e1Pg 'Iraq for Sale' bonus scene: Soldiers outsourced to KBR 2:01; "wait around while the KBR contractors do the job I had to train them to do" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ83keKiLiE Pursuing the War Profiteers for Interviews 3:49; (the value of records). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z640nK_Wvw Halliburton lies about 'Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers' 2:50 (the value of archiving phone calls). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUEULWEP9c 'Iraq for Sale' bonus scene: Blackwater 5:54 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfgt3kmv-Hg The Tale of Prince - A War Profiteer 2:58 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcCbdbpZJtU CACI made $$ torturing at Abu Ghraib then covered it up 4:36; viewer response? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvQojxtOe8Q Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers - teaser trailer 3:07 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp1CZzv8gJo Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers - Teaser 2 3:07 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D3xc3JYovI Iraq for Sale NYC Premiere 2:48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSVhLMghPVo Brave New Films introduction 5:24 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27a7Qv4Xnko Preview of Interview with Robert Greenwald 2:44; talks about walmart film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5sOMYg9sww Robert Greenwald speaks about Walmart at SALON (Oct. 2005) 5:06 Addenda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia_003j9nZg Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey USMC speaks 5:09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wxoiBgIWc This guy has George W Bush down pat. Very funny. 3:05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EArlx3hhMhs Go Hallibruton Go 9:16; pt. 1 of 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0U_5aqyTM David Rovics: Halliburton Boardroom Massacre 2:51 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBYQ3JxIppk David Rovics on New Orleans 4:09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTTtlhYPEDs Dahr Jamail on War Profiteering in Iraq 10:11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5vHgyjN-aE Anti-Flag; 1 Trillion Dollar$ 2:36 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cMlVUIhSM4 One People, One Struggle 3:09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcPTag6AteU Veterans for Peace; Mike Hastie 4:01 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQH9DloKD8 Confessions of a Wal-Mart Hit Man 10:19 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slt0Iq72MY8 Jim Page;When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again 3:56 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSAR53uX9wA NOFX- You're Wrong 2:14 This blog also posted at: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/geanark http://geanark.blogspot.com/ http://myspace.com/geanark http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/192132 http://my.care2.com/geanark http://people.tribe.net/bc250ffa-fec0-4e48-9eb6-72b322d65b2d

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monte — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:09:53 GMT

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automate management and ownership out of a job

monte — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:40:49 GMT

in my lifetime, the precarity, or desperateness, of people has grown, enormously, continuously, and alarmingly! while the educated, information society, is ever more rewarded, efficient, and luxurious, the vast majority are left out. as of the late 1980's, more than half of all people ever alive are living now. that the vast majority of us are living on the edge of desperation, or in deep desperation, as of mid first decade of the third millennium, means we are faced with a world, where advancing technology has enabled anyone to live like royalty, while enforcing a society where the majority, of all humans ever having lived, are currently either starving to death, in grave danger of doing so, or worse. yet this technologia could engender an economy that could support most of us in a style, that, still, very few have ever experienced. we collectively have graver and graver impacts on our environments' capacity to sustain us. as a result of our individual desperate behaviors, we endanger all, especially those who are not economically, and/or informationally, well endowed. we must endeavor to reduce the general level of desperation among the masses, else, even the rich will not be sustained. the economic and information resources must not only no longer be used against the interests of individuals, be put at the uses of the masses. all individuals must learn to act less desperate, to spare what they can spare, like info, pleasant labor, and love, without suffering for loss. and none not well enough off to spare these things, for indeed, not sharing these things is itself loss, one we all share all should be given their share of what our forbearers have handed down to us all. the artistry, and knowledge of our predecessors should be available to all to mix, and remix, and re-envision. this is the only way back to an expanding economy, over the hump of earths population limits combined with increasing disparity. the corporations are just the most powerful of such individual actors, not the best organized; governments and other organizations are routinely, like corporations, programmed to act desperately, and to produce more desperation amongst others in so doing. Wither goes our party on this path? How desperate are we? better, more human, communication, information, education, and knowledge management, allow us to fully share the most powerful resources we have ever had, information, and the knowledge to use it with wisdom. humanity, and many other species, are badly losing the class war, to the point of threatened, virtual, or real, extinction! to our cultural toolage? our technology has been used to create an Earth, where most humans, who ever lived, can only wish they had the luxuries of the tribal hunter gatherer life. from most, the land, resources on and in it, tribal political power, and even the control, use, and benefit, of their own labor and information, have all essentially been removed. for most, a hunter/gatherer life seems palatial for it is, compared to squatting in a land"fill"; more control, sustainability, nutrition, resource redundancy, other securities, more luxuries, time, and space. the limitations of neigboring tribes seem like a small cost, the dangers, even of tribal war is a small price when compared to working in a sweat shop to poison yourself and your land, to work yourself to the bone to create a useless luxury product, for wages that could never cover the cost of the useful thing, the luxury good is a bad imitation of. to poison the air? or to be? a more desperate choice,even, than kill or be killed, more stressful, less rewarding if successful, more lethal if not. makes tribal warfare look like fun! tell someone feeling that desperate to preserve our environment, there is only one answer, it is simple a question. how do I survive? a question more of us should be ready for a good answer to. even among those who fare better, many are so stressed out, they spend many resources and much time, trying to get hurt with panache, in desperate sporting extremes. the threat of our own extinction becomes the most likely prospect of our superior ability to adapt to, and master, threats? i don't think so... what kind of human nature, or rationale, is that? none at all! once the people seize the festival/party leadership, first the lobbyists, then the politicians, then the lawyers, cops, and soldiers, may all be replaced, then we will automate management and ownership out of their jobs (they'll beat us to it, you know they will; then it's just a change of ownership). at which point it will be time to sit the engineers down, retrain them to engineer for user usability and desires. then sit the users down, retrain them for co-design of their own lives, and resource management, the fun, easy, mySpace way the dTao be much more earnestly sought, and the way to being fully human well shown, in a world of animal, eventually vegetale, peoples. Gia's new brain will wake up, within years heaven on earth, lamb lies down with lion. the new religion, respect your place, and all others, in the Allness. the new technolgies will enable same. to get there, we will automate management, ownership, even visionaries, out of work. no longer a job, the shared joy of striving to better our collective individual lives. to preserve and embody the Earth's behavioral and genetic information, creating the beauty of her lifeways, expanding and diversifying them, protecting life, the duty and pleasure of all. but more than before, faster, more beautifully, more safely. not ever less so. every life will be secure, soon after, eternal. the record will preserve you, you will be completely, the record will record it completely, the record will be you, you will be the record, the record will be backed up, copied, distributed. immortal virtual immortality for some will transform into real immortality for all Her creatures. we all know the technical side of immortality is almost worked out. even now, we have much farther than that to go to build a less vicious, paranoid, precarious, and desperate world. a world that can learn to share, as our technology now demands, of us all. you cannot stop it, you may only assist, something we can all agree on: automate management and ownership out of a job!

meaning of life? all ways lead to emergence of Allness!

monte — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:31:44 GMT

i believe that our evolution, and survival, depend on finding the common ground, and a reconciliation, of cultural norms and systems of understanding. from prehistoric roots of language, ancient, and historic culture, and post-modern science, must emerge a common understanding. we are beginning to understand the brain's complexity, how mind emerges from that, our history, our evolution, and our universe on many new levels. this century will bring ways to sift and winnow our understandings beyond current imagination and ecological problems, created by social problems beyond our understanding. We have the information to solve our problems, and the imagination to enact solutions, but we lack an agreement on what the problems are, and what solutions are desirable. we must forge a consensus on the meaning of life, as quickly as we learn the details of life. we have the tools to understand things that have escaped us due to their complexity, things like our minds, and the chemistry of collected living bodies. i expect us to find wisdom in old ways that have been seeming lost, and knowledge of what it is to be human, and how. this must crystallize into a more rapidly evolving, more effective, more widely shared consensus on how to be human, and how to be earthlings. a more universal, more adaptable, system for encoding our information into understanding, and actions will grow alongside the technologies that will provide a much more complete encoding of our world into information. to get on down our path, we must know, and be, more godly, more human, and more earthly. more deeply material, less shallowly materialistic science, religion, and magic will each find the value of the other they will be reconciled, indeed, we must become more human, we must know ourselves and our past; we must return to the root, to bring water and nutrient to the branches we will then each be our own branch of learning, creating the understanding to foster the growth of all. my evolving spirit-view's basis is Love, understanding, propagating, expanding, explaining, Love. it is the greatest mystery, understanding of which brings greatest Being, and makes the greatest beings (i used to think it was Truth, when i was younger and dumber) we have studied hate far past it's usefulness, surely we can agree on that? in sooth i revere, above all else, Earth, and Love. Gravity is the Allness's Love. Earth is our place to beautify the Allness, for us all to co-evolve allness in. Truth and Grace define Beauty. Beauty, Love, Truth, Earth and the Allness, are plenty of Reason for every being Being We all share one soul, it is why we are here, to be here to being the All into being, to create, expand, evolve Her soul, psychic energy, magical power, inspiration, meaning, is somehow conserved as is mass and energy, to which conservation this is somehow enjoined if only by our lack of knowing why. the best theoretical physicists now speak of conservation of information, an emergent property of data, which itself is a property emerging from positions of mass/energy, as it emerges from spacetime. all properties of existance seem to arise as an emergent property of spacetime's very existing. each new level of complexity emerging into ever more levels of complexity are meaning, thinking, and Soul that much different? i believe all past lives are part of all present ones. thought, divination, and meaning itself are some of the many manifestations of this conservation and these two are intimately linked, by the flowing of their parts between them, the melding of one into the other. it is not the dominance of one part or another, but the dance of moving energies or vibrations back and forth between the parts, that make for the purpose, the pleasure, the very existence, of individuals, and of the whole. This is the spiritual reason why sexual union is, to me, one of the most magical of acts, universally, and, in particular, to me. our different understandings of the universe somehow work upon similar principles, conserving truth and meaning, whether encoded in the stars, or our DNA, to be read from the molecular structures, or from the cast of die, if any one, or some, can just divine the form, the code, the key to meaning and these concepts are some of the traditional basis of magic, and some of science both of which can be religions, personal paths of spirit, or illusions whisked away in the winds of time. Some aspects of reason are provable, some unproven, some stubbornly unprovable; forever? why we are here? to be here ? why do we love? to love ? why not? these two are most intimately related as the sun, the fire, the food, the luck in the hunt, the thought, the progeny, the word, the power, lovers entwined, and lines of descent entangled. science can only prove so much, the spiritual proof is that which is not to be replicated, but can only be experienced by one; leading not to theories, but to beliefs. since i always look for outside confirmation, deeply influenced by my first religion, science, lovemaking becomes where i am most likely to find what appears to be a confirmation of another's reality and understanding, and my emergent 'beliefs'. two meaning systems, two views, two minds in contrast, conflict, and in concert, exchanging energies, loves, and world views, on the most intimate of levels. We can never really know the mind, or the reality, of any other. but when you are feeling you feel what another feels you short circuit the mental systems that deny certainty. we all feel the same feelings in very much the same way; all humans use the same chemistry, and similar structures, to experience feelings. indeed, we share much of this experience and equipment with all mammals, and much of that is shared with reptiles, less fish, even less other animals. still, hunger, smell, sex, decision making, all animals share these modes of being, and experience them through very similar mechanisms. One may surmise that the experiencing itself must also be very similar. when one looks in a dog's eye, one feels that the dog has feelings, yet one never really absolutely knows the mind of their own twin opening one's mind to experiencing the magical flow of energy embodied in lovemaking brings one as close to certitude as possible in the belief that one shares thoughts with another. properly matched and understood, lovers may also experience the flow of energies between entities, the dance of being at the elemental level. however they conceive to understand this, there is to be found a proof of the underlying reality. we are all connected, we are all one, we are bound to life, and empowered therein, by Love, Meaning, Truth, Grace, and understandings the smallest consensus is two, the most basic of consensus realities. besides sheer coincidence itself (which is all magic, science, soul, or spirit really are), as i touch it, in gaming, with dice (my first big hint), and synergy of meaning, the other places i find meaning, like using the I-Ching, and sexual love, are intimately entwined with my mind and my perception, indistinguishable from faith and illusion. but some larger patterns, like astrology (for me), show the connectedness of meanings. minds evolved to discern patterns, sometimes a coincidence is flagged instead. hence the tendency of the less rigorous reasoning to find meaning everywhere. while personal meanings may well be found everywhere, they are not shared with other entities. discrimination is necessary to find meaning that may be shared, so lacking discrimination is in contrast with healthy human skepticism, for we are social animals, unable to survive alone, requiring some degree of consensus in our understandings. however, some measure of belief, a failure of logic, but maybe not reason, is necessary to us all, especially in the definition of purpose, direction, desire, joy, and fear. some complex systems seem definitely to reside outside us sustained by odd reasoning beyond our grasp as individuals but with meanings and patterns to be derived from complex systems of meaning painstakingly built by our fore bearers, and continuously added to things like astrology, numerology, bibliomancy, tarot, runes, religions and other systems of magic. many have been struck with the similarity much of modern science bears to these previous attempts. which many also believe have been replaced by the sciences. quantum dynamics, like astrology, is different than much of the rest, at least for me... these seem to be confirmed by the passage of my time to me these things, like other humans, seem more likely to be 'real' to be out there, proving themselves at a distance, not affected by how we see, or what we think. i'm sure that's how advocates of my most hated of such systems, that i believe exist only in their own darkly twisted minds, see their explanation systems also. i believe systems are less dark, and less hate-able, when the view is flex-able, and amendable by further understandings. i don't feel fixed realities are 'truth', they do not reflect the impetus towards evolving that i see in the Allness. nor it's need for Love, deep reverance, respect and Grace. so, i've come to believe that truth actually is neither objective nor subjective, with one soul, conserved by All, truth is found in a consensus reality, always expandable by new kinds of being and meanings. i feel this understanding emerges from our experiences, it is incomplete, and tentative, but, like science, astrology, and divination, it makes things more easily understood, or at least comprehended, and explained. the Soul, Allnessing, Beauty, Truth, even earth, gravity, and mind, each individual part, the whole, and life itself are all emergent properties of being - things that stem from the fact of existence, whatever it's 'real' form. all these systems of finding deeper truths seem alien when first encountered, but when time's passing seems to confirm them, they seem to become more concrete, until one can no longer imagine otherwise. Quantum dynamics' mathematics are some of the most beautifully twisted pieces of logic that will ever be. no less, or more, so than many others that seem to describe the nature of things well, by allowing us to manipulate her on a deeper, higher, and or bigger, level than before; to live more well, to evolve, to understand and find meaning. as were the birthing of spiritual and magical logics before. the best reasoning we have ever posited all depends on "because it looks that way to us" which seems more powerful than "it looks that way to me" but each system is composed of many small changes, each originally only state-able by one the wisest wise men know, not only that they do not know it all, but what it is we can never know, and what we may someday understand. as we enter a century where the most important frontier will be understanding complexity, especially how the mind emerges from the brain's interaction with life, we will find out more about what can and cannot be known, what meaning can and cannot be, by learning more about what knowing is, and how we derive meaning. presumably, the more we learn about learning, the better we will get at it. but the big question (why?) will never change. only the how will evolve, but now how is poised to at least show us why we ask why, and how we find answers and meanings. Lao tzu the wise Tao doesn't know meets god grant me what i may change, forbearance of what i can't, and wisdom to know the difference meets science, life, art, and massless media emerging into a better, expanding, more evolved consensus reality, produced by better understanding, producing better understandings, accelerating earth's evolving. even the disintegration of professional capital ownership, and other exploitation by misappropriation of our common inheritance, under the crush of it's own effects, can only free our minds to see (unless we allow humanity to disintegrate with it), that everything has plenty reason to be. all paths lead to the emergence of Allness pleasure in growing is what gives life meaning humans are the last ones who should ask what is the meaning of life, for us it is too find meaning in life, asking why is questioning the meaning of meaning. meaning emerges from existence, like existence, it is. one may question the nature of existence, but not it's existence existence is, is-ing is what it does! i.e. is is! beings are, being is. It sounds like nonsense, because it is the answer to a nonsense question, sense is sensible; it just is. likewise, one may question one's understanding of meaning but whether life has meaning? meaning is defined by living! emergence, evolution, mind, and meaning, are, like existence, simply, miraculously, being! each, like us each, an integral, inseparable part of the whole the Allness knows the meaning, the purpose, the principles, of each individual, as a part of giving meaning to the whole it is the meaning, and it's knowledge will hold all. Allness knows all, but it really knows naught, it does all, it is all, it is more fundamental than knowledge. we cannot be all the Allness, so we need neither understand, or be, more than we can. nor may we, but we can know that to question, to answer, to give ourselves the illusion of understanding meaning is an important part of what is our reason to be. Love, Grace, Truth, these are simply things that make life be, and for which it is worth being a life. meaning derives from the universal quest, the evolution of meanings existence exists to be, it's not so complicated. life lives to live, evolution emerges to evolve. why does the math of quantum dynamics seem to describe so cryptic a world? because the Allness is a question answering itself, seeking the meaning of existence, the existence of meaning just is. do not question the meaning of life, unless you are ready for an endlessly evolving answer. instead, master the practice of Love, Grace, Purpose, and Existence; the meaning of life? create meaning! expand understanding, evolve, be! be Love live fully