Quite right...
Edge.org conference, posted today.
THE NEW SCIENCE OF MORALITY http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge323.html
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Baba Brinkman
Thanks for the video link Brandon.
Brinkman's site;
http://www.babasword.com/
Video example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM9nNa84U24&feature=related
Friday, July 23, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Finally found a copy of January...
"angered by your words
But suffering to you cause
Elected men are reminding me
Of your obvious flaws"
From the song If its in your mind
But suffering to you cause
Elected men are reminding me
Of your obvious flaws"
From the song If its in your mind
Video clip of the title cut, but performed recently by Bill:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10YpklICbx4
Thursday, July 8, 2010
A New Twist on the Quest for Eternal Life
Terasem Movement Foundation, Inc.
From it's website:
"The common purpose of all of the Terasem Movement Foundation’s (TMF) projects is to investigate the Terasem Hypotheses which state that -
(1) a conscious analog of a person may be created by combining sufficiently detailed data about the person (a "mindfile") using future consciousness software ("mindware"),
and
(2) that such a conscious analog can be downloaded into a biological or nanotechnological body to provide life experiences comparable to those of a typically birthed human.
We call this event Transferred Consciousness (TC). If even the first part of the two Terasem Hypotheses is shown to be true, the conscious analogs will be independent persons with rights and obligations dependent upon their capabilities."
http://www.terasemmovementfoundation.com/index.php
LifeNaut "...allows anyone to create an avatar and a rich digital backup of their life - a web-based storage space for organizing and preserving critical info. http://lifenaut.com/
And,
check this out;
Interview with Bina 48 about, what is like to be a robot? http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/06/24/science/1247468035233/interview-with-a-robot.html
From it's website:
"The common purpose of all of the Terasem Movement Foundation’s (TMF) projects is to investigate the Terasem Hypotheses which state that -
(1) a conscious analog of a person may be created by combining sufficiently detailed data about the person (a "mindfile") using future consciousness software ("mindware"),
and
(2) that such a conscious analog can be downloaded into a biological or nanotechnological body to provide life experiences comparable to those of a typically birthed human.
We call this event Transferred Consciousness (TC). If even the first part of the two Terasem Hypotheses is shown to be true, the conscious analogs will be independent persons with rights and obligations dependent upon their capabilities."
http://www.terasemmovementfoundation.com/index.php
LifeNaut "...allows anyone to create an avatar and a rich digital backup of their life - a web-based storage space for organizing and preserving critical info. http://lifenaut.com/
And,
check this out;
Interview with Bina 48 about, what is like to be a robot? http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/06/24/science/1247468035233/interview-with-a-robot.html
Friday, July 2, 2010
Thomas Jefferson's Last Letter
Thomas Jefferson to Roger C. Weightman
Monticello, June 24, 1826
"Respected Sir,
The kind invitation I receive from you, on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of American Independence, as one of the surviving signers of an instrument pregnant with our own, and the fate of the world, is most flattering to myself, and heightened by the honorable accompaniment proposed for the comfort of such a journey. It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be deprived by it of a personal participation in the rejoicings of that day. But acquiescence is a duty, under circumstances not placed among those we are permitted to control. I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
I will ask permission here to express the pleasure with which I should have met my ancient neighbors of the city of Washington and its vicinities, with whom I passed so many years of a pleasing social intercourse; an intercourse which so much relieved the anxieties of the public cares, and left impressions so deeply engraved in my affections, as never to be forgotten. With my regret that ill health forbids me the gratification of an acceptance, be pleased to receive for yourself, and those for whom you write, the assurance of my highest respect and friendly attachments."
Th. Jefferson
Monticello, June 24, 1826
"Respected Sir,
The kind invitation I receive from you, on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of American Independence, as one of the surviving signers of an instrument pregnant with our own, and the fate of the world, is most flattering to myself, and heightened by the honorable accompaniment proposed for the comfort of such a journey. It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be deprived by it of a personal participation in the rejoicings of that day. But acquiescence is a duty, under circumstances not placed among those we are permitted to control. I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
I will ask permission here to express the pleasure with which I should have met my ancient neighbors of the city of Washington and its vicinities, with whom I passed so many years of a pleasing social intercourse; an intercourse which so much relieved the anxieties of the public cares, and left impressions so deeply engraved in my affections, as never to be forgotten. With my regret that ill health forbids me the gratification of an acceptance, be pleased to receive for yourself, and those for whom you write, the assurance of my highest respect and friendly attachments."
Th. Jefferson
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Independence Day
America’s First Patriotic Song
The Liberty Song is an American Revolutionary War song composed by patriot John Dickinson, the author of famous political tract, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. The song is set to the tune of "Heart of Oak," the anthem of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, and was first published in the Boston Gazette in July 1768. Dickinson's fourth verse is the first appearance of the phrase, "united we stand, divided we fall." This was sung at public gatherings from its time of publication into the early 19th century.
Lyrics:
Come, join hand in hand, brave Americans all,
And rouse your bold hearts at fair Liberty's call;
No tyrannous acts shall suppress your just claim,
Or stain with dishonor America's name.
Chorus:
In Freedom we're born
and in Freedom we'll live.
Our purses are ready. Steady, friends, steady;
Not as slaves, but as Freemen our money we'll give.
Our worthy forefathers, let's give them a cheer,
To climates unknown did courageously steer;
Thro' oceans to deserts for Freedom they came,
And dying, bequeath'd us their freedom and fame.
(Chorus)
The tree their own hands had to Liberty rear'd,
They lived to behold growing strong and revered;
With transport they cried, Now our wishes we gain,
For our children shall gather the fruits of our pain.
(Chorus)
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all,
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall;
In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed
For heaven approves of each generous deed.
Definitions
Word use changes over time.
Liberty: The right(s) of citizens in a republic.
Tyrannous: An act of the sovereign outside the bounds of law, both statutory and natural.
Freedom: The Enlightenment view of “natural rights”, those rights in the very laws of nature, discernable by the application of reason and science.
Purse: Personal funds “Give”: to “pay” a tax properly made law. It is considered a voluntary, patriotic act in a republic.
Slave: A person who pays a tax imposed by a legislative body they could not vote for a representative in.”
Freemen: Not an indentured servant, and also able to vote for a representative in the body that taxes you.
Transport: A criminal sentence in British law. Sent to the colonies (how many British colonist first got here). When we revolted, they started sentencing them to Australia.
heaven: (uncapitalized) See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism
Fort Moultrie Flag
The Declaration of Independence
Video. Read by some folks you may recognize: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyttEu_NLU
National Public Radio's reading on Morning Edition. An July 4th tradition: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106168024
Full text:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
And, last but certainly not least...To be sung with mug of Pusser's Rum Grog, and a glass of Maderia
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