a pilgrim's blog

The Lake of Humanity

Submitted by a pilgrim on Sun, 04/07/2013 - 11:48am

One day while Spirit was expanding, or rather...'extending' itself, it went over and stuck its big toe into the little Lake of Humanity. For Spirit the action happened so quickly that it could not be measured in time (not even if using Planck time). From the perspective of the big toe, though, the experience seemed as if it surely must be eternity.

Freedom and the Status Quo

Submitted by a pilgrim on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 7:12pm

Freedom begins by asking a question and endures by asking many more. Embrace and hold in high regard the unknown for it is the unknown that gives birth to the question. At least, that's how I'm viewing it at this moment. Note: all perspectives, opinions and conclusions subject to change without notice. :)

Stop asking questions and you will be able to preserve the status quo.

When people stop asking questions, the status quo is born.

Intuition

Submitted by a pilgrim on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 11:17am

I have fashioned a metaphor regarding intuition where I have intuition located up in the crow’s nest on an old schooner. Intuition symbolizes my small amount of unencumbered free "life force" (I arbitrarily assign it as being only 1 percent of the whole). The rest of me, the ninety-nine percent encumbered "life force," is located on the decks of the ship.

After The Cave

Submitted by a pilgrim on Sun, 03/17/2013 - 5:50pm

In Plato’s allegory The Cave there are prisoners who, because of how they’ve been chained up inside the cave, can only see shadows cast upon the wall by various things outside of the cave. These things are passing between the sunlight and the mouth of the cave to cause shadows to be projected onto the cave walls within. Because the shadows dancing on the walls are all the prisoners have seen for their entire lives within the cave, they eventually begin to interpret the shadows as being real. Thus, their lives become completely devoted to shadows.

Eternity and Infinity

Submitted by a pilgrim on Thu, 02/21/2013 - 3:31pm

This blog is probably a meaningless distraction but I'm going to write it anyway. I was pondering the abstract concepts of eternity and infinity and wondering if they are synonymous symbols for the same concept. I suspect that the answer to that question is one of those yes and no answers. I know that I'm prone to using them as if they were equally interchangeable. But, when I take a closer look at each word, a distinct difference between the two emerges.

A World Without Wikipedia: For SOPA, Websites Threaten a Midnight Blackout

Submitted by a pilgrim on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:49pm

A PBS News Hour segment 17 January 2012.

From the video description:

Beginning midnight Wednesday, some major Internet companies could go dark for 24 hours as part of an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Ray Suarez discusses the planned blackout with Ben Huh, the CEO of a participating company, and NBC Universal's Rick Cotton, who supports the legislation as written.

The Enemy Expatriation Act

Submitted by a pilgrim on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 10:08am

H.R. 3166: Enemy Expatriation Act (#EEA)

31 December 2011 - a day to remember

Submitted by a pilgrim on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 8:21am

Some folks are saying that this is the final nail driven into the coffin lid where now lay a dead and once magnificent republic.

From the Associated Press:

Obama signs defense bill despite 'reservations'

by Julie Pace

Excerpts from article:

President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act

Submitted by a pilgrim on Tue, 12/27/2011 - 8:54pm

Until a couple of days ago I had never heard of SOPA. Now that I have, I thought it worth mentioning. You might be up to speed on SOPA but if you're like me, and are just finding out about it, watching the three videos linked to below will definitely launch you into the subject.

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Homeless Synchronicity Revisited (comments now at 28)

Submitted by a pilgrim on Sat, 12/17/2011 - 9:50am

Due to the fact that once a blog post is moved off the front page of The City Wire and joins the blog archives where it is soon forgotten, also due to the fact that comments added to blogs do not show up in the Comment Section on the front page of TCW, I'm making this blog post.