10 Dec 2001 (updated 11 Dec 2001 at 07:39 UTC)
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Crossing Over
Just wondering how
John Edward
could feel presence of souls. Currently collecting
information about it. But some say his methods are
quest
ionable.
Made me wonder how society's gays and lesbians end up in
the afterlife. Know what? it ends up all the same.
The message that did come through on all NDEs was the
message of 'love'. [2]
Here's another article about
crossing to the next.
But the real
crossing over seems to happen
everyday for people who want to change their lives.
Goto
Thought of implementing a feature that would allow control
to jump from one procedure to another. Would that make
sense? That would be an interesting experiment though.
Reply
I response to tk's. I write a lot of things, mostly to
myself. Sometimes I post it and sometimes not. The one I'm
writing is definitely for myself, it's only a paper about
observations and comments based on those observations.
Though the paper I'm writing may have some value, I
personally think they don't have any value for the simple
thing they're just collected from the Net, aggregated in
simple paragraphs.
About the 'smashing' thing. I just found it on the Net and
posted it there, thinking that the idea was closest to the
one I was writing. If I had written it, it would be written
in another way. Not like that, but since the idea was there,
I had to take to save some typing effort. You were correct
on your comments and I agree to it. The article was a bit
radical and not mainstream, IMO. Some people will definitely
get offended though.
Regarding the seed, I think writing logically is a way of
planting seeds. In my case, I write to see if I'm logically
correct and post it somewhere in the Net. Good ideas grow
given the right situation. Existence of an idea about Linux
in the Third World is enough to be called a just cause.
Resulting in the realization of something, maybe a
Linux-like implementation of an internet enabled device. To
begin it, a cause must exist.
Some comments on tk's article. By removing the ideal, man is
basically left with nothing but his environment and a set of
instincts. Where does reasoning fit in? Does that mean
instincts are capable of reasoning?
Ideals cannot be separated from man for the simple reason it
is part of man, inherent. Though some men can successfully
hide and train men to behave based on instincts, that
doesn't mean an ideal is eliminated forever. Men may act
based on instincts, but the urge to reason out and form
complex structures in his mind will always be there. Ideals,
whether we like it or not, play a large role in the
formation of structures. It provides man how mental
structures become physical. Though instincts provide that
as well, however, ideals provide more.
Regarding RMS and ideals, to me, it seems more likely
RMS has placed emphasis on ideals and the environment,
completely ignoring the instinct of gathering food to
provide for self-sustenance. IMO, that is another example of
imbalance that only certain persons can adhere to,
completely losing a large part of being human, capable of
living, thinking and surviving in a given environment.
A pseudo altruism replaced what used to be a way of earning
a living,
as a result of the 'free' cause.
RMS, being the uncompromising one in the FSF cause, IMO, is
only promoting a trust system based on source code. While
RMS would like to see a world filled with GPL'd software
where code is free, he is, in another way, rejecting some
parts of the trust system based on money which most of us
(working in proprietary code)
heavily depend on.
It may look anti-FSF, actually, I just don't agree on the
one aspect of clear cut separation of GPL'd and proprietary
code.