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.
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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.
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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.