OddEdges's Blog Posts

I find it terribly ironic that we have in places, such as Second Life, virtual reality Buddhist temples, when in fact the whole point of Buddhism is to remove the individual from the trappings of mentally projected virtual realities—typically emanating, in the literature, from ‘self.’

[video on bottom] We were saying yesterday morning how the world is broken up, divided through nationalism, which is really a form of tribalism; how religions have divided man, with their dogmas, with their beliefs, with their superstitions, illusions; how human beings have created sects, each one believing that they are going to lead mankind to a different kind of physical world and a so-called

What the Godlike powers that our current technology have created for us demand (beyond a Godlike love, as was mentioned in the last essay) is a complete and total understanding of thought.

The Internet and technology as they are today are giving us Godlike powers of perception and action: Digital Natives are the first generation of young adults to be endowed with them.

This New Year's Eve the real party is online and the centerpiece is Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia. The party? Raise a million bucks before midnight. Just before Christmas, Jimmy did something almost cooler than founding Wikipedia in the first place. He tweeted:

'I am proud to announce that the Wikipedia domain names will move away from GoDaddy. Their position on #sopa is unacceptable to us.'

When ground was stood and truth spoken
violence became an inevitability.

Thus is the nature
of that which we are attempting to outgrow.

Knowing that, we must remember:

Neither injury nor death can justify violence.
For violence breeds violence,
and therefore: no change.

Its application will not bring about the
peace and sanity we are seeking.

The New York Times had a wide ranging report on the view of the Occupy movement from Mayors across the country. They claim that many of the Mayors of “several cities have come to the end of their patience and others appear to be not far behind.”

Point 1: The constitutionally guaranteed right to assembly is not subject to any Mayors “patience”.

A bit of an emergency: The rumor all over Capitol Hill is that the House version of the Internet Blacklist Bill will be introduced this week, probably on Wednesday.

Our allies on the Hill say the bill's so bad that it could effectively destroy Youtube, Twitter, and other sites that rely on user-generated content by making the sites' owners legally responsible for everything their users post.

Look at your TV. Look at your Internet. That be you. In our creations we see our own hearts and minds reflected—distorted by the wires, channels, and tech—but that be you indeed. From billions of mingling, witness-bearing souls every instance, every nuance, feeling, and thought is bounced from space and back into the pool of our collective Inter-awareness.

Facebook is currently blocking a strange video released in time for the October 15th world protest. Yet, there are certain inconsistencies apparent in the video.

“It is time to take our monetary system back from the big banks. We need economic justice I recently introduced H.R. 2990: National Emergency Employment Defense Act [the NEED ACT] to put the Federal Reserve under the Treasury. To END THE FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING AND TO TAKE CONTROL OF OUR MONETARY SYSTEM AND MAKE SURE THAT IT WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE.

How will divide and conquer occur at Occupy Wall Street? This will be done via the demand-less, goal-less, telos-lacking circumstances of the movement. Representative(s) from the establishment, ether obvious, covert, or a combination of the two, will nudge the 99% into a demand that will not be revolutionary at all. It will be a rather flaccid, reformist concession.

in the light jungle net
we’re talk stalk stalking
click-stalk click-talking
all our selfs
ourselves

and what is this
that we are becoming
click look talk click-stalking
is this our becoming?

a clicker click-clicking
and lookers self-looking
a light jungle self-stalking
is this our becoming?
our selfs self-stalking

Facebook is blocking this video called "There is a North American-wide strategy to take away the right to mass protest using terrorism to stifle dissent" as being harmful content.

So here's the shit...

“If you are finically supported by your parents you should shut up about politics,” tweets Rainn Wilson. There is a painful irony in this post-it to the noosphere. Purportedly, Wilson setup the dotcom “Soulpancake” with the express purpose of trying to get young people engaged in asking deep questions about existence.

“We are as old as the universe is.”

Alphacentrism is a personal philosophy which suggests that the existence of human beings is totally dependent on the first moments of the cosmos to have had occurred—the present stands upon that which occurred prior—thus, an individual should personally, wholly acknowledge their own age with that of the universe.

An Anti-teaching is an attempt to snap the yardstick of the mind with the yardstick of the mind. Strange koans for strange minds. Unconditioning for all those capable of turning shapes into words!

• THIS is only a neurological event—please remain calm.

Like getting caught snorting your own excrement, among the WIKILEAKS historic, record-breaking public release of secret embassy cables is an unusual exposé of just what DC-style diplomatic trolling looks like on an international scale! Though rumors have not been confirmed, word has it even the powers that be "do it for the lulz."

Cute little digital Japanese looking Chiapet like things discus what the FEDREAL RESERVE is up to, and how we got here.

Could cute cartoons be the only way to get people's attention and explain to them how they're being fucked (so they can do something about it)?

Michael Alan’s studio spilled with art—some pieces were bubble wrapped, some scotch-tapped haphazardly to the walls, some finished and others in progress. Masks, sculptures, costumes, paintings and sketches bled in from the peripherals.