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Welcome to Freedom v.3.0
Free since 1996
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This is the journal of Constant Change.
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 Persistant Exceptionalism, Semantic Independence, Viability of 3rd Parties
Despite the catastrophic failure of America in Iraq--and make no
mistake the venture is widely accepted as failure by both the public at
large and most educated observers, independent of individual opinions
on America's right to intervene in world affairs.
Unfortunately,
that right (sic) has yet to be undermined...
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Posted by 1i on Monday, February 25 @ 11:38:15 MST (396 reads)
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September 15th
An anti-war march on washington is being organized for September 15th.
Read more about it here.
Write your local media outlet to request coverage.
Consider going.
Not much more to say, except to put forth the idea of a group of us.
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Posted by 1i on Friday, September 07 @ 22:57:13 MDT (428 reads)
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The Enemy of Our Enemy
The path to Peace passes through a dangerous territory marked by warfare between two great and selfish evils: Fascism and Terrorism. These evils have stood against one another since the beginning of human history, forever attempting to co-opt the people of the world to one side or another.
The terrorist has no control. The fascist has robbed him of it and is too powerful to kill. For this reason, the terrorist resorts to the only strategy he has left: self-deprecating sacrifice in the face of the monolithic villain of fascism.
The fascist has all of the control. The terrorist threatens to take it from him and is too small and quick to fight with force. For this reason, the fascist resorts to the only strategy he has left: inconsiderate sacrifice of those he controls in the face of the verminous infestation of terrorism.
The terrorist preaches fear of the fascist and the fascist's ways. The terrorist omits that if he were to defeat the fascist, he would become a fascist.
The fascist preaches fear of the terrorist and the terrorist's ways. The fascist omits that if the terrorist were to defeat him, he would become a terrorist.
While the fascist has control and enslaves you to keep it, the terrorist who seeks it will kill you to take it. If their positions were reversed, we would have but to swap their names. The only difference between the two is that one fights with the double-edged sword of order, the other an indiscriminate bomb of chaos.
Because they cannot kill eachother, we are the tools of their folly. We are the innocents, targeted by terrorists. We are the free, imprisoned by fascists. And we may be stuck between a rock and a hard place, but we must remember: The enemy of our enemy is not our friend.
We cannot run to the arms of one of these evils to save us from the other. The truth is that these evils are one evil. Just as the terrorist will not save you from the fascist. The fascist will not save or free you from anything.
On the path to Peace through the war of fascism and terrorism, your freedom is as important as your life. The fascist tells you that you will be safe from the terrorist without your freedom.
Don't believe him. He's lying.
He cannot protect. He can only control.
And if killing you or letting you die will keep his control from the terrorist...
He'll do it.
Fsck the Empire,
1i
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Posted by 1i on Friday, August 24 @ 16:55:16 MDT (470 reads)
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Robot Pride Day 2007
Then the lights went out.
It wasn’t the same as when oil finally ran dry. Then, the streets ran with blood and
power-lust flew over the people like an angry dragon, scouring for goats to eat
and gold to line its nest.
This time was different.
Serene. Of course there was the
initial shock, fear, and panic – all endemic of such extraordinary and sudden
change - though these shortly subsided; none of us expected or predicted the
intense and palpable side effect of tranquility that started to grow within us. I am not a Luddite. I never hated the technology or our inextricable
relationship with the Machine – but I cautioned against its effects on us as a
thread in the larger weave. We were
surrendering to its hypnotic and predictable effects, submitting to the
comforts of its reliability and predictable nature. Despite the fact that the machines could
break down, we presumed, demanded their subservient and consistent response to
our manufactured needs.
When the lights went out, it was as though a huge logotherapeutic
bomb had dropped and meaning returned to our small daily actions. We now found significance in the smallest
gestures, within the moments in between – lying down in the grass, a passing
look from a stranger, the beauty of new pen stroke upon a blank page,
searching, embellishing, discovering.
Success was no longer an ever-dangling carrot that we
stalked voraciously, allowing so many quiet moments to rush past as we hurtled
towards our graves, lined with trophies and accolades, rather, success became
the ability to stop and savor how far along the road we had traveled, as we
inspired the grace of where we were and anticipated, with great enthusiasm the
unknown possibilities before us.
The new robots, those that ran on the energy of the sun,
still walked among us, but the threat of our obsolescence was lifted – for now
we were, once again, unpredictable and filled with awe and curiosity. We walked outside of any sort of grid. We were restored to something for machines to
dream about.
http://www.robotprideday.com
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Posted by Gematria on Saturday, August 04 @ 03:24:04 MDT (424 reads)
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