Interesting discution going on here. Feeling like one of the 99% on some levels. Rich Muray's proposed list on some levels makes sense. Higher min wage for example how are you suposed to actually live on $9.00 an hour? even full time that's only 360 a week (before tax). Ouch. Another one that stuck out was free health care- could work. Depending on how it's implimented. The general idea of more stuff taken for baseline for more (or all ) citizens and increasing the quality of life would seem to provide some net benifits. I think Nick asked how it gets funded wich might realy be asking: as humans are we willing to pool together a pot of money to increase the quality of life for all? Just as a here in the comunity example: I'm going to school to (theoreticly) increase my odds of being a productive citizen by X%. Should one of the applications and varius forms of asistance pan out I have a net X% extra chance of employment at the end of the week I'd rather my hard earned money going to a pot of money that helps raise quality of life for my self and others by X%. Theoreticly humans are programed to work together twards a better good. At some point of year N things get jaded or complicated and as Agents we loose sight that a healthy comunity of N people(or agents) makes for a stronger whole. Wouldn't it therefore be better to invest y sources of rescources twards things that achieve that goal? just my as a 0.2c as a agent among many. .
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Rich Murray <rmfor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since my remarks were perhaps tersely shocking, here is a clear > overview by James Traverse: > > http://www.beingyoga.com/ > > [ For more, search Google "nonduality"... ] > > Know Thyself > > Be a Light unto Yourself > > "Form is Seeing and Seeing is Being." ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon > > "Being is Seeing and Seeing is Doing" ~ James Traverse > > "Liberation is from the person, not for the person" ~ Jean Klein > > Mistaken identity, the wrong turning of the mind, is the cause of all > conflict and discord. The solution is the living understanding of your > true nature which is not thought based knowledge as it is prior to > thinking. Awareness is the means and the end. > > There is nothing to become since Being Awareness is already happening > yet there is a returning to innocence knowingly as the false mentally > generated knowledge of mistaken identity is seen and allowed to fall > away. This Living Awareness as your true nature is the light of > understanding that dispels the darkness of ignorance that is the root > of mistaken identity and separation. > > “You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. > You must learn to see the world anew.” ~ Albert Einstein > > The problem of mistaken identity is a problem of self-knowledge as > false knowledge of your true nature. It is a mentally generated > problem that is resolved by Awareness as the primal intelligence that > sees the false as false and no longer supports it. In this way the > impostor of mistaken identity dies through starvation - what remains > is pure Awareness wherein all of your faculties are free to function > without distortion. > > Enlightenment is a matter of discernment, not evolution. Thus there is > no becoming enlightened; instead the veil of ignorance falls away > through discrimination and there is seeing in-the-light of your true > nature. > > Enlightened Being - Being is happening - Breathing is happening > the Agent is the Actor - Love is what it does! > > "What nature makes you do instinctively you can optimise when you > understand the law governing the process." ~ James Traverse > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
