Hive of Lights to Perfections

Frank and honest endeavoring for the truth, and if possible along the way, a few pence. Whatever comes I hope it's good. Otherwise this could end up being one major waste of time and bandwith, your's and mine.

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I enjoy creating. I enjoy wondering why I enjoy creating. I like to think that I like to think, but when it really comes to brass tacks--I try not to sit on them. In other words I'm a fair weather thinker. My experience is that intuition grants us far more value than any self induced knowledge, though I by no means advocate the abondonment of ration or logic. I simply believe that it's not all of which some seem to think it is. At least not in it's current state of accessability to humanity at large. I gladly forsake any semblance of openmindedness or equality in the view of mortals to touch, and remain as close to, that which is truly divine in life.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Love

What is love?

I like the view of it as being some physically indiscernible, yet all too real, connection between two people. Such as it's described in the book “Xenocide”, by Orson Scott Card, where it talks about 'philotic connections.' Not that I view it quite that way. And there is the issue with needing to have some degree of knowledge in order to truly effect love between two beings. Intelligence, or knowledge about the being, seems to be a requisite to the degree and capacity to effect love. Whatever that means.

Any other thoughts on this? This is much to big for a single post. Heck, it's too much for a single internet's worth of discussion.

--Find the Hive

Monday, January 30, 2006

Purpose

I generaly, on internet forums, have much luck on illiciting many attempts at answers to the deeper questions in life. I suppose I'm glutton for punishment. So I ask all who read this who feel they can give an answer, or an incling of an answer, or a more meaningfull question--

What is the prupose of life?

Answer it however openly or narrowly, as esoteric or exoteric as you desire. In part or in whole. Why do you think, or believe, or know, or suspect, or had a crazy incling as to what is the meaning of life?

I'd like as many replies as people are willing to give me.

Thank You.

--Find the Hive

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Breaking Democratic Precedent

One often hears the axiom that no two democratic states have ever gone to war. While that generaly seems to be true I've often wondered where the US Civil War lies with regard to that particular axiom.

Now we find a mass of people seemingly clearly chosing a war path against a fellow democracy. There's something to be said about traditions and histories. Napoleon once said that "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Even if that is the case there's something to be said for believing in a view and take on history that is pliable enough to try and get as close to the truth as is humanly possible rather than dogmaticaly clinging to the narrowly self-gratifying take some cultures take through their traditions.

Here's my view of what our take on the present situation would be if our outlook were as distorted as that of many in opposite ideological realms and if we had the same dogmatic emnity of those who wish to see our downfall.

"The 'Ummahist Entity' must be destroyed!"

"The socialist infidels are simply puppets of the 'Ummahist Entity'"

"The Iraq War is simply a fabrication effected by the 'Ummahist Entity' to justify their threats and continued attacks on the Western Tradition"

Money and Honey. Milk and Wine.

These are some of the more interesting symbolic indicators of the state of a land, a person, a time.

Think about it. What would the absence of, deformation of, or great abundance of any of these items indicate?

Think about this with respect to the phrase "a land flowing with milk and honey."

What does that mean? What do you have to have in order to have a land flowing with milk and honey? If there's a land without such what would be/is the nature of that land?

What of money? When is it's use virtuous? Evil? When is it relevant? When is it not? You can't eat it. There are clearly times in history where no matter how much of it you had it would do you no good. Yet there are other times when it would make some of the most substantive differances anything outside us can make on us and our world.

What's harder to endure? Too much of the above? Too little? Just the right amount? Must we endure variations in their volumes to appreciate them and the role they play in our lives?

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Presentation and Duplicity Touching on Freedom

As touched on earlier, in the first post of this blog, we are a society that largely revolves around the superficial.

No doubt this is, to a great degree, a requisite when one considers what tools are at the disposal of the finite and fallible men and women with regard to their capacity to discern and decipher all the information their senses ingest by the moment every sentient moment of their lives. Generalizations, prejudices and other such filters are a key mainstay to what we consider human sanity. Even when working on software design work must be completed with a regard for the physical capacity of the various physical components of the machine the program is operating on. Discernment, with it's filtering and selectivity, enables us to at least gain a slight idea of the small path, no matter how distorted or blurry it may be, that lies in front of our line of perception.

Enter the nuance of presentation and the capacity for duplicity, pretending. Hypocrisy is literally 'pretending' -- Yet there are times when pretending is promoted by society. There are even times I'd advocate such. The whole of polemics, rhetoric and oration and/or acting are dependent on one being able to conjure, at will, the appearance of something not naturally induced. They are things that at times are, at their core, fakery. Where does this leave us?

Consider the sale. Have you ever purchased a product that had an honest and blunt and unflattering, not legally motivated, disclaimer as to the deficiencies of the product you were going to purchase? Or on the opposite side. Have you found a product to be more satisfying simply because the image it held was one that either seemingly more effectively communicated to you or just made you feel better? Few have ever been very successful at any enterprise when they lacked completely any knowledge of the science of appearance or presentation. Yet on the other hand many people have created entire movements based on nothing more than an assertion that they consistently trumpeted before people in a manner that turned their previously utterly unsupportable assertions into truth, into the core of entire entities that greatly changed the course of human history.

Australia. The father of their great historical gold rush was a master of this. The man literally talked his way into success. With no real evidence for gold anywhere he talked a man into committing himself to panning for some time in a river. After a great deal of work being done by this man they produced a menial residue of gold. But that was all this man needed. He proclaimed it a victory and with that and his mouth and people skills he started a gold rush on little more than a hunch and a self forced PR program. People rushed to the scene. Enough came and the fever lasted long enough that strikes eventually were made. All this from a man who asserted the unverifiable, but did it for long enough that probability caught up with him, and did so in his favor. The man didn't really prospect himself but was able to convince the British Crown that his efforts deserved a portion of the fees paid for gold retrieved.

France. Mr. Suez was also a master of the sale. This time, however, Mr. Suez happened to be putting on a show that, as probability would have it in this instance, could never be a self-fulfilling 'hy-prophesy' in the manner in which it was sold with regard to the Panama Canal. Bankrupting or impoverishing a large portion of the French middle class is not generally an intended consequence of those who have a bona fide belief in the virtue of that which they promote.

The question then comes, seemingly, to two things. Balance and properly placed faith. It may well be that balance could never exist if there was no truth at all on which faith could be placed.

So I suppose what I may be advocating is the fact that salesmanship becomes hypocrisy when we are either lacking proper motivation OR when we are not sufficiently focused on constantly refining our positions based upon the truth. We must be willing to change when such is required by the prongs of truth, or to stand our ground when such is divinely dictated. The frightening thing to realize, however, is that those who are truly good at presentation, those who have it down to a science, can rather adeptly imitate the appearance of just such judgments. While at times it seems we cannot trust our own eyes we must remember that we cannot, in reality, absolutely trust anything finite or human. Whether they are physical/empirical observations or they are the paradigms through which we are instructed to ingest this world and it's stimuli we must ever be vigilant.

It seems eternal vigilance is the price of freedom precisely because a knowledge of things as they really are is eternaly tied to our capacity to act in any fashion approaching true and independent agency.

--Find the Hive

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Free sex and environmenal catastrophy.

Sex and environmental destruction.



I once had a man justify his actions by the statement that he was "only creating" that he was "not destroying."

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I once read about a person who released a life. They didn't even realize it. They just released a piece of seaweed into the sea. That's where seaweed belongs, isn't it? That seaweed just made a home. Then the seaweed just created, it didn't destroy. In fact it was very good at creating. So very good, in fact, that it out created everything around it.

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There was a person who thought they were just creating good feelings between them and a friend. They thought this creation was okay. They weren't bringing anyone else into it. They specifically fabricated this "love" creation to be incapable of even conceiving another life or being observable by any other life. They were "safe" in their interactions. They did all they knew had to be done to keep harm from coming to anyone or anything. Sadly they didn't see that piece of seaweed slip into the wrong sea.

They didn't fathom that there were consequences beyond immediate hurt or destruction. They were like the classic anorexic or bulimic. They had convinced themselves that what they did to themselves had no real affect on others. Besides it was their right, their body. They felt certain they could control it enough. And if they couldn't they'd only really be hurting themselves. And where's the crime in that? They were creating "love." Weren't they?

Often times our society will take the cascading creations that emanate from unsanctioned acts of creation, or even the mere actions of such cut short--to bring pleasure without the actual consummation of any 'creation.' Like the bulimic ensnared so many of us think to consume the food and then expel it before nature has run it's course.

Yet if you were to take "Caulerpa taxifolia" the 'alien' sea weed now ravaging many of the worlds eco systems and were to toll it around with you, even if it were in several dense and strong layers of plastic baggies, and you pulled it behind you in your boat as you cruised around the coast most would label you an insane person set on ecological terrorism. Even if you did all you could in your power to ensure that the weed in the baggy was secured. Yet we live in a culture where sex is the catch phrase for everything.

No doubt we’re designed to be biologically drawn to sex, and not so much drawn to carrying around catastrophically dangerous alien species (though some do seem to enjoy it).

But we are also drawn to food, even more strongly than to sex. Yet I've very rarely seen open condoning of bulimia. Certainly it is practiced. But fathom how much more it would be practiced among the attention hungry youth (and the 'young at heart') if there were great programs trumpeting the use of 'safe bulimia' rather than just 'safe sex'. We are taught by the more 'progressive' in our culture that abstinence is a ridiculous single tier approach to the problems endemic to sexual promiscuity. We are mocked when we are so 'close minded' to be beyond preaching a self-contradictory doctrine. So why do they stop short of endorsing 'safe bulimia'? I'm beyond certain that we could make the practice as 'safe' as 'safe sex' is. And probably more people would be accepting of seemingly safe gluttony. So why do we draw the line? Why is it taken that one is unstoppable so a 'pragmatic' approach is the 'only' 'tenable' approach? Yet with the other we cannot at all give the signal that it is something desirable to practice with societies sanction. Both are as certain to occur in our society. We are both attention hungry and sex hungry. Are we not?

--Find the Hive

Friday, January 20, 2006

Taketh away

Sublime ideas.

It seems many of us get them. Some seem capable of translating them into reality with either greater ease or a higher proficiency than many of us.

My question. What of those lost ones. Those ideas that you were so certain were so sublime, so perfect, yet either before you write them down, or before you thought to put them down, or before you realized how easy it was to forget perfection, slipped from your mind.

Left like the king who questioned Daniel. We know we experienced greatness. Yet we cannot define it.

Try as we might once whatever it is that momentarily endowed us with a piece of brilliance saw fit to snatch it away, or simply evaporate.

Why. Was our worthiness that fleeting? Or was it simply a turn in the path of fate. A means of contriving within us such feelings as brought by the midterm abortion of such greatness, or at least goodness or 'coolness', potential.

How I long for those lost pieces of me. Assuming they were parts of me.

--Find the Hive

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Error Paradigm

We are a society built around avoiding the truth.

How can that be though? We live in a world with more progress than anyone can manage to find in the collective history of humanity's archives. Don't we, especially those of us most closely aligned with the "Western Tradition", have more power, capacity and freedom than the most powerful despots of only a few centuries ago?

Certainly we live in a world of great peril. But anyone who questions our superior status with respect to those of ages past must certainly come to the only viable conclusion available. Namely, that we've arrived. No incarnation of any vestige of civilization has closer to the threshold of transcendence than we have.

Yet I still proclaim--We are a society built around avoiding the truth.

Look anywhere and you will see a society that is always ensuring that it's aim is just short of truth. Our schools train up those who can either fit into irrelevant presets that we hope are some indicators of capacity. All they really are, however, are simple indicators of those who can figure out a system and work themselves into it sufficiently to get by. When our education attempts are not having our pupils focus on obtaining and maintaining a status quo they are setting them on courses of achievements that are designed primarily for the obtainment of either praise, entertainment, or misdirected force and resources.

It brings to mind a wise English teacher who knew to teach more than English. After a short story we could scarcely understand in it's many meanings he brought up the question about institutions. He asked us if we could name any of the institutions in the world that had lost it’s meaning or original intent. We were all so brain-dead to the idea. Our 'education' had never even thought to teach us the application of critical thinking to anything beyond what we were taught to be critical of. We'd all been raised by our culture so as to limit ourselves to paradigm shifts only along certain axes. We couldn't even conceptualize a dimensional shift, or any other shift or change that would bring us to question the very moorings that our paradigm shifting had been engrained in and revolved about.

So what does any of this matter? If my view of the current report detailing the helplessness of many college students is even near correct then the hope of us even being able to reach a sliver of the populace needed to effect change would be daunting to say the least. Especially since the odds of them reading and trying to understand what I'm really trying to say, and then having these words entice them to progressive action, are so close to nothing.

I suppose I best get started in at least making some suggestions to people so that perhaps, just maybe, they might have the capacity to, at the very least, encourage the coming generation to do what so few in society have ever had the cognitive capacities, developed from and through their environment, to do.

First off. Do all you can to make learning enticing for everyone around you. Tell some little kid the intricacies of something in a manner simple enough for them to understand but complex enough that they'll feel excited when they realize they've grasped something far more complex than they thought they ever could.

If that's not available to you then try and teach a kid how to use an unabridged dictionary and how fun it can be to learn about words and their origins. Find funny words. Absurdly long words. Words you probably can't correctly pronounce until several references to the phonetic guides. If you don't know how to do all that with a dictionary try and teach such to yourself.

Words are the basic units of our communications. They are like the most basic building blocks of our awareness. The more we have the more exacting and precise our self-awareness can be.

As long as we do not get lost in excessive wordiness or change complex rhetoric into a tool for vanity we should be much better off. And even with that as a risk I say we'd be far better off with the risk of more formidable demagogues who can be held to a higher bar for their crimes at the true judgment bar of God, or karma, or whatever cause and effect set-up you give heed to. For good to prevail the overall intelligence absorbed and used must continue to climb. Even in spite of our society’s endemically flawed aim.

--Find the Hive