Repetitions of Petitions
Saturday, 21. June 2008, 03:28:03
Dear Blog,
Tis the eve of the Summer (Sumer) solstice today. I count the 21st, not the 20th, as the day of actual Summer Solstice so it is moot that I overcome Net Inertia and write something that may endure. Endurance, perseverence, comes after hard pushing that which doesn't want to be pushed - like aching muscles.
Yesterday I took a long hike out into the Sacred Mounds territories surrounding my place. During the first half mile or so it was really tough to get the body motivated into what I knew was to come aka hard trekking but I pushed on past the muscle aches and lack of will into the hinterlands. After the second high hill I was into it!
Learned a rather salient lesson there as later on I did find a Viking funereal flint on the side trail made by wild animals of one of the higher mounds. Little known fact about this area is that there were Viking settlements here ages ago. Most of the runen found in this area have been classified as 'Indian (A misnomer) petroglyphs but aren't. Of course the classifiers have, mostly, never studied Viking Runes and don't know the difference. So be it...I know.
The Saturday of May 31st was a horrible day for me. It was a beautiful sunny day with no wind blowing, calm, peaceful. Then...came the crash! An old tree fell under its' own weight across our power lines. The telephone lines are very close to the power lines so...the static charge was sent back via the telephone lines and it zapped my modem. Knocked it out, fried it.
SInce we are so far out in the sticks it took me a few weeks to get another modem. That was a hassle all in its' own right. After I installed it I found I still couldn't connect to the net! I'd already been gone for 13 days and needed to get back to take care of business so to speak. Well it took lots of trouble shooting to trace down the problem but I finally found that the zap had also knocked out my PCI slot! Oh joy! So I reinstalled the new Lucent Win Modem (Wasan't my choice!) in my other PCI slot and went through some more tech hell till finally I got it up and running and was reconnected to the net!
During all the downtime I had a good chance to reconfigure my own head as regards the net, what it means, or doesn't mean, to me and to generally get on with life. I found that my addiction to the net takes days to resolve but that through careful reading and deep meditation it is possible to see forward to a time when I will not need it at all.
Look around you at the world that we have created full of misery and homelessness and death. How close we are to the brink of totally annihilating ourselves and our planet doesn't need to be mentioned by me at all but I'm gonna mention it anyway. Oh, the pundits blame it on lots of things none of which are correct. Mass media meant to control the behavior of those watching it includes the internet. ALl the so called freedoms of the net are illusory. I call the net 'the Matrix. remember that movie? How are you being benefitted by 'the Net' which was created by DARPA!
After a few days of being off the net I noticed my energy returning to higher peaks and my joy increasing. Simple things like trees and rivers and streams and lakes and clouds and dogs and so forth started meaning something deeper, again, to me. My vision started to return to normal and I actually began to feel alive again! Unplugged I felt myself being plugged in once again to croe me, to core self, to my own innate humanity then I began to think of exactly what insidiousness the net as it is today actually reeks on our accepting minds.
I hmade the chance to listen to a six CD set I have of Eckert Tolle on being in the now. I read Karla Turners three works on alien abduction including her and her families experiences. I read Cory Doctorows' "Little Brother" which you can download from the net and in general I went through a lot of inner changes grasping firmly, yet again, that which is myself and which is reality beyond the agreements we make as progenitors of 'societies.'
Now I'm back on the net. I twitter, I socialize, it's all hollow. I downloaded Opera 9.5, a killer browser, the best of all, and I also downloaded Firefox 3 and tweaked the hell out of it so it now runs, mostly, the web really well yet not as well as Opera. I downloaded the new FLock beta 2 which utilising Firefox technology and promises to be better than it was before...yet, all this leaves me with an empty feeling inside. With a "So what?" Where's the realtime communication? WHat do I care about Facebook or MySpace or Yahoo or any one of a dozen other 'startups?' O they make my life better? Have they ridded this world of war? Or...are they just more of the Matrix trying to vampirize my electricity so they can in turn make billions while the rest of us starve?
Just some thoughts. Just wanted to add something to the blog. Yo blog! Hope that will suffice for awhile unless I get inspired to write something worth while. AS for Opera 9.5 it isn't exactly what I want but I can truly say it's the best browser out there and it is a pleasure to use. It angers me, somewhat, that it doesn't have greater acceptance by the technorati out there but like the dumbed down here where I live...most things Norse are forgotten, then buried further in forgetfulness that the Matrix might go forth with its lies evermore.
Well...Nagalfari cometh and with that fated ship comes mighty Fenriz, too, and Loki, to cause change and rebirth and...
See ya
Tis the eve of the Summer (Sumer) solstice today. I count the 21st, not the 20th, as the day of actual Summer Solstice so it is moot that I overcome Net Inertia and write something that may endure. Endurance, perseverence, comes after hard pushing that which doesn't want to be pushed - like aching muscles.
Yesterday I took a long hike out into the Sacred Mounds territories surrounding my place. During the first half mile or so it was really tough to get the body motivated into what I knew was to come aka hard trekking but I pushed on past the muscle aches and lack of will into the hinterlands. After the second high hill I was into it!
Learned a rather salient lesson there as later on I did find a Viking funereal flint on the side trail made by wild animals of one of the higher mounds. Little known fact about this area is that there were Viking settlements here ages ago. Most of the runen found in this area have been classified as 'Indian (A misnomer) petroglyphs but aren't. Of course the classifiers have, mostly, never studied Viking Runes and don't know the difference. So be it...I know.
The Saturday of May 31st was a horrible day for me. It was a beautiful sunny day with no wind blowing, calm, peaceful. Then...came the crash! An old tree fell under its' own weight across our power lines. The telephone lines are very close to the power lines so...the static charge was sent back via the telephone lines and it zapped my modem. Knocked it out, fried it.
SInce we are so far out in the sticks it took me a few weeks to get another modem. That was a hassle all in its' own right. After I installed it I found I still couldn't connect to the net! I'd already been gone for 13 days and needed to get back to take care of business so to speak. Well it took lots of trouble shooting to trace down the problem but I finally found that the zap had also knocked out my PCI slot! Oh joy! So I reinstalled the new Lucent Win Modem (Wasan't my choice!) in my other PCI slot and went through some more tech hell till finally I got it up and running and was reconnected to the net!
During all the downtime I had a good chance to reconfigure my own head as regards the net, what it means, or doesn't mean, to me and to generally get on with life. I found that my addiction to the net takes days to resolve but that through careful reading and deep meditation it is possible to see forward to a time when I will not need it at all.
Look around you at the world that we have created full of misery and homelessness and death. How close we are to the brink of totally annihilating ourselves and our planet doesn't need to be mentioned by me at all but I'm gonna mention it anyway. Oh, the pundits blame it on lots of things none of which are correct. Mass media meant to control the behavior of those watching it includes the internet. ALl the so called freedoms of the net are illusory. I call the net 'the Matrix. remember that movie? How are you being benefitted by 'the Net' which was created by DARPA!
After a few days of being off the net I noticed my energy returning to higher peaks and my joy increasing. Simple things like trees and rivers and streams and lakes and clouds and dogs and so forth started meaning something deeper, again, to me. My vision started to return to normal and I actually began to feel alive again! Unplugged I felt myself being plugged in once again to croe me, to core self, to my own innate humanity then I began to think of exactly what insidiousness the net as it is today actually reeks on our accepting minds.
I hmade the chance to listen to a six CD set I have of Eckert Tolle on being in the now. I read Karla Turners three works on alien abduction including her and her families experiences. I read Cory Doctorows' "Little Brother" which you can download from the net and in general I went through a lot of inner changes grasping firmly, yet again, that which is myself and which is reality beyond the agreements we make as progenitors of 'societies.'
Now I'm back on the net. I twitter, I socialize, it's all hollow. I downloaded Opera 9.5, a killer browser, the best of all, and I also downloaded Firefox 3 and tweaked the hell out of it so it now runs, mostly, the web really well yet not as well as Opera. I downloaded the new FLock beta 2 which utilising Firefox technology and promises to be better than it was before...yet, all this leaves me with an empty feeling inside. With a "So what?" Where's the realtime communication? WHat do I care about Facebook or MySpace or Yahoo or any one of a dozen other 'startups?' O they make my life better? Have they ridded this world of war? Or...are they just more of the Matrix trying to vampirize my electricity so they can in turn make billions while the rest of us starve?
Just some thoughts. Just wanted to add something to the blog. Yo blog! Hope that will suffice for awhile unless I get inspired to write something worth while. AS for Opera 9.5 it isn't exactly what I want but I can truly say it's the best browser out there and it is a pleasure to use. It angers me, somewhat, that it doesn't have greater acceptance by the technorati out there but like the dumbed down here where I live...most things Norse are forgotten, then buried further in forgetfulness that the Matrix might go forth with its lies evermore.
Well...Nagalfari cometh and with that fated ship comes mighty Fenriz, too, and Loki, to cause change and rebirth and...
See ya
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