Politics

[Dennis]

I've been lurking and listening here for sometime hoping to pick up some
interesting technical tidbits.   But, I'm a political animal as well and
this discussion has been interesting if a bit in-flame-atory.

But, the point I want to make is that debating about Democrats verses
Republicans or one telcom corporation vs. another or the wisdom of riding a
bike to work rather than taking a car is all great stuff -  but largely I'd
class in with arranging the deck furniture on the Titanic (to drag out that
old phrase again).

If you really don't care about stuff beyond your personal horizon, then feel
free to bail now.  

But, if you see yourself as concerned about the big issues, then I invite
you to expand your horizons.   I run a blog at www.samadhisoft.com that
deals with the big picture at the largest aperture I can manifest.  The
issues discussed there, IMHO, trump pretty much everything else out there.

I'm a discusser and a debater and if you want to come and kick the tires,
come on over.   But, more than anything, if you a seek clarity and truth
with regard to where things are heading in this world man has made, come and
read about the following subjects, among others.  It may open your eyes and
set you to thinking about where you might want to take yourselves and your
families to get out of harm's way.  It's no coincicdence that this E-mail
comes to you from New Zealand though most of the time I live near Seattle.

http://samadhisoft.com/perfect-storm-hypothesis/
http://samadhisoft.com/2006/12/07/061208-friday-historical-inevitability/
http://samadhisoft.com/eden-lost/
http://samadhisoft.com/transcending-our-biological-imperatives/

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."

--Hamlet (I, v, 166-167)

Dennis Gallagher
samadhisoft.com
in Aotearoa/New Zealand

- "Life is just self-replicating information shaped by natural selection."
- Peter Watts in "Behemoth, B-Max"


> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net 
> [mailto:talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of michael
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 5:53 PM
> To: SeattleWireless Talk List
> Subject: Re: Politics
> 
> 
> Are we really apologizing for breaking the (apparently) 
> strict rules of the 
> mailing list?
> 
> I'm impressed and glad to be able to be able to have an 
> impromptu, near 
> real-time conversation with anyone around the world who 
> wishes to join in. 
> And, hell, I was raised on the internet! Those of you, most 
> of which are 
> probably old enough to be my father, should pay more 
> attention to the spirit 
> of the conversation, and stop bitching at one another and at 
> the fact that, 
> in your opinion, such heated political conversation only has 
> one place, and 
> that's when and where it's invited. A few of you probably 
> spent as much time 
> announcing you were leaving as it took you to delete the 
> thread once you 
> noticed the direction it had gone, so, spare us the theatrics.
> 
> I'll still be proud to be involved in such a thing, even if 
> it's just a geeky 
> mailing list. Those of you who are older, and what the hell, 
> wiser, continue 
> throwing fits and wasting your time telling everyone else 
> that YOU hope this 
> conversation ends soon, so that you don't have to keep 
> watching the rest of 
> us argue/debate/whatever you want to call it- have some sort 
> of discourse 
> about the things going on around us. 
> 
> And if anyone has a problem with me calling out those that 
> just make me 
> nauseous, you know where to find my Inbox. I've been a part 
> of too many of 
> these types of conversations that all end the same way for me 
> not to say 
> anything, and I, for one, aren't going to sit around quietly 
> while people try 
> to be proud of having something better to do than debate. The 
> Romans and 
> Greeks might not have gotten a lot right, but they understood 
> that being a 
> citizen involved discussion with those holding dissenting 
> opinions, and that 
> without discussion, we become a rabble of fools, worrying 
> more about trade 
> and money and our own situation than anything else.
> 
> -Michael
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