Politics

[George Lathrop]

Nice site. Verry well done.
George

Dennis wrote:
> 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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