Politics

[Dennis]

Thanks, George.  I appreciate that.

Best wishes,

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: George Lathrop [mailto:george at awarenessworkshop.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:41 PM
> To: dennis at galron.com; SeattleWireless Talk List
> Subject: Re: Politics
> 
> 
> 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-inevitabili
> > ty/
> > 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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