@the 300 site (About Us):
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We are a community of artists and musicians, activists and healers, practitioners and seekers dedicated to contributing everything we possibly can to the massive shift in consciousness that is presently taking place on planet Earth.
it may be a massive shift in 'being interested in some new things, compared to yesterday's interests', but this is nothing particularly new or special because history repeats itself and global topics emerge and change regularly
massive data does not mean massive advancement, it only means... massive data :P
what you can pick up from that data is another story and you will be able to pick up only as much as you can carry, as much as you are able to pick up, as much as you are ready to understand
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At the root level, beyond empathy and compassion, we believe that every sentient being simply desires two things: Happiness, and Freedom.
how about: understanding what that being IS and whats the purpose/reason for its existence?
how about: becoming happy by knowing the truth
how about: becoming free from ignorance of your own being's essence?
what about other, so-called non-sentient beings?
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we recognize that in order to fully liberate ourselves, we must first teach others how to liberate themselves, for until we do, whether we like it or not, that tethered, polarized mass of people is our slavery.
how can you teach someone about something you didn't experience for yourself?
that mass of people are your fellow travelers, on the same kind of journey as yourself, role-playing as they travel - it is this role-playing that we learn from, be it from our roles or someone else's, be it from current roles or past ones, be it from sentient or non-sentient beings, etc. - its not slavery, its a system of learning, a biological school if you will, 'hidden' in plain sight
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the truth, in its many forms, can truly set a person free, helping to release them from the chains of conventional thinking and empowering them to think and act for themselves.
the truth can set you free from everything other than itself, so it better be the objective truth then ;)
hmm, the ignorance can set you free from everything other than itself too, could be why it is said that 'ignorance is bliss' (hopefully no one comments on this to spoil the bliss, eh? on the other hand, the truth is a bit trickier to spoil, no? maybe if you do a chomsky or a gore on it hehe)
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We believe that the truth is divided among us, like pieces to a puzzle, and that only when we come together, in communion, are we able to reveal it, and understand it.
people all over the world are already together (the planet, the universe, the interconnectedness)
if you want to compare the truth to a (jigsaw) puzzle, then there is an individual puzzle for everyone and they collect various pieces as they travel (as they live) - their pieces are individual and cannot fit into someone else's puzzle, even though its the same image embedded within (same objective truth for everyone) - think of it as one image copy/pasted onto numerous boards, each board cut with a different pattern producing unique sets of pieces - subjective truth is a partially completed puzzle, objective truth is a full completion
@the 300 site (What does "Collectively Conscious" mean?):
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They say that two minds are better than one. Well, how about 10,000 minds? Or a million minds? The internet IS the technological manifestation of the collective mind of humanity. Though presently very messy, and in many corners very dark, we believe it has the potential to unite the knowledge, the wisdom, and the intelligence of all men, women, and children who inhabit the Earth. If we are to awaken, it will only be as one, when in cooperation with one another. For together we become ॐ Collectively Conscious ॐ.
only if you can add minds, if minds have the same sign (+) and if you define better as 'quantitatively more',... all of which have certain glaring issues
technological/biological/... manifestations serve to tell a story about this reality we live in, you're supposed to learn how to read/hear/sense it in order to understand it - technological imitations are by definition inferior to the originals, any attempt to prove otherwise will only end up proving how you can't beat the original at what they are supposed to do and you may even prove that imitations are also exactly that what they are supposed to be (imitations/inferior hehe)
if we are to awaken, it will only be one by one, as a result of our journeys, from partial to full awareness, full awareness representing the limit defined by what we truly are
and we are already conscious (i'm conscious or consciously aware of my existence, therefore i am - i think, therefore i think i am), at least with partial awareness/consciousness
@the 300 site (Hive Mind Philosophy):
(quotes from various writers/researchers)
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according to the visionaries who predict a world-spanning intelligence, this is just the beginning. They tell us that a radical human transformation has begun, one that will hook ‘the billions of minds of humanity together into a single system
there is already intelligence in everything around us or within us, no need to re-invent some new age nu-intelligence
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everything is becoming connected to everything else. Not only everything in the present moment, but all past moments as well, are being drawn, compressed, squeezed towards the production of the transcendental object at the end of time. Which is nothing less than all time, all space, shrunk down to an atomic dimension and handed back to us, do you see?
it was always interconnected
big crunch is just as silly as it sounds, don't you see?
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“There is an urgent need to ensure that our global brain is sane rather than insane.
umm, what?
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We can look at cell phones and instant messaging already as a form of telepathy.
mkay (why not ordinary speech too? oh i know, its not a novelty)
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It is not another incarnation of communism where nobody has any private property. A well synchronized group will make sure that its members each live at a comparable level of comfort with the physical possessions necessary to meet the current standard of living.
actually, that sounds exactly like a more standardized/uniform version of communism, oops
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their perception equipment enables them to feel with another person – ‘be them’.
Jesus Christ’s precept ‘thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself’
feeling is not the same as being, it is a part of one being's experience - the same applies to 'think with another person'
that other quote means love thy neighbor's essence, for it is the same as yours (whether your neighbor may be human/animal/plant/matter)
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we are each a divine perceiver, or as Ibn al-Arabi understood it, we will discover that our souls are the sense organs of the Divine.
nice, but does the divine need partially sentient/sensitive organs?
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The Uniter is going to be born here and it is going to come in plenty. It is not going to be only one human being but many.
“The next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha will take the form of a community; a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the Earth.
that doesn't make any sense - even with a highly advanced individual such as the buddha, not that many of his close associates/disciples gained his level of enlightenment and i'm not aware of any huge/wide shift happening during his times (other than buddhism or his legacy) - so this smells like some organization/community playing the handlers, pretending to be advanced and exploiting gullible followers
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A child plays and develops his or her gifts, but doesn’t apply them toward their true purpose yet.
that is their true purpose (for that particular period of time), to be developed via playing, in order for the child to be able to adequately participate in this world as an adult later on
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Originally Posted by cowspiracy docu
“one single industry destroying the planet more than any other.” According to the trailer, this industry is responsible for global warming, water shortages, methane emissions, species extinction, and the ocean dead zones. “Cowspiracy” places the blame on livestock production.
global warming = false
water shortages = industrial over-exploitation or mismanagement, grass-fed livestock doesn't need much water and it gets recycled anyways
methane emissions = irrelevant
species extinction = really?
ocean dead zones = livestock polluting oceans? you mean chemically laden fertilizers/pesticides/herbicides/gmo's/pharmaceuticals/...
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Originally Posted by cowspiracy docu promoters
This documentary will be as eye-opening as “Blackfish” and as inspiring as “An Inconvenient Truth
inconvenient truth by al gore is nonsense
blackfish seems to be an inflated story (check imdb comments on that)
a critique of this docu:
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http://www.examiner.com/article/la-chefs-movie-review-cowspiracy-a-pile-of-imitation-vegan-bs