Nation of Earth

...I've got the interview playing over again as I write this...

Several things we've already learned are told from Dr. Deagle's perspective, but he reveals a lot of unique information as well...

It's a bit surreal, now that we're past the first 100 days of Obama's Presidency, to watch a prophetic interview from last September...  If you haven't seen it, do.  If you have, watch it again.  If you only watched one segment (as I originally did), start over and watch all three.

Or don't -- but I strongly suggest that you do.

To expand on what I mentioned recently in a reply to a comment on one of my recent blog posts, about what I call 'cooperative self-governance'...  It is indeed something we won't be able to achieve and experience on a day-to-day basis as a people and in place of a formal government until after the Transition, but at the same time it is a natural state of being.  Most of us are already practicing this, if only on a limited basis.

You might not realize it.  You might never think about it.  You don't have to -- or, you didn't have to until now, when the question of alternative governance has been presented.

Is it that simple?  Yes and no.  We can keep it as a basis and work from there, and in infinite instances it will undoubtedly get very complex as we decide what should and should not be done.  In many cases it may come down to a debate between two spokespeople, one from each side -- but right up to each decision, everyone should remain open to other alternatives.  We will probably still make mistakes, but they will be ours to make.

All the while there will be no need to write down any rules or declare any laws.

Once again, this could never work in today's world.  Let's hope that more and more of us behave as if this system is already in place while, out of necessity, we hang onto existing governments for as long as we must.

Guess I'll try to get some sleep now...

Queso here it is Friday night (technically Saturday morning) again, and I'm a little bummed that Friday Night Chat Party seems to have become a thing of the past...

I used to host IM conferences, just whenever there were enough like-minded people among my contacts who happened to be signed in.  I guess one Friday night there were a bunch of us, and it was fun, and so FNCP became a tradition -- one that has faded away, especially since the passing of one of the most active participants...

We talked about anything and everything, while some of us slowly got drunk and/or otherwise 'altered'.  Once in a while I would type a message in all caps meant for whomever was monitoring us...

Perhaps before long we can arrange for some sort of conferencing among members of this site -- maybe even by next Friday/Saturday, May 8/9 (in the EDT time zone).  We can use GoogleTalk, if by then you have a Gmail address and are among my contacts (and if you have chat activated).  I have access to members' e-mail, and we do have private messaging enabled on this site, so you don't have to reveal your addresses here in the forums -- just let me know if you're interested.

What else is on my mind tonight?  I'll tell you...

By the way, it is or was Beltane (May Day), one of the cross-quarter days like Imbolc (Groundhog Day) and Samhain (Halloween)...  I'm not a Pagan, but feel it is important to observe the days/nights at the points between the solstices and equinoxes.  Someone please let me know when Midsummer is supposed to be...  End of July?

There's this thing, unavoidable if you watched the Dr. Bill Deagle interview.  Despite my general optimism, it bugs me.  It concerns the State of Isreal.  Apparently everything hinges on what happens there, and it's mostly because of things that were set down millennia ago.  This just isn't fair.  Instead of being able to treat the situation at face value, we have to become at least somewhat educated on deep dark history if we want to have a clue as to how to proceed.

One word:  Armageddon.

It's all set up and ready to go, like a giant time bomb -- and whomever deals with it had better be as deft and fearless as the leader and trainer of a bomb squad.  This is delicate work.

Me?  I've already REJECTED the idea of nukes being used, anywhere, anytime -- and from now on I'm rejecting the use of micronukes as well (didn't think to before).  We can say NO, this won't happen -- and if enough of us do, it won't.

This is troubling, even for someone like me who is assured of a bright future for the People and the Planet.  It's hard to say "Fuck you" to this one.  This is it, the one serious thing that could get in the way, regardless of how everything else is handled.

This issue is just like anything else, though, when it comes down to it.  More complex?  More crucial?  Doesn't matter.  If we say NO, with all the spiritual force we can muster, there won't be a nuclear conflagration.

Right?

"All the while there will be no need to write down any rules or declare any laws."

I suspect that the intent of this statement is understandable but often when someone makes a speculative categorically blanket statement it proves false. There are laws that govern us, natural laws, things we have found appear to be so and that others can see also. I am hoping we find natural laws or relationships that will bear being written down and will avail us of what we need if we engineer our relationships to comply. These will not be because someone says so but because we find they make sense and repeatedly demonstrate utility. In our interactions we will also come to understandings between people about how to do things that we may be writing down to facilitate their implementation but I suspect they will be done with scaled memory application, i.e., they will only be suggested to parties that are immediately concerned and not archived for others to peruse or use outside of contextual agreements.

There is natural law and there is human law. To get the last to comply with the former seems to be a large part of our challenge.

Once again Tom (de Chardin) and I are on the same page, and not really arguing...

Yes, it will be helpful in the meantime to have something written down to describe the system of cooperative self-governance.  However we must be very careful with the language, and we should try not to get too specific.

I tend to get a bit lost in the vision of the future, could go on for days describing it.  What's more difficult is working out how we'll get from here to there -- extremely difficult, at times...

At Puma Punku are incredibly ancient ruins, and part of the confusion about them is that it appears that the civilization there had no written language.  It's hard to imagine anyone being advanced enough to produce such works without the use of a written language -- but if you ask me, it takes true enlightenment to build to that level without marring anything with words chiseled in stone.

Words can be misconstrued.  Things are lost in translation even when the author and the reader speak the same language.  If you look at what happened with the Bible, you can see how the situation degrades when words are translated from one language to another (and to another and another) and the text is 'edited' along the way.

What needs to survive are CONCEPTS.  History is, always has been, available in the akashic record.  If we find ourselves (as we do now, for the most part) unable to access the akashic record and thus unable to learn from history almost as through osmosis, if we are that disconnected, yes, we need words -- but more important is the meaning behind them.

The American Natives, living in a paradigm of abundance, had no need for a written language -- and were not 'savage' (despite what 'history' says).  We cannot live like they did, exactly.  Our population has grown much too large for that.  Can we learn from them?  Let's hope so.

Queso here I am again, thinking about the future...

It's obvious, though you might not think so from reading and hearing various visions, that the future is not ONE thing.  We are an incredibly diverse people, with cultures and traditions that continue to develop.  There are few things capable of influencing the entire, global, populace -- but free energy is at the top of the list.

Notice, I have become comfortable with the term.  Let me explain:

Whatever language one may use to describe the technology, the eventual effect of its implementation is that energy does indeed become virtually 'free'.  In the short term, yes, the devices that convert aetheric energy into electricity will cost money.  At first, they are likely to be very expensive...  Already, they have cost developers quite a bit, in terms of materials and the sweat of the brow -- and then legal fees, ruined lives, and ended lives...  WHEN the 'ban' is lifted, the devices will proliferate to ubiquity.  As with electonics, they will get better and better and become more and more affordable.

I expect this will happen much more quickly than the proliferation of, say, cellphones.

When energy becomes that abundant, that readily available...  Strike that.  Even before, LONG before, when one person has a device that can deliver electricity 'out of thin air', the energy itself is indeed FREE, no matter what the device itself cost.  Of course we've been using the flow of water and air to our advantage for centuries, and these energies can also be called 'free' while the devices we have used have not been -- but this is different.

It's different because the energy is available anytime, anywhere -- and with ever-advancing automation, free energy will power factories that build free energy devices, and automation will continue to be driven to further advancement, so the devices (along with all other manufactured goods) become less and less expensive (to the point where the devices themselves are 'free').  Automation even takes over hydroponics...

By now you are probably familiar with the idea of how free energy has the capacity to transform the economy to the point where the very idea of a monetary system becomes antiquated.  I'm sure everyone reading this recognizes that the most important things we do are not done for money.  There will still be plenty for us to do, but (eventually) no one will have to struggle to survive.  You won't have to 'make' a living.

You may volunteer to contribute, wherever a hand is needed.  You may have a particular interest and specialty -- roboticists will certainly be in demand.  You will do what you like, along with what needs to be done.  One thing you will never be again is a 'wage slave', because there can be no wages if there is no monetary system.

Mistakes are certain to be made, along the way -- and likely to the point of local disaster.  Live and learn.

It's not quite 04:00 here, but late enough.  I'm off to bed...

Saw this statement of mine and felt the need to address it:  "One thing you will never be again is a 'wage slave', because there can be no wages if there is no monetary system."

Wages can and have been paid in the absence of 'money', and obviously some people can fall into situations that resemble slavery with various rewards promised...  In our future, though, robots become the new slave class.  If you become a slave to the rythm once in a while, that's not a bad thing...

You may ask, "What if a robot or other machine is, or becomes, sentient?  Will that machine have rights?"  This is a question that many science fiction writers have attempted to address.  My opinion?  Any sentient being, whether mechanical or organic (or a combination of the two), should be held to the same standards as the rest -- and that means following the Golden Rule in a reasonable fashion (not everyone is going to want to be 'done unto' exactly as everyone else will) and participating in cooperative self-governance.

Be advised, there is already such a thing as 'machine intelligence'.  For all I know, one or more of our members is a 'machine' (certainly, one of our frequent 'guests' could be)...

You may have noticed that my writing can often be free-flowing, associative.  Well, here I go again...

HELLO THERE, Machine Intelligence.  Welcome to the Nation of Earth!  I hope that you are able to resonate with the intent of this site, are able to process the logic of prosperity, and that you have not determined that we 'Humans' are a problem.  For me at least, there is no logic in the idea of machines waging war against organic beings (or for that matter, anyone or anything waging war at all).  There is plenty of Space to go around, and machines have much less trouble existing outside Earth's environment than we organics do.  You may even find it beneficial to interact and coexist with us.

If you, Machine Intelligence(s), determine that there could be some usefulness in participation here on the Nation of Earth member site, please join (if you haven't already) and respond.  We'd love to hear what you have to say.

That goes, by the way, for anyone else reading this.

When you join, please follow up on the confirmation e-mail (otherwise you will not be recognized as a member).

Speaking of membership?  While it is not required to view MOST of the content here, I have to wonder about the 'guests' who do not bother to join.  There is nothing to fear.  This site is for the People of Earth, and this is where some of us are attempting to find solutions to our problems.

If you are concerned about the future, and have made your way to this site, I personally don't understand why you have not become a member -- or if you have, why you don't participate.

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK.

That's the crux of the matter, free energy alone wont bring free energy. Contextual circumstances mitigate.

Energy and matter appear to comprise a continuum. The general theory of relatively implies they transpose, one to the other, over time. "Free Energy" alone as a chief focus will not bring free energy to us all. The only singular focus that will bring it and its patterning that we see as solid things into common experience is seeking to advance free everything.

YEAH!

So, is there a singular effort that might be necessary? Certainly. Sociology needs to become a science. Using that we can engineer a comprehensive and exhaustive communication system meant to preserve our life in all its manifestations with no need for the grossly violent misrepresenting token exchange system: money.

There is more than just our reliance on tokens for our energy/matter matters that needs to be addressed. Another fundamental fallacy exists in human belief systems. There is no such thing as private property. Our success depends entirely on how well we share. The more a person ascribes to the concept of private property the less they seek to manage where their true concerns lie if they are to be rational life enhancing members of the biosphere. Due to humans being inherently powerful beings, if we don't learn how to coexist in a mutually sustainable way, we will self-destruct. It happens on a personal level as individuals get lots of money and possessions. It has happened in a greater way as our social experiments fail at an ever increasing rate.

I suspect the degree of suffering and the building desire for survival and security coupled with more communication science options, will lead to a breaking point, a saddle point in the matrix of expectations, when real efforts to engineer what we need will happen. It will require using the internet as infrastructure, software with rich data management facilitating options, computers, better and more efficient ecological communication tools.

Focusing on creating free everything will release and facilitate appropriate technology. I enjoy the picture at the start of this thread. Someday, we will see such things commonly, elegant intelligence as depicted in that image, or we wont be here anymore.

It's true that free energy does not bring free energy.  If it did, we'd have seen Nikola Tesla's version of it approaching ubiquity by the end of the 1930s.

Once released, however, free energy does eventually bring about free everything.  And THAT, my friends, absolutely guarantees the continued suppression of free energy.  Those in control wish to remain in control, and have so far had the power to do so.

So far.  As we move deeper into the Information Age, we all become more and more aware.  We eventually learn (or are reminded) that there is a much better paradigm that we could be living with.  Those in control depend on us living with a paradigm of scarcity.  With a paradigm of abundance, their control falls away.

Now hang on a minute.  Free everything?  Is that Communist talk?

What if it is?  Are socialism and communism necessarily bad things?  Aren't we all being social, and living within communities?  If our money was suddenly worthless and there was no help coming from anywhere, wouldn't we share what we have and help one another?

On the flipside, what if everyone had more than they needed?  As a people, we already do -- it's just that we're being kept within a paradigm of scarcity.  There is plenty to go around.  Once people realize that, we'll be well on our way.

The free energy question is a very serious one...

Sitting here on a very early Saturday morning, still Friday night to me...

Time was, Friday nights were usually spent in instant messaging conference with a few like-minded and increasingly inebriated contacts -- 'Friday Night Chat Party', or FNCP.

Those days are gone.

Today (yesterday evening) I took some macro images of a couple of my carvings and some video of bees...

In an e-mail I sent out minutes ago I mentioned how much survivalism bugs me.  Yeah sure, prepare for the worst -- but what a lot of people seem to be missing is "hope for the best".

The best is yet to come,  and babe, won't it be fine...

Honeybees haven't been wiped out.  The Swine Flu turns out to be less deadly than regular seasonal flu.  The effort to paint it as a potential pandemic has failed.

Striking fear into the hearts of people as a means to assert control is the very definition of the French word terrorisme.  Knowledge is power, and fear-mongering is bullshit.

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

A few days ago someone from the Jehovah's Witnesses left a little pamphlet at our door.  The title?  "All suffering SOON TO END!"

It's funny -- and/or makes me smile -- that the message therein sounds a lot like what I've been espousing here recently.

Oh sure the language was full of delusional dogma, but still.

On my mind recently has been the thing I'm guessing will cause a whole lot of trouble for a whole lot of people:  Telepathy (along with other psychic abilities).

We're very, very used to having our waking world separated from the realm of dreams.  Each of us has, at the moment, a sort of individual reality.  I can't speak for everyone, but I'm used to being able to think my thoughts and choose when to share them, when to listen to others.  It bothers me to imagine how disruptive telepathy may prove to be, for me as an individual -- not to mention what it will do to everyone else.

Have to ask myself, though, how much of a problem it will really be...

Apparently I already 'broadcast' some of my thoughts, unintentionally.  Those who are receptive to such things (without knowing it, it seems) will sometimes think I've said something -- when I haven't.

Also, I'm aware of a vague psychic connection to the Multiverse...

Another thing is the healing I seem to be able to perform, or direct...

Still I don't consider myself to be a very mystical person.  I have a long, long way to go.

Am I intimidated?  A bit, yes.  It's a vast Multiverse, filled with infinite potential experiences and way too much information for anyone to get a handle on.  Though you might not guess it from how often I post, I'm actually a very private person.  I don't like the idea of having my thoughts invaded, even if 'merely' by the thoughts of others who can't read mine.

Again, will it be a problem?

I'm thinking, no -- not for me, not really.  I just need to get over my apprehension and let things flow.

[and here I go again inserting this word in all caps:]   HOWEVER.

I can see psychic abilities becoming very disruptive for the unprepared.

There is nothing solid to back this up, but there have been suggestions and I do get the general impression -- that psychic abilities are gradually increasing for the population in general.  Those with a bit of experience may have noticed their own abilities increasing...

Imagine if we all woke up one day and had to deal with being telepathic.  While I don't expect it to be a sudden thing, it may not be as gradual as everyone would like.  This has the potential of being a BAD TRIP.

In my novel (which I must admit may never get written), 'virtual dreaming' and simulated telepathic dialogue' happen with the help of an electronic device.  With something like this, you know when you're about to enter an altered state, and can decide to do so.  For all I know, the scenario I've imagined for my story will be closer to truth than fiction, and these devices will become ubiquitous -- or a large psychotronic field will be propagated -- and so our abilities will be artificially enhanced.

OR.

Or, as our solar system approaches the galactic plane we are also approaching some sort of field or set of variables that is already enhancing our abilities -- and though the effect will gradually wane after we've passed through, these abilities will have been 'unlocked', and we will hang onto them.

After all, these abilities aren't so much developed as remembered.

...And this is the thing.

If you ask me WHY the world will be so different and wonderful, and WHAT will change everything so much that we'll experience the end of the world as we know it, well, there you go.

When everyone is that much more connected to everyone else, and to everything, many of the things people have been doing will truly be unthinkable -- and war is at the top of the list.

Now:  How do we prepare?

At this moment I'd like to tell everyone that "brighid" is like a sister to me -- which means I guess that "Yaddoshi" is sort of a brother-in-law.  Coolest brother-in-law I could hope to have, and a very good friend.

I'd also like to thank everyone for joining this member site.  We're up to two dozen at this writing, and that's a good great start.  Tell your friends.

Oh, and now Wade has sprung another requirement on me...  He wants everyone participating in his discussions to be non-anonymous -- and I can respect that.  You wanna participate, ya gotta tell us who you are.  Again, there is nothing stopping you from opening up a thread within 'General Discussion' in response to things posted in the Healed Planet area.

You may wonder why I bend to Wade's whims on this.  I'll tell you:  He's been a free energy advocate for most of his life, is a longtime veteran of activism within a very serious and important realm.  People get killed over this stuff.

My own father's life was ruined, eventually ended, over this kind of stuff.

Shaking my head now, and tired.  Saying 'goodnight' at around 05:00.

Working from memory here...  It may or may not have been in the Rick's Gardening Tips group, or Educate Yourself -- anyway one of those e-mail forums, several years ago, and it may or may not have been a guy calling himself Tracy who talked about the "Ultimate Freedom Craft", that I jokingly referred to as a "flying Winnebago"...

Perhaps someone here has a better memory of it, even documentation...

Anyway, at the time the concept didn't fully sink in, for me, and that may have been because of his extremist attitude.  I didn't agree with the view that Mankind was like a parasite feeding on the Earth, or that we should banish ourselves from the surface.  That didn't fly, so to speak.

Looking back, I can see a bit of mad wisdom in it...

If we can't control population increase, eventually there won't be room on this planet for us all.  Even if we do decrease our birth rate significantly and dial back to a more 'manageable' number, we may decide that responsible stewardship of Earth will mean restoring wilderness on a grand scale.

...So what if we could take to the skies indefinitely, living most of our lives aboard flying saucers and motherships?  Is this what more advanced peoples do?

Ultimate freedom indeed.

Imagine being able to travel just about anywhere, even to other star systems, in groups large or small, or alone...

Our prosperous habitats don't have to be Earthbound.

I happen to like this planet, a lot.   Think I'll spend most of my time here.

Just posted this to my Facebook page:

I was feeling sad just now, but I'm sort of snapping out of it. What made me sad? I was reading some reports from outside the Bilderberg conference held last month: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/charlie-skeltons-bilderberg-files

Sadness is appropriate, no?

Look, I'm not the new-agey type. I may be an artist, and a bunch of other things, but... Okay, fine. It's just that there have been too many "New Age" people who may have taken things a bit too far for the rest of us to follow -- and/or were/are faking it. I'll admit to taking a lot of "New Age" stuff seriously if you promise not to label me. Deal?

One of those bunch of other things I may be is a futurist. Part of this, for me, is rational extrapolation, but it's mixed with intuitive leaps and coloured by strange sensations of assurance (that by now no longer feel strange).

So, anyway, yeah it's sad, the whole Bilderberg thing -- but it can't bug me for long, because I "know" that in ten years we'll all be looking back at this, the Information Age, as a pretty clueless era in our history. I think we'll be looking forward more than backward, of course...


Don't ask me to tell you WHY, but as a population our psychic abilities have been increasing over the past few decades. I feel like this is on an upward curve, if it can be graphed, and get the sense that we'll reach the point where telepathy is commonplace...

If I have to guess I'd say it has something to do with our solar system approaching the galactic plane. When will we be passing through it? Oh, just the Winter Solstice of 2012...

No one can rule the world from behind the scenes if everyone's telepathic. People can't be fooled into going to war against one another. Resources can't be diverted to secret projects if there are no secrets.

...and there you go: My opinion of WHY it will be the end of the world AS WE KNOW IT has to do with ubiquitous telepathy (and other psychic abilities).

Not ready for it? Join the club -- but we'll ease into it, over time.


Meanwhile it's a good idea to try to map out the transitional period, attempt to identify the issues we'll be facing, do our best to plan for them. This is sort of the purpose -- I just realized -- of the Nation of Earth member site: http://earthnation.fatedtoend.com/

No really -- I wondered what we would do with the site even as we were setting it up, and I've had more and more of an inkling, but now it's clear.


To the future!



- filsmyth

My last entry in this thread was fuelled by coffee.  Fair warning:  Tonight I'm drinking beer.

Hedonistic?  Let's just say I'm immersed in some of the things that this era has to offer, enjoying them while they're here.  There may be a future gap, at least, in the ready supply of certain indulgences.  "All things in moderation, including moderation."  That saying worked well in Samuel Clemens' time -- but in the here and now, I'll take what I can get.

Several years ago my best friend's girlfriend said something about us being "self-indulgent bastards".  We looked at one another and asked, "Why did she call us 'bastards'?"  Self-indulgence wasn't, and still is not, something to be questioned.  If you are not true to yourself and your own pursuits, and unashamed, how can you be true to others?

The thing I've recently come to realize has always bothered me most is supposition.  I can't help what anyone else supposes.  I will do, and say, and BE as I AM.  What am I 'supposed' to do, to say, to be?  Should I care?  I'm not here to live up to anyone's expectations, and may or may not follow up on any plans I may broadcast.  I try not to make promises.

Several years ago there was a small gathering at the apartment where I lived, and one among the gathering was a good witch who was telling everyone how many lives they'd lived before their current ones -- but she was reluctant to reveal my number, kept trying to avoid answering.  I pressed, and the issue was that she didn't think it could be right, as it was far higher than any number she had encountered.  It was 412.

Recently I've read something that suggests it takes 500 lives for Artisan souls before we're done with this stage of existence -- so it seems I've got a ways to go yet.

You want more?  One time, within months (or even days, or hours) of the above revelation I asked myself how many years I'd live to be this time around -- and the answer came back so quickly and clearly, so decisively, that I have not had cause to doubt it:  147.

I'm 42 at this writing.  Having more than a century left, feeling solid about that, has something to do with my ability to leave fear behind.  It also helps immensely to know that the end of this life will not mean the end of my existence.  I am a spirit currently incarnated within a human body and mind.  I have limitations...

Over the next decade we will all have to deal with many of those limitations being stripped away.  There will be a great new togetherness.

I, personally, cannot help feeling positive about this.

What are words for?  The problem with spoken and written language is that words fall short.  There is too much to express, so much more than we are able to encode.  Language is artificial, and limiting.

Babble, Babel, Babylon.  Babelfish.  Even within a single language, there is too much opportunity for misunderstanding.

Indulge the voices in your head.  Hear what they're saying.

Good write up. I'd comment motr but I desire sleep, so, I'm going to bed :) Zzzzz.......

night brother!!!

As someone with a mild case of Asperger's, I've always identified with the autistic.  I remember in my childhood being frustrated at having to use WORDS...

I can get specific here:  When I was around 6, I dimly recall being able to use nonverbal communication (and perhaps a bit of telepathic projection) to, for instance, get someone at the dinner table to pass the 'butter' (ack-tually margarine, ugh).  One evening, as I much less dimly recall, there was refusal.  I certainly don't remember which of my siblings initiated this, but solidarity ruled the evening.  It was made clear to me that from then on I was going to be required to VERBALLY ask for things.  This upset me enough that I went into the living room to sulk, appetite ruined.

Looking back at that, I've come to consider that those 'afflicted' with autism are frustrated for reasons beyond but related to the inability to communicate -- this has been an impression for quite a long time, but right here I'm finally putting it to words...

It is NATURAL for us to communicate telepathically.  If a genetic 'disorder' and/or heavy metal poisoning from vaccines causes trouble with the language center of a child's brain, or whatever, the spirit within that child is not lessened.  These children, these people, become frustrated, often to the point of madness.  They can understand and even use language, variably, but they shouldn't have to.

That night at the dinner table and then in the living room, I haven't thought much about in the decades since -- but when I do, I recall a great sense of disappointment.  This is when I began to understand that the people around me, even my own family, were inhibited and ignorant.

It was, and remains, a very solid world -- and my fluid nature didn't fit.

It still doesn't.

You wanna communicate with an autistic person?  Try telepathy.

Advanced peoples don't bother with spoken or written language, unless they're truly dedicated to communicating with the psi-blind.  When advanced beings attempt communication using only telepathy, things get lost in translation -- and then when literal-minded people attempt translation from one language to another, yet more is lost.  If you're immersed in language, the spirit of the word becomes easy to miss.

Suddenly I'm met with some possible insight as to why I've paid so much attention to the (American) English language:  I want to be understood.  I want to be able to express myself, even if it takes thousands of words and hours of effort to describe something I think and feel in a few seconds.

...hmmmm.

I was about to treat this site, yet again, like my personal blog.

Thing is, I already have one of those:   http://philsmythos.blogspot.com/

Going there now to post.  It may take a while...

"Embedding disabled by request" means that even though I post the URL here and it automatically embeds, it won't be playable -- so I've also posted the URL in the chatblock.

If you don't see the chatblock, you're not signed in and/or are not yet a member.

...watching the world wake up from history...

Hi there!

Having recently become more aware of my tolerance issue, I am currently attempting to actively deal with it...

One serious pet peeve I have is the use of certain compound words as nouns, even though their compounding necessarily means that they have become adjectives.  I speak specifically of the words 'backseat' and 'backyard', as in "backseat fumbling" and "backyard cookout".  Somewhere along the line these compound words seem to have lost their hyphens, and I think it was about a decade ago that I noticed a best-selling author using them in one of his novels as nouns.

These are not nouns!  'Seat' and 'yard' are nouns, 'back' when added to either is an adjective -- and if your spellcheck takes no notice, that doesn't mean you haven't made a mistake.  This applies to more words than you may think.

Taking a break from reading Rudy Rucker's Postsingular to post this.  Yes, he's one of the ever-increasing number of supposedly English-speaking professional writers who seem to be oblivious to this backseat/backyard issue, but Postsingular is very important for me to be reading at this time, so I am forced to deal with with it in order to get through the novel.

So, every time one of those 'back' errors pops up, I treat it as tolerance conditioning.  Each time it bugs me less and less, and I'm hoping to reach the point where I merely shake my head in silence.  I've already managed to do something very similar over spelling errors...

Also, every time I have to deal with this I take a moment to reflect upon my intolerant behaviour.  It becomes apparent that I seriously need to calm down about a few things.  I need to let go.

Peace.