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How to explain to children... "Winter is Coming!"

aethyrflux Nov 09, 2016 11:26

"The US elected He Who Is Not To Be Named in 2016!?"

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russia, economics, boundaries, group dynamics, boundary, contagion, crime against humanity, grief, group-think, cult of personality, life on earth, liberty, taboo, education, criminal, chaos magick, denial of death, sociology, trickster, conflict, commodity culture, mortal danger, profit, nyarlathotep, delusion, culture, culture jamming, incarnation, community, fear, fundamentalism, detournement, cult, crime, religion, morals, media, criticism, truth, hr giger, entropy, bloop, economy, underworld, disagree, symbolism, xtianity, illuminate the opposition, scam, mythology, eschaton, fool, integrating the shadow, game theory, ethos, immorality, dementia, cycle, #kiyxmas, government, lovecraft, overlord, community organization, horror, news, hpl, ignorance, harm, insanity, justice, authoritarian, hp lovecraft, destroy, bood, legal battles, immanentize, political, ethic, machiavellian politics, patriarchy, mysticism, socio-political, anthropology, hastur, conservative, judged according to their works, evil, social justice, devotion, bizarre, dominant culture, scam artist, hungry ghosts, children, conscience, con artist, paradigm shift, industrial, weird, the king in yellow, immanentize the eschaton, neophilic irreligion, narcissism, cthulhu, modern world, some will die so that others may live, fnord, external authority, conviction, family, magick, theocracy, great old ones, betrayal, gangs, crossroads, consciousness, skepticism, community building, ethics, worship, competition, journalism, politics, it cannot happen here, debate, discordia, giger, civic responsibility, conspiracy, cabal, jesus, christianity

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separatist ideologies & violence

aethyrflux Apr 23, 2013 18:11

( Black Flag's lyrics came to mind, 'Jealous cowards try to control! Rise above! We're gonna rise above!' ...Except that WE are all in this together! )

government, death, anthropology, violence, skepticism, science

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AR, art & activism brain dump

aethyrflux Mar 10, 2013 23:17

Inspired by this event:
AR, art, & activism
I had to unclog all these ideas from my head...

this quote from James Bridle really resonates with me:
( “those who cannot perceive the network cannot act effectively within it, and are powerless. The job, then, is to make such things visible.” )

government, anthropology, violence, skepticism, science, singularity

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mmmmm... donuts! (beware the tapeworm)

aethyrflux Nov 18, 2011 04:05

( What do you think of the film, _THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take?_ )

government, anthropology, violence, skepticism, science

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"...a pageant of triumph as each star, free from confusion, sweepeth free in his right orbit..."

aethyrflux Apr 23, 2010 17:41

As I was leaving work yesterday, I was visited by a cute little red house finch...
after a friend had a similar experience, and reflecting on how we had experienced synchronicities related to cardinals since I left Hawai'i, I decided to look for symbolism in this new little buddy.
The first link I found was from "The New Dharma Bums: Bird Lore" ... ( Read more... )

anthropology, love, sex, conscience, skepticism, areopagus

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"The Great Correction"

aethyrflux Nov 27, 2006 11:32

( So, have you heard about the Last Sunday gathering? )

economics, preaching to the choir, time, socio-political, collective government, system, corporation, anthropology, conservative, education, cosmos, evil, fishing, commodity culture, reality, research, space, spirituality, culture, dominant culture, music, international, salon, problem solving, human, god, religion, stupidity, resources, consent, emotion, capitalism, context, revolution, paradigm shift, suffering, manipulation, criticism, evolving cooperation, raw, complex, alien, faith, jim rigby, dialogue, theory, authority, party, unconscious, ecology, ritual, art, unite, pkd, game theory, liberal, spirit, artistic, passionate speech, listening, paradigm, human nature, property, government, fish, poetry, fantasy, compassion, collective, skepticism, community building, robert anton wilson, philip k. dick, taking turns, journalism, politics, hpl, ocean, survival, collectivism, communication, symbol, discussion

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ancestral tribute

aethyrflux Dec 28, 2004 01:21

Since i started this journal, the bio on my info page has read ( Read more... )

geomancy, the great work, evolutionary biology, evolution, autopoiesis, kabbalah, reciprocal altruism, ancestral tribute, dialogue, complexity, evolutionary ethics, i ching, tarot, anthropology, ecology, ritual, process, individual, conflict, game theory, feng shui, human nature, consciousness, balance, the ethical slut, emergence, collective, storytelling, evolutionary psycho-socio-biology, moral, ethics, integrity, human, goal, sex, development, philosophy, ken wilber, decision, emotion, integral revolution, divination, perennial philosophy, communication, history, exceeding by delicacy, reproduction, ifa, evolving cooperation, cultural evolution

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"It's the same thing." ...Mescalero Apache integration of chiasm

aethyrflux May 11, 2003 05:36

( Retrospective and Metamorphosis of the Mescalero Apache )

anthropology, research

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IFA (edited slightly, for the uninitiated)

aethyrflux Apr 09, 2003 07:38

( in_which_aetherflux_pulls_a_hyena_out_of_his_hat )

ground, carl jung, ceremony, surprise, analytical, west indies, anscestors, situation, voodoo, entity, holocene, system, develop, corporation, determine, anthropology, wood, 256, method, africa, deity, conservative, education, greek, conflict, research, control, center, unknown, dahomey, community, drum, lead, fear, earth, turtle, human, goal, creation, conscience, morals, void, aesthetic, divination, diaspora, fear is the mind killer, binary, archetype, history, story, ifa, arab, trust, geomancy, military, question, orphic, concern, reasonable, destiny, modern world, cooperation, irrational, hindu, silver, synthesis, mystery, strategy, i ching, family, challenge, dance, celebration, pleasure, ritual, process, nigeria, yoruba, vodou, horns, insult, banishing, santeria, feng shui, sacrifice, intuition, civilization, future, fish, radical, bow, jung, satire, random, tradition, ethics, home, worship, bagua, metal, universe, development, competition, fight, abstract, discipline, tetragram, consult, change, understanding, knowledge, desire, inspiration, connection, mbti, egypt, survival, shaman, ratio, science, divine, technology

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Subsistence Among the Orang Asli

aethyrflux Mar 15, 2003 15:03

( let_us_return_to_indigenous_culture )

economics, diplomacy, boundaries, evolution, group dynamics, boundary, legal principles, forgiveness, crime against humanity, ancestral tribute, tribe, collective government, holocene, life on earth, liberty, consideration, privacy, humanity, evolutionary ethics, taboo, education, criminal, virtue, sociology, behavior, culture, community, do it yourself, storytelling, mutually beneficial, human, crime, religion, self-sacrifice, consent, healing, consious, share, divination, social group, truth, story, sacred, evolving cooperation, trust, economy, group, concern, shared pain is lessened, cooperation, utopia, the covenant of survival, symbolism, people, argument, initiation, intentional community, the white man's burden, celebration, pleasure, gratitude, documentary, mythology, health, game theory, gnosis, evolutionary cooperation, spirit, ethos, human nature, government, collective, kindness, community organization, non-violent, humanism, assault, pronoia, shaman, divine, justice, law, legal, food, legal battles, ceremony, evolutionary biology, cosmology, mutually beneficial relationship, unity, anscestors, the living planet, society, life, ethic, covenant of survival, mysticism, socio-political, pain, anthropology, as above so below, gnosticism, careful, non-violence, sharing, gift culture, social justice, honor, spirituality, devotion, ideal, ethics freedom, blame, problem solving, evolutionary psycho-socio-biology, holy grail, earth, blood, true, conscience, minimize the suffering, ahimsa, gift, archetype, history, win-win, gnostic, minimizing pain, hunger, consensual, hindu, reciprocal altruism, some will die so that others may live, dream, soul, honest, cooperate, forgive, butchery, magick, ecology, ritual, radical honesty, skin, sympathy, unite, freedom, listening, evolving communication, banishing, sacrifice, humanist, property, consciousness, civilization, balance, punan, some must die so that others may live, populace, compassion, bioethics, community building, integrity, polyamory, ethics, home, discipline, care, conflict resolution, palm tree garden, liberation, survival, diet, collectivism, inclusive, heart, libertine, communication, kind, discussion, cultural evolution

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