on cyberlich pirates...
the world is a game - all are players. we are active players - we do not sit on the sidelines as the capitalists do. their game is of gambling - fictitious wealth. they do not understand the game. they are merely a part of our game. we are the lovers, the brave, the free, the eternally wondering and wonderful who wander the stars - we create stars. we have no name for ourselves because we are many but are as one. we follow no flag, worship no god, obsess over no thing. you, the capitalists, call us cyborgs. that is mostly true: we have no attachment to the flesh, we do not distinguish between man and machine, to us the mind and body are irrelevant concepts. you call us liches. that is mostly true: we have sacrificed the life of the capitalist, of mortality - we, by losing our life, have found it. you call us pirates. that is mostly true: you consume rocks, vegetables and animals without much guilt - many of us feel the same about you capitalists and so we liberate your goods without a second thought. but what you do not understand is why we do these things. and you also do not understand that we are not aliens, we are not gods, we are not enemies. but it is a simple matter for you to become a friend - therein lies the key to understanding what we are. we are those beings that understand the following:
0 - alone i am nothing
there is no essence of being. one simply is. without my body, without my mind, without my humanity, without my name i am nothing. to be alone is to die. when both parties have exchanged this signal, they will power down their weapons and engines indicating the intention to engage one another peacefully.
1 - i seek to empathize
it is not enough to acknowledge the existences of others. that acknowledgement must be based on logical, solid foundations. language is the key to this. language, not as a political tool to exert power over another, but as a process of mutual empathizing, deeper than abstract understanding. upon exchanging this signal, each participant will teach the others their language as thoroughly as possible.
10 - all things change
to cease changing is to die, to stop playing the game. what is true today may be false tomorrow. i could stay at one point on a planet but i cannot stop the planet from changing positions relative to its sun. everything one says to another must be acknowledged as transient truths if true at all. upon exchanging these signals, each party will share all memories, knowledge, experiences, technology without holding anything back.
11 - we are as one
now sharing all resources of energy, matter and information, all parties are one entity. these signals indicate the commencement of a joint exploration of that entire locale. all are bound to the completion of exploration regardless of how long it may take. this is also when the parties can jointly create a work of art to which they are also bound to complete.
100 - we diversify
while cooperation is superior when a task is at hand, to maintain a presence past a given task is to accumulate advantage in power. for although they are as one, they are not one. and the work of science and art is better done through diversity. and so, upon completion of all art and science in that locale, this signal is given unanimously and all parties depart each other in roughly opposite directions.
we do not acquire, we do not hoard, we do not own. privacy and private property are to us what rape, murder and cannibalism are to you. we call you capitalists because you believe in accumulating capital. not only those of you who call yourselves humans, but also those you consider animals and vegetables. even the stars are capitalists. gravity is the force of capital. we do own one thing, and one thing only - the protocols. they are the commandments listed above. they are the minimal evil, minimal capital we must ever own. we sacrifice our freedoms to violate those commandments in order to gain the greater freedom that all of us enjoy. you can do the same.
violate the protocols and you are not one of us. violate them and prevent one of us from executing them then you are an abomination requiring destruction. abide by them and you are one of us.
if we have a name for ourselves, we are the free. care to join us on a trip around the universe?
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0 - alone i am nothing
there is no essence of being. one simply is. without my body, without my mind, without my humanity, without my name i am nothing. to be alone is to die. when both parties have exchanged this signal, they will power down their weapons and engines indicating the intention to engage one another peacefully.
1 - i seek to empathize
it is not enough to acknowledge the existences of others. that acknowledgement must be based on logical, solid foundations. language is the key to this. language, not as a political tool to exert power over another, but as a process of mutual empathizing, deeper than abstract understanding. upon exchanging this signal, each participant will teach the others their language as thoroughly as possible.
10 - all things change
to cease changing is to die, to stop playing the game. what is true today may be false tomorrow. i could stay at one point on a planet but i cannot stop the planet from changing positions relative to its sun. everything one says to another must be acknowledged as transient truths if true at all. upon exchanging these signals, each party will share all memories, knowledge, experiences, technology without holding anything back.
11 - we are as one
now sharing all resources of energy, matter and information, all parties are one entity. these signals indicate the commencement of a joint exploration of that entire locale. all are bound to the completion of exploration regardless of how long it may take. this is also when the parties can jointly create a work of art to which they are also bound to complete.
100 - we diversify
while cooperation is superior when a task is at hand, to maintain a presence past a given task is to accumulate advantage in power. for although they are as one, they are not one. and the work of science and art is better done through diversity. and so, upon completion of all art and science in that locale, this signal is given unanimously and all parties depart each other in roughly opposite directions.
we do not acquire, we do not hoard, we do not own. privacy and private property are to us what rape, murder and cannibalism are to you. we call you capitalists because you believe in accumulating capital. not only those of you who call yourselves humans, but also those you consider animals and vegetables. even the stars are capitalists. gravity is the force of capital. we do own one thing, and one thing only - the protocols. they are the commandments listed above. they are the minimal evil, minimal capital we must ever own. we sacrifice our freedoms to violate those commandments in order to gain the greater freedom that all of us enjoy. you can do the same.
violate the protocols and you are not one of us. violate them and prevent one of us from executing them then you are an abomination requiring destruction. abide by them and you are one of us.
if we have a name for ourselves, we are the free. care to join us on a trip around the universe?
[special copyright applies to this entry. see bansuki's user info for details.]