Sitting on the toilet, thinking of all of you.
Can’t wait to see those of you who I will see, sorry I won’t be seeing those of you that I won’t see.
Just letting you all know- I love you, and I am thinking positively of you.

No matter what holiday you celebrate this time of year, just remember, its all about love. Positive thoughts, happiness, and being redeemed.

Tookie was killed yesterday, for crimes he claimed he didn’t commit. He started the crips, and in jail he seeked redemption by founding an anti-gang activist group. Still, the country executed him, quite ritualistically.

Let’s all reflect, and realize that in our personal lives we all can spread love and forgiveness, even if the state refuses to. For them, the holiday is about buying and $elling. For us, it’s about LIVING.

The telecommunications companies want to start giving priority to their traffic and charging users and service providers (like google) access to the higher speed services. Meanwhile other “services,” such as this very blog, will be given lower priority and thus be delivered at a lower speed. This is complete bullshit. The internet is supposed to be a free place that fosters the spread of ideas and innovation. It’s not supposed to be about paying extra so information you want to send actually gets to where it’s going. If they succeed at this they will essentially kill the internet as we know it.

I read a really good and detailed article about this very thing a few weeks ago. It explains that the telcos are trying to change the metaphorical image of the internet from that of a place (I’m on the net, browsing the net, meet you in that chat room etc.) to that of a plumbing system (delivering content through pipes). The latter metaphor allows for them to charge for use of their “pipes.” But the entire point of the internet is that it’s “stupid” in the middle. All the “pipes” and routers and such that deliver the data currently have no idea what it is that they’re routing, they just send it where it needs to go and give no special priority to anything. All the innovation, all the “smartness,” happens on the periphery. The internet itself is just a means of communication between any two computers connected to it. It is dumb, and that allows for fair competition and innovation. Now they want to ruin that, to regulate traffic, to charge tolls, to artificially slow down their competitors traffic. Don’t let them, the internet is the most promising and disruptive force humanity has ever invented and it must be allowed to follow its natural course.

truth:
relative or absolute in nature?
if truth is absolute there exist propositions which are ‘just plain true’, that is, they have a property of ‘truth’ which exists regardless of our perspective of knowledge or opinion on the issue.
if truth is relative then all propositions stand in relation to a certain normative framework (ie that of an individual, society, culture etc.)
therefore, in the relativist view truth is NOT a property, but rather a relation between a proposition and a framework.

NoTheory:

1. any theory (such as relativism) must include a set of claims or assertions

2. for any proposition ‘X’, to assert ‘X’ is to claim ‘X’ is true. if we use ‘X’ to mean relativism we have a problem

3. relativists cannot claim ‘X’ (ie relativism) to be true because nothing is ‘just plain’ true, instead ‘X’ is only true within in context ‘C’. so

4. the relativist must then claim that ‘X’ is true relative to context ‘C’ . however this claim itself relies on an assertion of ‘just plain truth’ because what the relativist is really claiming is the proposition that “X is true relative to C” is true.

5. they cannot do that

6. so they must again assert a frame work for making the claim that “x is true relative to C”. in other words they must claim that the proposition ” X is true relative to C” is true relative to some perspective C2.

7. you see the problem: we’ve entered an infinitly recursive loop. we never answer the question “from what perspective is that true?”

8. Either relativism is self contradictory (as it assumes that relativism is just plain true) or relativism never actually arrives at any assertion, therefore failing (1) and not qualifying as a theory.

9. Its only gay if your balls touch.

For the past six months or so, I’ve been doing a little bit of experimentation with what I continually hesitate to audibly call Magick (The ‘k’ at the end signifying the difference between this, which I see as mostly scientific, and stage magic, which is flim-flam). This has included the use of meditation and yoga, the creation, charging, and launching of sigils, and most recently, reading the Egyptian Tarot according to the specifications of Aleister Crowley.

That’s all I wanted to say.

Oh, this too:

∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞
§ The Hierophant, The Sun, The Aeon, Death, and The Universe §
∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞

I give it meaning, and I take it away.

“This debate flares each December, but in recent months the outcry has gotten louder than ever. They even have a term for this supposed anti-Christmas bias: the “war on Christmas,” named for a new book by Fox News Channel anchor John Gibson, whose subtitle is, How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday is Worse Than You Thought.”

Read more at the Salt Lake Tribune.