Okay. For this post at least, I will use Wikipedia definitions
until I can update them with RL dictionary and encyclopedia references. I
apologize, it's a cop-out I usually do not do, unless I feel lazy, or in this
case, do not currently have access to my reference books, since they are packed
in a box currently.
Has anyone taken a look at society lately? Noticed how
fractured it is? I am quickly realizing that the growing division in
humanity is an underlying reason why I buy into Transhumanism,(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism)
though I don't buy into the posthuman bit, I think our sense of individuality
is too strong for that. Also, strong language, strong opinions, and
unfairness will abound following this sentence. That being said, tell me
what you think.
This is a post I should have done first, I realize, but this blog is
so all over the place, first a political thing, then tech and transhumanism
oriented, now it is some bastard-child hybrid of the two. It has evolved,
as have my opinions, since I started seeing the world for what it is and not
through the rose colored glasses of the far left or far right. Inertia,
friction, and gravity have conspired to bring me to the lowest point in the arc
of my opinions and keep me there. Know what? For the first time
since I left the church, I feel content. My opinions are now based more
on being part of humanity that being human.
Being part of humanity, I have come to a stark realization. We desperately hold onto personal descriptors that really mean
nothing. We are constantly being forced
to believe they do, as though they have a supernatural power to protect us from
the bogeyman. Is there a difference between being proud of whom you are as
opposed to what you are? What you are is
simple: human. Nothing more, though many
would have you believe you are much less.
What seems to be one of the goals of
the transhumanist philosophy, what I gather from it, is to mitigate the power
of those descriptors. Race, gender, physical appearance, age, what are
they? When it comes down to it, they literally are nothing more than a
fluke of timing. One more stoplight, one more beer, even something as
trivial as a bad grade on your older sibling’s report card and you might not be
here. It doesn't take much to disrupt
the events leading to fifteen minutes of sweating and groaning followed by
someone shuddering in orgasm. And yet, we allow skin color, hair color,
sexual organs or our time on earth to trivialize our existence.
Guess how trivial your existence is (without further demeaning
yourself with a useless descriptor)? You are unique, and interesting,
just like the six and a half billion other people on mother earth. Feel better? And yet we allow ourselves
to be cut off from that number by these stupid categories, which, instead of
defining us and distinguishing us, demoralize and weaken us.
Race, gender, physical appearance, and age. These four
categories have been the foundation of all discrimination, intolerance,
repression and oppression since man began singing history (history has its root
in the Greek “histor” meaning inquiry, knowledge from inquiry, or judge, not
“his story” as some theists and a few other “ists” would have you mistakenly
believe). Just read any religious or historical text or any myth.
Now, I am not saying that most of us
have control over how these characteristic affect our lives. I realize that the majority of cultures are
still scrabbling their way out of a pit created by perceptions that stem from
the dark ages. This part of my opinion
is geared, somewhat selfishly, toward my particular culture, United States
American, and somewhat to the entirety of
modern western civilization, both seeming desperate to find a shovel
they will use to dig a new pit, since the dark ages were so… comforting.
Think of it like this: What if you were able to look as old or
as young as you wanted? Wanted to be a tanned bronzed beach goddess
today, or a dashing black-skinned prince this evening? What if you
were to be that "light through yon window breaks" or standing with a
sword in hand in the winter of our discontent? What would the world be
like if we put on appearances like we put on clothes? How liberating
would it be if you were defined by how adroit your mind is instead of how tall
you are? Through transhumanism, all these and more are possible.
I will also be continuing this into two or three other posts. One will focus on women in the modern environment and the emerging environment of the future, and one will be about all those cry babies whining because they are being oppressed for their religion and the lack of a place in the future for religion.
The future is fast approaching. My Blog is my opinion on the Transhuman and Posthuman movement and it's implications.
Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
TFProleteriat's Point of View- Human
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Friday, November 4, 2011
Fine then, Worship a lightbulb. Retards.(formerly Oh, My God! You're a????)
Now, I am definitely a trans-humanist. My views on what Trans-humanism is are my own, and don't mesh all that well with some other views. Since my, I guess one would call them religious beliefs, are generally Christian leaning with heavy Buddhist undertones, I may catch flack over my beliefs and opinions as they evolve. My belief in God, and I do believe in God, is controversial. However, it makes sense.
The Universe began, to the best of our knowledge, as a Singularity. It existed in finite time, as infinite mass and energy. Everything that exists today was included inside that ball of supercharged particles. Considering that accepted theory states that it consisted, and still consists, mostly of dark matter and dark energy greatly condensed, one must assume this singularity was rather dark.
Then... Boom. Since everything in the Universe was contained within that Singularity, including gaseous components required to make sound, this boom likely made a sound within the super compact ball. The first sound in the Universe miraculously occurred. Without warning, answering only to Laws of Its making, this Singularity spoke.
Light came into being, separating from the darkness as Energy began to visibly react with matter. The four states of matter came into being: solid, liquid, gas, plasma. In the Universe, solids separated from liquids.
Galaxies, stars, and planets formed. Then, something weird happened. Life... evolved. I, personally, don't think that organisms appearing on the universal scale is really that important. If chance created our solar system, chance creating life shouldn't be much of a stretch, if you stop and think about it.
The only constant in all of this, from the big bang to the appearance of life, is energy. All the energy in the Universe was consolidated before the big bang. The Singularity before the bang contained everything in the Universe(all powerful). Everything that we have, everything in the Universe as we know it, occurred due to a shift in that energy.
Thought is energy dancing through our brains. Energy is in everything, an attribute given to God by modern christian beliefs. Though it's concentration in certain areas may differ, the same amount of energy is in the Universe today as was present in the beginning. In that way, it is unchanging. Just like God. Energy was in the beginning, it will be in the Universe still, at it's end. Hmmm... Alpha and Omega, anyone?
When one takes a look at the broad stroke of religion, the Creator(s) are rather impartial. God is just as likely to destroy something as create or nurture it. Energy knows nothing of the passage of time, it is eternal.
Our current concept of Energy, backed by scientific study and theory, has ALL the same attributes of God.
I am not speaking to the open minded, you folks just need to look around a bit more, read a bit. Only those whose fear has closed their eyes to the truth should read this again. Do some research. And if I am wrong, shoot me like you do all those other people who don't believe exactly how you do. Show me how Christ-like you truly are.
This is from about a year ago, though much of it still follows my way of thinking. As I sit and watch the world around me, I see people cling to the irrational more and more. My country is in it's death-throes, and our government is telling us different.
SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM!!!
The Universe began, to the best of our knowledge, as a Singularity. It existed in finite time, as infinite mass and energy. Everything that exists today was included inside that ball of supercharged particles. Considering that accepted theory states that it consisted, and still consists, mostly of dark matter and dark energy greatly condensed, one must assume this singularity was rather dark.
Then... Boom. Since everything in the Universe was contained within that Singularity, including gaseous components required to make sound, this boom likely made a sound within the super compact ball. The first sound in the Universe miraculously occurred. Without warning, answering only to Laws of Its making, this Singularity spoke.
Light came into being, separating from the darkness as Energy began to visibly react with matter. The four states of matter came into being: solid, liquid, gas, plasma. In the Universe, solids separated from liquids.
Galaxies, stars, and planets formed. Then, something weird happened. Life... evolved. I, personally, don't think that organisms appearing on the universal scale is really that important. If chance created our solar system, chance creating life shouldn't be much of a stretch, if you stop and think about it.
The only constant in all of this, from the big bang to the appearance of life, is energy. All the energy in the Universe was consolidated before the big bang. The Singularity before the bang contained everything in the Universe(all powerful). Everything that we have, everything in the Universe as we know it, occurred due to a shift in that energy.
Thought is energy dancing through our brains. Energy is in everything, an attribute given to God by modern christian beliefs. Though it's concentration in certain areas may differ, the same amount of energy is in the Universe today as was present in the beginning. In that way, it is unchanging. Just like God. Energy was in the beginning, it will be in the Universe still, at it's end. Hmmm... Alpha and Omega, anyone?
When one takes a look at the broad stroke of religion, the Creator(s) are rather impartial. God is just as likely to destroy something as create or nurture it. Energy knows nothing of the passage of time, it is eternal.
Our current concept of Energy, backed by scientific study and theory, has ALL the same attributes of God.
I am not speaking to the open minded, you folks just need to look around a bit more, read a bit. Only those whose fear has closed their eyes to the truth should read this again. Do some research. And if I am wrong, shoot me like you do all those other people who don't believe exactly how you do. Show me how Christ-like you truly are.
This is from about a year ago, though much of it still follows my way of thinking. As I sit and watch the world around me, I see people cling to the irrational more and more. My country is in it's death-throes, and our government is telling us different.
SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM!!!
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