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I was asked to write up my experiences as a homeless person recently for use in a possible dramatic presentation. I haven't really qualified for the title for over a decade, so much of my knowledge may be out of date, but here goes: When I moved to California in early '76 to start the revolution, I had about $1,000 total in cash, plus a large camper pickup
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In the early '80's I ran into an interesting guy who was not a libertarian, to my surprise, especially as we met at a party hosted by Anthony L. Hargis & Co., a gold depository service. Hargis had started his gold depository in the mid-'70's, offering a way for people to reduce exposure to inflation by accounts denominated in
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Life is hard to understand. I'm pretty familiar with other philosophies and the people who practice them and how they live, such as the "progressive" left, or the religious right, and they don't strike me as any less chaotic. I've mentioned it elsewhere in my articles, but you might check out the Basque-based Mondragon Cooperative. They have quite an extensive website (available in English), and there are a lot of other sites about them. The reason
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Recently I've had a number of people die on me, generally unexpected. This is always difficult for me to deal with. As an optimist and a doer and shaker - or so I see myself - I assume that if there's a problem, then there's a solution. But then there's death. Some things simply cannot be undone. One recent loss was a delightful 23 year old woman who I on
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The problem, upon which I will be expanding soon, is that the courts were corrupted. Under the strict Common Law, there is no criminal law and no punitive judgements. Either of those would require the court to act as an agent for some particular brand of public morals. The Common Law is strictly about equity, i.e., restorative justice, setting things right again... However, we have never had a pure Common Law in this country, nor, since the Norman invasion, in England, altho the myth
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zxtt Thanks for clarifying the issues for PoetPhilosopher. However, you are incorrect in assuming that alternatives to the corporation do not exist. Prior to the large scale move to corporations, other business structures dominated, such as "trusts." Trusts limited liability to the "trustees," as the shareholders had no direct control over the actions of the Trust. Thus, while anyone can be sued for anything at any time, successful lawsuits against shareholders in trusts f
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When we find a product artificially undervalued, then we also expect to find a run on that product, and subsequent lines or ques. Recently at the local Orange County, California public libraries, for examp
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1> Israel Feuer - because he DESERVES it, and we NEED a sane benevolent voice of real experience, and no one else comes close to Israel. 2> Me - Phil Osborn. (and I really dithered over this one, believe me...) 3> Raul Castillo. Because he's young - the youngest candidate, actually - and smart, and has a following, and will do a lot of work for us, and he listens well, and I think he's a good guy who won't sell out, who will become a major asset to the station.
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Update November 23th, 2004: Well, my 1-minute statement finally went up this week, after many snafus, including repeated appointments with Fernando in which he didn't show, The station is going to play it an additional 8 times to try to make up for the several weeks in which either it was not played at all, except someone's translation of a previous statem
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I posted this to Nalini's KPFKChat.org last night. (Minor editing here for clarification.) "When confronted with a choice between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before." Mae West. Phil Osborn Divisiveness uber alles - as usual Mon Jan 26 2004 10:36:41 pm 206.40.223.100 So, now I've been to three LSB events as a candidate (for the KPFK Local Station Board). At Long Beach, the 13 or so candi
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I agree with a lot of what you're saying. The etheric field part I don't agree with. There isn't any reason I know of to complicate hypotheses when we are making good progress understanding the mind as a system using the brain/body as substrate, not as something requiring new physics, etc. You might want to check out Dennet - NOT that idiot Bennet. Dennet is kind of the guru of evolitionary epistemology and deserves the title, from what I've read of him. I DO agree that a lot of
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I'm just a fairly educated layman myself. (See my intro "What about ME?... ) However, I do recall all too well how the "experts" in the fields of gerontology and life-extension insisted up through the '80's that there couldn't be a "death gene," as there was no evolutionary advantage to one. Even if it served the interests of the gene pool, they insisted that evolution was via individuals, not species or other gene pools, so it wouldn't wash. Meanwhile, around 1980, W. Donner De
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"In effect, she held that we see men as trees when we should be upright and see things truly" . ???? Sorry, I don't understand that one. As far as a code that could contain people like the Bush's and Saddam's of the world, I think that the goal of a true civil society - where disputes are routinely handled non-violently via civil proceedings of some kind, such as arbitration or a common-law jury trial, may have to come from the ground up. At present, we do have some major opp
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_ The Future of KPFK _ This is the first article of a series I intend to write on the emergence of new media and how it will remake information dissemination. Starting first draft: I'm running for the KPFK Station Board. For those readers who don't have a clue as to KPFK or Pacifica, please go to the KPFK website . As I stated in my 500 word candidate statement posted there: "Let's bri
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Or that some trolls will jump at any opportunity... Personally, I like trolls, barBQued, fried, roasted or in the shell. But, that's not an argument. (Yes it is!) No it's not! An argument consists of a set of clearly defined premises leading to conclusions by means of logical inference. (No, it's not.) Listen, you fool, just denial is not an argument. It adds nothing to the discussion. It's just a waste of time designed to infuriate. (No, it's not!) .... with apologies to Monty Pyth
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Ethics? Morality? Bush???? Actually, in December of 2002, I figured out what they were up to, and I attempted to alert other people. I even managed to call into Ian Master's Background Briefing (Sundays, L.A. area, 90.7FM KPFK, kpfk.org, 11AM - 1PM). Unfortunately, Ian was pushing the idea that Bush, et al, were simply fools, and also has me conflated with someone who thinks that the Queen of England is behind everything, so I was unable to get very far then or later, when I called
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Ethics & Morality - a Practical Approach A distinquishing characteristic of conscious living things, as opposed to rocks, crystals, etc., is that they act. Action is motion directed towards a goal. Without a purpose, guide or goal we have merely motion. A value, in a purely operationl, observational sense, is that which one acts to gain and or kee
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Ok... You heard it here first. I suspect. Update: April 22, 2004 UCI (University of California, Irvine) had a Dr. Thompson this Tuesday speaking on her specialty,
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There are some major discussion and research sites out there on "memetics." This is basically the application of evolutionary/selection theory to ideas. You perhaps do not understand that the same kind of evolutionary selection mechanisms that produce biological speciation, ecosystems, etc. operate universally. Success succeeds. In general, whenever the survival of a type increases the probability of similar types reproducing, the Darwinian process comes in play. The more intelli
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1/1/04 Listening to Julia Butterfly Hill discussing living with Luna on KPFK and loving it. I especially liked her intro, with the concept of the spiritual integration, starting with your own breathing and loving your body and then loving the chair that supported you, and the floor that supported the chair, and the whole universe that made you and all of it possible. Didn't find much to object to at all until she started in on h
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The new Windows version of Gimp is out! REALLY nice. So many features that one could spend a year just learning them all. Meanwhile, my 700Mhz Pentium, state of the art two years ago, but hardly a decent home system by today's standards, has slowed down enormously, barely able to multitask any more, since LH installed some kind of anti-virus software - and, I assume, more stupid spyware. During recent months, I have heard several discussions of the pending implementation of total v
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"What is more to me than myself?" Max Stirner, "The Ego and His Own." "Take responsibility - or be a slave." Phil Osborn. Vitals ... Keywords ... Bio ... Act
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