8bitagent wrote:82_28 wrote:I have gotten a number of mentions of "fantastic" and "awesome", not to mention just pure excitement that you had written again, in that ill described place these days between meatspace and social networking, you know -- over email -- from people I have turned on to you, lurk and then tell me about it. That was a most fabulous write-up.
You're amazing, Jeff. . .
Thanks for writing an essay again to be read. I need to read it another five or six times to let it sink in. But that was just an amazing tour through our shared brains.
I gotta lot of work to do, but I have some other thoughts -- not that anyone should care. I just wanted to chime in and say "fucking awesome".
Nobody can do it like you do, Jeff!
I definitely been linking this article to people. I love how Jeff doesn't even mention 9/11 or any of the shit going on...as ultimately, we're six dimensions past that with what's going on.
At almost 34, I sadly could barely wrap my head around some of this...I guess a sign of how dumbed down I've become.
Btw, 82_28, you're one of my absolute favorite writers on here...while I love the more laid back writing people do echoing Mckenna, I love your punk rock style of writing...raw, unfiltered, un spelling corrected, fuck heavy rants. Do you have a regular blog?
That's a very nice thing to say, 8bit. And I, me you. But I did run a website for a bit but it's sadly all gone. I am, however one of the researchers and editors of
www.classifiedhumanity.com (that's the only blog I contribute to now other than posting here).
Yet, since you asked, I once solely ran the "fabled" dunneiv.org. Long gone. Here's the wayback machine's first capture if you're interested. . .
http://web.archive.org/web/200306230231 ... nneiv.org/Running that website along with a constellation of Seattle area gnosticish, peace blogs is how I ran into Jeff Wells. All in the power of the "blogroll". I now have many good friends due to simply starting that site in 2003 and how we found one another was, in today's parlance, totally organic -- just word of digital mouth. In other words, the algorithms back then were all ours, in our own heads and totally dedicated to the weird, but most importantly anti-war.
When I was introduced to Jeff's writing, is when shit changed for sure. I really hate to say it, as it comes off as pompous and I don't know whether Jeff would even appreciate me saying so, but Jeff's latest piece, the one in question, leaves me, in my own mind wondering where Jeff's mind ends and mine begins -- in my own mind. That is how powerful and utterly moving Jeff's efforts have always been. That is a mark of a great writer. I used to think that Jeff's writing and his insights and rigorous intuition were so powerful that they would be illegal in another time and place. And perhaps they will someday prove to be -- and they were once -- time does not pass. However, Jeff's mind is so goddamned honest, so fucking brilliant, that it has proven that the "legality" of thinking such thoughts doesn't matter. We must persist with the time we have been given. Jeff Wells does that and I have learned a great many things from him and by way of him and his philosophy of openness and fairness, I have learned so much from all of you as well, through the RI board.
Opensource thought with a view towards peace, freedom, spirit, fairness and justice hopefully will one day take hold. Not today, but we are giving it our effort. However, it's all in the effort, as far as life itself goes. There are no shangri las unless we cease imagining and allowing others and encouraging others to do the same in an unfettered environment where all are protected by the community. That is RI.
Hat's off, Jeff and all the rest!
There is no me. There is no you. There is all. There is no you. There is no me. And that is all. A profound acceptance of an enormous pageantry. A haunting certainty that the unifying principle of this universe is love. -- Propagandhi
And I like the contextual style - maybe that suits what you were getting at here:
