Words: An introduction to linear and non-linear thinking

Nicole, you are so fucking missed...

Sat, 19 May 2007 05:16:14 GMT

There aren't enough flowers
to bring you back.

But you had your final act of will,
   you rode the spiral out.

Tears flow through the gutters
   as all the clowns weep
   and the temples burn
   the spilt blood of revolutionary hearts.

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:50:38 GMT

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway

the forceps of our minds...

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:16:36 GMT

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
- HG Wells

my President's Day declaration

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:34:53 GMT

If you want change, you need vision.
(To live is to dream)

But the modern visions are offered by the liars, the con men.

And we, the citizens, are too disassociated from eachother to dream a new culture.

So live and dream. Share your dreams with your brethren - listen to the visions of people. And cultivate with vilgilance, a new culture for the future.

Pope kaivalya's Encyclical Cum Loudly...

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:37:19 GMT

THINK GLOBAL!
FUCK LOCAL!

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:43:45 GMT

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank Zappa

Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammed Yunus and his for-profit bank!

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:37:49 GMT

Rhonda Abrams
Gannett News Service
December 18, 2006 December 18, 2006

Entrepreneurship can change the world. For the first time, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the founder of a profit-making business and his company - a bank that grants microloans to millions of the poor, helping them start businesses.

On Dec. 10, the Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their pioneering work in microcredit.

Yunus' story is inspiring, demonstrating the incredible impact one person can have on the world.

Yunus was an economist overwhelmed by famine and poverty in his native Bangladesh. In the 1970s, with $300 of his own money, he began lending tiny amounts of money - sometimes as little as $1 - to help women pull their families out of poverty, primarily by starting small businesses.

In doing so, Yunus launched a worldwide microcredit movement - giving tiny loans to low-income people. Grameen Bank's loans average about $200.

Today, Grameen bank has almost 7 million borrowers - 97 percent of whom are women. The bank has loaned more than $6 billion. More than 80 percent of poor families in Bangladesh have been reached with microcredit. Yunus hopes that by 2010, 100 percent will be reached.

Remarkably, Grameen Bank has a repayment rate of 99 percent. Last year, the bank had a profit of $20 million and a staff of 20,000. The Grameen Trust has more than 100 partner microfinance institutions around the world.

Most importantly, according to their records, 58 percent of the women who have borrowed from Grameen Bank have risen above the poverty line. Many borrowers' children have become doctors, engineers and other professionals. These women pulled themselves and their families out of poverty through their own hard work, ingenuity and just a little bit of financial help.

Yunus says he dreams of a day "when nobody will be a poor person." But he believes in capitalism and entrepreneurship to achieve this.

"By defining 'entrepreneur' in a broader way, we can change the character of capitalism radically and solve many of the unresolved social and economic problems within the scope of the free market," Yunus said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. "Let us suppose an entrepreneur, instead of having a single source of motivation ... now has two sources of motivation ... a) maximization of profit and b) doing good to people and the world."

In the U.S., microlending is often achieved through credit cards because microlending is too expensive administratively for traditional banks. But many of the most needy do not have credit histories, and credit cards can have very high interest rates.

Congress approved $2 million in direct microloan funds for fiscal year 2007 (used to leverage another $28 million of private money) and $10 million in microloan technical assistance.

In 2005, the microloan program resulted in 2,474 loans averaging $13,042 and totaling over $32 million. About 45 percent of the loans went to women.

You can support microlending in several ways:

Encourage groups in your community to start and support microcredit programs.

Donate to microcredit organizations.

Spread the word. Tell your fellow entrepreneurs and members of community, religious or ethnic groups.

Urge your elected officials to support the U.S. microloan program.

You'll find a directory of microenterprise programs in your state, along with other resources on microcredit, at the Web site of the Aspen Institute, www.fieldus.org.

Microcredit works. Yunus and Grameen Bank have proved that assisting hard-working but poor people to borrow small amounts of money to start their own businesses can change a community - whether in Bangladesh, Boston or Boise.

Hair Eris! Another Pope bites the dust...

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:22:28 GMT

Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @ 4:50 AM on binary date 01/11.

mad forum posting machine

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:40:45 GMT

Quote:
This is where athiests scare me, because if you don't believe in a higher power, how can you believe in reality?

I think you are confusing Atheism and Nihilism.

I find that when you take God out of the picture, there is a lot more room for reality.

-kaivalya

The Peoples Domain of the Internet Terriories

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:14:09 GMT

Wiki is the People's Pedia...

The Internet ain't no Theocracy baby.

-Pope kaivalya
"kiss my ring"

For those who believe in God...

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:58:18 GMT

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

-Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)

some cheerful politics...

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:32:54 GMT

The FBI has tripled it's congressional investigation squads! For the sake of some cheerful politics, I'm starting a list of all congressional criminals (that have been indicted/are being investigated):

-Bob Ney (R-Ohio, on Oct. 13 pleaded guilty to bribery)

-William Jefferson (D-La, $100,000 in cash found in his freezer)

-Tom Delay (R-Tx, all-around dumbass)

-Mark Foley (R-Tx, mmm, young men ala Clinton!)

-"Duke" Cunningham (R-California, $2.4mil in bribs from defense contractors)

-Curt Weldon (R-Pa, under investigation for using his position to steer lobbying jobs to his daughter)

-Brian McLaughlin (D-NY, has been indicted by a federal grand jury with two counts of racketeering; 13 counts of mail and wire fraud, 3 counts of money laundering, 10 violations of the Taft-Hartley Act; one Travel Act violation, 12 counts of conspiracy and 2 counts of bank fraud and false statements to a lender)

Who'd I forget?
Who's next?

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:47:20 GMT

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

What a buzz all the bloggers are making these days! It seems like just about everybody is pouring their musings into a text box. Are you feeling tempted to start a blog of your own? Here are some ways to bypass the trend.

Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you've been reading. Don't put anyone through that.
Consider that your voice, even if it is truly a good one, is a tiny peep against the massive wave of tripe out there. The odds of anyone you don't already know finding your blog are low.
Write on a regular basis in Wordpad instead. If that doesn't satisfy your urge, and you feel that you must post your blog online, then you might just be craving attention and validation--which you'll never truly find in a blog. If you give up on your Wordpad journal after about three days, you'll do the same with a blog that just takes up server space.
Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. What about that treehouse you wanted to build? Or the book you wanted to write? Or the car you wanted to fix up? Or the restaurant you wanted to take your wife to? Or the new career you wanted to pursue? Instead of writing about pretty much nothing, or whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that'd actually be worth writing about. And if it's really worth writing about, you'll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it.

Bitter Worker

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:01:44 GMT

I've been fighting an angst since I got my car window bashed in on Labor Day.

My moderate disposition was improved today when I got a call from Qin, this guy that owns a local Chinese restaurant with his wife Judy. Here's the back story: when I lived in Eureka, I went to this place, Panda Cafe, not far from my apartment. It seems like a generic Chinese restaurant in many ways, which works for it in the Humboldt economy of dining-out. The Panda Cafe is owned and run by a very nice Cantonese couple, and they put so much into their restaurant, you can taste it in the home-made blackbean sauce, the fresh chow fun noodles, or the farmers-market green beans - it's quaint really.

After I moved to town nearly a year ago, I told them that if they ever needed any help around the restaurant when it's busy, just give me a ring. So today he called me. I was put to work for the dinner shift and told to be back at noon tomorrow and we'll eat lunch at 2 pm. It's very little money plus modest tips, but it's something.

I feel like I'm at the point in my life where I would trade any reasonably paid office gig for an employer that says "and when you are off work at 2pm we will eat lunch together." I've become such a bitter worker, hopefully this will help.

Labor Day?

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 02:19:01 GMT

To tell the story briefly...

Labor Day is celebrated in America on the first Monday of September. It's origins start in 1882 the first annual parade organized by the Knights of Labor in Toronto, Canada took place and every first monday in September since then.

Concurrently in early May 1886 there was a riot in Chicago's Haymarket. The Haymarket strike and subsequent riot was instigated as a demand for an 8 hour work week. And it did lead to legislation for a weekend and 8 hour work day restrictions in the United States.

In a stealthy move by President Grover Cleveland in 1887, the first monday of September was to become the offical American Labor Day. While the countries that supported the internationist worker movements adopted May Day, or May 1st as their Labor Day.

It's it great to be a part of the placated masses?!

we already knew...

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:31:54 GMT

We already knew I was a deviant, so I signed up with the club:
http://kaivalya0.deviantart.com/gallery/

It's mostly new stuff from southern california.

It's not easy being mutable

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:55:51 GMT

It's hard knowing where I end and someone else begins... Where someone else ends, and I begin.

Some one called me "consistant" today! .....
I had to pause and check my current time-space continuim.
"Are you refering to me? .... I'm consistant?"
I'm afraid I'm too well thought-out and excessively consistant. Maybe that's why interacting can require so much energy.

Get out and waste your time June 6th!

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:04:27 GMT

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
- Charles Bukowski

time for a new political party

Thu, 25 May 2006 04:10:35 GMT

Voting season is among us again.
The way politics is coming down, I'm ready to change parties.
I've been registered Natural Law since I've been registered to vote. But the national party has been shut down for two years and there are never any local or state canidates to vote for. It's sad.
So time for another party. But who? My inclination is register Republican (because the party needs more conservatives like me, whatever that means). And I'm very interested in how this bipartisan nepotist-fest is going to go over the next two years.
Unfortunately the Guns and Dope party is not a registered party in California. But the Libertarian party seems to be the next best thing.

Lyrics for Intension by Tool

Fri, 05 May 2006 19:15:18 GMT

Pure as we begin
Pure as we come in
Pure as we begin
Ruled by will alone

Pure as we begin
Here we have a stone
Gather, place, erase so
Shelter turns to home

Pure as we begin
Here we have a stone
Throw to stay the stranger
Swore to crush his bones

Ruled by will alone

Spark becomes a flame
Flame becomes a fire
Light the way or warm this
Home we occupy

Spark becomes a flame
Flame becomes a fire
Forge a blade to slay the stranger
Take whatever we desire

Moved by will alone
Pure as we begin

Pure as we begin
Move by will alone
Leave as we come in
Pure as light
Return to one

Move by will alone
Move by will alone

Fox News-White House Merger Completed

Mon, 01 May 2006 17:22:28 GMT

Fox News-White House Merger Completed

One day after being named the new White House spokesman, former Fox News pundit Tony Snow announced that a deal merging Fox News and the Bush White House had been successfully completed.

"The merger between Fox News and the White House can be summed up in one word: synergy," Mr. Snow said. "The two entities have been working in lockstep for five years now and this merger is a formal acknowledgment of that fact."

While many Beltway observers had long assumed that a merger between the White House and Fox News was inevitable, not until reporters saw workmen hanging a "Fair and Balanced" sign from the White House portico this morning did they know a deal had finally been struck.

According to those familiar with the deal, the final sticking point in the negotiations was ironed out late last night when President George W. Bush agreed to report to Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch.

Moments after the merger was announced, Mr. Snow introduced the latest member of the Bush Cabinet, Secretary of Defense Bill O'Reilly.

In his first official act as Defense Secretary, Mr. O'Reilly called CNN "a gathering threat" and added the cable news network to the Axis of Evil.

Elsewhere, one day after saying that Iraqi leaders had "awesome responsibilities," President Bush revised his remarks somewhat, saying that Iraqi leaders had "like totally awesome responsibilities."

Elsewhere (2), White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten explained why he forced the resignation of press secretary Scott McClellan, telling reporters that the Bush administration needed "fresh liars."

Elsewhere (3), President Bush said today that immigrants should be permitted to work in America on a temporary basis, much as he does at the White House.

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:12:02 GMT

Find your own pose!

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:13:44 GMT

Take the quiz:
WHAT RELIGION BESTS SUITS YOU?

Discordian
You're a rebel at heart. If someone is wearing black, you will wear white. Basically, you do the opposite of every one else. You may hold some type of religious belief, but it's doubtable. Lastly, you're a fine person to speak with... Perhaps a little on the strange site, but who isn't these days?

Quizzes by myYearbook.com -- the World's Biggest Yearbook!

Envy me....

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:19:16 GMT

I've got a copy of 10,000 days:
Track List:
1. Vicarious
2. Jambi
3. Wings for Marie (Part I)
4. 10,000 days (Wings Part II)
5. The Pot
6. Lipan Conjuring
7. Lost Keys
8. Rosetta Stoned
9. Intention
10. Right in Two
11. Viginti Tres

Words: An introduction to linear and non-linear thinking

Nicole, you are so fucking missed...

More forum posting madness (topic: anti-war protests 4 years later)

the forceps of our minds...

my President's Day declaration

Pope kaivalya's Encyclical Cum Loudly...

Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammed Yunus and his for-profit bank!

Hair Eris! Another Pope bites the dust...

mad forum posting machine

The Peoples Domain of the Internet Terriories

For those who believe in God...

some cheerful politics...

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

Bitter Worker

Labor Day?

we already knew...

It's not easy being mutable

Get out and waste your time June 6th!

time for a new political party

Lyrics for Intension by Tool

Fox News-White House Merger Completed

Envy me....