Posts Tagged ‘liberty’
I joined the Free State Project
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
I intended to do this a while ago, but a technical glitch and then some doubts I had later on prevented me from it. However, as I was discussing and thinking lately, while observing the happenings in the world, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that if there will be a last stand made for true freedom on this Earth, it will be in New Hampshire. I wont say New Hampshire, USA though, just New Hampshire.
I believe it is the Switzerland of the american continents, except so much better. It may be the only place in which the old american ideals of freedom, which have made USA a “promised land” for so many fleeing europeans, will still survive and persevere until the time comes for the world to see the true nature of governments and socialism (even if mixed with some perversion of capitalism) and the true value of having freedom. The Free State Project and the people of the free land we know as New Hampshire, are going to show the way.
I do not believe that humanity has much of a choice except these two: either learn to live and let live, learn to respect the freedom and sovereignty of another, learn to live in peace OR perish, because the ways of perpetual warfare (between gangs known as government or between government and “its” people), of perpetual theft (welfare state), of perpetual victimization, violation and fear of each other – cannot lead to long term survivability, let alone prosperity, as the number of humans grows and the Earth continues to be destroyed by the power mad coercionists and their willfully mindless minions.
So I pledged to move to New Hampshire, some time in the future. The pledge is fairly open ended. I have up to five years after 20 000 people sign the pledge to move, so I don’t feel too pressured to move very soon. There are plenty of obstacles, from getting a visa (at least while USA as a federation still exists) to psychological issues of separating myself from the rest of my family and the place I’ve known for most of my life to the purely financial issues (the costs of moving, starting over there etc.).
But being that the future is uncertain and that a lot of opportunities are something I either recognize or create myself I would not say that it is impossible to resolve these issues. If I thought that I wouldn’t sign up.
So New Hampshire is very likely a part of my future.
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Let the torch of Liberty burn again
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Let the torch of liberty…
…burn again.
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I am free.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Good morning to me. 
Last night I’ve had a little merger happen in my head. It is between the concept of “self growth” and “self liberation”. I somehow saw them as parallel but separate processes yet they are not. I now believe that self improvement, self help or self growth, however you wanna call it, are in essence self liberation. And it’s a big industry because people yearn for someone to tell them how to succeed, but this desire to “succeed”, be it a specific desire for money, health or just general happiness is in fact rooted in a single thing: liberty – self liberation.
People buy self help books, seminars etc. because they want to be free, desperately.
But most of that material rarely brings them towards this state of freedom because most of it operates with the false assumptions about the world and about the prevalent social structures.
Funny thing, just as I tuned in to a trance station to listen to, it played a track which at one point had Morpheus from Matrix so eloquently say this:
“It is a world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.”
And I laughed out loud! In a state that I am right now I am beginning to truly feel that I have escaped from this world – I am free. I no longer believe the lies, no longer see the illusion and no longer fear as much as I did, because I know it’s all not real. I know that I have the power. And now that I do I can continue to grow my liberty to the point at which I can LITERALLY bend the illusion most other people call reality. The Matrix analogy is perfect, because that’s exactly what happens. People freed from the world of lies become Neo’s and are capable of BENDING the reality in which other people live. Why can we bend reality? Because it’s actually NOT real. It’s reality to THEM, not us. We know how it works now and so we can manipulate it.
But I’ve learned, however, another incredible fact last night – that I’m actually only at the very beginning of my freedom journey. I somehow thought that I’m already pretty advanced, but then I realized – wait a second – I am barely pass the “pain” stage, and I still feel pain sometimes when I see how upside down and wrong the world is. And the pain stage is the first stage of the process of becoming free. That means I still have a way to go and it also means that the way I feel now is actually just scratching the surface of what’s coming.
You know people. Freedom rocks. You should try and discover it. The thing people will rarely tell you is that you don’t need to change the world to become free. You don’t need government to grant you freedom. The only one you need is YOU. You have freedom by nature! I wish I could describe how that feels.
If you wish to talk to me or wish me to give you some pointers join #libervis on irc.freenode.net. Ironically, “libervis” means “most freely” and today I feel most free than ever.
Be free.
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Liberty, Life, Science and Spirit
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
At this point in time my whole being is centered around these two concepts: self liberation and self growth. Self liberation is about personal liberty and self growth is about my life – making it what I want it to be. Making it great.
Self Liberation – Liberty
In a nutshell, this is why I am a voluntaryist. As such I am liberating myself from fear of coercion and from a desire to coerce. I am coming to a full understanding of myself as an individual human being with a self aware mind and a nature which requires liberty and property, as one and the same, to be. Through my senses I receive information. With my mind I process and feel it. Processing it is ideally consisted of applying a scientific process to it and feeling it is assigning personal values to it (good vs. bad = desirable vs. undesirable). This process is what creates my sub-reality, my world – built on the foundation of the absolute real world around me that I perceived, processed and felt.
Being aware of the fact that my world is MY world, MY sub-reality, and nobody elses, because it is MY senses, MY mind and MY feelings which created it, I cannot believe in the right to impose it on somebody else nor can I believe in the right of somebody else to impose his own sub-reality on me. This is not isolation. It is liberty. I can interact with another by cooperating based on what we do have in common – which is how trade happens and why free market works.
From these fundamental grounds I perceive the social world much differently than most people. I see wrongs where other people see rights. I see unnecessary evil where others see necessary evil, or even “good”. I see fear and corruption where others see virtue. But since I do not fear them, nor believe with them, I am free.
Self growth – Life
Now that I am free, what do I want to do with my life? This is where I largely adopted a strategy, as talked about before, by Napoleon Hill, presented in “Think and Grow Rich”. I found sufficient evidence to support his strategy to consider it factual and I am thus basing my self growth plan on it.
This however does not make me an automatic follower of everyone who claims to preach self growth and self help. It does not by far make me a follower of propaganda like “The Secret”. I think such propaganda is pseudoscience, something you get when you collide self-growth facts with some sort of a yet unsubstantiated and unproven religion, like New Age. It’s same as the movie “Expelled” by creationists, which is what you get by colliding science with fundamentalist christianity.
I am, however, much more interested in explaining “spirituality” by science. I’ve seen many people say they’ve changed their life by “finding god” and I don’t have to tell you about the amount of people who actually did somehow manage to change their life based on New Age as well (per The Secret). Spirituality seems to be this state of mind which automatically induces just the right kind of actions on your part to make you feel fulfilled and successful. It’s sort of a short-cut. I believe such a short cut exists, but I will not believe in that it is not something that can’t be achieved by science alone.
In fact, I think that the ultimate spiritual enlightenment WILL be achieved by science. We will simply discover as facts a way in which we can put our mind in that blissful state. I think Napoleon Hill came dangerously close to that, but he branched it off to “infinite intelligence” and that’s where my doubts begin. I need more evidence and I am interested to discuss this with really scientifically minded people.
After my research for the last days on this topic I can therefore say this:
Science is the only religion you will ever need. Hence, you will need no religion.
So all these people who “found god” may have just accidentally stumbled upon a yet not entirely scientifically discovered or explained process which made them feel like “they found god”, feel utterly enlightened etc. I doubt they really “found god” though. They just found the yet undefined process.
This makes further sense when you consider that many people from many different religions have similar claims. They can’t all be the “one true religion”, so there must be something deeper involved – a process.
We will probably discover it soon.
But, I’m sticking with science above all else. I want to emphasize that because it may have seemed like I’ve ran off to some strange New Age and pseudoscience waters in my previous posts. No. I stick to science. I have three categories in which I will put the ideas and theories I encounter.
1. Accept.
2. Reject.
3. Neither. Keep looking, whenever motivated.
I accept as factual truth only those ideas which I or enough of other people have reproducibly tested and proven right. I reject those that have been beyond doubt proven wrong.
The “neither” category are all the rest, and there’s quite a bit of stuff here. 
It’s all of the ideas which I can neither definitely prove nor disprove, but are interesting enough for me to keep my mind open to more information about them. I have a scale in this category, from “almost accepted” to “almost rejected”. For instance, the idea of infinite intelligence would be closer to “almost accepted” (but never accepted until I can fully prove it) and the idea of ancient alien race (sun gods) seeding human life on Earth would be near “almost rejected”. 
You can imagine that I definitely reject very little. Today there’s just too much information out there. I find it hard to reject things off hand. I suppose I can call the third category as “I don’t know.. yet”. I like that category, not because I like not knowing of course, but in a contrary because it encourages me to know more. Too many people just reject or accept and thus everything that they really don’t know must either be rejected or accepted. Just think of the “god of the gaps” or a new one I heard about New Agers, “consciousness of the gaps”. 
Cheers
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I can do anything.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
For a second day in a row I feel “all-powerful”. It is the effect of reading that book, “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill, which I mentioned earlier, and beating on the ideas I discovered there by following through the “Hidden Secret in Think and Grow Rich” by Brian Kim. It is easy for me to just say that I feel like I can do anything or that it is possible for you to feel like you can do anything, but it is a feeling and thus escapes words.
You have to read the book and if you don’t understand, try the Hidden Secret book I mentioned as well, since it clarifies a lot of the core ideas in “Think and Grow Rich”. The book is so deep and so profound that it is hard to just classify it as a “success” book or let alone “how to get rich” book. The ideas it presents are like a recipe for succesful happy living not just in a material, but even in a spiritual sense, but WITHOUT what is commonly know as religion, yet also WITHOUT contradicting those who do believe in some religion.
It is therefore entirely universal and universally applicable. To give you just a peak into how powerful it is, I will say that the book made me actually believe in the possibility of humans having telepathic abilities, in the legitimacy of prayer that involves no gods and in the power of thought as more than mere imagination – as a creative power which can truly be transformed into real matter. I think and therefore I am. I think and therefore I create. I think and therefore I make reality around me bow to my desire, my burning desire.
I would say that the ideas presented form more than a religion, because it spans religions, being more fundamental, more open ended and more logical and scientific.
I can do anything I set my mind to. I can because now I know I can, because I know how is it that I can set my mind to something, because I know more about thinking, feeling, imagining. I can almost understand fully what is meant by this verse from the bible:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The Word. What is it but an outcome of an idea, a thought? What bible further describes is that it is with his word that god created everything. Indeed. Perhaps it may come as a surprise to some to realize, however, that you too can create with words. But it is not enough to just spell out “create me a second moon orbiting Earth”.
You first have to have a genuine burning desire for something, not just a shallow “wish”. Then you have to have absolute and utter confidence, that is faith in your ability to realize what you desire, then decide that you WILL indeed realize it just as you decide to go and get something to eat and then without thinking and doubting your ability to eat, just do it. You have to write your desire in words where you can read them in order to inject yourself with the same kind of exactness and feeling you had when you first uttered the words. You’re essentially renewing your vow with yourself and your power to do it.
The subsequent steps will come naturally – the creation of a plan of action, of how to achieve it, the total persistence even through so called (by others) “failures” (failure doesn’t exist, it’s merely a piece of information that helps you succeed). In the end you WILL create what you desired.
So you might say this is an ardous process and how can I possibly compare that with the instantaneous creation by word of god. But bible doesn’t quite specify that he created everything instantaneously. Maybe it was indeed an ardous process, or maybe he could do all of the above in a fraction of the time we need because he was of such an advanced species. Or maybe christians are just taking the verses too literally.
Napoleon Hill talks about something he terms “Infinite Intelligence” which is essentially a common pool of all intelligence in the universe, I presume. Because right down to it thoughs are actually nothing more than streams of energy and the whole universe is consisted of nothing but space, time, matter and energy. Energy is the one which uses matter and time to create. If thoughts are energy you can see how thoughts can create. And you might also begin to see the logic behind the proposition of “infinite intelligence”. If thoughts are energy and energy is everywhere then our thoughts are essentially binded to the thoughts of all other thinking beings on this planet, but also of thoughts of all other thinking beings in the universe.
We’re just not as evolved mentally to practice the ability of receiving from this stream of thought, but such thing has and does happen. Napoleon Hill calls such things as “hunches” and flashes of incredibly brilliant creative ideas as possibly having come from this “infinite intelligence”. Incidentally, such hunches and flashes come when the mind is in a rather peculiar state (extremely active, energized by special emotional mixtures etc.) which suggests that in those states the mind actually “switches on” the receptor of information from the inifinite intelligence or “tunes in”.
Perhaps it is this “infinite intelligence” that people call “god”, but obviously being still under-evolved and therefore unable to understand it they personify it and they treat such great men, great thinkers indeed, who managed to evolve to a point of using this power (Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha etc.) as prophets and emmisaries of “god”.
Yet they may simply be humans who have come to learn how to use their minds better than anyone else, and “tune in” to the universal streams of thought. It’s a darn intriguing thought!
I wont say I fully believe all this. At this point I merely take it as a plausible theory. I know one thing however, one thing Napoleon Hill managed to convinced me pretty strongly off – thoughts are much much much more powerful than most people believe. We might just have seemingly “godly” power beneath our skulls, yet just seldom learn how to use it.
So you can imagine the thrill I feel as I am discovering all this. I feel like I’m beginning to revive this incredibly powerful tool beneath my skull, like the energy is building up, the fire is starting to burn and my personal power rises.
It feels so good that I could scream of happiness.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
–> In the beginning there is a thought, and the thought is from infinite intelligence, and the thought IS a part of infinite intelligence.
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You are what you think.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
I’ve just read a very short book, only 22 pages long, called “As a Man Thinketh” by James Allen which almost seems like a condensed inspirational version of “Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill which is actually given through AsAManThinketh.net.
It is an excellent book and considering how short it is I’d mark it as a must read. It’s not much longer than some longer articles found commonly on the web. The only criticisms I have for the book is that the author sometimes seems to imply or is at least unclear about the existence of absolute “right” and “wrong”, or “good” or “bad” and thus judges certain thoughts as good or bad, pure or impure etc.
I believe that such valuations are really in the eyes of the beholder because reality outside of thinking and feeling beings does not think and feel and therefore cannot perceive nor contain inherent “good” or “bad”. It is only an individual human which asigns such values to things. That said, however, all sentences in the book which encourage “good” thoughts against “bad” thoughts can be read as suggesting you to nourish what you believe to be good thoughts.
Another critique I would add is against his use of words such as “selfish” in a negative way even while describing a philosophy which is essentially about pursuing ones own dreams and desires (which is essentially selfish). But this may merely be my misunderstanding of the context from which he was writing or a flaw of english language where even words like “selfish” can have dual and contradictory meanings. For instance “selfish” could at the same time describe “individual pursuit of happiness and self-responsibility” and “pursuit of power over others out of lack of self-responsibility”.
That said, the book is a jewel. It artfully expresses the idea that an individual’s character is a sum of his thoughts, that thoughts lead to acts which shape our circumstances and therefore our entire destiny. It certainly fits well with the belief I’ve already been developing. Every act is met by a reaction from the reality around us. We then judge this reaction, this consequence, as either good or bad for us and based on that, if we are thinking and keeping ourselves aware, we can adjust our acts to get better consequences. And to do that we have to adjust our thoughts and by that our character.
So indeed, what we think is what we are. Our thoughts and ideas are the sum of who we are. And this largely affects our circumstances in life. This is why there is nobody but yourself to blame if your circumstances are bad to you and why there is much less of such things people call “bad luck” or “good luck” than is commonly thought.
Here is a quote that particularly stuck with me:
“It has been usual for men to think and to say, “Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor!” But there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment and to say, “One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.”
The truth is that oppressor and slaves are cooperators in ignorance, and, while
seeming to afflict each other, are in reality, afflicting themselves. “
This actually reminded me of a thought I had after watching “V for Vendetta” movie, that rulers in seeking power over others lose power over themselves whereas those being ruled let themselves to be ruled only because they could not rule themselves. Essentially, both the rulers and the ruled are playing the same exact game and inflicting on themselves the same exact poison, and all end up losers. And they are both consumed by fear.
So what can the few of people who know and understand this do in face of the masses who administer this poison to themselves? Should we despair as we see them wallowing in the pain and chaos (endless war, between governments and between rulers and ruled) they created for themselves fearing that we will be caught in their cross fires?
It wont do us any good, obviously. The best thing we can do is live free and be an example while conveying our ideas to those who are actually willing to listen. We can’t hope to send a more powerful message and more greatly influence the world any other way.
And in line with that, here is another quote:
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg. And in the highest vision of a soul a waking angle stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You can’t travel within and stand still without.”
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++H
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
I’ve done a mockup for the graphic header of the upcoming DoublePlusHuman.com.
It presents a human standing at the top of a cold stone or iron made structure with his/her hands risen up into the night sky.
Nothing can stop a human who is free and the site will be dedicated to helping people free their minds and avoid being dehumanized in the coming times.
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