https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3793.0That is the thread that spurred my thoughts here.
Into the future, people will argue over this and that,
and debate endlessly over what is better, and there
will be crisis and solutions, but as the journey into dreamland
continues, mankind will continue to destroy everything that is
required for his authentic and genuine existence on this planet,
and whenever, however, the end comes, the longer the journey,
the worse the catastrophy (not necessarily wholly of nature, but
of human nature), and mankind will be forced to subsist
in a barren existence for eons, if at all (such as being
physically integrated into technology, eg, Matrix).
In the end, Ted Kaczynski and long lost and destroyed
native populations will have the last laugh.
It is very fitting to have bitcoins enter the realm.
It is no less illusory than all the rest of it.
Why are we doing this? Where are we going?
When will we get there? There are no responsible answers,
and freedom is 100% about being 100% responsible for yourself.
But it gets more and more impossible daily as the python of
technology strangles around our necks.
My basic premise is that animals cannot function normally
in artificial environments. They get weird, they get strange,
their behavior becomes abnormal and dysfunctional.
Anyone seeing that yet? Less and less or more and more?
You be the decider.
Native American isn't blood, it is what is in the heart - the love for
the land, the respect for it, those who inhabit it, and the respect and
acknowledgment of the spirits and elders. That is what it is to be
Indian. This we know: the earth doesn't belong to man, man belongs to
the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one
family. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
* Chief Seattle: Every part of this earth is sacred to my people, we
are part of the earth, and it is part of us. * Dave Chief: Respect
means listening until everyone has been heard and understood. Only
then is there a possibility of balance and harmony. The goal of Indian
spirituality. * Cree Indian Prophesy: Only after the last tree has been
cut down, only after the last fish has been caught, only after the last
river has been poisoned - only then will you realize that money cannot
be eaten. * Chief Seattle: We know that the white man does not
understand our ways. One portion of the land is the same to him as the
next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night, and takes from the
land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy;
and when he has conquered it, he moves on. * Luther Standing Bear:
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forest,
plains, pueblo, or mesa. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that
fashioned the continent, also fashioned the man for his surroundings.
He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers. He belongs just as
the buffalo do. * Chief Red Cloud: I am poor and naked, but I am the
chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we do want to train our
children right. Riches will do us no good. We cannot take them with us
to the other world. We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
* Geronimo: I cannot think we are useless, for God would not have
created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the
children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds ... are all
listening to what we say. * Black Elk: The 1st peace, which is the most
important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they
realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its
powers, and when they realize that in the center of the universe dwells
the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere; it is
within each of us.
* Chief Seattle: We do not inherit the earth from our forefathers, we
borrow it from our children.