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		<title>Ron Paul: Going the Distance</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=46</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>halfgaar</dc:creator>
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Here I am again with a message about Ron Paul. He asks not to give up, even though election victories are already practically claimed, prematurely of course. He also wants to organize a march to Washington D.C., to give the media something they can't ignore, like they usually do. 



Take a look at this campaign [...]]]></description>
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Here I am again with a message about Ron Paul. He asks not to give up, even though election victories are already practically claimed, prematurely of course. He also wants to organize a march to Washington D.C., to give the media something they can't ignore, like they usually do. 
</p>

<p>
Take a look at this campaign update.
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<p>
And learn more about the <a href="http://www.revolutionmarch.com/">revolution march</a>.
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		<title>New collective beliefs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MonkeyBoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my view we need new collective beliefs that will replace our old
obsolete beliefs. See my post 'Freedom?'. 

We're all just monkeys.
We are just like other primates in our behaviour, instincts and
emotions. The only difference is that we have cultivated the illusion
that we are different from and even better than other animals.

The viewpoint that we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In my view we need new collective beliefs that will replace our old
obsolete beliefs. See my post <a href="http://blog.omega-research.org/2007/03/18/freedom">'Freedom?'</a>. </p>

<h3>We're all just monkeys.</h3>
<p>We are just like other primates in our behaviour, instincts and
emotions. The only difference is that we have cultivated the illusion
that we are different from and even better than other animals.</p>

<p>The viewpoint that we are just monkeys will give us better
understanding and greater acceptance of our own and others' behaviour.
It will give us a totally different way of looking at matters of
social, cultural and psychological concern. As in; We try to give
animals in a zoo the best circumstances for them to express their
natural behaviour, why can't we do this for us naked apes?</p>

<h3>There is no such thing as free will.</h3>
<p>And why we can't decide what to want.</p>
<p>The belief that there is such a thing as free will is the root of a
lot of frustration and pain in our species. If not the root of all
evil. <code> <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </code>
Everything from ideological wars to frustration about bad habits stems
from this illusion which probably arose in a time when we started
getting the idea that there is a difference between good and bad
beliefs. This belief is really helpful to keep us enslaved in
oppressive communities because it will make you feel guilty for things
you do and don't.</p>

<p>Our behaviour comes from a mixture of biological instincts, emotions
and, in us humans, beliefs.
The only control you have over your own behaviour is like the control
you have over your body when you need to relief yourselves, you can
hold it up for a while...</p>

<p>What we should spend our energy on is freeing our will. The whole mixture of factors which make up our behaviour focus in what I would call our inner compass or will.
This will is not the make belief 'decision making free will' as we normally see it, it is nothing more than that which you would like to do, be, have or whatever at any given moment. It's the things, places, people, situations or activities to which you are automatically drawn.</p>

<p>The less energy we spend on trying to behave differently from what comes to us naturally the more it becomes clear what we actually want.</p>

<h3>There is only behaviour, which is good nor bad.</h3>
<p>Because we have no free will it is ridiculous to think about certain
behaviour as good or bad. There's only behaviour; some of it is
socially accepted in one's community and some is not. Why the majority of people in a community exhibit socially accepted
behaviour is because we are social animals. For social animals to
behave in a way that isn't accepted by their community equals
exertion which equals certain death.</p>

<p>This is why prisons don't work. Crossing the line of socially accepted
behaviour is accompanied by fear of death, but when a person does
cross this line and ends up in prison, he will meet a whole new
community by which he will be accepted. After which the fear of
exertion is eradicated for good.</p>

<h3>We are GOOD!</h3>
<p>We are hardwired to be socially responsible persons. We all have a biological need for emotionally satisfying relationships.
We all need moments to feel community, sympathy and leadership. Emotions like anger and placidity like pride, shame, modesty and humiliation like gratitude, guilt, virtue and resentment they all come and go in an ongoing emotional exchange between people.
If we stopped thinking altogether and forgot about all our values, we would still have emotionally satisfying relationships with each other simply BECAUSE WE LIKE IT LIKE THAT.</p>

<p>No one willingly chooses not be loved to be evil or to be an outcast. If this happens this person probably learned to repress even the most basic instincts that make us social animals, he didn't learn to express and exchange them in a mutual rewarding manner.</p>

<p>Being used to trying to have total control over our behaviour, allowing ourselves to express our animal instincts feels irresponsible at least and terrifying more commonly. However we don't have to be afraid that our natural tendency to be bad and do bad things will take over if we stop trying to be good humans. We will just gain more awareness of our actual social instincts which automatically urge us to display our most satisfying behaviour.</p>

<h3>Health equals Happiness</h3>
<p>Happiness is the experience of our human needs being satisfied. Health is the description of our human needs being satisfied for so long that it shows.</p>
<p>If we understand our human needs we can design our world and our institutions to fit them instead of pressing people to repress and deny them, which stimulates unhealthy behaviour and feelings of misery. We can design our culture in ways that enable and support people to satisfy their needs without undesirable consequences. We are perfectly capable, for instance, of having sex anytime we like without having another baby every 9 - 10 months... well some of us are anyway. <code> <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </code></p>
<p>The more we allow ourselves to follow our animal instincts which by nature tend to healthy behaviour the more happiness we will experience. The more happiness we experience the more healthy we get and the more healthy we get the more we are capable of satisfying our needs and being happy about it, the more happy... well you probably get my point.</p>

<p>More to come:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Learn the most by doing what you like best... (For now, <a href="http://wiki.omega-research.org/Main_Page">see the wiki</a> if you want to learn more about this.)</li>

  <li>You get what you imagine (and there's too much of it to handle)...</li>

  <li>They are the way you think they are (and they feel the same about you)...</li>
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		<title>Freedom?</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=5</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MonkeyBoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people say that we are basically free and that we just have to
realize this fact to be free.

I disagree. To me this is just a philosophical concept. In our reality
as social animals we are caged by our culture and its
(collective) beliefs. The belief that we are more than just mammals,
that we are the pinnacle [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some people say that we are basically free and that we just have to
realize this fact to be free.</p>

<p>I disagree. To me this is just a philosophical concept. In our reality
as social animals we are caged by our culture and its
(collective) beliefs. The belief that we are more than just mammals,
that we are the pinnacle of evolution and the king of all animals and
thus the heirs of our planet and all that lives on it.</p>

<p>These and many other beliefs keep us caught up in behavioral patterns
which are harmful to us and our planet instead of helping us realize
our full potential as man. Behavioral patterns that will ultimately
destroy us, our planet and especially our culture.</p>

<p>However I do see a positive side to our self proclaimed role as masters
of the earth. We do have the power, unlike any other species, to decide
what will happen to us and our planet.</p>

<p>But our patterns only change if our collective beliefs change. Our
collective beliefs only change when they have lost grip on us. They
only lose grip on us when they are replaced with different beliefs that
become our new collective beliefs.</p> 

<p><a href='http://blog.omega-research.org/uploads/2007/03/monkey-freedom.png' title='Free Monkey'><img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/uploads/2007/03/monkey-freedom.thumbnail.png' alt='Free Monkey' /></a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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