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		<title>Comment on The exploration that awaits you by Shelly</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know definetly. It is Q who explains to Picard what the Q- continium is investgating.

cheers!</description>
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<p>cheers!</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Story of Stuff by BigSmoke &#187; The road through Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=55&#038;cpage=1#comment-3278</link>
		<dc:creator>BigSmoke &#187; The road through Ubuntu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] she had inherited from me (which wasn&#8217;t wasn&#8217;t a laptop, so I&#8217;m sure that the Golden Arrow of Consumption can explain why she didn&#8217;t just replace the screen, although the new boyfriend who is kind of [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on 60% by Researching Point Omega &#187; Status update</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=51&#038;cpage=1#comment-3236</link>
		<dc:creator>Researching Point Omega &#187; Status update</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] has been a solid eight months since my last status-update. At the time, I bumped the progress bar up to 60 percent. Now, I took it to eighty [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Prices going up or Dollar going down by PP</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=53&#038;cpage=1#comment-2249</link>
		<dc:creator>PP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gentlemen,
Interesting and educated discussion.
Apart from the possibly to be expected Omega developments, I see 3 other interesting aspects to this US-Dollar thing.
One is the big spending on wars of the USA these days. Spending too much too fast, surpassing net national productivity, inescapably produces inflation. This might be a temporary effect, ending once the military adventures have been voted down and brought back to normal volumes.
The second is the development of large third world countries like China and India speeding up these days very rapidly. This simply means that more people wish to take part in consuming the resources of the world and do have the technical tools to do that. Real third world countries have no industries of their own and cannot take part in harvesting and processing of national and international resources, because you need a well oiled social machinery for it (including all the required slave labour). The Chinese and the Hindustani people, as well as various east Asian peoples, are now joining the race, so we in the west have to share with more competitors, whereas the amount of the resources does not grow with the same speed or in many cases are running out (like oil). So, we need to sweat more for the same amount of wealth. However, this effect works equally on the Euro as it does on the dollar.
The third is the emergence of the Euro block, where efficiency is increasing quite rapidly and where the costs of maintaining a highly repressive system as in the USA is much lower, which broad repression decreases the average efficiency. So, those are reasons for the Euro to do structurally better than the dollar. And that effect is probably going to last longer.
Another remark (#4) I would like to make is that in thinking about conspiracies, the tendency is to ascribe too much intelligence to human beings. What happens more often is the result of impersonal blind economic and social mechanisms, running according to their own structural laws. The people that we like to think of as &quot;in charge&quot; in general have very little real power. They are in general just the spokesmen of the impersonal systems in charge. That&#039;s what they are being paid for. If they don&#039;t speak the group-talk of the system, they don&#039;t make a career and you never will hear of them.
Remark #5:
I think this has rather little bearing on the Omega transition.
Omega will among other things trigger a more even distribution of wealth. So, we in the west will have to step down in relative wealth considerably (US$ and Euro lower). On the other hand, later on the efficiency of all activities in the world can increase easily 10- or 20-fold if not much more. Besides, after Omega we can stop wasting 95 % of our energy on bullshit and war and genocide and economic strangling techniques, aiming at getting a slghtly bigger chunk of the pie than the neighbour. So, who cares ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gentlemen,<br />
Interesting and educated discussion.<br />
Apart from the possibly to be expected Omega developments, I see 3 other interesting aspects to this US-Dollar thing.<br />
One is the big spending on wars of the USA these days. Spending too much too fast, surpassing net national productivity, inescapably produces inflation. This might be a temporary effect, ending once the military adventures have been voted down and brought back to normal volumes.<br />
The second is the development of large third world countries like China and India speeding up these days very rapidly. This simply means that more people wish to take part in consuming the resources of the world and do have the technical tools to do that. Real third world countries have no industries of their own and cannot take part in harvesting and processing of national and international resources, because you need a well oiled social machinery for it (including all the required slave labour). The Chinese and the Hindustani people, as well as various east Asian peoples, are now joining the race, so we in the west have to share with more competitors, whereas the amount of the resources does not grow with the same speed or in many cases are running out (like oil). So, we need to sweat more for the same amount of wealth. However, this effect works equally on the Euro as it does on the dollar.<br />
The third is the emergence of the Euro block, where efficiency is increasing quite rapidly and where the costs of maintaining a highly repressive system as in the USA is much lower, which broad repression decreases the average efficiency. So, those are reasons for the Euro to do structurally better than the dollar. And that effect is probably going to last longer.<br />
Another remark (#4) I would like to make is that in thinking about conspiracies, the tendency is to ascribe too much intelligence to human beings. What happens more often is the result of impersonal blind economic and social mechanisms, running according to their own structural laws. The people that we like to think of as &#8220;in charge&#8221; in general have very little real power. They are in general just the spokesmen of the impersonal systems in charge. That&#8217;s what they are being paid for. If they don&#8217;t speak the group-talk of the system, they don&#8217;t make a career and you never will hear of them.<br />
Remark #5:<br />
I think this has rather little bearing on the Omega transition.<br />
Omega will among other things trigger a more even distribution of wealth. So, we in the west will have to step down in relative wealth considerably (US$ and Euro lower). On the other hand, later on the efficiency of all activities in the world can increase easily 10- or 20-fold if not much more. Besides, after Omega we can stop wasting 95 % of our energy on bullshit and war and genocide and economic strangling techniques, aiming at getting a slghtly bigger chunk of the pie than the neighbour. So, who cares ?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Rap with a message by halfgaar</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=49&#038;cpage=1#comment-1804</link>
		<dc:creator>halfgaar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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On the topic of FUD (of which I kind of accuse you in another comment) on your post about the devaluation of the Dollar: I must admit that you make a very good point. I was going to say that bla, bla, you said it such and so and thus and that and bla, bla. But, if I think back to my later ramblings in that other thread, my real issue wasn’t with your point of view (which I share) but with the mood of your other contribution. Then this video. The very fact that this video has become a hit and that even today I saw the two rappers on Dutch television, an instrument which according to many is merely a means to control the masses, places it within the context of the Point Omega theory. To see and hear two well-known Dutch rappers rap about these subjects instantly gives me a great feeling—a feeling which is not easily described, but which is very accurately predicted by the theory to occur increasingly often.
&lt;/p&gt;
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Continuing on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.omega-research.org/2008/03/18/prices-going-up-or-dollar-going-down#comment-1803&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my comment&lt;/a&gt; on the other article; this illustrates that people indeed &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have to take action before anything happens. And Lange Frans and Baas B. do it FUD-style, kind of ;)

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&lt;p&gt;
I just like to light fires and I must say that I love your passion, especially when ignited. ;-) 
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And you have my blessing when it comes to lighting fires. Without challenging your own and other people&#039;s believes and perceived reality, you get nowhere. And don&#039;t be afraid to suffer the scorn of those unwilling to accept change, unwilling to accept Omega. Eventually they will understand :)

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&lt;p&gt;
I like to tell others that you’re one of the most passionate people I know. :-D
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I appreciate that; it means a lot to me :)</description>
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On the topic of FUD (of which I kind of accuse you in another comment) on your post about the devaluation of the Dollar: I must admit that you make a very good point. I was going to say that bla, bla, you said it such and so and thus and that and bla, bla. But, if I think back to my later ramblings in that other thread, my real issue wasn’t with your point of view (which I share) but with the mood of your other contribution. Then this video. The very fact that this video has become a hit and that even today I saw the two rappers on Dutch television, an instrument which according to many is merely a means to control the masses, places it within the context of the Point Omega theory. To see and hear two well-known Dutch rappers rap about these subjects instantly gives me a great feeling—a feeling which is not easily described, but which is very accurately predicted by the theory to occur increasingly often.
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<p>Continuing on <a href="http://blog.omega-research.org/2008/03/18/prices-going-up-or-dollar-going-down#comment-1803" rel="nofollow">my comment</a> on the other article; this illustrates that people indeed <em>do</em> have to take action before anything happens. And Lange Frans and Baas B. do it FUD-style, kind of <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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I just like to light fires and I must say that I love your passion, especially when ignited. <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />
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<p>And you have my blessing when it comes to lighting fires. Without challenging your own and other people&#8217;s believes and perceived reality, you get nowhere. And don&#8217;t be afraid to suffer the scorn of those unwilling to accept change, unwilling to accept Omega. Eventually they will understand <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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I like to tell others that you’re one of the most passionate people I know. <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' />
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<p>I appreciate that; it means a lot to me <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Prices going up or Dollar going down by halfgaar</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=53&#038;cpage=1#comment-1803</link>
		<dc:creator>halfgaar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What has me kind of worried, is that in the past, the control of the U.S. money supply has changed back and forth from private to government controlled, and that the system currently in place, the privately owned Federal Reserve, is the one which has lasted the longest of them all. So, instead of their influence decreasing, it seems to be increasing.

You say that mass enlightenment will happen, but I also see control structures coming into place which might be an unavoidable obstacle. For example, why is FEMA building hundreds of huge prison camps throughout the united states (project &lt;a href=&quot;http://gothinkblog.com/gblog/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/endgame.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Endgame&lt;/a&gt;)? Why does the president have totalitarian powers by written law, why don&#039;t U.S. citizens have Habeas Corpus anymore (&lt;a href=&quot;http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:h6166eh.txt.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;military commissions act&lt;/a&gt;)? What about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Civilian Inmate Labor Program&lt;/a&gt;? And then all the laws which compromise more and more privacy, such as biometric identification ID cards...

Granted, I have not read all the Omega research, but I doubt that could take my worries away.

But, in the end, it was all about my original post and the context in which I put it. You said:

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&lt;p&gt;
The whole point of this project is to offer a display of hard scientific data which points unquestionably in the direction of an Omega Point.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Does that mean the context should have been, in your opinion, like &quot;See, awareness of the monetary problem is growing; we&#039;re gaining momentum as a people.&quot;? I don&#039;t know if that kind of passive good news works for me. People have to take action, at least, that&#039;s how I see it, and to do that, they need to be motivated.

BTW, I only mentioned the law of attraction because I know you prefer to avoid &quot;bad vibes&quot; and concentrate on the good. And the way I wrote my post, could be considered as a negative approach, which will attract more of it.

(I hope I got all the references right. For a more complete source, see this dutch Zapruder.nl article, titled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zapruder.nl/portal/artikel/kampen_en_kisten_connecting_the_dots/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kampen en kisten, connecting the dots&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (camps, coffins and connecting the dots).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What has me kind of worried, is that in the past, the control of the U.S. money supply has changed back and forth from private to government controlled, and that the system currently in place, the privately owned Federal Reserve, is the one which has lasted the longest of them all. So, instead of their influence decreasing, it seems to be increasing.</p>
<p>You say that mass enlightenment will happen, but I also see control structures coming into place which might be an unavoidable obstacle. For example, why is FEMA building hundreds of huge prison camps throughout the united states (project <a href="http://gothinkblog.com/gblog/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/endgame.pdf" rel="nofollow">Endgame</a>)? Why does the president have totalitarian powers by written law, why don&#8217;t U.S. citizens have Habeas Corpus anymore (<a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&#038;docid=f:h6166eh.txt.pdf" rel="nofollow">military commissions act</a>)? What about the <a href="http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf" rel="nofollow">Civilian Inmate Labor Program</a>? And then all the laws which compromise more and more privacy, such as biometric identification ID cards&#8230;</p>
<p>Granted, I have not read all the Omega research, but I doubt that could take my worries away.</p>
<p>But, in the end, it was all about my original post and the context in which I put it. You said:</p>
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The whole point of this project is to offer a display of hard scientific data which points unquestionably in the direction of an Omega Point.
</p>
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<p>Does that mean the context should have been, in your opinion, like &#8220;See, awareness of the monetary problem is growing; we&#8217;re gaining momentum as a people.&#8221;? I don&#8217;t know if that kind of passive good news works for me. People have to take action, at least, that&#8217;s how I see it, and to do that, they need to be motivated.</p>
<p>BTW, I only mentioned the law of attraction because I know you prefer to avoid &#8220;bad vibes&#8221; and concentrate on the good. And the way I wrote my post, could be considered as a negative approach, which will attract more of it.</p>
<p>(I hope I got all the references right. For a more complete source, see this dutch Zapruder.nl article, titled &#8220;<a href="http://zapruder.nl/portal/artikel/kampen_en_kisten_connecting_the_dots/" rel="nofollow">Kampen en kisten, connecting the dots</a>&#8221; (camps, coffins and connecting the dots).</p>
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		<title>Comment on Rap with a message by Rowan Rodrik</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=49&#038;cpage=1#comment-1796</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Rodrik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the pointers.

On the topic of FUD (of which I kind of accuse you in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.omega-research.org/2008/03/18/prices-going-up-or-dollar-going-down#comment-1787&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;another comment&lt;/a&gt;) on your post about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.omega-research.org/2008/03/18/prices-going-up-or-dollar-going-down&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;devaluation of the Dollar&lt;/a&gt;: I must admit that you make a very good point. I was going to say that bla, bla, you said it such and so and thus and that and bla, bla. But, if I think back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.omega-research.org/2008/03/18/prices-going-up-or-dollar-going-down#comment-1794&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my later ramblings&lt;/a&gt; in that other thread, my real issue wasn&#039;t with your point of view (which I share) but with the mood of your other contribution. Then this video. The very fact that this video has become a hit and that even today I saw the two rappers on Dutch television, an instrument which according to many is merely a means to control the masses, places it within the context of the Point Omega theory. To see and hear two well-known Dutch rappers rap about these subjects instantly gives me a great feeling&#8212;a feeling which is not easily described, but which is very accurately predicted by the theory to occur increasingly often.

In the end, please remember that I&#039;m also just an (often inconsistent) contributer to this group project. Although I might display such an attitude at times, I&#039;m not formally in charge of anything. I just like to light fires and I must say that I love your passion, especially when ignited. ;-) I like to tell others that you&#039;re one of the most passionate people I know. :-D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the pointers.</p>
<p>On the topic of FUD (of which I kind of accuse you in <a href="http://blog.omega-research.org/2008/03/18/prices-going-up-or-dollar-going-down#comment-1787" rel="nofollow">another comment</a>) on your post about the <a href="http://blog.omega-research.org/2008/03/18/prices-going-up-or-dollar-going-down" rel="nofollow">devaluation of the Dollar</a>: I must admit that you make a very good point. I was going to say that bla, bla, you said it such and so and thus and that and bla, bla. But, if I think back to <a href="http://blog.omega-research.org/2008/03/18/prices-going-up-or-dollar-going-down#comment-1794" rel="nofollow">my later ramblings</a> in that other thread, my real issue wasn&#8217;t with your point of view (which I share) but with the mood of your other contribution. Then this video. The very fact that this video has become a hit and that even today I saw the two rappers on Dutch television, an instrument which according to many is merely a means to control the masses, places it within the context of the Point Omega theory. To see and hear two well-known Dutch rappers rap about these subjects instantly gives me a great feeling&#8212;a feeling which is not easily described, but which is very accurately predicted by the theory to occur increasingly often.</p>
<p>In the end, please remember that I&#8217;m also just an (often inconsistent) contributer to this group project. Although I might display such an attitude at times, I&#8217;m not formally in charge of anything. I just like to light fires and I must say that I love your passion, especially when ignited. <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  I like to tell others that you&#8217;re one of the most passionate people I know. <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Prices going up or Dollar going down by Rowan Rodrik</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=53&#038;cpage=1#comment-1795</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Rodrik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gee, we&#039;re verbose... :?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gee, we&#8217;re verbose&#8230; <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif' alt=':?' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Prices going up or Dollar going down by Rowan Rodrik</title>
		<link>http://blog.omega-research.org/?p=53&#038;cpage=1#comment-1794</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Rodrik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, actually I didn&#039;t take offense to the point of view which you chose for your posting. I realize that my point of view might have come as a bit of a cold shower because from our many private conversations on this topic you might readily deduce that I share your POV (which broadly do on this topic). What made me nervous about your post was that it lacked context to that point of view; it neither introduced the issue at hand very well, nor did it place it within the context of the Point Omega theory, which to me would have enhanced its value. Indeed, I think your posting &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have relevance to Point Omega but not in the way that you seem to think.

I think that the monetary revolution which Ron Paul is promoting is inevitable in the same way that I believe in the inevitability of Point Omega. And this is not some kind of new-age make-believe. The whole point of this project is to offer a display of hard scientific data which points unquestionably in the direction of an Omega Point. We, as a humanity, simply have no choice but to change direction, so we will. Either that or everything that we&#039;ve learned about evolution is wrong. So when you say that you &lt;q&gt;chose to do it because the march to mass enlightenment cannot happen when the entire population is enslaved through an economic system&lt;/q&gt;, I just want to shout: It will happen! In fact, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; already happening. And there&#039;s nothing any banker can do to stop it (short of blowing up the planet). The most the can do is to slow it down, a little bit, in the same way that you can speed it up, much more than they can slow it down. Your impact is deeper because you&#039;re only starting to build up momentum while they&#039;re starting to run out of it.

So, I&#039;m really not concerned whether Ron Paul is going to be the next president of the U.S. or not. Someone like him will be, soon enough. And you sharing such information with the world is only going to make it sooner. So keep up the good work, but don&#039;t worry if you (or others, like me) don&#039;t. We&#039;re not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; important to these changes.

I hope that these ramblings clarify what I mean when I speak of the Point Omega perspective. If you take notice of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.omega-research.org/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;research in the wiki&lt;/a&gt; and of Popko&#039;s Point Omega theory (which pulls these research results together for an accurate prediction of things to come), you&#039;ll see that my faith in Point Omega is not so different from the faith you display when you believe that dropping a coin will make it fall down. The Law of Attraction doesn&#039;t even enter the equation, partly because Popko limited his research to easily verifiable scientific data. But, maybe, if the Law of Attraction works as advertised, this science-induced faith in our future will speed things up a bit. ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, actually I didn&#8217;t take offense to the point of view which you chose for your posting. I realize that my point of view might have come as a bit of a cold shower because from our many private conversations on this topic you might readily deduce that I share your POV (which broadly do on this topic). What made me nervous about your post was that it lacked context to that point of view; it neither introduced the issue at hand very well, nor did it place it within the context of the Point Omega theory, which to me would have enhanced its value. Indeed, I think your posting <em>does</em> have relevance to Point Omega but not in the way that you seem to think.</p>
<p>I think that the monetary revolution which Ron Paul is promoting is inevitable in the same way that I believe in the inevitability of Point Omega. And this is not some kind of new-age make-believe. The whole point of this project is to offer a display of hard scientific data which points unquestionably in the direction of an Omega Point. We, as a humanity, simply have no choice but to change direction, so we will. Either that or everything that we&#8217;ve learned about evolution is wrong. So when you say that you <q>chose to do it because the march to mass enlightenment cannot happen when the entire population is enslaved through an economic system</q>, I just want to shout: It will happen! In fact, it <em>is</em> already happening. And there&#8217;s nothing any banker can do to stop it (short of blowing up the planet). The most the can do is to slow it down, a little bit, in the same way that you can speed it up, much more than they can slow it down. Your impact is deeper because you&#8217;re only starting to build up momentum while they&#8217;re starting to run out of it.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;m really not concerned whether Ron Paul is going to be the next president of the U.S. or not. Someone like him will be, soon enough. And you sharing such information with the world is only going to make it sooner. So keep up the good work, but don&#8217;t worry if you (or others, like me) don&#8217;t. We&#8217;re not <em>that</em> important to these changes.</p>
<p>I hope that these ramblings clarify what I mean when I speak of the Point Omega perspective. If you take notice of the <a href="http://wiki.omega-research.org/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">research in the wiki</a> and of Popko&#8217;s Point Omega theory (which pulls these research results together for an accurate prediction of things to come), you&#8217;ll see that my faith in Point Omega is not so different from the faith you display when you believe that dropping a coin will make it fall down. The Law of Attraction doesn&#8217;t even enter the equation, partly because Popko limited his research to easily verifiable scientific data. But, maybe, if the Law of Attraction works as advertised, this science-induced faith in our future will speed things up a bit. <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on George Carlin about religion by Rowan Rodrik</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rowan Rodrik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or, in tune with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128278/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Instinct movie&lt;/a&gt; (which is based on Daniel Quinn&#039;s Ishmael novel), &quot;another means to maintain the &lt;em&gt;illusion&lt;/em&gt; of control&quot;. :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or, in tune with the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128278/" rel="nofollow">Instinct movie</a> (which is based on Daniel Quinn&#8217;s Ishmael novel), &#8220;another means to maintain the <em>illusion</em> of control&#8221;. <img src='http://blog.omega-research.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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