tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post6083238183463517479..comments2023-11-03T08:52:13.914+00:00Comments on The Moonshine Memoranda: MEN or SUPERMEN?Selena Dreamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-23450346155061865022009-04-12T17:55:00.000+01:002009-04-12T17:55:00.000+01:00Thoughful and rounded. Thank you, Jonathan, for ta...Thoughful and rounded. Thank you, Jonathan, for taking the time...<BR/><BR/>Happy Easter!Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-49323035286496762472009-04-07T20:59:00.000+01:002009-04-07T20:59:00.000+01:00And yet, even if it weren't for the climate change...And yet, even if it weren't for the climate change issue, life would still be better, safer and cleaner if renewable energy could be harnessed effectively -without, of course, one trusts, filling up too much of our delightfully empty spaces with sunshining panels and revolving blades.<BR/><BR/>I note you place no hope in existing nuclear fission...T'would seem indeed we should fuse.<BR/><BR/>Getting 'beyond humanity' - which presumably, yes(?) is a purely psychological notion involving getting beyond our egoic 'ideas about ourselves' - may not only be about reaching into the beyond in terms of straining towards upward development and the future; it may also be about relaxing and yielding (in the right way)to what is beaneath and behind us -towards simplicity (non-ludditely rendered) and the past.<BR/><BR/>We are, after all, as much alienated from time as we are from space...<BR/><BR/>The point is to go both forwards and back, both up and down simultaneously - without being paralysed by a false perception of the impossibility of doing so. <BR/><BR/>Through the force of opposing energies, in their meeting, we need not be merely trapped in stultified immobility. Rather, alchemically, we may be transmuted.<BR/><BR/>Happy Easter btw...it doesnt exist in China (unlike Christmas - which does for obvious reasons)Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-62104678898749476402009-03-25T13:31:00.000+00:002009-03-25T13:31:00.000+00:00I like windmills.I suppose it has to do with my be...I like windmills.<BR/><BR/>I suppose it has to do with my being from the Netherlands and all.<BR/><BR/>BTW, there is <A HREF="http://xkcd.com/556/" REL="nofollow">one good reason</A> to be weary of windmills!Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02040537651843418484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-9258599460178159202009-03-25T13:14:00.000+00:002009-03-25T13:14:00.000+00:00I may be wrong, but ecology is hardly an adequate ...I may be wrong, but ecology is hardly an adequate replacement for the loss of history's surpassing objectives. The planet may be dead and damned, and humanity may be what Einstein called it, nothing but "puny demi-gods on stilts", or, indeed, politically correct little creeps and irate commissions of enquiry asking: "How is man preserved?" But to me the most haunting , prophetic outcry of the bygone centuries is Nietzsche's: 'How is man surpassed?" <BR/><BR/>For that, it seems to me, is the infinitely more important consideration.Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-44748038427945336302009-03-24T15:59:00.000+00:002009-03-24T15:59:00.000+00:00I agree.I have always argued we should be more pro...I agree.<BR/><BR/>I have always argued we should be more pro active with space colonisatyion.<BR/><BR/>Life is not static. We either move off this rock, or blow ourselves up.Crushedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.com