tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post139302177564241368..comments2024-03-28T18:36:26.194-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: Prometheus Rising exercise and discussion group, episode 82, Chapter 15Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-20798321504682219872022-05-30T09:39:55.833-07:002022-05-30T09:39:55.833-07:00Another terrific post. I really enjoy all of your ...Another terrific post. I really enjoy all of your posts.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-58663945560031516232022-05-27T15:00:27.405-07:002022-05-27T15:00:27.405-07:00Nice post, confessional in nature. Though not expl...Nice post, confessional in nature. Though not explicitly said, I hazard to infer that you, Apuleius, gave your daughter the metaprogram, "think for yourself, question authority" at some point ("old enough to debate and make the beliefs her own") either overtly or by example. How it happened for me growing up - got exposed to my parents' RC beliefs and attempted external indoctrination with not a whole lot of enthusiasm on their or my part; nonreligious programming efforts went into questioning assumptions. A typical dinner conversation might be: "What did you learn in school today? Columbus discovered America. How do you know the teacher is telling you the truth? If Columbus discovered America, why isn't it called Columbus, why is it named America? Then a discussion of Amerigo Vespucci would follow.<br /><br />It occurs to me that a metaprogram concerning death may prove useful even if one doesn't plan to die soon or at all. This thought occurred after an episode of the Colbert Questionaire, a recurring episode on <i>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert</i> in which he probes pop stars in various areas to get to know them better. This standardized set of scientifically derived questions credits The Late Show Labs for its form. I confess a lack of awareness that some late night TV shows have their own laboratories, or as the English say, laboratories ("luh-bore-uh -tories" - I had a step-mother who switched all her Canadian communication programs to English ones after attending the University of Edinburgh ((pronounced "Edinborough, like the borough of the Bronx, not burg like burger - the silent "g" and "h" give Edinburgh a long "o" sound at the end; the English can seem tricky even when Scottish!))). One of the questions in Colberts Questionaire asks, "what do you think happens to you after you die?."<br /><br />Seems a great question to ask someone about their postmortem program, or I should say metaprogram as it concerns a program for "going beyond,"(meta - and I don't mean going beyond the literal Facebook program). Don't consider this idle speculation, I have a firsthand account - my own. The night before my father shuffled off his mortal body, he broke down and said he didn't have anything to believe in, he said he didn't believe in Science (his vocation) and he didn't believe in Religion (philosophically inclined, he taught Comparative Religion as a post-grad student, and made serious attempts at the RC programs his immediate ancestors fostered upon him). Considering this issue the night before the program gets set to run may not make for the best timing. Thank-you Stephen Colbert and Late Night Labs for bringing it up.<br /><br />I tried Eric's exercize mentioned last week of quickly reading <i>Masks</i> with a "Very pretty, not Homer" type of program running when encountering the historical people in the story, Joyce, Pound, Jung, Einstein, etc. My tentative conclusion, until learning more of their personal lives, holds that RAW uses these characters as what Deleuze calls "conceptual personae." <br />Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.com