A calling

[William Alijia Russ IV]

As an active "member", if you can even use the phrase, of the rag tag group of misfits on the 4chan image board known as /b/, i fear that this "library of alexandria" known as the world wide web is with-in its last legs. I call to you all my brothers who have been following the news about the data wars concerning wikileaks, the cables leaked, and the ddos battles between parties, the time is now to hard drive up sacred texts, disscussion of these, forums, videos, music, to prepare to be able to provide this knowledge again. Imagine if the Library of AlexANDRIA had a copy paste function. I am drunk right now as i write. I can still COPY and PASTE and SAVE and RIP. Because even the PIRATES of western lore were second son's of nobility so I feel there is no shame in saving the soon to be lost.... AGAIN. Is anyone out there.

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

I'm very much right here, William. You reached me via the web, because here we both are, doing nothing else more "real." Nonetheless, I strongly disagree with you that the web, where we are now, is a world in danger. The 21st century is an "information age" when the only "enemies" are "low intensity combatants" & home-grown "enemies of the state." The web is A) too useful tactically, and B) too prevalent a resource, for it to "be gone" over-night. While this COULD happen (by nukes in space for example), it is too probably NOT going to. Therefore, we should not worry over improbable alternatives. Instead, what we should focus on is the more likely next step taken regarding the use of the net: ie. its function as a credit-transfer monetary-system, and the ability to shut any "undesireables" out of it with a keystroke. I approve of the use of the net for credit-transfer only insofar as I see "credit" as bytes of information itself. If I have a hard-disc with x#GB, I should be able to use it like a data-bank, which I should be able to host files on that could be re-broadcast online. This is simple arithemetic, and proves how easily economics jargon is poised to fit into electronics new-speak. If I have x#GB I have the capacity for X amount of file Savings. But only the files I share can be purchased or traded, if we see the system of charging payment as increasing my amount of files / file-space (ie. new data, more storage or both). This is, indeed, the future; as is satellite broadcast net to wireless receivers, even implant-chips and cyborg "wet-ware." You don't need to cry out your loneliness here. Here is a place where we converge to consider the best alternatives for our collective future. We do NOT accept fatalism. We advocate restoration of, what we believe to be long lost, ideals.

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

William, in PM on FB you asked me to email you on what I saw when I thought of doing so. So I am posting this image to you, which is what I am seeing now that I think to write you, which is the same image as the one I chose for your avatar profile-pic on FB, which you seemed not to like. It is a symbol of chaos. Here is it's explanation:

 

we are all brothers beneath this apron of our fleshes. You sir are one like I am, looking for a Master, whom you see in me, just as I am, which I see in none yet. Yet when you infer I compare myself to you fishing for the compliment of vanity, I cannot laugh, let alone cry "daily." The Hnchback of the dollar is a symbol of an Unknown Future. Mine is set in stone, but yours is flammable and thin. You look for a Master? I am not them. I look for no Master. I am my own. People with questions are a dime a dozen. If you have found your answers, and seek no further, you are welcome here into the POD.

 

On the other hand, if you are there to be dishonest, a troll, baiting people by deriding their personalities, then we have no use for you. If you are there to be a spook, or a plant, or act a fruit, we can't use you. But if you are here not for a new kind of video game, but a whole new reality, we will consider you home. And if you are here not for a change of face, but a new energy, and not a method, but a mode of mind, then you are home. And if you are here to spend time in the void, we would welcome you even then. But I live here. This is my home. The POD is here to welcome you in. It is where my head is at.

 

I do not seek the Master. The Master I have found is I, myself, me. This is the message I'd encourage you to "take home with you" from the POD: think for yourself, be independent, and you will be your own God, controlling the entirety of this reality that surrounds you now. Believe in yourself, trust your own natural talents, learn many skills, and you will prosper. When you acquire self-confidence in your level of ability and right to apply it, you will be able to apply yourself toward any goal with full focus for success. You MUST Practise self-mastery to belong in this POD, but if you do, it is now your dojo.

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

Diogenes:: "I'm looking for an honest man."

Aloha, William: I hope it's going well. All is a tropical paradise here. I apologise for our falling out of touch following my leaving facebook. I have been in contact with Sir Mark about the e-book edition of Diogenes Lamp, but I have not heard back yet from him after sending a third (and hopefully final) proof. I just wanted to let you know where that project was at. He wants to sell it on amazon and google-books, but these sites require an ISBN, and I am not going to walk him through (or pay for) that, so I am quit from that project again for now.

 

Henry Jones, Sr. "You left just when you were becoming interesting!"

I hope you're doing better this late summer and early autumn of 2011 than you were in winter of earlier this year and later 2010. I hope this message finds you settled down some, and not still questing around so much. I hope you're even still alive now to read these words. I hope, most of all, that you are doing well and living comfortably enough to enjoy spending time contemplating and that you can continue to find time to do this. That is my highest wish for you now. PEACE! - Jon