tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post1396143537176881707..comments2023-11-05T02:17:06.592-08:00Comments on The Age of Infinity: The Age of Infinity and the Scarcity MatrixWilliam Brandon Shanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11318265987158163576noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-33055958683269797452007-07-16T03:47:00.000-07:002007-07-16T03:47:00.000-07:00Hello Nicolae Cirpala: I read your comments on my ...Hello Nicolae Cirpala:<BR/> <BR/>I read your comments on my essay, The Age of Infinity and the Scarcity Matrix, asking for assistance to help with the distressing situation there.<BR/> <BR/> Please post your requests for help on www.givegetnation.net. We are just getting started and want to fill our shelves with gifts and wishes for and from people all over the world.<BR/> <BR/>If I am misunderstanding your offer, please write back to me.<BR/> <BR/>Many blessings,<BR/> <BR/>William Shanley<BR/> <BR/>"Happiness is when what you think, what you<BR/>say, and what you do are in harmony." <BR/>--Mahatma Gandhi<BR/><BR/>Visit GiveGet Nation. Help Yourself by Helping Others. <BR/>www.givegetnation.net<BR/> <BR/>Evolution Solutions Foundation<BR/>166 East Rock Road<BR/>New Haven, Connecticut 06511<BR/>w.shanley@sbcglobal.netWilliam Brandon Shanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16236897477760811997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-23244158665071353012007-05-26T09:49:00.000-07:002007-05-26T09:49:00.000-07:00Dear friendMany greetings from Moldova!I was very ...Dear friend<BR/>Many greetings from Moldova!<BR/>I was very happy to found you contact on Idealist volunteers web.<BR/>Its very great Idea of volunteering, we are looking for volunteers to solve major world problems like: <BR/>As you may know our small country the poorest in Europe is separate in 2 parts Moldova and Transnistria with a silent war (political conflict).<BR/>To help to resolve this conflict we planed to hold a service learning project where will participate purples from both parts of Moldova and international participants witch will finish by a Youth Media for peace festival.<BR/>We really ask you to help our country to resolve this conflict by holding this very important project with<BR/>You volunteer work by fundraising, finding sponsors or any other volunteer work witch will help with.<BR/>Please reply about any opportunity for cooperation.<BR/>All the best in you hard work.<BR/>Sincerely: <BR/>Nicolae Cirpala<BR/> <BR/><BR/> <BR/>Director International Relief Friendship Foundation IRFF, Moldova<BR/>www.irffmd.net <BR/><BR/>cirpalanick@gmail.com <BR/>Skype: irffmd tel/fax: <BR/>mobile: (37322)738330<BR/>(373)69006351 <BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Our projects:<BR/>Charity projects:<BR/>1.Long Distance adoption project;<BR/>2.The essence of the existence centers;<BR/>Educational projects:<BR/>1.Youth Change the World; <BR/>2.The essence of existence;<BR/>3.Summer camps;<BR/>Youth projects:<BR/>1. Youth Change the World project for the education of healthy relations between boys and girls and preparing them for healthy family life. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity in marriage education;<BR/>Medical projects:<BR/>1. Projects for helping the disabled people;<BR/>2. HIV/AIDS prevention projects;<BR/>3. Health exhibition;<BR/>4. Medical projects;<BR/>Environmental projects:<BR/>1.Ecological and community projects;<BR/>Peace building and conflict resolution projects:<BR/>1.International conferences;<BR/>2.International summer camps;<BR/>3. Projects involving international volunteers;<BR/>4. Peace flower festival;<BR/>5. International volunteer Academy for The world Peace<BR/>WEB www.irffmd.net <BR/> <BR/>IRFF for GOOD!<BR/>CLICK here http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html<BR/>to DONATE for PEOPLE in NEEDS projects!Speaker +79811308385 Спикерhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00569922800382181328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-5197587592322498572007-05-06T14:53:00.000-07:002007-05-06T14:53:00.000-07:00I very much enjoyed your thoughts on the Scarcity ...I very much enjoyed your thoughts on the Scarcity Matrix.<BR/><BR/>One of my favorite descriptors of our insane society is "addicted"<BR/><BR/>The biggest Addiction of all is to the idea that we are "we" ! <BR/><BR/>There is only One seamless field of energy. Quantum Field Science tells us that the energy underlying our perceived universe is unfathomably large.<BR/><BR/>We have always lived in the "Age of Infinity". We have just failed to see it.<BR/><BR/>A quote from Matthew bubbled up...<BR/><BR/>First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.<BR/><BR/>My two favorite thoughtsperes are:<BR/><BR/>"A Course in Miracles" (currently going thru the workbook for the first time)<BR/>http://www.acim.org/<BR/><BR/>Oneness University<BR/>http://onenessuniversity.org/<BR/><BR/>Peace !Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00933395330616505568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-7636944930506590772006-11-10T21:27:00.000-08:002006-11-10T21:27:00.000-08:00Here we are, the Whole System, just beginning to d...Here we are, the Whole System, just beginning to discover, in this Milky Way neck of our Universal Body, that We exist, and that we are One. And yet most of the human vantage points through which we engage Ourself remain deluded by the conceptual system that is Our interpretive sub-system. We believe, through almost every human vantage point through which observe and interact with the rest of Ourself that We are instead discrete, separate, autonomous and temporary creatures.<br /><br />The sense of scarcity, while a problem, is a mere effect, not a cause. Our sense of scarcity, wherever this occurs within Us, is the product of the prevailing mistaken identity of discrete mortal individuals instead of the single and eternal potential for intelligence inherent in the Whole System. It is this mistaken identity that generates individual egos, and makes Us feel vulnerable and through almost every human vantage point through which we observe and interact with our Universal Body. There is no amount of wealth and property that can compensate for the vulnerability and mortality of that identity. Hence Our continuing sense of scarcity.<br /><br />It is high time, that We, wherever our conceptual system has become accurate enough to allow Us to recognize Our unity and integrity with the Universe, to stop interpreting oneself to be the individual through which We perceive and act. Instead we must begin to perceive, feel, think, plan and act as the Whole System Oneself, recognizing all other humans as other vantage points and instruments through which Our unity perceive and acts, albeit currently distorted by the prevailing outdated conceptual system.<br /><br />As more and more recognize one another as different vantage points and instruments of the selfsame Universal Person, We will thus commune and cooperate with ever greater effectiveness, accelerating the processes that are already under way toward a future eternity of Our infinity.Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01969392700058841219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-90116391352320107272006-10-30T17:32:00.000-08:002006-10-30T17:32:00.000-08:00A P2P network is any person to person network.
Sh...A P2P network is any person to person network.<br /><br />Shaun, he's a response to another query that may help you:<br /><br />First you need to permeate the consciousness of existing models with a post-scarcity, enlightened view of interdependence and interpenetration (there are no closed systems in nature) by having a voice on the corporate boards. The best way to do that is by buying your way in and showing the other directors a better way that will enhance the life of the whole (the planetary organism of which we are all interwoven), move away from an atomistic relationship between the company and its client partners (the public), and eventually <br />changing laws providing the tool called a corporation with human rights which duplicate what the individual owners already possess. This is a doubling of power and voice that is against the community interest and leads to ego dysfunction (power/greed/fear of inadequacy/fear of lack -- all <br />different masks of the same mechanism).<br /><br />The best place to begin is with the banks who fund all wars, etc. You know my view on this. They provide the context/meaning within which everything else must perform and artificially induce scarcity. Now I recognize how counter-intuitive this idea is, and how to many it represents a paradox. Nevertheless, we cannot try another way within the existing thought system <br />which is programmed for hoarding and gluttony. Even though Mr. Berkshire Hathaway and Mr. Microsoft are allocating billions to their non-profits (the contributions arr tax deductable), the effects of their predatory tactics on people that made them rich will never, in my view, be equalized by the "gifts." Hence, their "philanthropy" still exists and enhances the belief in predatory practices and scarcity... But I digress.<br /><br />Vast amounts of economic capital are held in international pension funds and stocks -- man, many times exceeding what the High Net worth Individuals own or control. By using P2P networks to organize individuals to sign on and agree to <br />direct the power of their pension funds and stock proxies to a non-profit mutual corporation or social enterprise in which they held shares, would permit the ascendance of directors from that group and begin shifting the <br />center of gravity away from the scarcity model over a period of time. Is this clear?<br /><br />In essence, nothing has to be raised. It is a shift in the intent that directs the voting power of existing stock and pension funds to a higher purpose while maintaining precisely the same investments. Once the mutual organization gains enough participation, it can then offer to buy existing stocks by becoming a repository for pension funds that are afforded levels <br />of protection now unseen in most nations, in essence reaching the point where we can direct capital flows and conrol banks. And then create one. As this happens, war industries will find that it is more advantageous to shift manufacturing into humane industries or they will find little or no funding. Warring governments will find it more difficult to fund pre-emptive war debt. Most war is economic anyway. Taxes will be lowered -- something everyone wants and benefits from. Media can be bought and half the cost of <br />elections can be eliminated by giving candidates free time. The balance of power in Congress and its correct relationship to the people can be restored. As this process of assigning the voice of stock and pension money to the enterprise continues, it can issue a type of stock to everyone on the <br />planet using the planet as collateral. This stock would enable a loan of $250,000, say, and could be used for anything over the course of a person's life. <br /><br />That's the big picture. Then we have a system that includes everyone, is increasingly free of war, the capitalists can still make their money because the taxing of action at all levels and the energy that previously was directed into atomism and opposition, will now be redirected to a win-win-win relationship. Plus the value of their stocks will rise.<br /><br />The synergies of such a system would be breathtaking.<br /><br />That's my idea of how to get from here to there. People simply assign voting power of their money to a global P2P mutual association (etc.) to gradually take control. If people see that it will make no difference in their immediate financial picture, and can drop out at any time, why wouldn't they subscribe to a breathtaking vision to eliminate war and awaken <br />from the scarcity nightmare? In terms of the High Networth Individuals, as long as their wealth is not threatened, I believe through gentle suasion and <br />love they can be brought along. Although with the socio-psychopathetic ego there will always be dieased actions.<br /><br />As with most things of this sort, the question of how? comes to down to communication and language. People already know the system we have is killing people and the planet and is programmed to do so until its all over. If people can be shown a way out, I believe the human energy will organize around something like this very quickly. It requires a communication plan <br />and a message. That's what's missing.William Brandon Shanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11318265987158163576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-80286344863117672602006-10-27T00:17:00.000-07:002006-10-27T00:17:00.000-07:00Yes you are right about the bankers. Now, please ...Yes you are right about the bankers. Now, please help me understand how you use a P2P network to 'organize' this?<br /><br />The only P2P network I've used allowed me to download files from another users computer that they share.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08475839561016812640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-56729674030499666602006-10-26T13:39:00.000-07:002006-10-26T13:39:00.000-07:00Shaun, I'll reply to you, but first I'd like to in...Shaun, I'll reply to you, but first I'd like to invite Rob James to contact me at w.shanley@sbcglobal.net.<br /><br />Shaun, I'm unclear about your statement about tools. But my take on tools goes like this. Tools, science, patterns, communication, creativity... these are all aspects of creation. Man's discovery of fire, for instance, was in discovering nature's nature. And, perhaps the same thing happened with the lever. The idea likely came from man’s use of the hand. Now this is not imagination. This is perception, or even more precisely, knowledge. Imagination comes into play in creativity and projection. But that's a huge subject for another discussion.<br /><br />Yes, the non-profit structure is a good one, although many have become highly predatory. I like mutual social enterprises in which everyone participates. <br /><br />The point about money is this. We the people gave our right to issue money away in 1913--and our representatives also passed the income tax to pay for it. This is the secret of the international money flow game. Governments go into debt to banks and do so by promising to pay back bonds with tax revenue. Wars are between money interests within a scarcity model.<br /><br />We can dissolve the Fed or buy it anytime we the people so choose. We can even make money free. Perhaps with the Internet it would be possible to start such a revolution. For why should the people of the US, as just one example on the planet, pay hundreds of billions of dollars a year in interest to the folks to whom we have given the right to issue us our own money? Not to mention the fact that we bailed out Citibank and other banks to the tune of $50 billion in Mexico, $20 billion in Russia, $20 billion in Argentina… and Brazil… and the Pacific rim. We also paid out a trillion to bail out the S & L's in the 80's which would likely be double that figure today. <br /><br />There would be no war without our existing banking behavior. The banks and the corporations have now swallowed governments whole. That's why you have a global drift toward authoritarianism and fascist corporatism. <br /><br />If the banks chose not to provide loans to war industries, there would be no weapons to fight with. Then we could save tens of trillions from defense, save a like amount as the $3 trillion our relationship with Israel has cost us in oil embargoes, war and aid since WWII… global conflagration over the war with the entire Arab world…<br /><br />And so the story goes...<br /><br />Now, my point is this. Deposited in banks is our money. Even without taking away the central banks' right to issue money, we own the deposits and can withdraw the money anytime we wish or use them deposits as collateral. We also own the all the other corporations (media, hospitals.. everything except private businesses), individually and collectively, too, and also through pension funds, IRAs... you get the picture.<br /><br />Now if we were to organize through P2P networks a new mutual social enterprise in which everyone has a share, request our members to transfer shareholder voting rights and control of stocks and pensions, etc., to the organization so we could act as one body, we can control the corporations, ensure that they behave in accordance with community standards, control the media, take back control of the Congress, stop funding war and war industries, stop paying exorbitant interest rates on credit cards and other debt by founding as one part of the mutual social enterprise a people's bank -- this is the solution I see as an intermediate stage as we work to eventually eliminate money in a networked world. <br /><br />Every person born on Earth is a steward of this dominion. The value of the dominion is priceless. And so is the value of the stewards. And their values are also beyond measure. We need to use these values to drive the quantitative system as we simultaneously move beyond a scarcity model.<br /><br />We need to move to a model wherein each person at birth is issued a line of credit of $100,000 or more for education, housing, starting a business -- whatever that person chooses. The funds can be repaid over that person’s lifetime – or sooner. And the mutual association I have described can issue to money to do it. Everyone born will have a share in the association. When the funds are repaid, they will become fully endowed members who are owners of the collective although its hares cannot be sold or transferred. <br /><br />In this way, we can envision a new, transformative order in which I am convinced we can create a utopia where there is enough for everyone and where everyone is free to create according to their bliss.<br /><br />Oh, what a world will we have then!William Brandon Shanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11318265987158163576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-34982308883896361072006-10-22T21:32:00.000-07:002006-10-22T21:32:00.000-07:00In response to Bohm's ideas on imagination. I wan...In response to Bohm's ideas on imagination. I wanted talk about perception of reality to the process of creating imagination into perception or reality. From the beginning of our known perception of man evolving to use tools. We have evolved from this 'firery' existence to kill animals and cook them to our now being. Ancient men thought their abilitys were granted from the Gods of the sky, for they existed in a sense of infinite land. Even Newtonian ideals were binded to the supreme existence of God. And in quantum physics and thought there is a relationship to spirit. Our conscience is moving from the grasp of the earth to the universe. One way to put the idea of imagination of tools from 'meme' messages or the first illusion of a tool for men was a product of the imagination and thus a delusion or product of God, the ultimate delusion.<br /><br />Now if we talk about taking evolution into the hands of humans. Once the animal becomes aware of evolution it will choose how to evolve. Ideally the earthly utopia is wanted. Yes the idea of bringing this into existence is complex and ultimately undefinitive, but to move beyond suffering will require taking control of our ideas and systems and creating a new reality. <br /><br />The first step I believe is creating a network of not for profit organizations. I would like to hear more about this and how to bring the wealth of elites into the hands of all people. We must move past the baby-boom perception of the Golden rule that he who has the gold makes the rules. A new urban reality should not be linked with consumption, but with social entertainment and interaction. The ideals we shall pursue are the right to life liberty and pursuit of happiness for all people.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08475839561016812640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-51030042974060822082006-10-20T02:25:00.000-07:002006-10-20T02:25:00.000-07:00Hello David and Rob:
Thank you for the feedback.
...Hello David and Rob:<br /><br />Thank you for the feedback.<br /><br />I use the word elites, not as a pejorative, but to describe those who have historically ascribed to themselves to role of creating and maintaining a hierarchy that goes far beyond providing for one's family. They are, in fact, elites. Is is the actions of the elites which are having a negative impact, not the fact that they happen to be wealthy, or whatever measure you choose to use.<br /><br />Today, we see the role of the elites in maintaining the administration of George Bush, for example, even when everything he touches is destroyed, crumbles or dies, even the Golden Goose itself: the U.S. Constitution. The mainstream media hardly blinked when habeas corpus was eliminated and torture legalized in recent days. There was almost no public debate or coverage of these unconstitutional acts which threaten our very system and obliterated democratic principles preceding the Magna Carta.<br /><br />The fact that this psycopath still has 37% support in the U.S. can only be explained by coherence between Bush's policies and the interests of the elites. This entire 13th century oil war scenario being fought by primitives at enormous cost in human life an treasure, as well as the fact that both political parties in the US support this travesty, is yet another example of the role of the elites in determining government actions to maintain the status quo.<br /><br />I think one needs examine what I call the System. It is an egoic organism which operates with one meaning: to maintain, create or increase wealth of quantities of material and power over them. It is essentially blind to human suffering and is responsible for all wars and depressions. (I have a huge arsenal of material to support this that I prepared for Bill Moyers and will share with you if you request it.)<br /><br />At the top of the pyramid are the global bankers, insiders, and largely hidden operators who fund all wars (all sides simultaneously), control all governments and economies. This is the Cabal. This group would include people like the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, Warburgs, and other owners of the Fed and most central banks, including George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, who while an investment banker with Averall Harriman at Brown Brothers Harriman, did business with the Nazis throughout WWII, as did IBM, Ford, Standard Oil and many others. The irony is that the year after this was revealed, Bush was elected as U.S. Senator from Connecticut.<br /><br />The Cabal operates what I call the Complex, which consists of banking, media, military, national security, industrial, and goverment industries and leaders. Through laws and business practices, control of markets and flows, covening and funding of organzations like the CFR and Business Roundtable, the Complex operates and maintain the Scarcity Matrix within which the Consumers exist (notice I didn't say people, or citizens). For as it is only as consumers that people represent any value to the Complex. Governments and people who do not cohere with the meaning of the System are either exiled, side-lined, made dysfunctional, driven into poverty or insanity, or otherwise eliminated through sometimes gansterish tactics.<br /><br />In terms of quantifications of wealth, these are indeed evanescent and elusive. I've been conducting research and writing news and documentary scripts for years. In one instance, I uncovered secret arms shipments to Saddam Hussein by the Reagan and Thatcher goverments in the 80's in violation of weapons embargoes in both the US and Britain. Bu I have never encountered such difficulty anything as I have in trying to assess global wealth. I've communicated with top economists at NYU and Yale, and they all claim "the numbers do not exist." Now, frankly, I find this to be impossible to believe. The Bank of International Settlements, the G-8, Extremely High Net Worth Individuals, the IMF, the World bank, the Fed, and other central banks, must know, but the numbers are either unavailable or inaccessible. So, I've done my best to estimate, and at least one Yale economist I spoke to thought the $500 trillion figure was probably a fair approximation.<br /><br />But the only purpose for this number is to prove to those who do not assign any value to the virtually unlimited non-commodized product, labor, intellectual and spirit capital on the planet, the not yet commoditized natural resources of the planet, or the value of the infinite in the non-physical, that there is indeed sufficent abundance to birth an entirely new economic order which can include everyone.<br /><br />Even with a hard number, count on people attacking that it, too. Such is the addiction to scarcity. Huge segments of global societies and cultures make their livings by feeding off the scarcity myth:most non-profits, NGOs, large swaths of goverment agencies, the UN, global relief agencies. All of these, I predict, will fight a new order in the same way the adoption agencies in Mali or wherever it is are attacking Madonna for adopting one child out of hundreds of thousands of AIDS babies with no future because she is transcending their meddling role. But I am digressing...<br /><br />In closing, I do not want to indict anyone, but it is necessary to distinguish for readers and/or viewers the meanings, dynamics and behaviors which are generating and regenrating the System which is killing us all. And that, as such, requires exposing the ones who are at the controls in maintaining war and unimaginable human suffering. <br /><br />Then we must pivot from that to examining the authenticity of the scarcity model, and move to a discussion of how to unfold the new reality. I do believe an earthly utopia is our collective destiny.<br /><br />I'll be happy to correspond with you about a documentary and book.<br /><br />Please write to me at w.shanley@sbcglobal.net.<br /><br />Thank you.William Brandon Shanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11318265987158163576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-91325558523976563232006-10-16T23:34:00.000-07:002006-10-16T23:34:00.000-07:00i like this article although readerbility especial...i like this article although readerbility especially of quotations is an issue.<br /><br />I would also like to collaborate on a book/documentary.<br /><br />The previous comment about elites is right, ie. that a slightly revised argument will not focus on this.<br /><br />And clearly examples of abundance are required...<br /><br />my suggestion is that five specific categories of economic activity are addressed using the physics-abundance theory...clearly economic calculations will be carefully scrutinised...as per your examples, finance, energy, food, education, governance...rjrob jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03925042230172036381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3646840800697105045.post-3575882375228227632006-10-15T12:16:00.000-07:002006-10-15T12:16:00.000-07:00William,
There is much in common between your vie...William,<br /><br />There is much in common between your view and much of the materials I have written. You make a request for people to assist in a book or documentary about these topics and I would like to explore that further.<br /><br />Two points I would make:<br /><br />1. Use of the term elites is counterproductive as it intends the assignment of blame to those who understood the operation of the scarcity matrix and did what they needed to do to provide for their families. There is no need to assign blame as the Age of Infinity is an unmitigated benefit for all humans - elite or not.<br /><br />2. I think you understand that the change will not be implemented through government edict (as evidenced by your give/get work). We will need to first "create" systems of producing abundance, through which the age of infinity is demonstrated, and through that process, the political will to support systems of abundance can be developed.David Bradenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02731117063956149909noreply@blogger.com