>Oh come on, Richard! If you want to give me a living wage with no
>requirements I'll be happy to lose my "self-consistent context". Until
>then, most of us have to live in Samsara. In this world if you say
>"today
>I need to contemplate my conciousness" you get some wierd
>looks...believe
>me, I've tried to relate this. We are defined by our commitments. You
>can't just change who you are every second...people expect you to
>fullfill
>your contracts. If you consistently fail to do so you get ejected from
>the
>tribe. There ae no more frontiers, no more places to found a new
>colony.
>Someone owns all the space...you can't even subsist as a farmer
>anymore.
I definitely sense that what you say seems real to you, and yet I myself
have broken out of that particular box. I wrote about it in "Getting
Past OK."
Perhaps you would be interested in an essay written 150 years ago by
Ralph Waldo Emerson on that topic, entitled "Self Reliance." I have in
fact recently completed editing and updating that essay. I'll post a
relevant section.
>
>You are asking people to take a leap which will destroy their
>lives...on
>the promise that there is something on the other side. I don't have
>the
>savings, insurance, or saftey net to protect me when I crash...I doubt
>you
>are going to pick up the pieces. You sound like a Boomer saying "just
>invest in stocks and everything will turn out fine...it did for me..."
The only thing that will be destroyed is your ego. And what a relief!
>
>Invest what?
Your life, baby, your life.
Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com +1.206.688.8600
CEO, Brodie Technology Group, Inc., Bellevue, WA, USA
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
Do you know what a "meme" is?
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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