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DividedQuantum
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The Declaration of Evolution
#23803672 - 11/05/16 03:13 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Declaration of Evolution
When in the course of organic evolution it becomes obvious that a mutational process is inevitably dissolving the physical and neurological bonds which connect the members of one generation to the past and inevitably directing them to assume among the species of Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a decent concern for the harmony of species requires that the causes of the mutation should be declared.
We hold these truths to be self evident:
- That all species are created different but equal;
- That they are endowed, each one, with certain inalienable rights;
- That among them are Freedom to Live, Freedom to Grow, and Freedom to pursue Happiness in their own style;
- That to protect these God-given rights, social structures naturally emerge, basing their authority on the principles of love of God and respect for all forms of life;
- That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of life, liberty, and harmony, it is the organic duty of the young members of that species to mutate, to drop out, to initiate a new social structure, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its power in such form as seems likely to produce the safety, happiness, and harmony of all sentient beings.
Genetic wisdom, indeed, suggests that social structures long established should not be discarded for frivolous reasons and transient causes. The ecstasy of mutation is equally balanced by the pain. Accordingly all experience shows that members of a species are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, rather than to discard the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, all pursuing invariably the same destructive goals, threaten the very fabric of organic life and the serene harmony of the planet, it is the right, it is the organic duty to drop out of such morbid covenants and to evolve new loving social structures.
Such has been the patient sufferance of the freedom-loving peoples of this earth, and such is now the necessity which constrains us to form new systems of government.
The history of the white, menopausal, mendacious men now ruling the planet earth is a history of repeated violation of the harmonious laws of nature, all having the direct object of establishing a tyranny of the materialistic aging over the gentle, the peace-loving, the young, the colored. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to the judgement of generations to come.
- These old, white rulers have maintained a continuous war against other species of life, enslaving and destroying at whim fowl, fish, animals and spreading a lethal carpet of concrete and metal over the soft body of earth.
- They have maintained as well a continual state of war among themselves and against the colored races, the freedom-loving, the gentle, the young. Genocide is their habit.
- They have instituted artificial scarcities, denying peaceful folk the natural inheritance of earth's abundance and God's endowment.
- They have glorified material values and degraded the spiritual.
- They have claimed private, personal ownership of God's land, driving by force of arms the gentle from passage on the earth.
- In their greed they have erected artificial immigration and customs barriers, preventing the free movement of people.
- In their lust for control they have set up systems of compulsory education to coerce the minds of the children and to destroy the wisdom and innocence of the playful young.
- In their lust for power they have controlled all means of communication to prevent the free flow of ideas and to block loving exchanges among the gentle.
- In their fear they have instituted great armies of secret police to spy upon the privacy of the pacific.
- In their anger they have coerced the peaceful young against their will to join their armies and to wage murderous wars against the young and gentle of other countries.
- In their greed they have made the manufacture and selling of weapons the basis of their economies.
- For profit they have polluted the air, the rivers, the seas.
- In their impotence they have glorified murder, violence, and unnatural sex in their mass media.
- In their aging greed they have set up an economic system which favors age over youth.
- They have in every way attempted to impose a robot uniformity and to crush variety, individuality, and independence of thought.
- In their greed, they have instituted political systems which perpetuate rule by the aging and force youth to choose between plastic conformity or despairing alienation.
- They have invaded privacy by illegal search, unwarranted arrest, and contemptuous harassment.
- They have enlisted an army of informers.
- In their greed they sponsor the consumption of deadly tars and sugars and employ cruel and unusual punishment of the possession of life-giving alkaloids and acids.
- They never admit a mistake. They unceasingly trumpet the virtue of greed and war. In their advertising and in their manipulation of information they make a fetish out of blatant falsity and pious self-enhancement. Their obvious errors only stimulate them to greater error and noisier self-approval.
- They are bores.
- They hate beauty.
- They hate sex.
- They hate life.
We have warned them from time to time to their inequities and blindness. We have addressed every available appeal to their withered sense of righteousness. We have tried to make them laugh. We have prophesied in detail the terror they are perpetuating. But they have been deaf to the weeping of the poor, the anguish of the colored, the rocking mockery of the young, the warnings of their poets. Worshipping only force and money, they listen only to force and money. But we shall no longer talk in these grim tongues.
We must therefore acquiesce to genetic necessity, detach ourselves from their uncaring madness and hold them henceforth as we hold the rest of God's creatures - in harmony, life brothers, in their excess, menaces to life.
We, therefore, God-loving, peace-loving, life-loving, fun-loving men and women, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Universe for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the Authority of all sentient beings who seek gently to evolve on this planet, solemnly publish and declare that we are free and independent, and that we are absolved from all Allegiance to the United States Government and all governments controlled by the menopausal, and that grouping ourselves into tribes of like-minded fellows, we claim full power to live and move on the land, obtain sustenance with our own hands and minds in the style which seems sacred and holy to us, and to do all Acts and Things which independent Freemen and Freewomen may of right do without infringing on the same rights of other species and groups to do their own thing.
And for the support of this Declaration of Evolution with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, and serenely confident of the approval of generations to come, in whose name we speak, do we now mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.
by Dr. Timothy Leary, Ph.D.
http://deoxy.org/dec_evo.htm
I've always thought this was a hoot, and just felt I'd share it with the assumption that some here may not have seen it before.
What do you like about it? What would you change?
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phio


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If you create a post like this, always share your views please...
Given easily reference-able example, Why do you think its a Hoot? What do you like about it? What would you change?
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Seeking power, possession, control, and influence (Western culture) lacks and misses out greatly w.r.t to spiritual knowledge and natural knowledge.
The focus in American culture centers on manifestation and manipulation. The ills with western society are rooted as such.
By all means, if you subscribe to other frames of thought, live it out as such and don't become a product or supporter of such a system.
However, many are products and supporters... Many are unaware. Many are aware and chose to embrace it because it benefits them. Which is why western culture exists.. It is a summation of a collective who actively choses to live a certain way.
The warnings of where such paths lead have been stated 1000s of years ago and all throughout Human history. Given all of the warnings and clear manifest consequences in an ever increasing age of information, one seemingly actively choses such paths due to perceived personal benefits and followers support it and walk down such paths behind their leaders because of perceived benefits.
Is it bad that the world is given an example of the ruins of such paths and excesses? In a way, such manifestations help others open their eyes to the evils of the world and those present in themselves. A such, they are better equipped at avoiding them. So, Are such examples a bad thing?
Much of what was stated is on the mark and is indicative of the lost souls who tend to rise to power in this world. You should realize something deep about this truth.
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DividedQuantum
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Re: The Declaration of Evolution [Re: phio]
#23803810 - 11/05/16 04:08 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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phio said: If you create a post like this, always share your views please...
Pretty bossy for someone who's been around a month.
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Given easily reference-able example, Why do you think its a Hoot? What do you like about it? What would you change?
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Seeking power, possession, control, and influence (Western culture) lacks and misses out greatly w.r.t to spiritual knowledge and natural knowledge.
The focus in American culture centers on manifestation and manipulation. The ills with western society are rooted as such.
By all means, if you subscribe to other frames of thought, live it out as such and don't become a product or supporter of such a system.
However, many are products and supporters... Many are unaware. Many are aware and chose to embrace it because it benefits them. Which is why western culture exists.. It is a summation of a collective who actively choses to live a certain way.
The warnings of where such paths lead have been stated 1000s of years ago and all throughout Human history. Given all of the warnings and clear manifest consequences in an ever increasing age of information, one seemingly actively choses such paths due to perceived personal benefits and followers support it and walk down such paths behind their leaders because of perceived benefits.
Is it bad that the world is given an example of the ruins of such paths and excesses? In a way, such manifestations help others open their eyes to the evils of the world and those present in themselves. A such, they are better equipped at avoiding them. So, Are such examples a bad thing?
Much of what was stated is on the mark and is indicative of the lost souls who tend to rise to power in this world. You should realize something deep about this truth.
I'm having some trouble following your seemingly abstract logic. I think it is a hoot because it's spot on, very Leary-esque, and amusingly (and pretty closely) paralleled with the American Declaration of Independence.
I agree that Western culture stifles spirituality in many ways. I disagree that people are actively choosing to live the way that they do. It's an entrenched cultural milieu that people are born into, and learn at the expense of just about any other way to live. Human culture is far larger and more determinant than individual decision-making, and no person or group in the world has any control over it.
In the end, I think Leary's document is fun, witty, and on the mark. That's why I posted it and I hope some others who haven't seen it get a chance to do so.
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What about an organisms freedom to die?
The 'rights' of life are that you get to live, these rest of the rights we enjoy that make our lives comfortable are of human construct and only recently have we developed rights for blacks, women and those of different sexualities.
And America is basically an open Oligarchy which isn't anything new.
Instead of all the God praising and fluffy language I'd change the script to give an explanation for why people should vote for progressive candidates and senators.
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"Western culture stifles spirituality" The same culture that allows freedom of religion? Thousands of flavors of Christianity and other Abrahamic religions, Witchcraft, Satanism, Buddhism, Janism, Voodoo, etc. etc. "Spiritualism" as a specific belief set has been in America for centuries, entertaining the likes of John Astor, and Lincoln's wife. Nobody tried to run them out of town. For the most part if you're not trying to blatantly subvert the constitution or the will of the individual very few people will give a rats ass what type of spirituality you're into. If there's a perception that this culture has stifled spirituality then at best it's just a commentary on the nature of humanity and not exclusively a white Western issue. At worst the idea that Western culture stifles spirituality is a piss poor excuse for a lack of creative thinking and a lazy attitude towards life. Democracy arose thousands of years ago in what could be argued a white region. The modern notions of individual liberty and human rights arose in France and America.
Painting white people as somehow more evil than others is racist, BTW. It perpetuates ethnic strife and ignores all the human rights issues in non colored regions of Earth. This type of selective reasoning is poor philosophy.
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Re: The Declaration of Evolution [Re: Rahz]
#23804099 - 11/05/16 05:41 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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You know that even whales have different cultures.. Sperm whale groups each have distinctive dialects of sonar ticks.
Culture has more to do the traditions of a society than anything else.
It's a fact that racism still exists in the world within all races and ethnicities, the best one can do is to love themselves and not be filled with hate.
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phio


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DividedQuantum said: Pretty bossy for someone who's been around a month.

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DividedQuantum said: I'm having some trouble following your seemingly abstract logic.
You shouldn't.. It ties directly in with Leary's commentary just with more historic and metaphysical reach. Leary laid out all of the details.. Branches and leaves. I provided you with a root.
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DividedQuantum said: I think it is a hoot because it's spot on, very Leary-esque, and amusingly (and pretty closely) paralleled with the American Declaration of Independence.
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DividedQuantum said: I agree that Western culture stifles spirituality in many ways. I disagree that people are actively choosing to live the way that they do. It's an entrenched cultural milieu that people are born into, and learn at the expense of just about any other way to live. Human culture is far larger and more determinant than individual decision-making, and no person or group in the world has any control over it.
Meh. People tend to spend their time and resources where they believe there are perceived benefits for them. People support corrupt and flawed systems when there are perceived benefits for them. People accept cultures because there is less risk involved with being a part of a group vs an individual. As much as it seems people are helpless, they're not. Were intelligent conscious beings who make choices typically aligned with our own perceived benefits. If someone rigged the game such that choice 'x' results in you getting fucked and you chose 'x' because you think it fucks over someone else for your benefit, you're necessarily getting what you deserve.
Internet Age. Information Age. Intelligence Age.
Man is running out of time and excuses.
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DividedQuantum said: In the end, I think Leary's document is fun, witty, and on the mark. That's why I posted it and I hope some others who haven't seen it get a chance to do so.
As you have stated, his words have been reflected in previous material : American Declaration of Independence.
And before that it was reflected in works over 1000s of years old... Something that certain 'modern' societies chose to turn away from.. It was detailed what that result in so I don't see the problem... The society and culture suffer.
So, thousands of years of wisdom that is exampled by history gets a hoot in modern society ... People nod their head and continues on with their flawed ways...
There should be no surprise as to what comes next.
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Re: The Declaration of Evolution [Re: phio]
#23804140 - 11/05/16 05:53 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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“That all species are created different but equal;”
odd idealist idea— do zebras and lions and flies agree?
“That they are endowed, each one, with certain inalienable rights” again... do zebras and lions and flies agree?
“…duty of the young members of that species to mutate, to drop out, ..” contradiction in terms: ‘duty to dropout’ turns his agenda for so called freedom into a DUTY HE DEFINES
after this nonsense why go on… ? …
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Re: The Declaration of Evolution [Re: laughingdog]
#23804183 - 11/05/16 06:01 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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“That all species are created different but equal;”
Evolutionarily speaking I do agree with this one.
In the Universe there is no inalienable right to live. We are very lucky to be alive and should appreciate that instead of taking the fact for granted.
Animals don't decide to mutate so the 'duty' of an animal is BS. By living and reproducing the duty of life is fulfilled.
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Re: The Declaration of Evolution [Re: sudly]
#23804218 - 11/05/16 06:11 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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sudly said: You know that even whales have different cultures.. Sperm whale groups each have distinctive dialects of sonar ticks.
Culture has more to do the traditions of a society than anything else.
It's a fact that racism still exists in the world within all races and ethnicities, the best one can do is to love themselves and not be filled with hate.
That's not enough for progressive ideology. Ironic that many of those fighting for equality don't believe in it.
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Re: The Declaration of Evolution [Re: laughingdog]
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laughingdog said: “That all species are created different but equal;”
odd idealist idea— do zebras and lions and flies agree?
“That they are endowed, each one, with certain inalienable rights” again... do zebras and lions and flies agree?
“…duty of the young members of that species to mutate, to drop out, ..” contradiction in terms: ‘duty to dropout’ turns his agenda for so called freedom into a DUTY HE DEFINES
after this nonsense why go on… ? …
and I stopped before going into the guts of the mammals and the bacteria there that outnumber the mammal cells, to say nothing of the viruses and possibly prions as well as the parasites in the blood of both the mammals and insects... "rights"! my ass ...
Leary was a show off and wanted to be cute
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Re: The Declaration of Evolution [Re: Rahz]
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Rahz said:
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sudly said: You know that even whales have different cultures.. Sperm whale groups each have distinctive dialects of sonar ticks.
Culture has more to do the traditions of a society than anything else.
It's a fact that racism still exists in the world within all races and ethnicities, the best one can do is to love themselves and not be filled with hate.
That's not enough for progressive ideology. Ironic that many of those fighting for equality don't believe in it.
Yeah I think some people want equity.
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such a stoner, and so unrealistic, imagine the duty to mutate?
man, we cannot mutate at will.
it goes downhill from there. oh well.
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