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True Knowledge...

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21:08 / 24.10.05

Life is a process of breaking down and using other matter, and if need be, other life. Therefore, life is aggression, and successful life is successful aggression. Life is the scum of matter, and people are the scum of life. There is nothing but matter, forces, space and time, which together make power. Nothing matters, except what matters to you. Might makes right, and power makes freedom. You are free to do whatever is in your power, and if you want to survive and thrive you had better do whatever is in your interests. If your interests conflict with those of others, let the others pit their power against yours, everyone for theirselves. If your interests coincide with those of others, let them work together with you, and against the rest. We are what we eat, and we eat everything.

All that you really value, and the goodness and truth and beauty of life, have their roots in this apparently barren soil.

This is the true knowledge.

We had founded our idealism on the most nihilistic implications of science, our socialism on crass self-interest, our peace on our capacity for mutual destruction, and our liberty on determinism. We had replaced morality with convention, bravery with safety, frugality with plenty, philosophy with science, stoicism with anaesthetics and piety with immortality. The universal acid of the true knowledge had burned away a world of words, and exposed a universe of things.

Things we could use

This is the "true knowledge" the philosophy on which the communistic and libertarian society in the 'Cassini Division' by Ken Macleod - at first glance it seems to be a combination of classical marxian communism, and randian objectivism...

So any thoughts, comments, etc?

00:10 / 26.10.05

Seems... quaint?

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01:36 / 26.10.05

Ayn Rand meets the Discovery Channel?

19:37 / 11.12.05

seems a fallacious argument to me: conflates the concept of power as some authorisation to submit others to your political will with the biological happenstance of our existence that we need to consume other matter for sustenance (and in such transactions the matter of other beings' flesh may constitute dinner).

but that doesn't seem to me to mean anythig more than that. in fact, it could be read as a tract forbidding any further imposition over other matter than is strictly necessary for biological survival.

hardly a grounds for a political ideology of nihilism. we exist as a herd animal to some extent and that is biology, not politics. any argument for a political stance can start from a biological exposition of how we as organsims inter-relate with our environment, including our fellows. let's start with cannabilism. it's there, let's eat it.

and doesn't the term 'true knowledge' strike one as uncomfortable, these two words together? if it is true, then it is true whether or not we know it. if it is knowledge, then it is so because we happen to know it. if we didn't happen to know it yet, it would still be 'true'. and there are many things we 'know' [or have 'known'] that are not true. an impotent epithet, no?

11:15 / 16.02.06

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:41 / 16.02.06

Saltation: Please to relate your quote, which I have never heard before, especially not within this bulletin board, but speaks of an eternal truth more beautiful than the shy petals of the edelweiss, to the discuss of knowledge above. Cheers.

17:20 / 16.02.06

o lo, it do come from a mage of power and of wizdum, he who am only be referred to by name or by reference: all-star blackbirdish. it relates to ALL discussions, as being universally applicatory at all circumstances but especially parking.

but specialifically, this discurse started with "Matter" and this quote does.

unfortunately i understand it poorly. "do what thou wilt" sayethed mr blackbirdish, but i do not know how to spinach.

18:10 / 16.02.06

(ah, barbelith is alive again after dying when i went to post: )

or to put it another way: the first 3 paras of this post equate to al's little ditty.

02:34 / 02.03.06

Yeh sounds like the bullshit philosophy that Neocons use as an excuse to rape the world.

Synergy anyone? Cooperation? Interconnectedness seems to be the "true knowledge" no?

As far as "Do what thout wilt..." we must take that within the context of other statements made by Mr.Crowley such as...

"act's invasive of another individual's equal rights are implicitly self-aggressions." and, "It is also excluded from 'as ye will' to compromise the liberty of another person indirectly, as by taking advantage of the ignorance or good faith of another person..."

18:24 / 02.03.06

Social Darwinism meets flowery writing? His whole argument seems to me to be a rehash of the law of the jungle, with the one exception that he somehow makes the miraculous jump from dog eat dog, kill or be killed, to his utopian land of plenty. Hate to be rude, but the 'True Knowledge' seems to me to be nothing more than a crock of shit.