On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 10:31:09PM +0000, jim bell wrote:
No, Mr. Busby, there is a Santa Claus. Dear Mr. Busby, On the Cypherpunks Archive web page, https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/blog/2018/07/05/the-cypherpunks-mailing-list-arch... , you said:
Are you getting excited now, Mr. Busby? It's only going to get more "real" from here on in. "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEEh0GF_C8 Jim Bell
Jim, and I say this with care and concern - you're off the reservation. It appears to some that you are not seeing things, which is human nature - we humans (!) tend to be NOT able to see everything. Sometimes others see things that we don't see. There are known reasons that we fail to see things. We fail to see things usually about ourselves, but also in the world, or generally. There are specific and well studied reasons why we humans sometimes don't see things. These reasons why we don't see things are closely related to the classical human "psychological" failings (passions of the mind, seven deadly sins etc): anger impatience pride lust greed slothfulness/ laziness envy/ jealousy vanity etc I have been "pulled up" in my thinking and words many times - including by folks on this here mailing list - thus my notable short supply of brown paper bags to hand out. Anger is a great driver for some people, especially when great wrongs have been done to them, either in childhood, and/ or as an adult. Anger can feel empowering, and it can empower us to commit evil against others, to engage in atrocities in the (possibly unseen) hope to release the angry feelz inside us that we feel. Anger is also one of the foundation causes for us to "not see the obvious", even when others may very clearly name for us (what to them is) the obvious point we're missing. Jim - it's time for you to listen up! This is really important. Even though some of the following you may not agree with! Folks around here have been trying REALLY hard to stay pleasant, and respectful, and constructive, towards you specifically. This includes everyone you rail against - me, Rayzer, Busby etc. Not seeing when people are going OUT OF THEIR WAY to help you, is a big warning sign to us, that you are unblanced (to say the least). More anger, will not solve your problems! You might try to identify within yourself and give up, as quickly as you are capable, a little bit of that pride and certainty you have! Then also give up some anger (all of it ideally). Folks round here want to make the world a better place - you may not see that, and we often (vehemently) disagree amongst ourselves on plenty of shit! But we share one thing in common - we want to see a better world, we want to figure out how to make a better world, how to fix some of the problems we see, we know, we suffer. Good luck,