The Pirate Bay

Intro:
I originally posted this on Wired to an article concerning the pirate bay trial. They seemed to have had balanced content concerning this, but the latest article I read seemed a bit interesting, to say the least. Who knows, it may change later, as these things can be updated.

I left a comment, the one below, (this article needed a registration to post a comment), but it did not go up. Its lengthy, but I did not see a character count this time so thought it would be fine…anyway – the article/comment below:

Main Intro:
Kind of strange to me – I was taken back by the title of this piece as well as to much of the content that followed.

Was this written by the people who just took pirate bay to court? Sounded like it for the most part.
Not sure what the exact problem is, but the mind is more accustomed to that which is tamed and controlled – vs. that which appears to be wild and chaotic.

I do admit, I may have well missed the point – perhaps it is that the write thought they were bringing on a revolution. But the model of non-hierarchical organization is new for many that are used to going through the food chain. (referring to the music industry vs. the universe…two guesses who is who.) lol

Polarities – {peace is when both sides meet:}
As usual there is a middle ground that meets between the two polarities.
Consider this, you watch t.v. for free. Naturally you would assume you could record it, especially after the VCR years.

T.v. is free – so whats the biggy…oh, the adverts.
Honestly, I may be the only one it seems, but I do not watch adverts, nor do I buy products from something I have seen. So in a way, the advertisers are wasting their money if everyone else is like me…but I guess its not the case. Must be everyone rushes down to the local shop for that latest deal.

Music & Film
Musicians are hurt by the industry – not from sharing. (Same as Video & film.)
As a video/film producer, lets consider this. If I were to produce a television series and get it accepted on a certain network, the fact is I would take almost no money home for the licensing fees given.

I clearly remember when all this stuff went down with Napster, etc. – and Madonna was like, “go get em and share my songs”. It was in the news…would not be surprised if it is no longer on the net. Not long after she was one of the staunch ones against sharing music. Fact is she probably got a good slap on the wrist – and people dont consider stars like her being under someone more influential…its ‘her music’ after all. (or is it?)

No, lets be honest. Greed and foolishness is what drives the music/film industry.
Ill give an example for each.

Whose stealing from who?
Some songs, no one will buy period. This is what happens when you see black and white and not the shades of grey that lead to each polarity. Instead of getting a basic fact that some songs, to some people, are only worth listening to for free, they saw $$$ signs that they interpreted into lost revenue. (No lost revenue, they just would not have listened to it.)

And, there is something to be said about Artist who are free from the industry and who do good with a loose model distribution. When its more real, energy flows. Your not expecting more than what you gave. Take the Beatles argument by the industry at this trial…how long does someone expect something in return from the energy they put out…when most of them are already dead? Thats the ego…its not from lack or necessity, they are well taken care of. But fear sets in and the belief that all will fall apart if we adapt this mentality…for as a wild forest, we cannot understand it…we cannot control it.

Warners stifling creativity:
As for the video Industry, look no further than Warner Bros.
I personally have a beef with them – well not really – but they seem to lack the creative spark needed to properly run a business and generate new potential revenue streams. Despite their sister company having shown some creativity with L.O.T.R. and its distribution packaging model, etc.

Harry Potter comes to mind when I think of Warner.
Not only did the idea of an extended movie not come to their minds – see above comment – but they decided to release a film that should have been out last Nov., until this June/July because…to paraphrase…”we are not creative and want to make sure we have a blockbuster”.

Oh god, are you serious? I just could not believe that. And then they blame it on the writers strike.
Here is the worlds smallest violin playing, and no I want even give you that honour. lol

And now they are going to split the movie into two parts, and over two years. (Yes, I know, I know, its too long…forget that your sister company New Line could figure out how to do a long feature.)

Now, see, all of this is not personal. There is no person I am pointing a finger at.
The organization shows a collective issue of the people who are in it. And I have no qualms with them either.
This is more of a pointer to a different way then what is now, because if they continue down that path – they will find it leads to a dead end. (But they are free to traverse that path.)

Conclusion:
So, we have a balance here…nothing wrong with structure, but no need for putting a tie on and choking the idea. Nothing wrong with natural chaos, the forest has an intelligence that our minds can never grasp…and in short, our limited understanding scares us, and we operate out of fear. As simple as this sounds, its fear that drives, typically both sides, until one side flips and the other side becomes what its rival was. – Interesting how this happens.

I would love to see some innovation into the new way of distribution that I have hinted at.
But for now, its one step at a time, and its all beginning right here in each of us. We are what make up the collective conscious that drives the world.

Peace

dAlen

P.s.
Sharing or stealing.
The last I understood it, people who steal do not share what they have – and actually take something from someone else.

The torrent sites, etc. are a community of people sharing files…that still exist from wherever they came from. And they are the same people who pay for independent artist work, etc.

Again, understand how contracts and license work out and see that no one is getting robbed…though if anyone is, its the artist by the distributor.
Those who point fingers and wave them vigorously, typically have something to hide. – you guys dont have me fooled.

“Fool me once, shame on you” – “Fool me…cant get fooled again” – G.W. Bush.

Industry of Death: 42K+ Die Yearly…

update:
Even recently, one of the leading causes of death – actually #3 – was medical treatment.
Go figure… Time to Educate, not legislate…

Intro:
You feeling depressed? Here is a pill…
You feeling nervous? Here is a pill…
You feeling happy? (cant have that), here is a pill…

A pill for everything, and none of it works!My personal story with O.C.D. – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

“Know Thyself!” Is the Solution…
Anything beyond that will not bring freedom, but dependence.
How do you go about ‘knowing yourself?”
Try listening to the audio book by Eckhart Tolle – A New Earth.
(A great start…nothing to believe, but a down to earth guide to why we tick how we do – and best of all – how to consciously make a change.)

Making a Killing: The Psychotropic Drug Scam
Check out the below videos -
#1) This video does not really show a person, who is depended upon Psychotropic Drugs, how to go beyond them – it merely is showing that they are not the solution.

The key lies to the understanding of why we are in the mess to begin with, so we can see how to get out. (Again, I reference you to the above link if this is what you are looking for.)

Without further ado, the videos:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

Part 5:

Part 6: Big Money – well… not for you -

Part 7: Targeting the Children – and you

Part 8: Side Effects

Part 9: Death Awaits You

Part 10: You are What you Eat – Misdiagnosis

Conclusion:
Makes you wonder why they are making nature illegal doesnt it.

…of course, doesnt anyone see the irony in that?
It could never be so – only an illusion to those that take for granted what is told to them from an outside source. – we are all connected to the same power source that created everything.

Time to reclaim your power back…no? The choice is yours – and always has been…only you can walk through the door ‘Neo’, I can only point to it.

Peace

dAlen

p.s.
So often we get lost in pointers – the videos are a pointer.
You want to solve the problem? It wont be through conflict, but of an understanding of why you are where you are and from there you can have the tool to get out.
Again, take a look at the audio book, “A New Earth”.

Personally, I recommend Audio books as so much is lost from the intent of the author in words alone. (For me, I prefer the CDs to the lowly compressed audio in iTunes.)

Rowling on the defense again. {lessons of ego}

Intro:
BBC Article

I dont get it, well I do, but lets have a look at it.

When you come up with an idea, its in free space.
She owns Harry Potter no more than I do. If we are truly all connected, then all this “you are viloating my rights” is really kind of schizophrenic – as there is not you.

For most this concept is out there…so I will say yes I think there is a place for someone, like Rowling, to make money off of her work – but to what degree is it hers. This can be looked at, perhaps with more ease, by taking a look at the music industry.

Wired:
I read an article, forgot source, I think it was wired, that basically said that the music companies claim an eternal ownership of promo cds, If I understood the article correctly, and that you dont have the right to throw them away, etc.

Yep, it was an article from Wired.

This stuff is really summed up with one word, “Insane”.

With Rowling it appears that she had approved of an online encyclopedia of the Harry Potter World – well approved in that it did not seem to bother her. But when the person wanted to take the info and make a book out of it…oh my, it “infringes on my rights…” – well she did want to right a book and this may affect sales, although she claims money is not the issue.

I believe her.
I think she is so attached to Harry Potter…that she is not quite seeing clearly.

Im not trying to be rude, so let me put it another way.
Parents when they give birth can be not only over protective, but they can tend to act as if they ‘own the child’. They were the vessel in which the child came into the world, and they are the means in how that child will be raised and the environment in which they will learn and grow up…but they dont own the kid.

But actions, way into the adult life of the kid, shows that they indeed take that stance, even if unconsciously, that they somehow ‘own’ (for lack of better terms) the child.

The child is its own:
Once something is birthed its now its own.
In the case of Harry Potter, how I approach Harry is not necessarily how she approaches it.
She was amazed how so many people liked snape, back when she tried her best to paint him black…well first they liked the actor and that played a role in how they perceived snape.

Just like a child, she had not control how the audience perceived her work, her creation.

The story is what the individual makes of it:
Truth is, she is not that great of a writer. (Well, dont get me wrong, Im not even claiming to be a writer). I find that the beauty of her work is what I take into it when reading it, and what I get from the movies created by the producers/directors and again my perception of it.

I will say it again, because the point is simple, though I dont feel I can properly get it out the way I would like. And that is, once the idea is birthed, its owned by the collective.

Funny, there is a movie called “Troll”, I believe made in 1986, which had the main character, if Im not mistaken, whose name was also Harry Potter (Jr.)
This is pre-Rowling, and now the guy wants to remake the movie.

Sure you could argue to ride off of the J.K. Rowling Harry Potter success, but I dont think that alone would do enough to drive it.

Another Harry…pre-Rowling Potter.
Warner has either threatened to or is suing him if he goes forward with making the remake, saying they will stick to their claims to Harry Potter.

Well, hate to say it, but no one owns the name Harry Potter.
Its a name for crying out loud!

Now J.K. Rowling claimed she never read “Troll” (but did she know of it?)…
You know, when there is an idea, it usually pops up somewhere across the world.
I remember as a kid coming up with the wackiest name, “whatcha-ma-call-it” and then not long after they made a candy bar with that name. Now my mom was convinced I had just saw the commercial and forgotten.

100 Monkeys:
But lets look at the 100 monkeys.
What is it…I believe the concept is that after a certain point, say 100 monkeys learn something new, all of a sudden all the other monkeys already know it.

Forget about the 100 monkeys, I have seen quite a few times where one idea would pop up in a country in science, and supposedly it was secret, and then they find out that another country found the same thing…and then they are amazed.

Im telling you, and you dont have to believe me, but there is something to this quantum entanglement.

Conclusion:
But what does this have to do…or rather, how does this solve Ms. Rowling woes?
Well it doesnt, until she realizes that she needs to let the bird fly…its a gift to the world and she is not going to ‘miss’ anything.

The fear is there and it ends up running a persons life.
As she claims she has lost inspiration to write a Harry Potter Encyclopedia now, and has stopped writing some other book she had started due to this issue bothering her.

See, her life, is now being wasted, so to speak, because she is living with some tight identity around something that does not really belong to her. Again, if I have not made my point clear above in what I mean, then this will be taken the normal way that the mind sees things, such as, “well it is hers because…” but anyway…

Attachment to form, this includes thought form, is ego – and it doesnt really help anyone get anywhere. If she would let it go then the universe would take care of the situation, and perhaps she would see/realize that there is no situation to be taken care of.

Peace

dAlen

Tribute to Larry Norman (founder of modern christian music)

Intro: Christian music of the devil?
Most of you have not a clue who he is…but back in the days the church would have died to hear most of the music being played today which is labeled as Christian.

Hymns were truly as far as they could go and no further, everything else had a demon coming out of the beat. (And we are not talking heavy metal here)

Bible college vs. Keith Green and Newsboys
Again, not many of you grew up in the ending of this age where such strict rules applied to music, dress, etc. My Bible college that I quickly left dwelt more on how Christian contemporary music was satanic and trying to get rid of my Keith Green and News boys CDS…then they did on theology. (always had a great time in theology class…drew ‘bill the cat’ on the boards with a ‘theology arrow going through his head’.)

Opening of doors & the potential close of a religion
But if it werent for those pioneers, like Larry Norman, there may have been quite a restriction still on Christian music. Or Christianity would have devolved into a small dieing group that would only keep a small following like the Amish. You have to evolve and move on.

“But faith doesnt change”. But we arent talking about faith – we are talking about going past man made dogma and in to true ’spirit’. I have to admit the church is still tangled and I see it constantly in various places as I come across Christians stuck in narrow ways of thought – primarily out of fear. (Which leads also to the need to want to be ‘right’)

Communicating backwards
Larry got it and came across and was able to talk to the young crowd of his days.

What we loose is the communication back to the church. They need to be saved.
But in truth, not sure if its worth going backwards as you risk getting stuck in their revolving egoic stories…and they wont/cant break out until they are consciously ready to. There has to be the seed of desire.

So communication backwards doesnt really work… (this last bit may not make a lick of sense to many of you, Im just jotting down some thoughts/observations of recent days as it concerns communicating with people that have dogmatic beliefs.)

Its much easier to talk to the sinner. Jesus knew this and its who he focused on…notice he didnt try to get the pharisees to turn around. He talked their lingo, but they didnt bite…their egos were to deep. Some came out…to an extent…well in hiding, but they were still to attached to their identities.

Anyway, here is a bit from the late Larry Norman who passed away in late Feb 2008:

Larry Norman talk:
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Its confusing to people if you don’t explain what’s really happened, if you just (repeat) all the cliches – Like if someone’s coming down the street and you walk up to them and say:

(Christian) “brother have you been washed in the blood”?

(non Christian) “I hope not”

(Christian) “Well have you been born again”?

(non Christian)“Not lately”

(Christian)“Well have you ever been saved”?

(non Christian)“ah, yeah…last summer…up at camp…it was a really nice night, moon was full, out in the lake in a boat, and I stood up – and I cant swim, the guys had to drag me…”

(Christian)“thats not what Im talking about. Im trying to find out if you deeply experienced a personal revelation, you know like a sanctifi…you know like being born…you know washed in the…consecrate…

(After much exasperation)
(Christian cont.)…Im trying to tell you the Good News!”

(non Christian)“The good news, whats that”?

(Christian)“Your going to hell!”

(nonChristian)“Whats the bad news”

(trails off with additional comments)

flows better when heard then in written format, but fun none the less.

To hear the tribute to Larry: Pastor Bob/Sanctuary International

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Bringing it home:
The above scenario brings about two points.
Really they are one in the same, but we often look at things/words, as a one way street.
We see things from one perspective and think we have the whole picture.

What Larry is saying seems down right obvious.
Many of us can relate to what is being said and infact this thought is somewhat the pillar in how to overcome the blockages in evangelism to be able to communicate with the non-Christian to “bring them into the fold” so that they to can get lost in its religious trappings.

But this brings about what I was talking to previously about communicating backwards.

Lost your first love/death of a seed:
“The first awakening is by grace” – Eckhart Tolle.
What we have is the first true concept that comes that we are indeed loved and free, we have found “our first love” but almost immediately (like the parable of the seeds) things go wrong. Very few grow up to maturity.
Various things happen on the way to either kill the plant or stunt its growth.

A plant with stunted growth may be worse than if it never had grown to begin with, and surely can do more damage as it ‘plants’, with more seeds, other plants that will be like itself…stunted in growth.

Its just like the pharisees, the white washed tombs.
The blind leading the blind.

Hearing the message, but totally missing the point:
Oh, sure. We have gotten past one phase – which is we now know how to talk to the ’sinner’ (dont recall Jesus calling people or rather identifying them with their actions…this seems to be what keeps people in their actions.
I have written about this before, but Jesus did not see an alcoholic, prostitute, etc. He saw a person. He did not label them by their deeds so they were free to not identify with them and thus make future choices that reflected a new line of thought. – being truly ‘born again.’ And this was not by ‘effort’, which fails time and again. If you want more info on this, dig on my site and it may help shine more light on this matter, as it is important and not really talked about.)

Its about the first love, where did it go?…
So we have learned how to go past the problem Larry talked about, but also in his dialogue we see a hint of another problem very well present. The attitude of the pharisee. Those people are lost in the lingo. They have mistaken the word for the message. Words are pointers and take on different meanings depending on who hears/reads it based on their upbringing and social & religious milieus. (better known as the mental grid system of interpreting info through ones experiences and perspective.)

The pharisees get lost in the words and cant see the forest for all the trees.

Rediscovery
People, its time to rediscover your first love.
Its time to really get to know what love is – even if you have to record yourself reading from Paul and his definition of it over and over again. Until it sinks through that love is unconditional acceptance.

This word is not acceptable to some, because people get so lost and trapped in only using one word and not feeling what another word actually means and is pointing to. The words acceptance is very dangerous to any pharisee or evangelical christian as it implies that a person can ’sin and get away with something’.

Their focus is skewed and in the wrong area altogether. Much can be said on this and would need more space and time to fully get the meat of what is being communicated here. Why? Because the roots of fear run deep in most Christians hearts and this dictates the type of communication they will have.

Talk the talk but dont know how to walk the walk
Sure they may have learned to talk a new talk to relate to the people…but if the change isnt understood at heart level, then they are merely white washed tombs leading others to the same fate that they are currently experiencing.

Love is alive. Love the lord with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.

Love yourself! Accept yourself!

When you do, you can then proceed to give a message to a non believer with true conviction without expecting to see change. The message is the good news of Jesus, not the good news and now here is what you change to show that Christ is in your life.

Wrapping up:
I will say it again. When Jesus hung around the prostitute he had not preconditioned idea that they must now change. There change, if any, was in the realization that they were not a prostitute.
That is a label (egoic identity) that kept them stuck. – These words, until you feel the heart of it, will allude you.
Its a powerful and life transforming concept, demonstrated by Jesus himself.

Dont get lost in the words…watch the life and actions of Jesus.

Peace

dAlen

p.s. – as usual, this post was written quickly and again may hit the spot for some people and give them something to ponder about…and may land on deaf ears with others. (But not to label, as we never know if those deaf ears have a tinge of hearing to accept a seed that will later grow into a mature plant.)

Quotable Quotes

“…still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” – Simon & Garfunkel

Dutch Plan to Build Tulip Shaped Island

clipped from blog.wired.com Executing on a Parliamentary commission, a Dutch agency has put together a plan to build a 247,000 acre island off the coast of their country in the shape of a tulip. The project would follow in the dubious tradition of Dubai’s The Palm and The World island building schemes.

By the way, the poster of the article seems to be concerned that this will damage the environment. As many of the comments below the authors article pointed out: No it wont damage the environment – or lets just say nature destroys itself or is constantly changing and reforming. How is this any worse? Perhaps we should go green first with our cars and all start walking before we complain about an island being built.

Peace

dAlen