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August 2007 
Offended And Amused: MT Finds A New Home
Posted on Jul 29th, 2007
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MT
MT
Bored and disturbingly awake, I decided to go wandering Zaadz again tonight. I glanced at a few pods and discussions, and too many of them reminded me of why I walked away from my own spiritual community some years back. Spiritual social climbers, intellectual one-upmanship, downright delusions, and system-specific jargon I could translate, but can no longer be bothered with... it's all chop wood, carry water, and hang out the laundry.
Then I ran across a post from about how offensive another discussion pod had gotten. Being me (and being bored) I had to hunt it down, to see if it was worth dipping in chocolate and eating.
My first stumbling search attempts here on Zaadz turned up nothing, so I resorted to Google. AhHA!! There they were... a group called "Enlightened Bastards".
And, I have to admit... at least one of the threads did indulge in language most self-defined spiritualists would find offensive. Sexually explicit, graphic, insulting, spiritually-inappropriate slang. It's language which, in other circumstances, would offend me.
But in a spiritual context, I loved it.
I loved the humble arrogance, and the arrogant humility, too.
I loved the obnoxious devil may care sacred clown aspects.
I loved the implied mockery of the psuedo-spiritual elite.
I loved that I have no idea if the attitudes I saw there were intentional or not.... but that the regular participants were clearly, obviously, uproariously fun.
I may have found a new home, which is somewhat disturbing.
But I really dont think I'll be dipping it in chocolate and eating it anytime soon.
Then I ran across a post from about how offensive another discussion pod had gotten. Being me (and being bored) I had to hunt it down, to see if it was worth dipping in chocolate and eating.
My first stumbling search attempts here on Zaadz turned up nothing, so I resorted to Google. AhHA!! There they were... a group called "Enlightened Bastards".
And, I have to admit... at least one of the threads did indulge in language most self-defined spiritualists would find offensive. Sexually explicit, graphic, insulting, spiritually-inappropriate slang. It's language which, in other circumstances, would offend me.
But in a spiritual context, I loved it.
I loved the humble arrogance, and the arrogant humility, too.
I loved the obnoxious devil may care sacred clown aspects.
I loved the implied mockery of the psuedo-spiritual elite.
I loved that I have no idea if the attitudes I saw there were intentional or not.... but that the regular participants were clearly, obviously, uproariously fun.
I may have found a new home, which is somewhat disturbing.
But I really dont think I'll be dipping it in chocolate and eating it anytime soon.
Access: Public
CLOWN (clown) Down (down) (*klawang*—>down–>down->down the stairs)
I was looking at your clown word and remembered that it spells “down” in the language of Hackers.
clown you go my friend, Into the rabbit hole!
can i carry you clown the stairs? (it even makes a noise, klawang, as it bounces down the stairs}
do you know if Gold prices have gone up or clown?
let's see… another word with “d” but also with other characters…
clate, d0m4in {“Charlie, what is your clom4iN'5 name?}, cl0N47i0n {what will be your cl0N47i0n madam? you can do it with PayPal.}, @quec1uct {the romans used to build @quec1uct5}… cj0ri11a, 1i0n, 7ebra, etc.
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do you know what cypher / decypher means?
are you familiar with the term encryption?
Now you know how to use Google at the next new level.
MT,
I'm familiar w/the pod improving.us - or Enlightened Bastards - as you say. I'm there on occasion, yes for fun. They are intentional and serious but never stop having fun and laughing at everything. It can be addicting. Arrogant in the sense of being certain about who they intend to express. Loved your blog comments.
Merry maid maker - wow, do I have some techno catching up to do … always have gone kicking and screaming into change, preferring the lazy path too often but never being allowed to stay there, for the best, I assume.
Thanks lightenup for sending me here. Always the best intended,
Deb-e
chin, i forgot to write this question at the end of the post:
¿What language do you think our Youth uses to communicate between Themselves?
hi De6-e :)
thanks for commenting on my comment. 1'll B 5eein9 u 4r0uND.
let me try something…
Google gives 87,400,000 web-pages for “hacker” and defines it: noun, informal,
One who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff. One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file. One who enthusiastically pursues a game or sport: a weekend tennis hackerbut now, for h4Ck6R it gives 5 results, and no definition.
Where do you think you are going to get better information?
Sheers !!
M@M
hehehe…Glad you had fun MT. If you think the pod is fun, you should listen to our show.
Enlightened Bastards
Guru Jack- If you have to conform to someones stards of what they believe enlightenment is……then its clear you are not…..
Jack my friend. What the hell is a “stards”?
Peace and Hair Grease.
Ok, you mischevious IvI3rrm@ld! You nearly gave me a <3 attack ! *grin*
I was half asleep. wandering the web, pondering a post about an associate's blogspot (owned by google!) blog being stolen.
I was doing background work, researching info on what might have happened to him, when I across some new hacking threats involving google mail accounts. , was reading the debate over how to defend against it, and…. wammo! Your comment speak hit my (googlemail) inbox.
“Wha? huh?” went my poor dandelion brain. “is this a veiled haxxor threat? I DID change those passwords to more secure forms, didn't I? clwons clowns pwns and…. and.. and… PANIC! ALARM KLAXON! Clown Warning! System clown!!”
Eventually, I remembered to breathe.
(but not before checking password accounts on all the accounts even remotely linked to this name)
I re-read my own post, and my mention of sacred clowns (tricksters to the core). Realized that I was the one who brought up google in the first place…. and I nearly spit coffee on my screen laughing.
How perfectly, wonderfully archetypally trickster is THAT?
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Now that I'm calmer…. Mer, sadly I am not proficient in h@cK0r speak. I have googled it on occasion, when some random bit of 733T 5peak hit my screen.
I suspect that it is indeed the language of the future, destined to rise from the password pwnning shadows into the mainstream as texting becomes a standard, and privacy from prying googlers becomes a premium. On the plus side, it does *force* creative and abstract thinking in the youth, and this is a Very Good Thing. In fact…. now I'll have to consider the haxxor dialect as a mindtweaking method. <starts pondering>
Thank you for the jumpstart, and the inspiration, my fractalized trickster friend!
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Deb-e…. Hi! Yes, I've seen your posts over there! Glad to see you here, makes me feel a LITTLE more confident about speaking up there… I'm still trying to get the lay of the land, both there, and on Zaadz as a whole. As for catching up with the techno-insanity… I know that I never will. It's whooshing past me at the speed of light. But it makes pretty pictures in my brain ;) Thanks for saying hello!
Now.. what is the point of me anxiously avoiding the pod itself, if you all come over HERE? Hrrmph.
Stalkers! That's what you are. Spiritual Stalkers. I'll have to report you to the astral authorities for this, you know. : )
Thanks for droping buy….. The EB podcast is on my to-do list.
And Dave?
“stards” is clearly the enlightenment dialect of haxxor speak. I can't tell you what it means, precisely, since I'm not all that enlightened. But I'm sure it's some sort of vibrational brilliance or another. (Either that or a reference to a mental disorder, or a rude bodily function)
What are you wearing right now?
*stares*
A bag!
Course I “get” Jack's stards - easy. Think about it. Surely you all jest and are just making fun of me saying this straight up.
I'm not ignorant that there is a texting language but have no reason to use or learn. My kids (only 3 and 6 at this time) will probably push me into it. Oh, a product of my time and no wish to be otherwise. I came in at this time because that is what I wanted.
I've missed a bunch of the EB podcasts but have been recently (this week) jumping ahead to listen to the most recent. “Give up and enjoy life.” Gotta love it.
Well, posting a blog on Zaadz about EBs or improving.us gets us here - see? If you are meant to be there in the pod, no way can you stay away. You've been warned, it's addicting, like honey.
Deb-e
The definition of hacker should have read like this:
hacker. [noun, informal,]
1. One who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff.
2. One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file.
3. One who enthusiastically pursues a game or sport: a weekend tennis hacker.
although i think some hackers might also play tennis :)
MT, youre welcome :) and thanks for your compliments ;)
yeah, i think the same, wirting like that exercises the mind and stirrs a bit all the settled gray matter. And its funny because it is something that is inevitable, be it for typing faster, more creatively, or as a code.
I found this the other day, its very interesting:
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Reading Test
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cloud aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg.
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THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanighuh?
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I remember when i was a kid being taught certain things that at a latter age suddenly realized were completely “out of the hole”. One was related to this, i'm not exactly sure on how it went but it criticized the Chinese language as being inferior because it was based on pictograms or something. I think that is incorrect.
The one i remember perfectly because they showed us a cartoon and everything at school was about how the Egyptian pyramids were built. people pushing the stone blocks around with logs under them. lol. i can't believe i fell for it so many years.
Take care!
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