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121JKLM Wanna Be My Soul Friend?

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

The attached pages explain what being a soul friend means. Humans have a tendency to go about life collecting such soul friends. This becomes some human’s life, bent towards a higher purpose–a destiny. Recording the stories of soul friendship is worthwhile.

My Dear Friend,

How delightful to find your info on Facebook. The years of our respective lives have separated us and yet, our friendship is timeless and persists across these gaps of silence.

Knowing that you frequent Facebook gives me a reason to go there more often too. First though I must upload my information and this invitation so that potential friends might discover where I keep my Internet published works:

http://blog.peaceengine.com/

This is where I publish my Internet works which are, for the most part based upon the writings in my journal. There are a few of them there now and I plan to add more on a regular basis.

I bid you welcome and pray that life finds you well and of good cheer.

For the most part I will post various writings, typically an odd and an even numbered pair of facing pages. The pair of pages is written upon some topic whose category is named at the bottom of the page.

I also affix a property mark to the bottom right corner of each page. It is a fused character symbol comprised of the symbol for a digit one inside of a digit zero. I came up with that character symbol a few years ago as a way to preserve the freedom of the writings that sometimes hookup with my body and come flowing through. From higher power to pen by means of my soul (or spirit), heart, mind and body.

I read Scripture since I was about twenty years old or so, and onwards through my life. I never denied a bit of it as being untrue. Sometimes I try my hand a writing scripture explaining Scripture. Believing oneself capable of hand writing scripture is scary sometimes. I believe other writers know the experience, perhaps delusional, that pervades the writing process.

The problem for an ethical man is that writing truth about the realm of Scripture requires continual citation to a higher written authority. To do otherwise is to possibly tell a lie about pre-existing Scripture, which is roundly forbidden by all Scriptures I remember ever speaking upon the topic.

The problem for me is that I don’t have time to go lookup the authoritative sources so I end up paraphrasing the conglomeration of Scriptures I read throughout my life. Now to be honest, paraphrasing some Scripture tends to piss off the faithful and gives rise to charges of blasphemy. I try to avoid such things by writing words winding my way out of this rose bush thicket of half right remembered Truth.

I believe that all Scriptures speak Truth from time to time. Writing becomes a means of rendering ones way through the timeliness of keeping up with the pen, unto the timeliness of truth and onward unto to the Timelessness of Truth.

It’s a rugged and painful and fearful journey of a human unto truth.

“My writing” is what I call it and our writing is what it is because of the freedom property mark affixed to each page. If in fact I scribe from a higher source of Truth and Wisdom from time to time I deny being the Author of any of it by way of allowing it to flow through my body like a crawling of a spirit electricity throughout the body. The flow is always gentle and respectful and it will back off upon command when the feeling gets too intense and trembly.

I have had such experiences of intense connection with a higher power throughout my life. They began intensifying for me in Missoula, Montana when I was living in the newly constructed Aber Hall. But that’s a story I’m telling elsewhere in the Novel category.

And so now new Facebook Friend you have met one of the writings that flow through me from time to time. Oftentimes early Saturday and Sunday mornings because these are my stay at home times.

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111K My Newest digg.com Friend, Welcome

Monday, December 29th, 2008

111K My Newest digg.com Friend, Welcome

My newest digg.com friend,

If you are new to digg.com please read this post if you want to know about why I selected you to be my friend, how I found you, what digg,com friendship means to me, and what behavior you can expect from me.

. . . Welcome . . .

I bid you welcome. I have invited you to become my friend. I may have done so because you befriended my first, in which case we are now a “Mutual Friend”. Otherwise, I have become your fan, in which case I am inviting you to review my profile and decide for yourself if you will befriend me in turn.

. . . The kind of friend I am . . .

I must introduce myself so that you may know the kind of friend I am. If you are new to digg.com Game playing I do recommend some behavioral norms (below) for your own consideration. Beyond guidelines for normative behavior, the primary question surrounding every dig.com Player is the question of motivation. In other words, why digg.com instead of someplace else.

. . . I seek friends . . .

I seek people promoting their own writings and works of all forms. I seek the authoritative source themselves. I seek friends who editorialize well. I seek friends who dig into the Internet and expose authoritative sources.

I am the authoritative source for all reports of my reality. You are the same for yourself. I don’t mind reality; in fact, I prefer it. I tend to ignore people who are in too big of a hurry. I am in digg.com to slow down and relax.

. . . hurrying by and slowing down . . .

I understand being in a hurry. I too was young once and developing a career. However, I was blessed early in life to have found my wife,now of thirty-six years–that is half of my projected lifespan–for a stable pair-bonded relationship is life’s greatest gift. As the arc of my life approaches and passes its zenith, I have begun to publish my writings as my best way of giving back, in service to humanity, some of the blessings I have received.

. . . I became your fan because . . .

I became your fan for one of the following reasons:

1) you appeared inexperienced in digg.com and you submitted an item in a way that I thought was well done,
2) you submitted something on a topic that interests me,
3) you submitted well written comments which were either thoughtful or funny,
4) when I looked at your favorites, one or more of them appealed to me,
5) you posted a link to a document, picture, or video wherein I invested measurable time; I wanted to thank you for making my day better,
6) your About is informative and makes you sound somewhere on the normal side of life,
7) I have a wide latitude of normalcy that is well short of creepy and a little this side of boring,
8) something you showed me or told me caused me to pause, ponder, and contemplate perceivable truth and other esoterica of life,
9) your item caused me to laugh,
10) you showed me a kindness or gave me good cheer in some commentary in my digg.com posting or in my Peace Engine™ blog
11) you asked me to befriend you in your commentary at http://blog.peaceengine.com/, or,
12) something else moved me to become your ardent and dutiful fan.

. . . letters to my son . . .

I invest time in writing letters to my prodigal son who became a heroin junkie which led him into prison where he now bides his time. My son accepted the Muslim faith for which I hold him in high esteem. I write letters encouraging him in his faith and offering support and insight into his condition and life in general. My son first recommended me to digg.com when it was in its infancy.

Once I have written letters into my journal I photocopy them and mail them to him. He writes responses on the backsides of those photocopies. I plan to post some of our joint correspondence at my blog under a pure copyleft license, meaning others may do with my son’s and my works as they will providing derived works are copyleft also.

. . . A letter to my son . . .

My dearest son,

I just completed a major digg.com project and my body needs to relax by writing to you. A father fears for his son’s life more than he fears for his own life. Why this should be so I cannot say.

I know that you are cursed the same as me with the manic gene that throws our body into a frenzy of activity sustained sometimes for hour upon hour of the guiding the chariot of our creative soul, enabling us sustained focus upon a single minded objective.

Writing, for those of us born with the manic gene, is the best way of allowing the body to detach from technology and computers, which conspire to consume all of our free time. Every human relaxes in their own special way. Writing is my way and I commend it to you for your consideration.

Relaxation with and by means of caffeine, nicotine, and drugs like alcohol, sex, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors (like computers and the Internet) are fun in moderation and addictive in excess. I am hopeful for you that your faith will see you to the place where sobriety and temperance in all outside influences becomes the norm.

Computers and especially the Internet impose an extra stress onto the human psyche, in that they permit unlimited drill-down into information. Humans need to enjoy games that have boundaries. This is the reason why writing onto a twenty-four line page of text places a very natural depth of feeling progression with a visible limitation.

The body needs to set limitations on its own behavior otherwise chaos may prevail. Bodies like ours, with the manic gene, need to avoid all harmful addictions and enjoy any other addictions in moderation.

I commend the wisdom of my life unto you in these writings. Please use all of my writings under the purest form of copyleft, to your best effort and in so far as you find truth within.

And now my son, family, friends, and fans, this twenty-four page cycle draws to a close [on page 112O]. On page 111O (the previous page cycle) we discussed my id™ (Inventor’s Diary) first published
cycle 111 and quickly shall complete
the 112 twenty-four page cycle and
begin 113 with a turning from this page
unto 1131 which begins a new adventure.

. . . RESOURCES: . . .

This: http://peaceengine.com/blog/2008/12/29/111k-my-newest-diggcom-friend-welcome/

Digg: http://digg.com/people/My_Newest_digg_com_Friend_Welcome

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. . . Author’s End Notes . . .

The page numbering system is confusing at first because it counts pages in the base twenty-four counting system {1,2,…,9,1,B,…M,N,O} without using zero. There are also two page sequences. First, the blog entries are numbered–page K (twenty) of the 111 cycle. Second, the closing page twenty-four (capital O) of the written page 112 cycle. I apologize for the confusion and advise ignoring them unless important to the reader.

Believe it or not, my current numbering and naming systems meets all of my needs for preserving an orderly life and being able to uniquely name stuff and find it when I go looking for it.

I like to keep various snapshots of my current computer and Internet activity. They serve to remind me of whence I have come. They are little memory markers in time. I commend the idea to my blog keeping friends.

My current digg.com favorites
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My current digg.com About
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With friends numbering 228, this is my activity summary to date at my digg.com Profile
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After my post to Persons I located my next door neighbors and, finding both posts well done, I found two new friends. I like to know who my next door neighbors are when I post just in case there is serendipity afoot.
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After much deliberation I selected my next newest friend based upon serendipity and I let her know.
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111J My dearest digg.com friends and fans, Thank You!

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

112J,K Saturday, December 27, 2008, Lyno Sullivan

My dearest digg.com friends and fans,

. . . Thank You . . .

My time is valuable to me as I assume yours is to you. So, thank you, for your time invested in supporting my digg.com activity and my peaceengine.com blog writings. Thank you for your “dugg!” currency and its associated time investment quantities. Please read this letter written to you, my digg.com friends and fans, especially if you want to know more about Reality in the digg.com Game.

. . . The Game . . .

Digg.com is a game. It follows one set of very exacting rules and many sets of loose rules. This makes perfect sense because digg.com is about two things: 1) the running of exacting computer software and 2) human time investment.

For the most part, I leave the running of the Game to the nerds who own the business and manufacture the computer software (plumbing) comprising the Game. The only time I insinuate myself into their business is when I feel that an injustice has been done–as was the case of a fellow who chose the naughty name of TheDataWhore and recently got thrown out of the digg.com game for no good reason in so far as I could tell. My previous post and digg.com entry dealt completely with that matter.

Every participant in the digg.com Game chooses of their own free will where and how they will invest their time. We all get to choose when to become a Player of the Game.

. . . The Players . . .

Yep! You and your friends. Me and my friends. We and our friends. Whenever our time is being invested in the digg.com Game we become Players.

The least evolved Player in any Game is the one who registers to become a Player and then does not play. Such a Player may have complex and subtle motivations for owning TheSilentPlayer or they may simply be trying to understand the Rules of the digg.com Game.

The normal player looks at the scorecards of other players, figures out that “popularity” is important, and decides to become popular. The next step is discovering the Rules for Players of the Game.

. . . The Rules . . .

Every game, including the digg.com Game has rules. Players follow some rules because they are wired in to the software. Other rules are made up by the Players as they go along. Some rules affect the swarm behavior of Players conspiring to help one another get our mutual Rewards.

Humans are DNA wired with rule detection capabilities. A human encountering any simple system is quick to discern the rules of the Game. A human encountering a complex system like digg.com measures their willingness to be a Player based on their liking of the Rewards.

. . . Rewards . . .

The obvious first easily quantifiable reward is getting a “dugg!” for a post. Other less quantifiable rewards exist such as having a friend Share your work in the form of a Shout to their friend. Rewards share a common phenomena in the form of a momentary biochemical “high”. It is that “feeling good” effect that motivates repetitive maze runnings performed by humans in search of their body’s pleasure button gushing good feelings for a brief moment and the heart warming feelings of friendship.

. . . The Lament . . .

For now I must lament. Yesterday I invested eight hours in digg.com and my work received in return thirty hits upon the Peace Engine™ blog site and eleven “dugg!” rewards. Thank you to those who visited the blog site. And thank you especially for those “dugg!”s, comments, and shouts.

. . . Style . . .

As is customary with my current style, this letter was hand written (see attachment at bottom of document). It was written to you, from my reality where a man like me wields a pen upon paper and, in his imagination that man, by so wielding his pen, does effect gladness in the heart of his friends, his fans, and his family. Pretty simple stuff is what life is made of.

. . . Reality . . .

My reality is different from yours. I want to know about yours to the extent our mutual knowing does render kindness and goodness into our friendship. Discovering the digg.com social network has become a recent joy of my life for reasons explained elsewhere. Already, ways I can be of helpful service spring into my mind. I’ll come back to these goodwill and better friendship building ideas in future pages.

. . . Lament Passes . . .

Now that the lamenting time had passed, having thought about my digg.com experience, having imagined how dig.com might operate, I pondered what I might do with my new found understanding.

. . . Dawning of the Next Challenge . . .

I thought, perhaps I can become a Master player of the digg.com Game. But I wonder what outcome I would so pursue. Am I in it for the quick fix (the high) of newness? Or am I in it for the long haul? Time will tell but in all other parts of my life I work for the long haul so I expect the same to prevail with digg.com.

In answer I must say that, in absolute truth I pursue several goals simultaneously. The union of those goals comprise my ever evolving mission in life. My mission is comprised of the desire to do no harm; the desire to bring goodness; the desire to assist those in need for my time because, in truth, I have only my time I wish to give.

My primary goal is to gather a few digg.com friends who actually enjoy reading raw writings for no other reason than to know that a human being actually wrote a coherent set of words by hand, without typing, but with a pen in hand well trained to print quickly and carefully enough to be read by both humans and non-human incorporated business beings and computers recognizing hand-written text and hand drawn pictures, schematics, and drawings.

RESOURCES:

This: http://peaceengine.com/blog/2008/12/28/111j-k-my-dearest-diggcom-friends-and-fans/

Digg: http://digg.com/people/My_dearest_digg_com_friends_and_fans_Thank_You

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111I An Ode to a Banished Digg Character

Friday, December 26th, 2008

111I My Dearest Digg Friends and Fans
this: http://peaceengine.com/blog/2008/12/26/111i-my-dearest-digg-friends-and-fans/
digg: http://digg.com/people/An_Ode_to_a_Banished_Digg_Character

Before we get to the letters written to digg.com friends and fans, I must rise to a point of order and bear witness to a rude and disrespectful digger who shouts repeatedly concerning her posts. Surely in the words of digg etiquette there must exist an etiquette rule concerning such behavior.

Please help me in setting one living digger onto the straight and narrow concerning the trade-offs between Freedom of the Press, as permitted by digg.com policy, versus bad behavior.

The undeniable evidence of this digger’s [http://digg.com/users/powerdigger007] rude and disrespectful self promotion is shown below. I have decided to keep her as a friend to give her another change to learn to behave. I have shouted back a direct admonishment so we’ll see if that has any beneficial effect.
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If ever my digg.com behavior is rude or the content I post is lame, I invite other diggers to add commentary and give me shouts to the effect. I am trying to learn how to be an effective member of the digg.com social networking community and I welcome constructive criticism.

I wrote two letters for digg friends and fans that I hope are deemed interesting and worthy of diggs and shouts. I posted them at http://blog.peaceengine.com and created a digg item.

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December 26, 2008

We have together been experiencing the digg game over these last few days of 2008. A game; digg.com is an example, from a cosmic sociological perspective, of a game. For humans like you and me love to play games on computers.

We have together made new heroes, like that TheDataWhore fella who got banned and is destined to be let back into digg.com from a new IP address and under a new name. What motivates a man like dataWhore to invest his game time in digg.com? I read about it at:
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digg: [http://digg.com/people/Digg_user_TheDataWhore_talks_about_his_banning]

We have together helped keep a pardoned man in jail, where he belongs. We helped elect a Negro, like Martin Luther King a man of vision, to the Whitehouse. (Author note: the usage of the older form of race designator is intended to honor Dr. King because that term is how he referred to himself.) He (Obama) will realign “We the People” with the “Arc of our Moral Destiny”.

We did these things in 2008.
What now is left to be done?

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December 26, 2008

My dearest digg friends and fans,

As we wait to welcome TheDataWhore back into our midst under a new disguise, reincarnated in a new character, will he seek out his old friends and fans. Or will he seek out new fans.

Here’s an interesting question for the folks seeking to cast out on the digg.com network. And I’d like to ask a favor. First, let me offer you my first patent claimed idea that I’ll gladly give to you if you will do me one little favor.

Here’s the question. Will you hunt down dataWhore’s reincarnated self and kill it too, like you did to good old TheDataWhore? Or will you let old dataWhore in until he misbehaves in some new way?

I guess he could be a she. I could imagine some gal calling herself dataWhore but she’d be confessing her addiction and that would not be a good thing so we’ll go back to the original premise that TheDataWhore is a man.

The one favor I ask is that idea added to the digg Game be GPL licensed in the name of the inventor and the name od digg.com. In the now present case, that is two non-human beings: digg.com and peaceengine.com.

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REFEECTIONS UPON THIS BLOG ENTRY

Title: An Ode to a Banished Digg Character

Text: Ponders the digg.com experience is light of recent events. Admonishes one truly misbehaving digg.com Game Player and admires another–for a true flair for the Art of the Digg Game. Hopefully the first will read about the second and Peace will prevail.

Shout: I’ll appreciate your help with this one. Please Digg and share ;-)

Quotations:

Digg is a nice place for a single human’s multiple personalities to meet one another and become friends.

To be continued. . .

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Thank you for pointing out the irony of the original post. I guess I must plead guilty as charged to that one. That being said, I would never use such a situation to perpetrate a joke. The post was designed to evolve over time as additional pages are added exploring the matter of banishment.

Another letter is written, putting upon the table for discussion the proposition that the digg.com Game ought to evolve a newer set of rules placing banishment and re-admission into the hands of a computer process named “Trial by Jury of Peers”. I believe such a democratic process would shift digg.com towards a less authoritarian governance model and will be to the goodwill and benefit of all concerned.

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December 26, 2008

My dearest friends and fans,

Let us return to the saga of good old TheDateWhore and the question of why he was banned from our social networking community at http://digg.com/ and the Game of digg.com.

There exist many possible motivations for why TheDataWhore was banned. I’ll not speculate too much on motivations because I choose to believe that being banned is a badge of honor for one of the following two game reasons:

1) banned for reverse-engineering of digg.com Game rules
2) banned for repeated bad behavior

I will speculate upon what is wrong with digg.com and what must be done to remedy the situation of bad behavior in an autocratic corporate sponsored social network, namely, THAT all banishment shall be judged by a fair jury of twelve peers and THAT the role of “Seeking Justice” shall be added to the
criteria for burying a post for egregious rude and disrespectful behavior towards other community members.

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December 26, 2008

My dearest TheDataWhore,

I gotta tell ya there friend, your name spoken outloud kinda dries up my mouth when I hear it. This is because it contains the spoken word “whore” which is a word seldom appreciated in polite company.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and hazard a guess that you might have been banned you were using a name not given to you by your family a name containing a naughty word. At least I find such a premise plausible.

One plausible alternative explanation for your banishment springs to mind. Suppose digg.com banishes anyone who reports on reverse-engineering speculations. This might make sense from a patent perspective.

A fun explanation would be that digg.com is some kind of Game and your banishment may have been because you were too good a player. I know this sounds like flattery but I hope banishment for being too good might become a reality.

BTW. Be sure to change your IP address and your computer MAC address to avoid re-detection.

Good luck.

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