MooPig Project Management Department :: "Looking Things Up"

Looking up things has become a major activity for MooPig Editors, especially since we all got smart phones. Yes, we spend hours to find out what the hell happened in our past. Thanks to "the new transparency" of the Internet, we find many useful factoids. You don't need to hear that, you already know it.

He read this word Orenda. Forty years later he looks it up ...


10 Untranslatable Words (And When You'll Want to Use Them): "5. Orenda (Huron) The Meaning: Orenda is the invocation of the power of human will to change the world around us. It is set up to be the opposing force to fate or destiny. If powerful forces beyond your control are trying to force you one way, orenda is a kind of voiced summoning of personal strength to change fate. The Work: For me, the most interesting part of the Matrix Trilogy was the part that can be described by orenda. I wasn't too impressed by the first movie's reveal of Neo as the chosen one, or the idea of all of reality being fake. What I liked was when we got to the second movie, and all that 'chosen one' stuff fell victim to the power of predictability and statistics. Neo wasn't the chosen one. He was a familiar protocol, and he and his fellow humans would obey the dictates of that protocol. Changing that, and the moment when he went from embracing his 'destiny' to fighting it, was the point of the series, I thought."
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CONCLUSION
We will always have to look things up to satisfy our brains' collective curiosity...





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http://io9.com/5905257/10-untranslatable-words-and-when-youll-want-to-use-them

MooPig's 'HUNH?' Department :: "Gaian Matrix"

Site Review :: Evolver Spores, Gaian Matrix, and Stuff ...
Snagged by Pat Darnell | Oct 12, 2012 | Bryan TX

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Hey, band members, part of your problem today is getting paying people to your concerts... eh? Yes, it is common to most bands out there. So, you find these online evolver network storehouses who can "globally" rout out the people to your particular venue.

Say you have lined up a ballpark for your gala. You are in the business of setting up a fun night for any and all who brave the exclusivity of your bands performing... well maybe you will have a whack-a-mole, and displays of Gaian Matrices, as part of your festival! There apparently is a total smash up of evolving spore partners willing to show up and hawk your event.

If you can think it; then it must happen! Instantaneous people, all adoring your performance. Buuwahhhh!

[Picture LINK] KUDZU, Greenback, TN / Country / Country Rock

  SUPPORT | The Evolver Network: "When you support Evolver as a Michrosporidia, pulsations of cosmic joy waft toward you from the Gaian matrix."

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ABOUT The Evolver Network
Our Mission
 The Evolver Network uses online tools to build off-line communities. We connect the dots between visionary idealism and lived experience — from open-source software to complementary currencies, meditation to direct action, festival culture to community-supported agriculture. We bring people together to explore areas that the mainstream culture ignores or suppresses; to learn new skills; to collaborate, celebrate and create.

What Are Spores?
 In biology, a spore is a reproductive structure, often adapted for dispersal, and capable of surviving for long periods of time in unfavorable conditions. Evolver Spores are regional hubs where we raise awareness about today’s most pressing issues, inspire activism, and explore transformative practices such as yoga, permaculture, gift circles, and shamanism. Spores are centers of cultural incubation that bring together many different groups to manifest local change. If there is no Spore near you, we invite you to start one.
Contact us at Spores@EvolverNetwork.org.

What Do Spores Do?
 Monthly Events Each month, we develop a theme for a network-wide event that sparks dialogue, attracts diverse groups, and empowers local communities to take action. The subjects range widely — examples include peace activism, the Occupy movement, social networks, research into dreams, and alternative currencies.

Check out a list of previous events and upcoming themes.
Film Screenings, Author Tours and Workshops Spores organize screenings of films with relevant content. Authors and musicians can tour the network. Spores set up workshops in many areas, such as nutrition, visionary art, sex and relationships, and permaculture. Festivals, Dance Parties and Conferences

Spores create dance parties, as well as festivals and conferences that combine workshops and talks with music and performance. Each spore has a local character and finds an approach that suits its region.

Projects Accessing the needs of their community, Evolver chapters have cleaned up rivers and beaches, shepherded local alternative currencies and gift circles, hosted citywide environmental festivals, assisted flood victims in Hungary, staged protests against unfair labor practices, kick-started permaculture gardens, orchestrated urban forestry efforts, and more.

Spores Host Activities In Areas Such As: herbalism * social media * film making * urban gardening * design science * leadership training * peace activism * shamanic ritual * quantum physics * bee keeping * open source software * composting * lucid dreaming * performance * psychedelic research * alternative media

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http://gasparmagistar.blogspot.com/p/stargate-stages.html
http://www.evolvernetwork.org/about/
http://www.reverbnation.com/kudzu1

PART TWO: A Hat, those Lips, pose Akimbo and Prophesy Prefigure

[Lerner, M. A. M. 2007; SOURCE]
The New Nostradamus
Words By Michael A.M. Lerner | Photos By Ethan Hill

Can a fringe branch of mathematics forecast the future? A special adviser to the CIA, Fortune 500 companies, and the U.S. Department of Defense certainly thinks so.

If you listen to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and a lot of people don’t, he’ll claim that mathematics can tell you the future. In fact, the professor says that a computer model he built and has perfected over the last 25 years can predict the outcome of virtually any international conflict, provided the basic input is accurate.

What’s more, his predictions are alarmingly specific. His fans include at least one current presidential hopeful, a gaggle of Fortune 500 companies, the CIA, and the Department of Defense. Naturally, there is also no shortage of people less fond of his work.

“Some people think Bruce is the most brilliant foreign policy analyst there is,” says one colleague. “Others think he’s a quack.”

For instance -- Back in March 2004, when al-Qaeda bombed a Madrid train station, influencing the course of Spain’s general election three days later, a lot of U.S. security folks were nervous. Worried that al-Qaeda might try something similar here in the run-up to the November, 2004, presidential elections, the Pentagon hired Bueno de Mesquita to run some data through his forecasting model to tell them what to expect. The results were unequivocal. “I said there would be no homeland attack. I also indicated that bin Laden’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, would resurface around Thanksgiving, 2004,” he says. Just after the elections in November that year, Zawahiri released a new videotape. Bueno de Mesquita was right on both counts. “One of the things government needs most is advice that’s not wishy-washy. I try to be as precise as I can.” (GOOD; magazine)

[blah, blah, blah...] Then this Comment:

Do homework first.

For all of you who are questioning Bueno de Mesquita's methods, predictions, etc., I suggest you do your homework first. It's not all that difficult to find his publications. A quick internet search will yield his curriculum vita which lists most of them.

While many of you may not have access to them online, you can certainly go to any local university library and gain access to at least part of them. I would refer you first to his work entitled The War Trap (1981) which is a standard on most international relations reading lists (at least in graduate school).

Then I would direct you to a follow-up piece, "The War Trap Revisited," in the American Political Science Review. Then maybe you could check out some critiques of his work such as one that appeared in the June 1984 edition of The Journal of Conflict Resolution. That piece is followed by another piece by BdM defending his work. You can also check out works such as War and Reason (1992) co-authored with David Lalman or Forecasting Policy Futures and The Logic of Political Survival (2003) co-authored with Alastair Smith, Randolph Siverson, and James Morrow (quickly becoming a stable of graduate education in political science as well).

His predictions are not something conjured up as if out of a book of spells and incantations. His methods have been rigorously tested and critiqued over time by some of the top scholars in the field.

His methods, as with those of any other scholar of rational choice and game theory, are based on basic assumptions about values and preferences of individuals and societies as well as their attitudes toward risk.

Is he perfect in his predictions? No, of course he's not.

Does he do a good job? Yes. Calculating and predicting human action, even that which many people are not sure is understandable (like that of many dictators), is something BdM seems to have been able to do well thus far.

For those who are critics: Before you criticize him, I would suggest you try to find a more accurate means of prediction. Otherwise, you will not be heard, nor will your critiques.

Or we could just ask Brian Jones if these lines are parallel each other? And rely on the Eight Ball foreteller... or... who the hell knows? What do we want to know anyway... ?

The Age of Anti-Form

Light streams through the window in a very old photo. Calendar on the wall says March 1920. Fellow with a pipe and suspenders forms the stimulus of the bubbling question on the mind of the onlooker, before the observer actually sees the man.

As the uncertainty of the photo percolates to the surface of the onlooker's conscience, something fails to lock the forms into a happy conclusion. Lack of format of the photo plays havoc with defining form or content for the onlooker. Style and voice do not come out, or speak a language.

"Establish method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer." (Copyright 2007 BrainyMedia.com)

Artists have known for centuries how to format a still life and how to form its elements into harmonic composites, with a little disharmony in the work.

Recently an article explains the Mona Lisa's smile is a function of the onlooker's eye moving from other elements of the masterwork, back to her eyes. At some peripheral glimpse of the observer's a glimmer of recognition emerges from the face of M. Lisa to astonish and stimulate us. Message to art lovers: Most of us painters are in the business of just having a final product that: "Hey, see, made you look!"

D'Vinci is no exception. We are in a business to produce work that captures more than five seconds of a person's attention; then if there is a "double-take" artists know satisfaction a second look brings. Staring at our work, well that is more than compensation for us artists.

This photo is a real subject from a photo album of work and work places of my father's dad and uncles. The fellow in the shadows at the left, smoking his pipe is as yet unidentified. Could be Grandpa, or a Grand Uncle. Behind this shop is a lumber yard.

Now as I have described the photo as a snap shot, really from March 1920, it takes on form and contiguous meaning. Yikes; such large ambition from a simple art form.

"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. Alex Morrison But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. Gerald Finzi"

Our minds are a function of natural power that conceives, judges, or reasons; if not for the mind we pretty much remain in the realm of "anti-Form."