America's Book of Secrets: Big Brother

[MizMotown]

Depending on how you look at this this episode was a really creepy one! Where in the heck are we heading??? Are we just too complacent regarding new technology and how it may be used?

http://www.history.com/shows/america...ts-big-brother

Micro-chipped Medication approved by FDA. http://www.industrytap.com/stomach-f...iss-meds/17685

Gov't Plans to Use Facial Recognition Code for 2014 http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...-code-for-2014

[MizMotown]

Are we becoming a surveillance State? A Five Point Test.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology...five-part-test

[MizMotown]

Oakland Cty Using Military Equipment to Track Cell Phones?

http://m.detnews.com/topstories/article?a=2014304040043&f=1207

[Jimaz]

Depending on how you look at this this episode was a really creepy one! Where in the heck are we heading??? Are we just too complacent regarding new technology and how it may be used?

http://www.history.com/shows/america...ts-big-brother....

Wait. They ask you to disclose information about your TV provider as a condition to watch a video about protecting privacy? LOL!

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Tangentially related: I read somewhere that a large part of the right to privacy derives from the "expectation" of privacy. Then I started considering the de-evolution of the telephone booth.

It used to be that the purpose of providing the booth [[a not-so-inexpensive feature, often indoors, already protected from weather) was to assure privacy for the caller. Then it de-evolved into a kind of half-open kiosk then further to a wide-open cell phone. The change has been as if designed to purposely deconstruct an expectation of privacy.

Conspiracy theory anyone?

[Zacha341]

When I read the thread title I thought we were talking about 'book of secrets' as in the current IRS code defining wage, withholding variables and taxing in general.

Or some of those unread pages of the ACA... [[addendum and errata included).

[rb336]

Electronic Sensors Printed Directly on the Skin

http://www.technologyreview.com/news...y-on-the-skin/

now that is creepy

The security state will walk in the guise of convenience

[Jimaz]

... The security state will walk in the guise of convenience

Now there are more and more "white hat" security programs pestering us, offering to conveniently remember all our passwords for us.

Yeah. That's not at all suspicious.

[MizMotown]

1984 reminders......

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

“Big Brother is Watching You.”

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.”

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power”

[Gannon]

Thank you for this. I am now late to get to a client's house, but will revisit when I have the time.

Sincerely,
John

Eric Blair was right.

[MizMotown]

If you don't comply... the boogy man will get you... it's all for your own good!! mwahhahahahahaha

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/26/big_...hings_partner/

[MizMotown]

Is the Universe A Simulation? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/op...tion.html?_r=0

"...one fanciful possibility is that we live in a computer simulation based on the laws of mathematics — not in what we commonly take to be the real world. According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it. Thus when we discover a mathematical truth, we are simply discovering aspects of the code that the programmer used..."

Some of you know that I'm a student of A Course In Miracles. Whenever I read of ideas of this being a SIM it draws me to this passage from the book.

"What has been given you? The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of love. Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. It was given as well to every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live.

You have received all this. No one who walks the world but has received it. It is not this knowledge which you give, for that is what creation gave. All this cannot be learned. What, then, are you to learn to give today? Our lesson yesterday evoked a theme found early in the text. Experience cannot be shared directly, in the way that vision can. The revelation that the Father and the Son are one will come in time to every mind. Yet is that time determined by the mind itself, not taught.

The time is set already. It appears to be quite arbitrary. Yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance. It has already been taken by him, although he has not yet embarked on it. For time but seems to go in one direction. We but undertake a journey that is over. Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us.

Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written. When experience will come to end your doubting has been set. For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing mentally what has gone by."

Weird.