When people don't agree with me I think they are not listening. I get pissed off and start shouting. You can't enslave me to live your idea of TheGoodLife, I would die first==== You've made up your mind and don't want to be confused by the facts. And I start feeling sorry for myself. Nobody is interested in Truth except me. Everybody else just wants to be right when to learn you must find you are wrong, why can't they GetIt! It's impossible to tell someone something they don't alredy know because they won't have the slightest idea what you are talking about. ====

I went to live in the abandoned mines of aspen mountain as a hermit in 1969 because I thought communication with other human beings was not possible. I thought all the people living ticky tacky lifes in ticky tacky houses offered no real value. I was concerned that my profession, computer science, would be used for evil by the powerful to dehumanize people. After three weeks I realized that everything that was really important to me involved other people. Even a mountains beauty, boy would so-and-so dig that, all my joy and will involed other people. I layed by spring creek in taylor national forest for hours content to be absorbed into the mountain. I had nothing to live for.

I realized that if I chose to live, I'd have to march back to Aspen and become a part of humanity. I savored the bliss I felt laying by the rushing stream for a while longer and then bagan the march back to civilization.

I decided that the best thing to do with my computer knowlege was to use it for humanity. If you can't beat them, join them. I hoped I could help put the power of the computer in the hands of the people. (I am satisfied I've done my part with EIES, WWW and teaching.) I decided to test my hypothosis about human uselessesness. Every time I met someone who seems useless to me, I stoped my travels, I got to know them better, and asked questions like, what is really importnt, or what would you rather be doing. In most cases, within minutes they would teach me something important. I began to realize that other people were cool, I was the jerk.

But 25 years later I still cannot communicate with anyone and here I am trying to actualize a CollectiveIntelligence. How stupid could I be? In well over a decade of teaching objects about 4 of my students really GetIt. Chances are they got it before they started my class. (At least they all learned to write SmallTalk code more or less.) I have no bases to presume I can communicate anything meaningfull to anybody. Nobody understands my InformationPhysics (except wheeler maybe), nobody understands the urgency or relavance of my DeclarationOfInterdependence. I may be a bad teacher but I have 5 children that have to live in this world WE are preparing for them, my mind is open, and God help us, can't we agree on anything==== ====

StarPilot is right, it is hopeless. But I will never give up. I will try and try again and hopefully learn from my failures. Hopefully I can stop abusing visitors to my web site at least... I am a LegendInMyOwnMind.

Well, If you go back in evolution, all higher life evolved from colonies of cells that collaborated to form rings that extended into little worms that took one kind of shit and passed it though the collective extracting nutrients and passing through another kind of shit, effectively an asshole==== We are decended from assholes so it should be no suprise that we are all assholes. ====

Most everybody is selective about their friendships. They choose not to befriend at least 2 out of 3 people they meet. Now if they didn't think they were assholes, they would befriend them, no? Of course they would.. Well, it varies of course, some nice people only call people jerks that call them jerks. Some like everybody but the sand niggers. And for others, just about everybody is a asshole. In any case if on the average the jerk ratio is 2/3 of the rest of the people in the world, than by popular vote, we are all assholes.

-- JimScarver

I am pretty lucky to live the good life. I am not rich finacially, but my life is rich. The good life means something different to everyone, but we can recogize it when we see it. The animal or person living well is healthy, content and living fully.

The founding fathers of America had a vision of the good life for everyone. Free enterprise and people unbound to the shakels of government could accomplish great things. Unfortunately much of this vision has been lost.

Each of us have our own idea of GoodAndEvil. For us all to live the good life we must accept the simple fact that it is subjective and we can only support each others views of the good life by employing a live and let live SocialContract of CooperativeDiversity.

Wealth is not finite. Our wealth as a civilization depends only of the value we create. What we need first is the vision, and second is the will to create value. Finally we need the means, which we find we have had all along. We have creative minds and the rich resources of the planet, MarsFrontier, galaxy and beyond.

If we manage our shared resources profitably then there is no limit to the value we can create. If we create value, we can all share the freedom to try to live the good life as we see it and fullfil anything we want that does not infringe the freedoms of others.

The DeclarationOfInterdependence is a collaborative attempt to redesign government to reclaim the vision of our founders and thrive in the twentyfirst century.

--JimScarver

For more on government redesign see: AmericanVanguard, DeclarationOfInterdependence

For more on having a good mindset see: InTheMindway

Thank You Mr. Scarver for the mention of my page here. For some additional words written around the year 1750 for having of having a good mindset that also guides me, see: WordsToLiveBy --InTheMindway

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Play Video On YouTube #WordsToLiveBy Circa 1750s Expanded Citations Version Standards Of Excellence

Art thou dejected?
Is thy mind o'ercast?
To chase thy gloom,
Go fix some weighty truth;
Chain down some passion; do some generous good;
Teach Ignorance to see, or Grief to smile;
Correct thy friend; befriend thy greatest foe;
Be just in all things; make amends
For follies past, and, with warm heart,
Forgive, and be forgiven. Let work not words
Thy virtue prove. Go act as well as prate,
And then thy counsels will be strong,
Thy reprimands avail. —ANON

THE province of the historian is to gather the threads of the past ere they elude forever his grasp and weave them into a harmonious web to which the art preservative may give immortality. Therefore he who would rescue from fast gathering oblivion the deeds of a community and send them on to futurity in an imperishable record should deliver a plain unvarnished tale.[1][2]

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Published in poem "Blank Verse" form from 1742 to 1745 by Rev. Edward Young.[3] These words then appear future time forward in many publications in transverse and slightly modified forms. This includes the publication that I find most relevant in today's modern era technological world.[4] This above quote of Young's work is found in a history book that has removed any religious references and then has been credited to source anonymous. Then proceeds to describe in the following above paragraph the intent of virtue/integrity/morality of the authors upon the entire published history. [ Read On From Linking to Book Source ]. There is a very important ideal said of immortality that should be highly considered in the modern day application of these words.

As these words have been replicated in many publications, this forms a collection of works from various authors and sources. These are currently already digitized online with I am sure more publications to be added into the available online collection. A baseline of returned search results day to day shows there is progression in new works being added to this published body of work that Young's words seemed to resonate in that day of educated literacy removing and freeing ignorance from the masses.

These can be easily found by quoted Google books search, [ "Go Fix Some Weighty Truth" ] [5].
There has been found a smaller subset of publications where brevity seems to be placed of this quotation and found usually containing at least line 5, [ "Teach Ignorance to see, or Grief to smile" ][6]

It has been my conclusion since my first discovery of these words appearing online from approximately the early 2000s when a general web search of "Go Fix Some Weighty Truth" returned perhaps less than 10 matches. Notably, in my Urbandictionary defintion "Cybermark",[7] December 28th 2006, I have used the cited example:

"The phrase "Teach Ignorance To See; or Grief To Smile" is an an observed expressed thought that historically appears in the writings and documents of many individuals relating to issues of morality and ethics for centuries. The individuals do not appear to be related or known to each other. As more of these documents become publicly visible onto the Internet, this phrase becomes an identifiable cybermark that links all of the historical and current usage of these documents and these individuals together in an unified group that have found unity in a "common bond" by the repetitive expression of this cybermark ideal."

These are WordsToLiveBy then and now. Thank you for applying these into your daily knowledge and daily practice. These are highly important words of virtue that somehow in modern era we have lost our common reasoning.

Does anyone researching this, under the term "Complaint" see any need to complain about this as placed here at WikiWorld for any any any any reason? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Where would your common reasoning for substantially altering or deleting these messages here be? These should stay forever here and forever to all time human history. Thank you.

-InTheMindway

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