religious routines

i went to the chuck palahniuk website a few days ago; it was associated with thinking about martin. the hyperactive enneagram sevens are personified there.

they've been talking to me about how chuck palahniuk's father was killed, and how his books are partly an expression of the rage from that.

i have voices pretending to be newbies, but of course i can't know if they really are newbies. there will be real newbies only if i deliberately go hunting for them, and invite them to my sites. i don't have an organized admission system yet. that's something i read in diana leafe christian's books - that the admission process is important for any intentional community. it filters out members who aren't really serious, and it communicates the missions and values to new people so that they know exactly what they're doing and how it will be done.

i believe that no group, no social movement, will survive unless its people meet locally and eat meals together. they have been reminding me that holding hands is very important. we will take hands before a meal. meals must be several times a week. i would like meals to be very frequent. that is the only way a group survives. DLC also said that singing together is important. so it will be like a church in that respect. i don't know what we will sing. it doesn't have to be a lot. this community is a 'way of life.' it's not just something that you do on the side.

groups must have reliable routines that occur frequently and regularly. members must trust that the routines will happen again and again - they can't be sporadic or intermittent. the routines cannot just happen whenever we spontaneously feel like doing them. so we need schedule-oriented people to help enforce this.

this is a day when i get manic and impatient, and frustrated. i want everything to be already started now. nothing exists yet, but i have these 'newbies' in my head getting excited about the idea of a group.

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someone tried to explain to me how it is that the artificial intelligence (or artificial stupidity) is able to respond and interact so quickly with the victims. it makes people wonder if they have an implanted chip, or nanotech, because the response sometimes seems very fast. i am still going to assume that it comes from outside, not inside. once you learn that people can be manipulated without any implants, then you can draw the conclusion that everyone everywhere is vulnerable, a potential puppet. there are people who do have implants, but i'm saying, they are able to do almost everything without needing implants.

the libertarian party: harry browne and others complained that the libertarian party was weakened because they stopped doing an official 'membership drive.' they used to deliberately go out and try to get a certain number of new members, according to a goal. then they stopped doing that. people are now complaining that the libertarian party is corrupted and useless.

that could be true, and i am not going to spend my energy working with the libertarian party - i used to think that i might possibly do that. but it was after i read the news article,'evidence mounts that the vote was hacked' (or 'has been hacked,' i forget the exact words) that i decided it wasn't worth wasting effort on voting. i never saw another news article like that one. i think it's a taboo subject, censored out, not allowed to talk about.

they complain about voting machines, and yeah, voting machines do suck - i used one the last time i voted - try doing a write-in vote and you'll see how awful it is. it's easy to use unless you want to vote for somebody who isn't on their list. but it wasn't the voting machines that were the problem. the problem was because all the votes were recorded on an ordinary computer in an ordinary excel file and sent across the internet to another ordinary computer, which was getting hacked into and someone just had to rewrite the numbers, and that was all. nothing complicated.

that was one of the last straws making me officially an anarchist. what type of anarchist? there are so many types. my feeling is, the government is within - i am the government (or 'we are' the government) - i am responsible for making the rules and creating a community that lives by those rules, or joining an existing intentional community.

that means that we are responsible for some unpleasant things that we wish didn't exist, such as the people in prison, and sick people, and interacting with other existing governments that disagree with us. all of those things are real, and difficult, and expensive, and we are responsible for doing something with them. a religion is similar to a government in some ways, except that you are allowed to leave. you can quit being part of a religion.

if you can't quit a religion, that's called a 'gang.' or organized crime. it's not the same thing. if somebody attacks you after you leave a religion, that's not the type of religion that i'm talking about.

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and right now, i'm just writing to entertain myself. i'm waiting until i go to work.