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Diary: Costly oversight laws from fear:


   

~~I gain a ticket for forgetting to display the district parking permit and examine the motivation of some new legislation.~~

Yesterday’s writing visit with Juliet became costly as I forgot to put her residential parking permit on the dashboard of my car. This resulted in an note of transgression from the enforcer of such rules to the value of 40$$. Juliet and I agreed to share this burden, as both of us forgot about the need for the mentioned display of conformity.

Last night I only watched the first part of the news, turning it of when the report started on the first arrest under the new anti-terrorism law. This law makes thinking differently a crime, regardless of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. Terrorism has been a part of human behaviour, albeit a disruptive one like a new virus.

However, such legislation is ineffective in preventing what it punishes, while it is evidence of a lack of coping ability with what is experienced as a threat. However, it may be an expression of the prevailing attitude in our society, but the majority is not the best test for morality. This is why we have the charter in this country. So, I expect this arrest to be the starting point of a long and costly legal battle.



Writings: End of discussion:


   

~~I bring to a close this two week long discussion on existence with a note on ‘continuity of consciousness’.~~

I want to close off the discussion of the last two weeks under this heading with a note on ‘continuity of conscious existence’. In my Writings of the fourteenth (14th) this instance, I mention the continuity of existence. At other times I have hinted at the continuity of consciousness and I now want to revisit these ideas in the close this discussion.

In existence as such, all things that manifest also disappear gain, with some enduring for eons, while others don’t last for a second of time. We humans have become conscious of such facts and processes. Considering how little we know about existence in totality, the shortness of time that we have studied it – four thousand years – we should expect many surprises in the coming millennia. One I hold quite possible is the discovery of other conscious type of existence.

Since each such manifestation of conscious existence is of limited duration, it becomes a priority to establish some kind of awareness of existence about such conscious states and their findings. This does not have to be based on a ‘life’ contact and could quite easily be of the 'archaeological’ type, similar to what we do on our own planet regarding civilisations in the past.

I see as a goal for us humans and other beings to discover this conscious interconnectedness in our quest of interacting with the mystery of existence, which I call ‘Existence Divine.

Such contact could be machine or robot based, opening up the possibility of an accumulation of conscious awareness, its fruits and experiences. I see as a goal for us humans and other beings to discover this conscious interconnectedness in our quest of interacting with the mystery of existence, which I call ‘Existence Divine’.
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Daily Entry: 2014-06-25

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