Aditi sent me this:
Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago.
That’s the belief of Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan who has been diving at the site [...]
Category Archives: Education
So Now You’re A Superhero…
November 6, 2007 – 6:07 pm
A Guide For The Newly Uplifted
Let’s say, hypothetically, that you have suddenly become enlightened somehow or other. Now what?
First of all, cool! What a struggle to get to this place, am I right? To get here, you very likely had to pass through some serious fires on a personal level. And I commend you for [...]
Self-Ownership & Negative Liberty
October 18, 2007 – 2:37 pm
Two interesting and highly useful terms and concepts within the study of the personal and party sciences:
Self-Ownership: “Self-ownership (or sovereignty of the individual or individual sovereignty) is the condition where an individual has the exclusive moral right to control his or her own body and life. The concept has been originated inside mainstream anarchist theory, [...]
Guilds in the Muslim world
October 15, 2007 – 2:42 pm
Very interesting:
Islamic civilization extended the notion of guilds to the artisan as well — most notably to the warraqeen, or “those who work with paper.” Early Muslims were heavily engaged in translating and absorbing all ilm (”knowledge”) from all other known civilizations as far east as China. Critically analyzing, accepting, rejecting, improving and codifying knowledge [...]
SIX STRATAGEMS: [Explained & Expanded]
September 28, 2007 – 5:37 pm
Introduction
Many people look at my lifestyle and wonder “How did he do it?” I make money doing what I love, and I have given up suffering. It took me a long time to figure this stuff out, as well as a great deal of hard work, and honestly a lot of trial and error. Now [...]
Creating A Skills Bank
September 17, 2007 – 3:55 pm
[[Continued from here. Ties in threads begun here.]]
Back when I lived in the so-called “real world” and still believed it was necessary to “have a job”, I often found myself in an annoying position. When you’re a not-so-closeted computer dork like me, everyone is always coming to you for help when they experience technical problems. [...]
