Comments on: Privacy Wars http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars/ The theory of social networks and the evolution of the web. Studying the social web, network theory, blogging and privacy issues of the internet. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:12:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: robojiannis http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars/#comment-74 robojiannis Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:36:49 +0000 http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars-2/#comment-74 I agree, we are entering a new age. But we shouldn't blaim technology for everything... I agree, we are entering a new age. But we shouldn’t blaim technology for everything…

]]> By: gregory http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars/#comment-73 gregory Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:12:59 +0000 http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars-2/#comment-73 the privacy that we have had up until now has been comparable to the privacy an ostrich has when its head is in the sand, is what i was attempting to say... technology is removing the sand the privacy that we have had up until now has been comparable to the privacy an ostrich has when its head is in the sand, is what i was attempting to say…

technology is removing the sand

]]> By: robojiannis http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars/#comment-71 robojiannis Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:27:56 +0000 http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars-2/#comment-71 @Gregory you are talking about a metaphysical level of knowledge and privacy, i think. Where technology is just like tool, doing actions the brain can already do. But the implications of the "loss of privacy" can be comprehended in what you say 'outer-reality'. A good yogi - as you say - may not be affected by that fact (he has inner calmness), but the rest of the global community might. Don't you think? @Gregory
you are talking about a metaphysical level of knowledge and privacy, i think. Where technology is just like tool, doing actions the brain can already do.
But the implications of the “loss of privacy” can be comprehended in what you say ‘outer-reality’.
A good yogi - as you say - may not be affected by that fact (he has inner calmness), but the rest of the global community might.
Don’t you think?

]]> By: gregory http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars/#comment-69 gregory Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:30:08 +0000 http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars-2/#comment-69 people do things because they can.... same with governments... i calmly think all operating systems, all telcos, all social networks, all financial institutions have back doors, for the use of the powers who control economic and social activities, call it the government... it is not even a question that "is privacy an illusion"... of course it is an illusion from the personal level, where others often know things about us we are blind to in ourselves (and we are all open books to each other, though we think inwardly that nobody knows), just ask your friends or your spouse... to the global level, where the personalities of entire countries are clear to everybody except perhaps those who live in them... this has to do with a "metaphysical" reality, there is only one mind, only one consciousness... a good yogi, anybody with just a bit of inner calmness, can know anything about anybody, the information simply exists on a slightly more subtle plane... in fact, there are many powers that a developed consciousness has, they are called siddhis, in sanskrit, and there is a list of them in patanjili's yoga sutras... technology is after the fact of what the mind can already do, something like a crutch, or a tool, and if awareness can potentially be infinite (it can), then of course technology is simply the process of doing this in the so-called outer reality... so you who are in this business of manifesting or materializing the abilities of awareness technically, will certainly see changes looking a lot like "loss of privacy" but it is only the revelations that come up on the way to materially "authenticating" what already is... we are on the way to omniscience, and the river will not be stopped.... enjoy, gregory people do things because they can…. same with governments… i calmly think all operating systems, all telcos, all social networks, all financial institutions have back doors, for the use of the powers who control economic and social activities, call it the government…

it is not even a question that “is privacy an illusion”… of course it is an illusion

from the personal level, where others often know things about us we are blind to in ourselves (and we are all open books to each other, though we think inwardly that nobody knows), just ask your friends or your spouse…

to the global level, where the personalities of entire countries are clear to everybody except perhaps those who live in them…

this has to do with a “metaphysical” reality, there is only one mind, only one consciousness…

a good yogi, anybody with just a bit of inner calmness, can know anything about anybody, the information simply exists on a slightly more subtle plane…

in fact, there are many powers that a developed consciousness has, they are called siddhis, in sanskrit, and there is a list of them in patanjili’s yoga sutras…

technology is after the fact of what the mind can already do, something like a crutch, or a tool, and if awareness can potentially be infinite (it can), then of course technology is simply the process of doing this in the so-called outer reality…

so you who are in this business of manifesting or materializing the abilities of awareness technically, will certainly see changes looking a lot like “loss of privacy” but it is only the revelations that come up on the way to materially “authenticating” what already is…

we are on the way to omniscience, and the river will not be stopped….

enjoy,

gregory

]]> By: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars/#comment-68 Marshall Kirkpatrick Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:26:26 +0000 http://changemod.com/755/2008/01/03/privacy-wars-2/#comment-68 Thanks for your thoughts here! I'm going to link to this post from the original. Gotta get talking about this stuff. Thanks for your thoughts here! I’m going to link to this post from the original. Gotta get talking about this stuff.

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