User:MaurolepisDreki
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of Power divine,
Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love.
Before be things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto III
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion... even that school which is most accused of atheism doth most demonstrate religion; that is, the school of Leucippus and Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal.
— Francis Bacon, Of Atheism
Between an armed and an unarmed man no proportion holds, and it is contrary to reason to expect that the armed man should voluntarily submit to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should stand secure among armed retainers. For with contempt on one side, and distrust on the other, it is impossible that men should work well together. Wherefore, as has already been said, a Prince who is ignorant of military affairs, besides other disadvantages, can neither be respected by his soldiers, nor can he trust them. A Prince, therefore, ought never allow his attention to be diverted from warlike pursuits, and should occupy himself with them even more in peace than in war.
— Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter XIV
About
[edit]There are no good labels for what I am, no shortcuts to that piece of understanding. I have tried over the years, particularly in my youth, to simplify that explanation of my nature, even as I came to understand it, into terms that I believed that others could relate to and thereby understand themselves. But as I continued my studies, both of myself and also of the living universe, I began to realize that I was alone, that at some point I had left humanity behind in my pursuit for knowledge and wisdom and the skills to apply them. And it was not long after that I realized where my one-time peers and forebearers had ended up: they had long since been caught up with the temporal cares of this world and began to seek only after their own pleasures wherever they thought they might be found. But I cannot blame them for this thing for I too, from time to time, have sought escape from this unsavory reality that many believe immutable, and with so many choices in modern entertainment it is difficult not to get caught up in it.
I AM a creator; when I look the universe or anything in it, I see how it goes together gear by gear and byte by byte. I have little in common with the living and instead consider Nicola Tesla, Karl Marx, John Locke, and Niccolo Machiavelli, the great minds of ages past, to be among my peers. Now, to the simple minded it may make little sense to consider both the Father of Liberalism and the Father of Communism to be great minds, but this is because they understand neither, neither do they delight in understanding: these two men where not at odds but each desired liberation from the powers that bound them: Marx from the power of capital which favors the sins of greed and gluttony, and Locke from the powers of government which seldom neglect the sins of pride and wrath, and both possessed considerable incite concerning the topics on which they wrote.
I initially began as a student of science, translating the world of mechanics, chemistry, and biology, in a word "physics", into the beautiful and unambiguous Type-3 language that has become native to my mind. But I realized some years ago that science was not complete without religion, nor religion without science, and so I began to study the fundamentals of magic from a distance in order to gain a clearer perspective of the mysticism of Christianity, that distance for having been traditionally taught that it is the work of the devil and the the power of Satan made manifest on the Earth, and I began to realize that the truth of magic is that there are two forms: ritual magic and real magic. Ritual magic is the most common and is akin to the rites and rituals practiced in religion and is exemplified in such texts as the Key of Solomon whose power exists only in the faith of the practitioner that the covenant represented by that ritual will be upheld by whatever deity that founded it. Real magic, on the other hand, is a science of the spirit, the missing component in traditional science, the truth and origin of the power of God which potential exists in all the children of God who are created in His image. This is when I discovered Alchemy, not a pseudo science but a blend of science, religion, and magic, reviving forgotten truths to validate or unravel modern "discoveries"; know I do not claim there is a surviving branch of Alchemists who possess a knowledge of all things, rather that Alchemy is the most correct name for this more complete science that I have uncovered, and that I am not the first to uncover any part of them.
I am a believer in holistic medicine, and was even before I discovered Alchemy: the body is the pinnacle of God's creation and will correct itself when properly stimulated. My favorite example of this is the cure for cancer: it is common narrative that cancer has no cure, that certain mutations of the genes make one susceptible to cancer, and that the only way to treat it is to poison the body; what they don't tell you, and not because they don't know, is that specific subsystems of the immune system are designed and intended to fight tumorous growths such as cancer and that as part of the genetic mutation that is cancer affected cells are incapable of receiving energy and nutrients from all the same sources as unaffected cells and that the recommended diet, as specified by the food pyramid &c., primarily consists of those nutrients that are metabolizable by affected cells; in other words, modern medicine and their proponent physicians are literally causing the very problem that they are killing you to cure, and you pay for it and thank them for their miracle. I can't speak for anybody else, but something seems very wrong with that picture to me. Another interesting subject in this field that I presently know little about is acupressure and the qi network, but as I martial artist I know it works despite being avoided by science and medicine.
I am a major proponent of freedom and to that end took up the study of philosophy; I believe that the disease that so evidently consumes our society and threatens that freedom is in fact a multiple atrophy primarily caused by the rise of atheism as discussed by Francis Bacon which has lead to the widespread abandonment of morality and the destruction of the family unit, and also by a naivety towards armaments and the true nature of the world causing them to disarm themselves and attempt to impose a disarmament of others in order to reduce them to that same lesser standing. I believe, as Machiavelli suggested, that disarming the people is not the answer and only causes a deep hatred for those who attempt to mandate it, and that when the people do finally rebel against those who interfered with their right to own that property they will be armed and supported by foreign powers who think to gain by the dismantling of that State and thereby gain the loyalty of those people who otherwise would have remained loyal to and defended that State had that usurpation of property never occurred; instead, the answer is to arm every man, woman, and child, educate them in the art of war, train them with armaments of every kind, teach them to bridle their passions, and ensure they possess the skills they really need to survive in this world for there is some truth in not requiring the math and sciences to survive in a society that does not intend it's workers to think for themselves making these auxiliary skills more dependent to the chosen occupation and collage coursework. I could become very specific as to the educational changes that would most directly effect and secure liberty and justice to all, and we know they would work due to the experiments done in 1930 Germany, but this is neither the place of the time for that discussion and I know there are many who will be obstinate against such a change for the same misguided reasons that they do stand against freedom in the ways I have described at this present time.
I am a technology expert, not to be confused with a Microsoft™ or Cisco™ (&c.) expert, meaning that I know how your cell phone or miscellaneous computer and associated machinery works from the top of the OSI model down to the bottom of its quantum mechanical infrastructure, either specifically or generally as the case may be, but not so much the bells and whistles that Google™ or Microsoft™ bloats their operating systems with or how to shut them off without crashing the damn things (and yes, computers are quantum mechanical by nature and have been since the advent of the transistor). My history on the subject of technology goes back further than my memory; I do not remember when it began, and so I might consider that I have always been involved with technology; I do remember, however, that I have worked with nearly every Microsoft™ desktop operating system since DOS 5.3, that my introduction to Linux was on Ubuntu 5, that I learned to design and assemble digital logic circuits before I learned to program, and that I taught myself to program on what must have been an old Beta version of Windows XP Pro using nothing but O'Reily's Programming C#, 4th edition, and an IDE called SharpDevelop which are all still sitting in my back room. Now I consider myself a Systems Architect because I am not a Web Developer, despite being functionally capable of filling that role, preferring instead to design and build system-level applications without the encumbrance of bureaucratic administration or an unruly team. The results of this expertise can be surmised in my bookmarks section below.
And, as you can infer from my previous statement, I am not an advocate of teamwork, and certainly not as it's been advertised. I have been inducted into team experiences before as part of my formal indoctrination and by those experiences have come to believe that to engage in classical "teamwork" is to kill the bull by straightening it's horns, an insanity. Real teamwork can be likened unto what we observe in an ant colony: everybody has a part to play, minds their own business and does their own job so that nobody else has do it, is on the same page and unanimously supports the current plan of action; but in any team I have ever been on I have encountered a fierce resistance to change, the expectation that I accept the "leadership" of my "peers" and fall into line in continuance of the status quo however misguided it may be, and an incessant obnoxious interest in my doing so by those who still have their own work to do. No, that is not teamwork any more than the Nazi stormtroopers collaborated with citizens of Germany during the Third Reich and must not be tolerated by anyone with the name of freedom on their lips!
I cannot imagine what more might be said as introduction to myself, much less for the purpose of coming to understand this user: Maurolepis Dreki. To say more would be just words; to know one must gain experience, and that cannot be provided here.
Bookmarks
[edit]Here is my collection of bookmarks on topics across the web: