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Author: Hendrik Boom
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Old-Topics: Re: [DNG] Added desktop-live to the install guides
Subject: [DNG] [OT] Attention deficit and consciousness
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:50:27PM +0300, Andres Suarez wrote:
> В Ср, 02/01/2019 в 00:48 -0600, golinux@??? пишет:
> > On 2019-01-01 23:46, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote:
> > > On 02/01/2019, golinux@??? <golinux@???> wrote:
> > > > On 2019-01-01 21:37, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > > >     The degree of attentiveness we now
> > > > >     demand in our workplaces has been a positive trait for only a
> > > > >     couple centuries, and genetics hasn't caught up. So blame is
> > > > >     counterproductive.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I beg to differ. It's not in the genetics.  It's in how we choose to
> > > > live. The level of consciousness in parts of the world hundreds of 
> > > > years
> > > > BC surpasses what we are capable of today. Our individual
> > > > traits/skills/talents are the resultants of the quality of our past
> > > > actions over millennia. IOW we start a life with what what is
> > > > commensurate to whom we have been. So choose wisely.
> > > >
> > > > golinux
> > > >
> > >
> > > What 'consciousness' you are talking about?!
> > >
> >
> > I am talking about the consciousness/awareness that receives data in the 
> > form of eye:sights, ear:sounds, nose:smells, tongue:tastes, 
> > body:physical sensations and mind:thoughts. It is the mere reception of 
> > these stimuli that turns our inner world and outer world so it's to our 
> > advantage to get to know the interaction between stimulation and 
> > response intimately.
> >
> > Without great awareness in the present moment, we are carried along by 
> > emotional reactions to events instead of actually knowing and 
> > understanding them. More often than not, that impulsive reactiveness 
> > brings us much misery and pain. But if that same consciousness is 
> > harnessed to focus on this never-ending stream of events moment to 
> > moment, it begins to understand them in a very different way and changes 
> > the mind at a fundamental level.
> >
> > The ability to touch that understanding has declined over the last 2500+ 
> > years and there will come a time when that knowledge will be forgotten.  
> > But it will be rediscovered sometime in the very distant future because 
> > it it cyclical as all things are.
> >
> > golinux
> >
> Beg pardon for the interruption: but actually that ability has increased in 
> the last millennia. What hominids had 2500+ years ago was a primitive sense
> of reality, which gave rise to all that mysticism which prevails so far.
> Consciousness, defined as advanced awareness, was the last part to develop.
>
> That function allows you to build "Devuan Linux" instead of mixing with 
> the sheep.


At this point, the discussion has gone off-topic. I think it's still
worthwhile, but it should at least start a new thread with a new
subject. I've given it a new subject, but am placing it in this thread
anyway so people will see it here and look for or start the new thread
instead of going on here.

-- hendrik

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