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Beware, The Agents of Despair...         


Author: Automutt
Date: May 20, 2008 23:27

Beware, The Agents of Despair...

Beware, The Agents of Despair...
For often now they just don't care
If depth or death, they drive you to.
Fear not the fury of what is few.

I claw at walls of mud and shame
When in the pit, I screamed the name
And shallow seemed so far away
For in a hole you see less day...

Lamentations 3: 55-58
"I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit. You heard
my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief." You came near
when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear." O Lord, you took up my
case; you redeemed my life." and the sentence from me: He rescued me
from the Pit.

http://automutt.deviantart.com/art/Agents-of-Despair-86192078
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Re: Beware, The Agents of Despair...         


Author: turtoni
Date: May 20, 2008 23:36

"Automutt"
> Beware, The Agents of Despair...

some people "despair" at the thought of lifting a finger. heh.

"despair" is an emotional subjective term.

this is a good one:

"Order and disorder co-exist in lifelong quests for a dynamic balance that
is never quite achieved. The existential tone here is unmistakable."

Where would God be without the Devil?

Bored? Meaninglessness?

So lets imagine that "God" needs to "test" us in order to have *his*
meaning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA8r7nk_oL0
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Re: Beware, The Agents of Despair...         


Author: tooly
Date: May 21, 2008 04:36

"turtoni" fastmail.net> wrote in message
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> "Automutt"
>
>> Beware, The Agents of Despair...
>
>
> some people "despair" at the thought of lifting a finger. heh.
>
> "despair" is an emotional subjective term.
>
> this is a good one:
>
> "Order and disorder co-exist in lifelong quests for a dynamic balance that
> is never quite achieved. The existential tone here is unmistakable."
>
> Where would God be without the Devil?
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Re: Beware, The Agents of Despair...         


Author: jonathan
Date: May 21, 2008 16:01

"Automutt" hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Beware, The Agents of Despair...
>
> Beware, The Agents of Despair...
> For often now they just don't care
> If depth or death, they drive you to.
> Fear not the fury of what is few.
>
> I claw at walls of mud and shame
> When in the pit, I screamed the name
> And shallow seemed so far away
> For in a hole you see less day...
>
> Lamentations 3: 55-58
> "I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit. You heard
> my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief." You came near
> when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear." O Lord, you took up my
> case; you redeemed my life." and the sentence from me: He rescued me
> from the Pit. ...
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Re: Beware, The Agents of Despair...         


Author: jonathan
Date: May 21, 2008 17:15

"tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> "turtoni" fastmail.net> wrote in message
> news:1st5o8.5d7.19.1@news.alt.net...
>> "Automutt"
>>
>>> Beware, The Agents of Despair...
>>
>>
>> some people "despair" at the thought of lifting a finger. heh.
>>
>> "despair" is an emotional subjective term.
>>
>> this is a good one:
>>
>> "Order and disorder co-exist in lifelong quests for a dynamic balance that is
>> never quite achieved. The existential tone here is unmistakable."
>> ...
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Re: Beware, The Agents of Despair...         


Author: turtoni
Date: May 21, 2008 22:15

"tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> "turtoni" fastmail.net> wrote in message
> news:1st5o8.5d7.19.1@news.alt.net...
>> "Automutt"
>>
>>> Beware, The Agents of Despair...
>>
>>
>> some people "despair" at the thought of lifting a finger. heh.
>>
>> "despair" is an emotional subjective term.
>>
>> this is a good one:
>>
>> "Order and disorder co-exist in lifelong quests for a dynamic balance
>> that is never quite achieved. The existential tone here is unmistakable."
>> ...
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Re: Beware, The Agents of Despair...         


Author: tooly
Date: May 22, 2008 14:20

"jonathan" write.instead.net> wrote in message
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> "tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>> "turtoni" fastmail.net> wrote in message
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>>> "Automutt"
>>>
>>>> Beware, The Agents of Despair...
>>>
>>>
>>> some people "despair" at the thought of lifting a finger. heh.
>>>
>>> "despair" is an emotional subjective term.
>>>
>>> this is a good one:
>>> ...
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Re: Beware, The Agents of Despair...         


Author: jonathan
Date: May 25, 2008 08:18

"tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> "jonathan" write.instead.net> wrote in message
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>> "tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> I found your post very interesting Jonathan. It reads to me like 'systems
> analysis' taken to a more abstract level.

Thanks for reading! You're right, I think complexity science is a combination
of the older systems theory but using the new ideas of chaos theory and
especially self-organizing systems or AI. And the beauty of this is
that the abstract system being modeled is a template for a
Darwinian system. Called the Complex Adaptive System.
http://www.calresco.org/themes.htm
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