http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/ SPIRE Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:28:28 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/701 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/701 I don't know if she plans to actually join the group, but a certain person who knows who she is has done me the favor of setting up an alternate home for Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:21:22 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/700 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/700 Heads up to anyone who might try to join the group or make a post in the next couple days - Yahoo has posted a notice that the groups will be down for Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:56:57 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/699 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/699 Well, the second SPIRE party went rather well, by the standards of what I was expecting and how things went last year (as best I can remember); it remains to Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:31:41 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/698 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/698 So I was thinking about elements and personalities; Merle established a link between a person's "alignment", ie the generalization of their morality and Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:18:55 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/697 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/697 "Reality is the single point at the axis of the cosmos, and Otherverse is all the possible vectors that can be drawn away from it. In life, we are points, and Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:03:55 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/696 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/696 With the party now only a week away, I've been thinking a lot about how I can promote my philosophy when I can barely explain what it is, and am reluctant to Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:47:57 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/695 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/695 Originally written 02/28/08, modified today. "Why do I bother to create so many possible truths? The idea is that reality is too complex to reduce to a single Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:46:17 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/694 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/694 In one of my old notes, I found an idea which I just got around to following up on: I looked up the square mileage of all of the Earths' landmasses (on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:18:59 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/693 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/693 The best single statement I found in my notes from 01/23/08: "You are accustomed to thinking of life and death as a single scale, death at the bottom and the Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:11:29 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/692 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/692 As usual, with the second-to-last weekend prior to the party now almost over, I have done precisely bupkis to prepare. I don't have any signs or anything as Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:25:06 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/691 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/691 ... Only with substantially increased difficulty. The elimination of the moon as a probable home for alien life was a substantial shift in the general Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:10:43 GMT William Pell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/690 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/690 ... Never heard of that before, but if I read the wiki page right, it's still theory, and there isn't so much evidence for it as scientists who wish there was. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00:05 GMT Thorin N. Tatge http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/689 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/689 ... I suppose you have a point. I think you might do well to have an outline, or at least headings and sections that you can file various thoughts under. If Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:53:41 GMT Thorin N. Tatge http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/688 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/688 ... Well...except that the extent to which we can just choose to believe whatever we want is sharply limited. I can say that I believe in life on the moons of Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:51:15 GMT Thorin N. Tatge http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/687 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spire/message/687 ... Okay! ... Something can get on the brain through nearly random means--a stray thought combined with a stray observation--but once the synaptic paths are