(08-21-2009, 05:40 PM)3D Sunset Wrote:(08-21-2009, 05:22 PM)Quantum Wrote: I leave you with another can of worms, albeit extremely packed rich, fortified, and high in protein...It might go something like this: A member of the Confederation proposes a message to transmit and has the message (or at least skeletal draft of it) preliminarily approved for dissemination by the Council. After that, a search is made for a suitable instrument to deliver the message. Once said instrument is found, a final review of the message and instrument is performed and approval is granted. As soon as the message is transmitted, it is out of the Confederation's hands. They have acted in good faith and good intentions and they let the chips fall where they might, having no attachment to the resultant outcome. (Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and expect something in between).
Note that in the past such activities have often as not resulted in the message being so distorted that it actually became a benefit to STS. But what of that, as they say, and they gird their loins and continue muddling though. This 3D stuff is always messy, but that's no reason to quit trying!
Nicely said. This was more or less what I was alluding to as possibility. This being the case, we are then left with maybe's and "Turtles all the way down". You may be familiar with the "Turtles All The Way Down Story": "Turtles all the way down" refers to an infinite regression belief about cosmology and the nature of the universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down). For those of you not familiar, its a cute short read with deeper meaning.
I will be interested Lavazza to see what your responses will be upon completion (this some time within the next 5 years, given its sheer enormity). Actually the greater problem I had with it was as expressed initially, namely that Ra seemed to sanctify it. Were it not for having read and studied the LOO first, perhaps it would have moved me otherwise. By our mutually agreed probability dear 3D, that it got severely garbled, is indeed my only way out for the confusion it caused. It reads very very little like anything Ra communicated in the LOO, notwithstanding the possibility that "One Man's Ceiling is Another Mans Floor" as much as is "One Man's Junk Another Man's Treasure."
I leave you with the euphemisms colloquialisms, and aphorisms in the truth that indeed "Its Turtles All The Way Down"....
Q