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Currently, Blackwater is suing the families of four of its employees who were killed in Iraq for $10 million each. Their offense? They wanted to know how their family members were killed, the company refused to tell them, so they sued for the information.

Who owns Blackwater?

A right wing "good Christian" pro-corporate family that controls over $1 billion in assets amd has been very generous to the Bush family.

Blackwater is just one of their projects.

John Moore: From an antipolitical perspective, the implications are clear. On the one hand, anarchy must be rejuvenated and become conscious and vigilant. Liberation from all forms of coercion and hierarchy, including its formulation in the cuneal paradigm, can be achieved only through an attentive and sagacious anarchy. On the other hand, techniques must be developed whereby the controlled can experience the psychosocial biodegradation process, with its liberating cathartic effects, and hence regain their forfeited heritage as uncontrollables—the real paradise lost.

IT HAD TO BE SAID:


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Humanity has always invested heavily in any scheme that offers escape from the body. And why not? Material reality is such a mess. Some of the earliest "religious" artefacts, such as Neanderthal ochre burials, already suggest a belief in immortality. All modern (i.e. post-paleolithic) religions contain the "Gnostic trace" of distrust or even outright hostility to the body and the "created" world.

BLACKWATER, the secretive private army now emerging into public view, is a perfect hinge linking two key elements of the Republican political base: America's war machine and a muscular form of fundamentalist Christianity.

See Nazi Vatican Murderers (Caveat Lector)

Snip: "During the first half of the 1920s, a violent rivalry took place among the Occult Societies and Secret Lodges in Germany. In 1925, for example, Rudolf Steiner, the founder of the Anthroposophical movement, was found murdered. Many suspected that the Thule Society had ordered his assassination. In later years, Hitler continued the persecution of Anthroposophists, Theosophists, Freemasons, and Rosicrucians."

Memetics regards religion itself as memetic, and Richard Dawkins has often discussed religion.

Some fundamentalist evangelical religious movements act
predominantly to swell the reach of their faith-meme. These movements
devote a large amount of time to evangelical activity.

Difficulties With Memetics made me think about religion. Now, I found an Internet blog meme that was called Joys and Trials of Religion meme. Very interesting. Using memes and memetics as an empowering tool. Very interesting. What a fantastic web!

WAX ON THE FUTURE has some problems with memetics, especially the concept of "religion is a cultural virus." The way I see it, even if God exists, the transmission of His word is still memetic. To say that religion is memetic does not automatically disprove spirit or the devine. The enculturation of science is memetic, which doesn't disprove science. Memes are neutral, agnostic, and the messenger. Remember not to kill the messenger.

Although it is only a part of a larger discussion about Nordicism and Nationalism, I really love what "Anon" said about the life, growth, culture, and evolution of language, which is also a fantastic definition of memetics, too: