Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Mar 14, 2006, 5:52 PM:

Re: God is a Blogger, Ken Wilber is Not

bald philosopher king (redux 2.0)
Originally uploaded by coolmel.

recently Ken Wilber (aka The Reluctant Blogger) was quoted saying:

“The thought of writing more—e.g., blogging—is just unbearable. I’d rather spend my precious spare time doing street drugs.”

nonsense! rubbish!

fellow Podwans… let’s use this thread as a lobbying ploy to make our voices heard using this Optimus Megaphone. add your top reasons where why Ken Wilber should include blogging as part of his ILP.

once we have critical mass, we’ll use the permalink of this thread and wield the chains of our compassionate balls to the Bald Philosopher King himself… saving him from taking those illegal street drugs.

it’s only a matter of time Ken… resistance is partial…

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Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~Matthew said Mar 14, 2006, 6:11 PM:

Blogging is a supported by a highly-advanced LR structure. If people who are highly advanced in the UL don’t use it, then it will be left to the devices of those who may wish to use it as a devious means. Blogging is one of the answers to some of the dilemmas posed by Ken himself in both A Theory of Everything and his recent IN conversation with Andrew Cohen. That dilemma being the hi-jacking of technology by ethno-centric (and below) consciousness. If you are world-centric or above and you are not blogging, then you are making it easier for the “wrong” folk to throw their weight around in unhealthy ways. C’mon Ken… Rollie’s doing it!

Matthew

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Mar 14, 2006, 6:18 PM:

geeky. but well said… and that Rollie dude, i think Ken will yield first than Mooseboots!

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Mar 14, 2006, 8:38 PM:

Top 10 Reasons why Ken Wilber Should Blog

Posted on March 14, 2006
by Matthew

Great stuff Matthew!! Letterman should HIRE you too :)

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Apr 10, 2006, 7:52 AM:

~C4Chaos agrees with Matthew and gives Ken a piece of his own medicine.

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Beth said Mar 15, 2006, 11:49 AM:

If the writing factor is stopping him, maybe Ken could try AudioBlogger instead. Let's face it - sitting down at a computer and typing/organizing/editing your posts can take a while. I'd be the first to volunteer to follow him around with a recording device, and I think we'd all just love to hear him ramble. No editing required.

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~C4Chaos said Mar 15, 2006, 12:10 PM:

Audioblogger? neat. but that bald dude could ramble for hours without peeing. but it still would be neat coz we there’s a stop button.

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~ Renee said Mar 16, 2006, 7:08 PM:

Just a minute - hold it … hold it… Hold it!!!……… C'n I come along?~

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Mar 23, 2006, 1:02 AM:

Re: Re: God is a Blogger, Ken Wilber is Not

bald philosopher king (redux 2.0)
Originally uploaded by coolmel.

Got this clarification from KW after the Optimus Megaphone made some noise: “Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging.”

From: Ken Wilber
Date: Mar 21, 2006 6:26 PM
Subject: RE:

I am being portrayed slightly out of context…. Notice that what I am saying I am against is not blogging, but the time it takes to do any sort of personal journaling whether in the form of blogs, hand-written journals, or pissing in the snow. As for blogging itself, I'm totally in favor of it. I essentially agree with Matthew's comments that blogging is a worldcentric technology (teal, to be more precise), and in order for it to live up to its potential more worldcentric people need to inhabit it. My problem is very simple: I ain't got no time.

We are going to try something of a hybrid at KenWilber.com-namely, have a small team of editors blog with and for me. Folks like Corey, Clint, Colin, and anybody else whose name begins with C-like Coolmel…..we are completely overhauling the thing, adding four more sections, each of which has a radically different design-in other words, totally postconventional, as usual. So first, please call off the blog dogs-I am totally for blogging, but me and God have others blog for us.

So there you have it. KW is not against blogging and they (we) are “going to try something of a hybrid at KenWilber.com.” Not sure what this hybrid will look like. But if I have it my way, One Taste would really kick ass in blog form. w00t!

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~Matthew said Mar 26, 2006, 8:33 PM:

Ken Wilber “ain't got no time” to blog, eh? Perhaps instead of taking street drugs, he ought to try some of his own medicine.

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~Matthew said Apr 2, 2006, 5:34 PM:

the link doesn't seem to be working… try this:
http://matthew.zaadz.com/blog/2006/3/ken_wilber_says_he_aint_got_no_time_to_blog

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

CalmEagle said Mar 23, 2006, 12:30 PM:

Bwaahaha, a part of me agrees with Ken. Moderation in all things as the Benedictines are fond of saying. (coolmel might needs a 12 step blogaholics group? Feel free to kick my idealistic eagle feathered knees, mel…) But seriously, it's like, whoa! All techie and stuff in here. Follow the trail of whole wheat bread crumbs to…

http://pods.zaadz.com/soups_on

and take a breather…

Love the zaadies,

CalmEagle

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Mar 23, 2006, 7:40 PM:

CalmEagle said: “(coolmel might needs a 12 step blogaholics group? Feel free to kick my idealistic eagle feathered knees, mel…) ”

you know what? seriously… i think you're right.

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rhobherto said Mar 25, 2006, 1:57 PM:

coolmel says: “One Taste would really kick ass in blog form.”

if you mean a la “pointing out instructions,” the very Heart of Reality Itself achingly awaits!

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Mar 25, 2006, 2:08 PM:

same here… i'm waiting for the White Morpheus for him to witness his own radiance in blog form… before swallowing it with the help of Red Bull.

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

CalmEagle said Mar 26, 2006, 3:28 PM:

hi mel

So that is true, I wondered if it was. :o) I am also wondering about the 'puter deficit, as in haves and have-nots and the world open to 'puter haves and the world shut to 'puter have-nots. I just returned from a visit with one of my best friends who has a particularly vicous form of cancer. They have a monthly support group for the people who have this kind of cancer. And she was telling me how wonderful it was to talk to other people who are dealing with the same Big Nasty she is. And she has excellent family support. But some of the people what we would have called underpriveleged back in college days, live way out in the western par tof our state in tiny rural communities. I suggested a support group online, either here or tribe or yahoo or something. And ya know what? The people without support also were withouit 'puter skills and pc's.

Now there would be a great use of techie brains, teaching the elderly and poor cancer patients how to use pc's so they can beef up their support network. Whaddaya think?

Peace 'n all

CalmEagle

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

Jessica said Mar 26, 2006, 7:04 PM:

I'm also feeling Ken on this. I am pressed for time and I'm not even Ken Wilber. But, Coolmel you're really making waves here. I tip my hat to your persistance for this mighty cause of blogging.

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Leendert said Mar 26, 2006, 2:44 AM:

Oh ok, when he is not convinced about this all, I will join him and find out about all these streets drugs, sound like fun! (lol) And then blog about it!

High the High

Leo (leendert's sub personality)
(KEN! The Netherlands likes Pot(d)Casting a lot!)

(PS Oh how I love freedom of speech!)

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Mar 26, 2006, 9:05 AM:

Leendert said: “Oh ok, when he is not convinced about this all, I will join him and find out about all these streets drugs, sound like fun! (lol) And then blog about it!”

dude! how many time do i have to tell you. this is not The Netherlands! Motherland!!! :)

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Leendert said Mar 26, 2006, 10:26 AM:

quote leo:

“How I love the freedom of speech (“even when someone is calling me e a dude”)”

;-)

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Brian said Mar 29, 2006, 5:19 PM:

OMG

* hurting self laughing *

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~C4Chaos said Apr 10, 2006, 7:56 AM:

hey guys, check it. this thread now is slowly becoming a cult infected with deadly Wiberitis.

it now has an eerie soundtrack complete with chanting in Latin, augmented piano tunes with a techno feel, and androgynous vocals. Check it out.

K DUB WON'T YOU BLOG?
(click to play song)

this song was composed, arranged, and performed by a weird guy with a looong(non)greasy hair named Brondu.

it sticks to your head like a bubble gum. resistance is partial. you've all been warned.

may the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on our souls.

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

Brondu said Apr 10, 2006, 10:00 AM:

The quest to get Ken Wilber to blog has taken us to many strange places. It has spanned many generations (reference to age differences of the people on posting on this thread) and many nations (one thing is for sure: Leendert is not from around here) and now it has led us, me personally, but us as a collective (in so many ways) to this: a song. So let me break it down for you in a way that will make it clear I have no idea what I’m talking about.

I start off with some eerie, easily alienable tension in the form of piano. When I played that piano part I swear to you it was like the Heavens opened up and God was a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers telling me to move my fingers just so.

I follow it up with a touch of seemlessly integrated repose. This carries smoothly (like a really strong paper thin mint) to it’s inevitable demise. Like a beautiful purple egg shell, cold but admirably lifeless, this intro gives way to something perhaps uglier than it’s container but undeniably alive.

The latin groove took me about four hours to make. That’s a lie.

When it came down to a voiceline I was stumped. I decided to tap into a storewell of injustly segregated consciousness (the consciousness of the white rat who was tried at a congressional hearing for passing consciously-conscious legislature mandating the effective of 2002 release of all involuntarily domesticated white rat populations), and the white rat told me: sing deeply, like a MAN!

So while it doesn’t look like it, in a way the white rat inspired me because I did the opposite. Often it is this way with music and culture. There is often an element of animilistic/animistic positive thygmotaxis (opposition reflex) that plays a role in the creation of music. Even our emergant art forms (video games) hint at this broadly-voiced teenage battle cry of ‘stop f**king us over you a**holes’. No different with this song.

So with the voiceline complete (thank you white rats who will forever remain captive) I finished it by retreating to and revisiting (but not regressing to) that piano. That catlike, snake-ish paino. John Cleese would be proud.

Thanks ~C4Chaos. Now hundreds of thousands of people will hear my song! HURRAY!

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~Matthew said Apr 10, 2006, 10:12 AM:

Yes, ~C's hundreds of thousands of readers are sure to give your song the audience it so rightly deserves.

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Apr 10, 2006, 10:28 AM:

make that millions!

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~C4Chaos said Apr 10, 2006, 10:29 AM:

nice. thanks for illuminating the interiorior beer-goggles that enacted that groovy song. Red Hot Chili Peppers are groovy!

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said Apr 10, 2006, 1:58 PM:

just wanna tie this in with this blog post because there are interesting conversations there that are brewing.

Ken Wilber Won't You Blog With Us

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~C4Chaos said Apr 27, 2006, 11:48 AM:

SUCCESS!!! WOOOT!!! well, sort of… :P

Check out this uber-cool upgrade of KenWilber.com. It's one of the best web sites ever! And I'm not just saying this because it's Ken Wilber. You just have to see it for yourself.

And guess what? KDub got blog! WOOOT! Check out the KW Blogosphere. I knew it! That bald dude would eventually yield! See KW's first blog post. I just hope he keeps up with it. Resistance is partial!

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

CalmEagle said Apr 30, 2006, 10:17 AM:

well i'll be a monkey's uncle….

going off the read the KW blog…..

CalmEagle

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

Jay Andrew Allen [no longer around] said May 23, 2006, 10:37 AM:

Yeah, but it's infrequently updated.

On top of that? NO RSS FEED!!!

I feel gipped. I demand my money back.

Re: Ken Wilber Will Yield to Blogging

~C4Chaos said May 24, 2006, 6:15 PM:

LOL. you are sooo evil PB!