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		<title>Lack of group intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;s in charge around here? It was a sad day yesterday when I realised that every group, every corporation, every government, every family is only an expression of the sum of its members. I am part of my family, I am not a separate part, I am an integral part. My existence effects the whole [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Who&#8217;s in charge around here?</h3>
<p>It was a sad day yesterday when I realised that every group, every corporation, every government, every family is only an expression of the sum of its members.</p>
<p>I am part of my family, I am not a separate part, I am an integral part. My existence effects the whole of this group. Every group you belong to is effected by your membership.</p>
<p>I thought about this when I saw a local government employee who looked like he had given up to gravity and he was only motivated by the need to get paid. I looked at him and thought, ‘he is just like the business that he is working for’ &#8211; it is not interested in anything but its own being.</p>
<p>When you look at any club, school or business you can see it’s character by it’s members. Oh dear! What a disappointment. Humanity on mass is not a pretty sight and   I believe that  scientists are still waiting for humanity to show the first signs of intelligence.</p>
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		<title>A prisoner in a water robot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m gonna smack my infinite self in the mouth! I am an infinite something, squashed into a little water bag called a body. Sometimes, I can feel my endlessness, my vastness. I know that I am exquisitely and impossibly strange, weird but at the same time so cosmically (and perhaps comically) beautiful. I am something [...]]]></description>
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<h3>I’m gonna smack my infinite self in the mouth!</h3>
<p>I am an infinite something, squashed into a little water bag called a body. Sometimes, I can feel my endlessness, my vastness. I know that I am exquisitely and impossibly strange, weird but at the same time so cosmically (and perhaps comically) beautiful.</p>
<p>I am something that is indescribable and unique. I have existed forever so contain forever within my own being but it is another forever&#8230; how strange.</p>
<p>I am so light and so dark that my faulty human senses cannot comprehend. I am both threatening and welcoming, unpredictable yet comforting. I am something more than I can describe.</p>
<p>While I am imprisoned in this watery robot, my mental insight as well as my memory is also imprisoned. From this, so limiting, human point of view, I cannot explain or understand anything so vast and so strange. But it tickles my senses to try and imagine it&#8217;s wonders as well as it&#8217;s darkness.</p>
<p>This infinite something, somehow and probably for good reasons, decided to enter this physical existence on planet Earth. Personally, I think it was a foolish error and that there are much better places to visit than this dirty little life-sucking world. In fact, when I return to this infinite self, there is a good chance that I will be tempted to use my martial arts training to teach it a lesson.</p>
<p>And really, who cares? Because this vastness, this infinite something, is me, more of me, so I can do what I want.</p>
<p>When you think about it, it needs to be taught a good lesson. If it was essential that I come into this world why wasn’t I given a few tricks to make my life easier? Surely it wouldn’t have hurt anyone if it was me that invented the computer, or at least invented something wonderful at 19 years old so that I could live off the royalties for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>Stupid infinite something, I‘m warning you now, when I return there’s gonna be big trouble. Pow! Could even be the big bang all over again!</p>
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		<title>Fools rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art@colinperini.com (Colin Perini)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop behaving, act like an idiot! One of the things that most good-intentioned adults teach their children is… the importance of being sensible. Well.. sometimes you need to smash your sensible adult attitudes so that you can let the idiot in you, take control for a while. Stop behaving and start creating! Being sensible is [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Stop behaving, act like an idiot!</h3>
<p>One of the things that most good-intentioned adults teach their children is… the importance of being sensible. Well.. sometimes you need to smash your sensible adult attitudes so that you can let the idiot in you, take control for a while.</p>
<p>Stop behaving and start creating!</p>
<p>Being sensible is usually guided by what you should do, not what you want to do! This is a terrible restriction and puts a wet blanket over all of your creative projects. Creativity needs to be expressed in an open field, not a toilet cubicle. If you have to, lock your door and pull down the blind so that you can behave like an idiot in private.</p>
<p>At first it seems difficult to break some of the restrictions that you were taught as a child. However, practice makes perfect, start misbehaving a few times and before long you will get very good at it.</p>
<p>Throw paint at the canvas. Scribble all over your paper, knit outrageous statements in your sweaters. Be the idiot that you always dreamed of being. Become the envy of sensible, polite society as they watch your creativity soar to new levels.</p>
<p>Stop being responsible and learn to behave like a lunatic in front of your creative project. Step out onto a limb and let yourself go! Who knows you might be a natural at it.</p>
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		<title>Deep and meaningful nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I imagine I am important Humanity has an extraordinary ability to find patterns in every aspect of life. We can recognise faces and body shapes from afar. We see trends in behaviour. We can predict physical world behaviors by analyzing previous patterns. We recognise familiar events and even see pictures in random occurrences such as [...]]]></description>
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<h3>I imagine I am important</h3>
<div id="_mcePaste">Humanity has an extraordinary ability to find patterns in every aspect of life. We can recognise faces and body shapes from afar. We see trends in behaviour. We can predict physical world behaviors by analyzing previous patterns. We recognise familiar events and even see pictures in random occurrences such as cloud movement.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste"><span style="color: #ffffff;">creative ways</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Unfortunately, we don’t seem to know when to stop. We look for omens and give them great value. We conveniently ignore the failure of previous omens to turn to anything useful or meaningful.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste"><span style="color: #ffffff;">creative ways</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">We find hints and innuendos in conversation and are quick to take offense at what we imagine has been said. The patterns we uncover are not necessarily true but we still cling to them as if they have personal meaning.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste"><span style="color: #ffffff;">creative ways</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">It is easy to walk down the street and find signs from a god or directions given by angels or  symbols arising from a belief in fairies or gnomes or some other fantastical form of life. Humans are very good at finding patterns. These patterns are not necessarily of any value. They can be coincidental, lucky or ominous, it all depends on your imagination.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste"><span style="color: #ffffff;">creative ways</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Regardless of what you think you see, there is no deep and meaningful. There are no secret patterns waiting to be revealed. There is no hidden language of symbols reserved for the few enlightened amongst you. There is simply a 3D screen before you and on this there are an infinite variety of possibilities playing in and out of your mind.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste"><span style="color: #ffffff;">creative ways</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">The value of each event is invented by you. You are the one who puts personal interpretations onto the impersonal world as it continues to unfold in unique and unpredictably strange ways.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste"><span style="color: #ffffff;">creative ways</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Deep and meaningful interpretations are just another form of self-indulgent fantasy. Nobody has a spiritual advantage or a holy insights into anything. You only have your own very personal, imaginative interpretation of the patterns of life. They don’t really care how you interpret them as they swirl in and out of your sensual range and in and out of your fertile imagination.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">So if you meet a holy person, don’t laugh out loud, because they may be very happy in their deep and meaningful misinterpretation of their imagined patterns of life.</div>
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		<title>Got any intelligence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you think you’re smart? The parents dream &#8211; my children are not only well-behaved, they are attending university and excelling in their studies. One day they will be leaders in their field… A common ideal for parents but reality, a dream headed for failure. creative blog Universities, higher education, advanced learning are not the [...]]]></description>
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<h4>So you think you’re smart?</h4>
<div id="_mcePaste">The parents dream &#8211; my children are not only well-behaved, they are attending university and excelling in their studies. One day they will be leaders in their field… A common ideal for parents but reality, a dream headed for failure.</div>
<p><span style="color: #ffffff;">creative blog</span></p>
<div id="_mcePaste">Universities, higher education, advanced learning are not the keys to success, happiness or a fulfilling life. They are only steps necessary to achieve a particular lifestyle and career experience.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Success is fulfilling your personal ideals. So if you want to be married with 6 children and you achieve it, then you are successful but you are not necessarily happy, wealthy or fulfilled. You have successfully achieved one of your fantasies, nothing else. You have successfully converted a dream into reality.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Whether you become a lawyer, doctor or street cleaner you will not be able escape the constant unexpected twists and turns of life. You will still be a victim of life. You will still experience happiness, unhappiness, frustration and pleasure. Within the wide scope of life, your career or your success is but a tiny aspect of the whole.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">No matter what you achieve, you will not escape from real life. The richest to the poorest, the most famous to the most secretive, all experience the ups and downs of daily life. There is no escape. There is no utopia. Things will not be better when… they will simply be different to what they are now.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">So whether you’ve got degrees or money, fame or notoriety, you are still subject to the strange and unpredictable punches and kicks that life throws at us all.</div>
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<div>So what is success? Perhaps success is the ability to make a happy life in an unhappy world.</div>
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		<title>Never, never give up… fool!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<h3>Bang your head against the wall</h3>
<div>There are many situations in life that will not give you the results you desire. Most of your dreams will die on dry ground. Determination often only results in wasted energy and  frustrated efforts.</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; creativity</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">All of the positive thought in the world is not magically going to convert a situation to your favor. You cannot force life, nor can you charm it or coerce it to do things your way. Most likely life, whatever it is, has no interest in your personal goals and fantasies.</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; creativity</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">There is a good possibility that if life does have a purpose, it is for it’s own sake and not for yours. If you swim in the sea and swim against the tide with a positive attitude, do you think the tide might change direction just to please you?</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; creativity</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">If you go to the casino with $50, put it on the roulette wheel and pray really hard, do you think that miraculously, you will win? And if you don’t win and determine to never, never give up, do you think that eventually, you will come out as a winner… I think not!</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; creativity</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Do you really believe that each little human on this planet is so powerful and so important that if they want something, all they have to do is nag and eventually, that thing called life will give it to them?</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">When you swim in the sea, if you swim with the current, you will probably enjoy the ride with a minimum of effort. If you want to swim against the current and fight life with a blind and unyielding attitude, it is doubtful that you will enjoy the ride. You will waste a lot of energy and possibly even drown &#8211; dammit!</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Perhaps, the best you can hope for is to spot opportunities when you surrender and ride with the tide of life.</div>
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		<title>Omens Ha!Ha!Ha!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art@colinperini.com (Colin Perini)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something good might happen! That cloud looks like an infinite awareness having a mystical experience on planet earth. Colin Perini &#8211; Creative artist The problem is, the human brain has an extraordinary ability to find patterns in everything. It can cross-reference all manner of possibilities to find a relationship between the most obscure of situations. [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Something good might happen!</h3>
<div>That cloud looks like an infinite awareness having a mystical experience on planet earth.</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; Creative artist</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">The problem is, the human brain has an extraordinary ability to find patterns in everything. It can cross-reference all manner of possibilities to find a relationship between the most obscure of situations.</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; Creative artist</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">The brain also works well with logic, so when it thinks it has found a relationship, it equates it to discovering a truth, the owner of the brain naturally takes the relationship as reality. The process of scanning for relationships and then accepting them as a truth, can be a matter of moments for the brain.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">When you look at a cloudy sky, you can see all sorts of imagined pictures, especially images that are related to your current situation. These can be easily seen as omens by the ever-obliging, ever-justifying brain.</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; Creative artist</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Omens from whom? From a god sitting in the sky? From your higher self? Why doesn’t it just tell you the message instead of confusing you with symbols and mystical innuendos? Or are the omens from some other secret source that is too subtle for anybody but you to understand?</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; Creative artist</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Why the great mystery surrounding these higher messages? If they are really from some form of higher intelligence, doesn’t it speak English? The use of obscure omens seems a dumb way to impart a special message.</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; Creative artist</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Can’t this source just whisper in your ear or perhaps give a you a good old-fashioned clear vision in a dream? And what’s wrong with emailing? If the hidden power that gives us these wonderful messages is so great and intelligent, surely it can find a clever way to send an email?</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; Creative artist</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Omens? They are all in your head, created from a brain that is always busy finding relationships, meanings and purposes amidst all of the daily jumble that surrounds you. Stare long enough into the dark and your brain will soon start to create images and omens for you.</div>
<div><span style="color: #ffffff;">Colin Perini &#8211; Creative artist</span></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">You are probably some sort of awareness in some sort of infinite existence, the number of possibilities at any moment is infinite. The number of relationships that your brain can find is endless and the number of signs, omens and secret messages all depends on your imagination and willingness to believe in it.</div>
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		<title>You offend me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s wrong with you all? Everything offends me. I take offense whenever I think somebody disagrees with me. I take offense whenever I am unlucky or if someone else is lucky. I will be offended if you speak bluntly to me or or if you are indirect with me. I also take offense at random [...]]]></description>
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<h4>What&#8217;s wrong with you all?</h4>
<div>Everything offends me. I take offense whenever I think somebody disagrees with me. I take offense whenever I am unlucky or if someone else is lucky. I will be offended if you speak bluntly to me or or if you are indirect with me. I also take offense at random events that are simply annoying.</div>
<div>I take offense if something happens that I don’t like or if somebody does something that I would not do. I also take offense if governments don’t behave or if corporations don’t do what I wish they would do.</div>
<div>My friends are only my friends because they have not offended me too much… yet. Everybody else is totally offensive to me.</div>
<div>In fact when I think about it, everything is offensive. Life offends me.</div>
<div>I think it would be okay if things went my way, then I might not take offense so often but things usually don’t go my way and I find that offensive. I’m not sensitive and I am not easily offended, it’s just that everything and everybody else is so annoying.</div>
<div>Someone said to me that perhaps I am the one in the wrong and that I need to accept that life is not easy and that’s the nature of this planet… I took offense at that!</div>
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		<title>Lets waste our time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insensitive, greedy, power-mongering groups So you are working tirelessly to make a perfect world? You give our time generously so that this planet can be become a wonderful place to live in. You worry about the environment and do what you can to make things better. How frustrating for you. Exactly how do you intend [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Insensitive, greedy, power-mongering groups</h3>
<p>So you are working tirelessly to make a perfect world? You give our time generously so that this planet can be become a wonderful place to live in. You worry about the environment and do what you can to make things better.</p>
<p>How frustrating for you. Exactly how do you intend changing the monstrous conglomerations that rule this world? How do you intend convincing secret governments and greedy corporations that they should be sensible and see it your way?</p>
<p>You are like a single rowboat trying to change the course of a gigantic container ship by shouting at it. You are like a child who has built a sandcastle on the edge of the sea and is desperately trying to save it as the tide comes in. You are wasting your time.</p>
<p>This world is ruled by insensitive, greedy, power-mongering groups who would enslave all of us. It’s nothing new, it has been that way for eons. There has always been the ruthless rulers and their unfair treatment of the masses. It is not going to change.</p>
<p>Most people are not nice. Most people are not honorable and honest. When one leader topples, there will always be another waiting to take is place. The best you can hope for is to make your own little world honest, sincere and comfortable. Mind your own business and do what you can for those you want to spend your life with.</p>
<p>The world is pretty to look at, but it has very sharp teeth and no conscience!</p>
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		<title>30 things that seem true – part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change is consistent, natural and unpredictable. Inconsistency is necessary for survival &#8211; e.g. you cannot be honest or dishonest all of the time. The laws of society are not moral, they are rules. I must live within these rules or risk my freedom. Whenever humans form groups, they form unjust hierarchies. Society is intolerant to [...]]]></description>
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<li>Change is consistent, natural and unpredictable.</li>
<li>Inconsistency is necessary for survival &#8211; e.g. you cannot be honest or dishonest all of the time.</li>
<li>The laws of society are not moral, they are rules. I must live within these rules or risk my freedom.</li>
<li>Whenever humans form groups, they form unjust hierarchies.</li>
<li>Society is intolerant to non-conformist behaviour.</li>
<li>Governments put money before people.</li>
<li>Money gives flexibility and choice.</li>
<li>Beauty is attractive to humans.</li>
<li>Confinement is repulsive to humans.</li>
<li>There is no proof of the past. All I have for certain is what is here now.</li>
<li>Memory is unreliable.</li>
<li>The future only exists in the imagination.</li>
<li>Time is inconsistent.</li>
<li>My way of viewing the world is unique.</li>
<li>I will die.<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />
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