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Evolutionary Essays © Kyle Lance Proudfoot Evolutionary Essays © Kyle Lance Proudfoot Evolutionary Essays Written by: Kyle Lance Proudfoot ©®™ Published by: AuthorHouse UK All rights reserved. FRONT COVER TO COME 1 Evolutionary Essays © Kyle Lance Proudfoot Prelogue Equal In Return (The Fact You Lack It You Are Attracted) 2 Evolutionary Essays © Kyle Lance Proudfoot Introduction This is everything I see as positive for this Society, especially our struggling Modern Western Civilization’s. This is not just pure optimism, hope, dreams, wishes and will use sound logical factual structures, examples, evidences, proof, statistics, fragments, references, argumentations and will also use morals, ethics and emotions. This is an attempt to provide after each chapter primarily theoretical philosophical propositions and at the end of the book try to be unretortable on many Debate Issues. This is to dispel pessimism, failure and despair which we have watched, listened to and experienced over the years, decades, centuries and millennia even though I am no more than a realist. This is to reveal multiple coinciding realities in this world of Power, Energy, Information Technology, Science and Technology ruled by money though there is at least a very strong presence of Open Source. This to regain constructive positivism which we have somewhere lost nullifying our productivity and profit leading Planet Earth into a downward spiral of deluge, sickness and disease, economical crisis and wars. This is to bring clarity, suggestions, innovations and solutions from Observation and Experience which is the distinct realm of Philosophy. Nicht ontheil Zen Buddhism. Nicht ontheil Pythagoras. Nicht ontheil all of the Poet’s, Philosopher’s and Geniusses to date who try each and every day to improve the world. A Philosopher’s position is to reveal Truth. Truth is Commonality. I, Kyle Lance Proudfoot, firsted started these essays at York University in Toronto, Canada (1995-1996 CE) where I got a 2nd year propedeuse in Philosophy and a 1st year propedeuse in Psychology in one year. After passing with an average of about 80% overall I moved with my Mother to Netherlands since her marriage broke up and I had no means nor money to stay and get a BA, MA and/or PHD though hindsight is always 24/20 and I would have probably at best become a Teacher and not have entered IT after getting my MCSE diploma and developing websites to date. So far I have become somewhat of a middle middle middle Celebrity, System’s Engineer, Webdeveloper, Author, Artist, Actor, Musician, Poet and Philosopher. Life is a Sine Wave. The last FREE Draft chapter at Silverlingo.com and Planesofexistence.eu was uploaded in 2013. See my curriculum vitae for other qualifications, projects and works. This is Evolutionary Essays. 3 Evolutionary Essays © Kyle Lance Proudfoot Intro Poem The Animal I am the animal, The Ground and the Sky And the Waters and the Sun, I am all. I feel the earth beneath my bare paw, Swimming the currents, Flying the waves, The vision of the light I can hold, I am the animal. Mine is the current to make, Eddy or whirlpool, The matter is forged as I gesture For all the Energy is mine to wield. I am all, I am animal. The Elements, Our builders of substance, Essences of Form, I am in touch with, Like no other I am. All that matter; I, 4 Evolutionary Essays © Kyle Lance Proudfoot King of this Planet, Ruler of all the matters, Behold me! I am Constructor And Destroyer With the might to determine it all. Behold me! I am the maker of my own Fate: I am Human… 5 Evolutionary Essays © Kyle Lance Proudfoot Aliens Blastin’ Noobs To conclude the predicament: None and All. For I have love in my heart and also believe in Theosophy, though as I define my system in The Free Show it accounts for no more than a fraction (like 1/32) of my entire Strength Of Faith structure module in it, which is the realization of the all existing God’s and Goddesses and Philosophy’s and Religion’s, not just ONLY ONE single monotheistic GOD, for we each feel happiness in a different way and what is GOD without Henchmen who helped build our Civilization’s, Planet’s, Solar System’s, Galaxy’s and Universes. I state the last one in the plural too since these fall under different Planes Of Existence, Dimension’s and Timelines within One Big Reality both internal and external in your sensory manifold from macrocosm to microcosm and from Finite to Near-Infinite to Infinity. I am not Anti Anti Anti your Monotheistic Philosophy’s and/or Religion’s which is so irritating everywhere these days from Noobies who think they know what they are going on about just cause they heard it in another Lie And Rumor Media Show, however as a fraction on Planet Earth in the somewhat blown 21st Century what would the actual percentage be… Also, when I have heard such about myself from them all I can do is hurl blow suck them cause ever since King Pendragon, King Arthur, Saint Patrick and King Edward there has been nothing but a Combined Celtic Christianity Complex for all your own CCC Complexes. This is, of course, just my own Right Of Choice (discussed in a later chapter). We see as a trend a moving away from such great extremities, unfortunately that brings Revolution and War with its upheavals through change. If you would bother to read even Islam and Judaism then you would also not be such an Anti Anti Anti Noob. Before you know it Alien’s will even show up (again) and what are you going to do, go and only Insult And Provoke them??! Well then, no one you get it right back in your faces. A Global Canadian Citizen allows for your Right Of Choice, unfortunately many systems being primarily still in Totalitarianism on both sides do not give you that and you have to Fight For Freedom just like we Fight For Peace all the time here in outdated crap living spaces with no insulations… …and all their blast diameters, now you know the true meaning of Karma for there is no single Implosion and/or Explosion which goes in only 01 direction… Nicht Ontheil Einstein… if you cause that kind of disturbance then all the other particles on Planet Earth will go and show up and stomp that whole region… To state here the other fractions of my own Philosophy’s and Religion’s is not the point and is actually NOYFB: Is this also not a Private Choice which is in your heart? The following are some (hopefully) funny phrases too help loosen up your juices and put you at ease that I am not one of those highly over-complicated long drawn out boring old dry crusty Professor’s at University’s and other School’s who put you to sleep. 6 Evolutionary Essays © Kyle Lance Proudfoot ‘Name recognition is severely screwing my mind up. She’s tryin’ to lose her mind. Screw you too.’ ‘A Rose by any other Name remains the same. A Black Rose by any other Name remains the same pain.’ ‘They’re tryin’ to convert me… Is there Nothing in Everything? But about 99% of everything is nothing. Is it also 99% Light and only 1% Shadow?. Or is it a somewhat Spliffed Down The Middle mix. Are they just incoagulent?’ ‘Drunk. Free Will. Atheist. Science. Religion is like a drug. Then the Null came along: Zero Point Field.’ ‘Religion already went away in the Renaissance… Is it Israel: Checkmate. Maybe in hopes. PAY ME OFF. WAR Rules!! War is a necessity.’ ‘Thank GOD for Science!’ ‘We are the fighters for our collective warbird: A whole fleet of warbirds is certainly a Warbird.’ ‘A Dumb Shmuck wrote it down, way back then…, “The Aliens are comin’! The alien’s are comin’… Panic now and avoid the rush!”‘ ‘But then the rip came along: Alien’s and Advanced Mutant’s took control of the World!!’ ‘Near-Infinitum is close enough at unending .9’s = Infinity = Immortal = We are all Immortal = To the length of the persistent databases of Humanity = Theosophy = I would sacrifice to him and/or her = LIFE and not DEATH = unending Life = unending Death = both = neither.’ ‘You are just a nanoscopic particle on a Near-Infinite Timeline.’ ‘What is wrong with this picture? Is it not the Ideas which have always shaped the course of the Timiline and is far greater and larger than your nanoscopic body?’ ‘It ain’t blood I’m drinkin, that’s for sure. Evil = Good. It’s just a question of the beginning, the means, the method and/or the end.’ ‘Name recognition refers to the same GOD, who is defined as the Creator of all Reality.’ ‘‘Kaduh Moron’’, psis the Alien. Holy Gruesome, Spy Kill!’ ‘There massive planetary guns open fire…’ 7 Evolutionary Essays © Kyle Lance Proudfoot ‘Humanity cannot save itself versus such a superior force with its present total lack of Interplanetary Defence System’s, not to mention the total lack of Tank’s on the continent… in fact, last we checked there’s like only Russia and France with any standing Army left of any kind, America blown in failissement and China catching up rapidly…’ ‘The Civilization which had no Army to defend itself also had all its Art’s ripped off.’ ‘Poetry Ad Infinitum, Defenc Ad Absurdum.’ ‘“Oh my God, oh my Goddess… they’re comin’ down in swarms, ahhhhhh… KABOOM!!!!” The last words of a brave Cyber Soldier…’ By the fact they are in quotes they are not per se my opinion.
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