Loki Listens

I do a bit of an intro for my good friend Tofu over at his blog.  

Tags: guestblog, link, tofu916

Tags: cast, movie, podcast, viddler, video

Is there a mighty, larger plan above all this life of toil and turn?  Is there a bigger plan in your head?  Do you ask the questions that never seem to get answers?

Looking for answers is often just a waste of time.  Sometimes the answers just come to you.  Instead of looking for answers, trying living for results.  If you can be here, now, it’ll all work out.

But what do I know?

-Jack
I Listen.
I Travel..

Tags: answers, ideas, ideology, motivation, philosophy, results, synchronicity

As this course comes to a close, there are many things I have left to teach, but after these 52 lessons you should have a sound and stable starting point for building your own personal theology.

Let’s break away these walls and join each other.  I am no more teacher than I am student.  Richard Bach once wrote, “We teach best what we need to learn the most.”  Nothing could be more true.  So, here I am, on the cusp of something extraordinary, and I want all of you to join me.

Some secrets may change hands.  Life may transform as we evolve both physically and spiritually.  The adoption of technology to the shaman’s path is of utmost imprtance.  The shaman can no longer be just about nature.  The shaman has to grow with the culture, and the culture is growing rapidly.  Never has the shaman had the chance he does now.  The chance to be everywhere at once, literally.

As saplings we all start, but soon we grow into trees that devour our surroundings.  Be the oak tree.  Give something back for what you are taking.  Do not be the weeping willow, who takes all of the water it can, but offers nothing in return.

It’s time that we began to think globally.  There is more out there than your own backyard.  Jump for it.  Strive for it.  Become other worldly with me.   We cannot forgive those you have never reached for something greater.  The fate of mankind is in each of your hands.  Can you make it better?

-Jack
I Listen.
I Travel.

Tags: change, evolution, ideology, philosophy, religion, richard bach, shaman, shamanism, spirituality, technology, Theology, transformation, trees, walls

In this recent war of microblogging sites, it seems that none of them can really get it together and provide what we really need: reliability.

Twitter is always down and some features don’t work, people moved to Friend Feed.  People realized that Friend Feed’s user interface was complete crap and came back to Twitter.  Twitter still having the same issues and not moving forward in any noticeable way, when Plurk lauched there was a mass exodus.  Now Plurk is putting us through the same bullshit as Twitter.  Down half the time, not all of the features work, etc, etc, etc.

I think Brightkite might be the only reliable microblogging site left.   I’ve yet to see it go down.

So the question remains, can someone get a microblogging site together, fuck all the frills and special features, we just need something that is reliable, supports SMS(in the US, unlike Jaiku), and allows posting via IM.

Throw everything else out the window, it’s worthless and just causes more and more issues.  I don’t care about my karma score.  I don’t care about rooms or cliques.  Just make it work.  Can it be that hard?

But what do I know?  I just listen.

-Jack.
I Also Travel.

Tags: brightkite, downtime, friend feed, microblogging, plurk, reliability, twitter

For the first time on Loki Listens, I’m going to publish a poem I am actually sort of proud of. Hopefully someone will enjoy it as much as I do.

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Drink in the night.Can you feel this flavor?
The wine is deep red.
The love is crystal clear.
Drink with me.
This cup we share.
We are not this.
We never were.
One moment,
trapped in amber,
perfect,
in its eternal happiness,
is more than we
could ever ask for.
Drink with me.
This cup we share.
Spill the wine.

(poem inspired by the works of Jalal ad-Din Rumi.)

-Jack.
I Listen.
I Travel.

Tags: drinking, love, poem, poetry, rumi, wine