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April 08, 2005
How's it going out there?
Howdy all. Many of you may be wondering why the blog has been so silent of late. One of the reasons is that all of us who contribute lead very busy lives. I can only speak for myself, but there have been a lot of other things going on my life that have had to take priority over maintaining the blog. I'm glad the forums are there for people to make it their own.
I'm personally doing a lot of soul searching about a lot of things, including my involvement with Future Hi. I would be highly relieved if someone sufficiently motivated wanted to take over the site for awhile. If all goes well, I would even be happy with that person becoming the new 'owner' of the site. I would probably want to stay on as a part-time contributor, but that would be all. Maybe this will change in the future, but for now, someting like this will have to happen, or the blog portion of this site, may suffer a slow and possibily underserving death.
Bottom line is my heart is not into blogging right now. If you have an interest in contributing, please direct your inquiries to LVX23, who is the other primary editor for the site.
Peace and good will to all of you,
Paul
Posted by paul at April 8, 2005 03:40 PMI noticed that elsewhere in your homepage you have a discussion of probability. If you have any interest in following a thread on this one topic I have set up a blog on the subject of probability drive (or compulsion) at http://probdrive.blogspot.com/
Ragards,
Mike
I definitely understand about blogging becoming a bit of a chore--especially when your "off-line" life becomes busier. You almost get a guilty feeling if you haven't posted in a while.
I hope the blog stays around--I love the content and I've only just "discovered" it in the past month or so.
Posted by: Sly Stoner at April 9, 2005 02:33 AMEverything must eventually end. Good luck with whatever "new" interest that has now caught your attention. And to be honest I do not agree with a lot of the future scenarios on this site..(it's a little out there ^_^) even for a sci fi fan like myself but this website has introduced me to a future world that is beyonf the imagination of most people. In other words it's kinda neat.
Later
Posted by: Emanuel at April 10, 2005 02:00 AMall the best to you, your ponderations, school and your new projects Paul.
i hope someone can take over the blog for a while, if not, i know i'd still be looking at futurehi, whether its slow or not.
keep up the good works...and thanx for all the inspiration you have given already, or allowed others to share:)
I opened myself, took it all in and saw it all happening, inside and around me.
I tried to trust the process, trust my instincts, trust my inner wisdom. I tried to give in, surrender completely, accept everything as it is and let the process play out through myself. To follow the path, wherever it may lead to.
Fortunately, this time I didn't have to make any difficult choices.
I think I found love, and found love to be something completely and utterly different from anything I thought about love before.
Everyone is free to decide what to do with her life. You can go in our out, you can be swept away to an out-of-mind drugged state or stay straight and follow the process with the illusion of the clear mind. The only difference might be in the level of consciousness, if that's what is. And the higher you get, the more you fade away; the more you become one with everything, the less they will see you, the less they will hear from you, because you will be something like the wind or the scent of flowers: always there, loving, supporting, giving, but claiming nothing, just being something which is you and not you at the same time.
It's kind of sad that youre leaving... I really enjoy this site and hope that people will continue to update it. I have faith that youll retaurn someday with stories of your journeys (at least for a visit :)
We definately have our individual priorities, and one of the gifts in life are finding them. May the wind carry you far.
Danny
Posted by: liquis at April 13, 2005 10:42 AMPaul- While I certainly love to see new posts on the site, even from other contributors, just because you won't be posting very often or hardly at all, does not mean the site will be dying. It has well over a year of posts and many other resources not found in other places. These writings, thoughts, ideas, and concepts will stand the test of time and every single thing posted on the site remains current no matter when it was posted. I was quite surprised when you refered to your site as a blog. I had never once thought of it that way. While Floating Planet was more of a blog, even that was still just a great place to get information that mattered. I see your site more as an encyclopedia of positive futurism. It is also my belief that hardly anyone has gone through and read every single post and read every article in the library or in the forums or listened to every recording in the media section. I know I haven't, and I'm sure most others haven't either--because, like me--and you--most people are busy, and have other things to attend to. And that is why FutureHi is not and will not be dying; its amount and sheer depth of information provide for limitless oportunities to learn more or just come back to refresh on a topic . . . limitless like the future it espouses. I hope that this site is never refered to as dead. Because as long as there are people coming to the site and exploring it, it is alive. Little or no posts for an indeterminate amount of time could be remedied by a new post encouraging people to explore the other areas on the site and maybe some of the other liinks. In the end, maybe this will weed out some of the people you were thinking were starting to come to this site because it went with their "bad boy" image. The people who stick with FutureHi and come back regularly to explore the other areas would be the ones FutureHi was created for in the first place, and any new posts would be welcomed without any sort of expectation of regularity.
As Plato said, things in nature are always becoming, they never just "are". This goes for every human life, and it goes for this site. The future will always be becoming, and a little dose of the positive outlook this site provides should always be present. I hope as your life is becoming, Paul, that the positivity that you have brought to all of us is present in whatever future you are becoming unto.
Cheers, DHughes
Posted by: DHughes at April 14, 2005 03:36 AM
Wow D. Thanks for that. I'm really touched.
Posted by: Paul Hughes at April 14, 2005 06:46 AMYo, wassap...
what's all this talk about going and all. Gawdamn I just finds this site from the aeather, and as I now stare at my lava lamp, I read with my own electronic eyeballs that this thang is going down? Petal up! Man. What it needs is some good dose of open source. You is got the right idea, you dig. Asking da community to chip in, to keep coherence of the system. You dig?
But you ain't got the right tools, you see boy. Chico. You need proper tool to allow psychedelic community to jump up and down in the highs of learys and mckennas and ram dasses and Joycean huxleys dreams of yore.
Do you mambo? I mean, do you really mambo? http://www.mamboserver.com/
All it requires is host and then modular convocation of elves is possible through control panel. See? community edit and develop, no need for funkiness behind the scene, yo, coming to you live all the way from Canada. Hot damn. the rabbits are pink.
Anyway, enough silliness. All I'm trying to say is to turn this site into an open source system, by using tools like mambo. I think it's a worthy cyberdelic enterprise.
Love peace light and everything nice,
Alquimista