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". . . or a little later that Wikipedia could never work, . . ."

Wikipedia works? I am curious as to your definition of "work?" For instance, check out William Tiller's obituary in the Stanford Report (https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/06/21/william-tiller-materials-engineer-expert-materials-solidification-former-guggenheim-fellow-died/):

"[T]iller first gained recognition in the field with a 1953 paper he co-authored with a fellow graduate student and two advisors at the University of Toronto on the way certain impurities get distributed as materials crystallize from liquid to solid, causing instabilities in the resulting material. In it, Tiller and his collaborators for the first time described the principle of “constitutional supercooling” mathematically. The process had been described qualitatively prior to the paper, but never in such concrete terms. The authors’ approach is still used today in textbooks on materials crystallization.

That work and his subsequent nine years at Westinghouse Research Laboratory earned Tiller a certain academic reputation such that in 1964 when he joined Stanford University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering he was the first faculty member to be appointed as – rather than promoted to – full professor. In Tiller’s first year on the faculty, his Air Force Office of Scientific Research contract alone was $600,000 per year, the largest in the department by a considerable margin. In today’s dollars, such a contact would exceed $5 million.

In 1972, Tiller published another influential paper on stress corrosion cracking. The paper was noted for introducing the concept that, under strain, a surface with wavy undulations will cause atoms to diffuse from the valleys to the peaks, increasing peak heights and producing greater irregularities. It became known as the Asaro-Tiller-Grinfeld (ATG) mechanism and laid the foundation for a new theoretical work in semiconductor films, including quantum nanostructures and quantum dots. Decades later, the paper inspired a retrospective titled “The Asaro-Tiller-Grinfeld instability revisited.”"

Now, compare that to his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Tiller.

There we are informed that the Professional Atheist and Magician, James Randi, awarded Tiller the Pigasus Awared in 1979.

I appreciate your post and your optimism, but I think Roman Leventov below makes a valid point. I think conflict is inherently unavoidable, like your Magician system and the brother-battle. It's a fundamental pattern. In this conflict, it is very difficult if not impossible to even communicate with those opposed. It's like we live in different worlds, disjoint worlds. I don't think that's going to go away without enlightenment . . .

OM

Syllable of the most supreme exclamation of praise.

BENZAR SATO SA MA YA

Vajrasattva’s Samaya

MA NU PA LA YA BENZAR SATO

O Vajrasattva, protect the samaya.

TE NO PA TISHTHA DRI DHO ME BHA WA

May you remain firm in me.

SU TO KA YO ME BHA WA

Grant me complete satisfaction.

SU PO KA YO ME BHA WA

Grow within me (increase the positive within me).

ANU RAKTO ME BHA WA

Be loving towards me.

SARVA SIDDHI ME PRA YATSA

Grant me all the accomplishments,

SARVA KARMA SU TSA ME

As well as all the activities.

TSITTAM SHRE YAM KU RU

Make my mind virtuous.

HUNG

Syllable of the heart essence, the seed syllable of Vajrasattva.

HA HA HA HA

Syllables of the four immeasurables, the four empowerments, the four joys, and the four kāyas.

HO

Syllable of joyous laughter in them.

BHA GA WAN SARVA TA THA GA TA

Bhagawan, who embodies all the Vajra Tathāgatas,

BENZRA MA ME MUNTSA

Do not abandon me.

BENZRI BHA WA

Grant me realization of the vajra nature.

MA HA SA MA YA SATO

O great Samayasattva,

AH

Make me one with you.

Syllable of uniting in non-duality.

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Here I am again with another mind-bending wawa woowoo comment. I was in thee bookstore the other day and did a speed read through https://thisishowtheytellmetheworldends.com/, the book about the cyber arms trade, i. e. state-sponsored hackers. I would really love to get your take on THAT. Especially now with these chatbots helping coders write their code. Eventually we end up with AI hackers and no humans able to even comprehend what they have done or can do. Straight outta William Gibson . . .

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