I just liked the sound of it... I am BetterThanI He is BetterThanI You are BetterThanI etc... Plus, it's grammatically correct!
I am Cajun, from Louisiana, and been a Rockets fan since a young young boy. And, LouisianaRocket wasn't taken.
mo = my first name (short for mortimer) estavern = my last name 19 - the number of freckles I have on my taint.
Are there humans who are genetically determined to be indicators of the next dimension of evolving human consciousness? Yes. We call them futants. This paper is intended to provide a name, sense of identity, concept, vocabulary, context, and suggestion of societal role-contribution. Futant is a term coined by Timothy Leary, Ph.D., former Harvard lecturer in psychology and the engine behind the peaceful Jeffersonian revolution of the ‘60’s. Melding future and mutant, it defines those 1.5-2% of the population at any given time who are genetically “programmed” to be the evolutionary future scouts. (Exo-Psychology, later editions renamed Info-Psychology, 1976 ) Futants are not idiot savants nor are they usually raging rebels. To this time they have often, if not usually, been misunderstood, sometimes considered insane, persecuted, and cast out or even killed. It would be well that we finally recognize the genetic role, proclivities and potential contribution of futants. By recognizing their genetic role we will gain an evolutionary advantage in the form of a window into the future. This is not to say that the vision of the futant is always robust or balanced or even completely correct. Because the futant role is hardly recognized and often denied or even rejected and persecuted the futant often does not understand Hir status and the evolutionary context into which it fits. This, more than often, is usually a serious personal problem for the individual, from childhood interactions with parents through maturity, depending on several factors. The religious context in which the futant child is brought up, the political and social situations in which the individual finds HIrself, the rejection by peers and academia as often happens, are usually all obstacles. Different individuals of the futant type react to these negative elements with different strengths of personality, degree of intelligence and learning and sense of their role. Some break under the pressures while others persevere. We will come to acknowledge the futant evolutionary role and give context to it and support to the futant so they may understand themselves and their potential contribution. We need to integrate the futant role and unique contribution into the common consciousness and begin to respect and take advantage of it. True futants of high caliber can be the equivalent of the Japanese “national treasure”. The problem of integration is not so much recognizing the futant role but bringing ourselves to listen to what we, sometimes for a number of somewhat less than lofty reasons, may be reluctant to hear. They won’t always be accurate or totally correct due to the novelty of their vision, their relative personal comprehension of it, the stability of their personal psychology or biology, or the social context in which they find themselves, but things will get much better in our time as they learn to recognize their genetic proclivities and are recognized for their worth. We should learn to listen and carefully consider what they have to offer and evaluate and integrate the vision and role of the futant into society as a valuable evolutionary asset. The Futant and the Futurist Futurists are those who study the trends emerging, the technology developing, the thought emerging, that seem to give indication of what the future, usually fairly near term, will bring. The best look for both emerging trends and pay particular attention to the least determinable, the “wild card” phenomenon which may give a clue to the least unexpected turn of future events. There is a difference between futurists and futants. Futurists tend to inhabit the distinguishable, conceptualizable, front shoulder of the statistical bell curve, working to determine with tools of analysis the quantifiable, identifiable, projectable elements and wild cards out in front of them. Futants are the genetic wild cards of conscious evolution. Futants are not mutants in the sense that their genetic structures manifest sudden or clearly defined mutations. There is a difference between futants and mutants. Mutants happen by “chance”. Futants are an integral, successful and valuable evolutionary gambit for determination of and adaptation to and conscious creation of the future. Futants are the genetically programmed evolutionary scouts, the evolutionary explorers and experimenters. In that way they are often seen as genetic revolutionaries. Futurists are not always futants: futants are inherently futurists. Futurists tend to deal with the future and communicate about it in intellectual, scientific, technological and statistical form. Futurists tend to view the future from the present and evaluate the shorter term future in terms of present conditions and values. Futurists are counter punchers, evaluating wild cards in terms of how to counteract or neutralize or integrate them. Futants tend to view the present from the future and evaluate the present in terms of the longer range future. Futants tend to embody, literally, and live the future and communicate and report about it from their personal experience. The futurist sometimes has difficulty dealing with the futant, even when recognizing Hir as such, because one cannot use any assumption of philosophy, science, psychology or even logic to judge the experience and the vision of the futant: by its very nature, the essential and most valuable contribution of the futant is generally a correction, expansion, revolution or supersession of or in any or all of these disciplines and the criteria by which they operate. Futurists and futants need each other: the ideal relationship is one of close cooperation and contribution to the general evolution of the species. The Futant Focus Futants are focused, obviously, on the future, on consciousness as such, and on the generically human. Determining what is generically, as opposed to religiously, culturally, parochially, even scientifically or philosophically defined as the essence of the human is a fundamental preoccupation. In order to recognize the futant role and its potential benefit as an evolutionary gambit, however, we must first arrive at a correct understanding of our particular kind of evolution in general. Neither the simple Darwinian view nor the Creationist contradiction of it are valid. We will not understand ourselves in evolutionary terms until we recognize our genetically engineered beginnings and special case of rapid evolutionary development as a bicameral species now stepping out of racial adolescence. Because futants, to survive, learn early to discern the obstacles that society and religion throw up against them, they have resonated with the profound restoration of our species’ true history by the thesis of the Sumerian scholar, Zecharia Sitchin: we are a genetically-engineered cross between an indigenous humanoid, Homo-Erectus, and alien, Annunaki / Nefilim genes, a rapidly evolving bicameral species now ready to step out of racial adolescence into stellar society. Religion is shown to be the sublimation of the ancient master-slave relationship with the alien Anunnaki and this subservient godspell is the deepest dye in the fabric of our culture. And the godspell mentality is the greatest threat to the futant. Religion as we know it tends to codify, formalize belief systems and demand conformity and submission and generally condemns any evolution of consciousness. This Babel factoring mitigates, indeed militates, against any generic definition and understanding of what a human being is in the first place, and what the consciousness potential of the human is in the second place. But the situation is changing rapidly. ...it goes on and on and on and on... A band I was in ca. 1995-2000...
I have this name because my old one got killed (diseased monkey) and I tried lots of ones that were taken already so, I had no_answer.
Back in the .com era I was laughinj (laughing jesus) In 01 when I finally re-registered I was listening to the Beatles at the moment. I guess I was listening to Rocky Raccoon, which happens to be my favorite Beatle song to play/sing on the guitar.
Mine's pretty self explanitory. My only concern when choosing it was to make sure it was a non-gender specific name when I registered. Guys don't tend to respect the sports opinions of females.
I'm a Red Sox fan and a Rockets fan. Thought this user name would make me unique (little did I know there was another Rockets fan who liked the Red Sox but he called himself "Nomar" as well as many other things ).
Back in college when I started getting on the net, think I signed up on the original board a long time ago and didn't get back on untill 2002 for some reason, a lot I needed a handle I could remember. Considering I was an English major and had read Beowulf 9 thousands times in school, GRENDAL was easy to remember so theres that....
Mine's pretty obvious, really...You see, I happen to be a huge Roxy Music fan, and I got into them when the "For Your Pleasure" album was released back in 1973. So there ya go!
