Let us consider the greatest gift the biblical God gave humankind. In my opinion, it would be none other than freedom.If that is the case, however, we need to look at Genesis in quite a different light. God drove away mankind from the Garden of Eden, viewing and considering them as "worthy" or "aspirants of equality" in some sense, as a creation of a perfect God, then letting them stay would be tantamount to an erroneous way of learning -  that of spiritual tyranny.

Conversely, then God gave mankind the greatest gift, having made sure that mankind had everything needed, true freedom. Freedom from all bonds (God included?).  What was needed then for humanity to able to handle its freedom? Could it be what was described as temptation, as the serpent, as something negative: Curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge without limits. The technological pursuit, the experimental pursuit. The exercise of a unique possession: freedom, without true knowledge of cause and effect.

Perhaps going a bit further we could consider the return of God to the forefront - as a triad - and the presence of the Godson and the destruction of the serpent, as the destruction of a dam which was the original sin - loss, so that the river of knowledge could flow again, in such a way though now as to forward humanity and quench its thirst for knowledge without  drowning her and destroying her at the same time.

Varikas: "His egotism is removing him from love ... Karyotakis with his whole generation is distinguished precisely by the most unhealthy skepticism. The abstract thought, the effort of calculating even the most minimum details of our every movement, the obsession of our every effort being in vain, with which he is approaching events, does not leave him free to enjoy this energy in itself, out and away from its results. (...) The skepticism hopelessly narrowed his inner world. Drained him of all vital fluid. Between himself and the outside world always interferes the dark spectrum of his skepticism and pessimism which deforms his images and eliminates the wealth of his variety. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Karyotakis

As stated in my first post here, I live in Greece so I have a unique perspective on, well, Greece. I am sure - if someone thought about it - that someone not living in Greece cannot, in good conscience, have a valid opinion of the inner workings of the country. Even someone who visited once. It is as if when I visit the zoo, for instance, the tiger cage, I can immediately judge the prowess of the tigers, the inner working of their mind, their feelings, their pain, how their loss of freedom affected and affects them. How their grooming habit could be better, in what way eating in a different way and a different food could provide fewer expenses to the zoo. Or even have the hubris of calling them lazy, because in that cage all they do is... sit.

The truth is malleable. The truth is primarily about trust and less so about facts. We trust someone, we believe them. We don't ask our father when he says something favorable about a politician for example, "Why do you like him? Why do you believe him? Are you capable of infiltrating the mind and the soul of that person and judge him honest and righteous? Are you a psychologist? a behavior analyst? Are you God?" Of course not. Because it's not about facts. We "feel" the truth, and "believe" in trust rather than wondering, questioning, thinking!

The same mechanism which served us well in passing down generation to generation verbal traditions, myths, legends and stories designed to protect us and to guide us, is now our downfall. There was no need for critical thinking at that point. You only had to remember and repeat the absolute truths passed down to you so you could pass them on to your children. Now we pass on loyalty to religious ideals and political parties, to our children as absolute truths and we think ourselves superior to jungle-dwelling savages.

Read the news and watch television but not to learn or educate yourselves. Do it so as to know what our political "masters" want to impress on us. What they want to make us believe, what they want to make us feel. All the mass media globally are there to serve yes, but not us. The persons that pay them to think. At least they get paid -we, the viewers- are made to think what they want for free.

Be critical, be kind and always follow the chain of information.

My name is Alexandros Karmiris. I live in Athens, Greece. I decided to create a blog in order to record my thoughts for the benefit (whatever that may be) of all - including me. A look at your beliefs written down helps so often to elucidate matters.

Welcome.

I am an Engineer, I have been since 2000. I started off as an Avionics Technician in the US Navy, then went on to become an Instrumentation Calibration technician in the biomedical industry. I now work for an Aerospace Firm in the Los Angeles, CA area near LAX airport. I'm a Systems Engineer. I make sure my systems works with the other systems in the Aircraft, the same ones you fly in when traveling on Vacation.

I work on complex systems, that tell the ground crews to replace the landing gear, or another avionics box is broken and to replace it. It monitors the health of the engines and aircraft as a whole.

Am I an expert on all things Aerospace? No, I have a lot to learn, but I am learning day by day and take a bunch of courses to further my education.

Is Asgardia, going to be up and running in my lifetime, I really don't think so. It will take a large firm to get the basics down, like the station structure , life support, radiation shielding, water, heating and cooling, waste, and that is just to start.

Is there a plan of action on the founders Part? If there is, we have no idea. I hope there is. I hope he is already planning on creating this station with a Firm of his choosing or creation. I would love to be a part of it, but I do not think he will open the design phase to just any one single engineer.

We shall see. Don't give up the ship just yet my friends.

As this is a first for me, let me introduce myself- Daniel Jagla, English in origin, born & raised in the steel city of Sheffield.  I first heard about this on the IFLS web page & couldn't resist the opportunity to get my profile on the Asgardia satellite.  As i'm new to this i would like to ask those who are already citizens to give a little guidance as to what i should do next & here's to a better, more awesome future.

ASGARDIA A SOCIETY FOR ALL. REMOVE THE NEW WORLD ORDER.

WE ARE THE NEW HUMANITY REGULAR DEFENDERS.

WE ARE THE WORLD'S BLOOD ANGELS WHO HAVE BEEN

MUCH MORE HUMANLY LIVING IN A MORNING EARTH.

WE WANT TO HAVE LIVELY LIVING IN THE BREAKING

PROPERTIES AND QUARRYING.