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	What it is for me to be a wog	drachen	100	Belief	Percentage:  100 Idea Group:  Wog Idea Category:  Belief "When does somebody become a wog? Your a wog when you say you are..." :Sean Kennedy What is a Wog you might ask? Well chances are that if your reading this your a Wog and just don't know it yet. See here's the thing about being a Wog. In order to become a wog all you have to do is give up the lie. The lie that the world is a happy place, that loves and caresses all the creatures in it. This is bullshit. The world is a beautiful place, rife with constant struggle for survival. Every animal, plant, insect, fungus, and bacteria on this rock we call home, is fighting day in and day out for just one more day in this world. Humans are no different. Except we've been fooled into thinking we're better, grander, than the rest of the creepy crawlies on this planet. Being fooled by this lie, we've let ourselves become weak. There was a time when a human, lost in the woods, would not only survive, but would thrive. Where do you think all the different tribes came from? People went into the unknown and lived there, making it home, until it no longer supported their numbers and then they moved on. Try that today: in 3 day's you'd be dead from lack of water because you didn't know to dig at the base of curtain plants. Or maybe you'd find a stream, so you'd live for a couple of more days until you starved to death. If you got lucky maybe the weather would be halfway decent and you'd last 14-16 days. Well we plan on changing that. No longer is mankind going to exist as a slave to it's own creations. Today's society has made us weak, vulnerable, and depressed. We weren't meant to live as slaves to jobs that serve no purpose other than making sure money is exchanged for services that don't matter and goods that will be thrown away after a couple of days. That is the ultimate goal of this single Wog. Your goal is probably different. That's good. Diversity means success. Some wogs want the complete remapping of society into a organized secure communial state. Some Wogs just want complete anarchy, with no leaders and no goals and no rule. That's perfect. That's the Point! We all share the common goal: CHANGE!!!! We all know it, society is spinning down the drain. We can feel it. Like the bees can when the hive is melting due to high winds and heavy rains. But like the bees we feel like we can't do anything about it. After all bees can't fly in the rain. And we can't fight the system right? Wrong! (to keep the bee analogy going) Bees create the hive from chemicals secreted by their own bodies, and can and in fact DO rebuild the hive constantly, from the inside. They actually do not feel like they can't do anything about the destruction of the hive, because they know for a fact that they have the power to recover from anything. We can do the same thing, theres no need to let society rot. We can rebuild it, we can make it better, stronger...faster?(that sounds familiar). We have the technology, we have the drive, all we lack is the knowledge that We can fix this. That is what being a Wog is all about. It's about Fixing this place before we lose it. It's about bettering ourselves so we can better society. It's about maintaining personal discipline so when public discipline fails we can step in and prevent suffering. That's the goal of Wog: to reduce and prevent suffering on every level. Don't agree with me? Great! Thats what we look for in a Wog, someone who's not going to stand their and agree with everything put forth to them. If they did that they wouldn't be a Wog, they'd be a sheep. Sheep are animals that are grown and tended because of what they can provide for the farmer, including food. "Wogs are not food!"- Sean Kennedy We are not the mindless masses that the TV generation was hoping for. We do not expect life to come easy. We don't expect people to agree with us. Hell we don't expect to agree with each other over every detail. But we change, we adapt. And when we can't adapt to our surroundings, we adapt our surroundings to us. That is what a Wog is. or at least that is what I think a wog is. What do you think a Wog is?
	R4nger	kevinisageek		Belief	Idea Group:  Wog Idea Category:  Belief I am a R4nger. For those who are unaware, R4nger5 are originally the UK version of Wogs but there are people elsewhere who call themselves R4nger5. The main difference as far as I can see between R4nger5 and Wogs is that R4nger5 place more emphasis on using recycled and/or cheaper materials, often making things from scratch. While military spec gear is very nice and tough it is also pricy, spending £60 on a bag versipack is a bit too much for some folk.
	Wog	elementc	100	Belief	Percentage:  100 Idea Group:  Wog Idea Category:  Belief I'm adding this as a placeholder for the moment. I'll come back tomorrow to edit it and add stuff.
	Wog	kevinisageek		Belief	Idea Group:  Wog Idea Category:  Belief I identify with the Wog subculture and I like a lot of the ideas that Sean K and RantMedia has produced. I am a Wog because I say I am. I know it is used in a derogatory fashion, especially in the UK where I am from. This is very unfortunate. As it is probably no a good idea to cause aggravation with the sane, I will identify myself as a R4nger. Around other wogs, i will identify as wog.
	Wog	ghostdog		Belief	Idea Group:  Wog Idea Category:  Belief I'm not interested in the previous context of the word: the substance of the belief is important enough. To me, a wog is simply a person who lives by one creed: to be prepared for anything and help as many people as possible. In that respect, I do what I can daily to follow this: I don't try to be a buddy-fucker, I try real hard to prepare physically and mentally for as many eventualities as possible, and so on. In fact, the whole reason I joind ET.com was quite simply to learn more skills and to help those who want o learn develop theirs. It's OK to disagree with the wordage. It fine to disagree with our ideals.  But no-one can deny the fact that if the shit hit the fan, you would sure as hell want us on your team.   Hope this adds something constructive to the group...
	Wog	BrogNought	99	Belief	Percentage:  99 Idea Group:  Wog Idea Category:  Belief Quite simply, I am a Wog because I say I am one. I have dived into the Wog counterculture, and from it I have begun adopting the core concepts of the movement that I agree with. I do consider myself a Wog, yet the thoughts of the Wogdom are so vast and flexible that the perception of what a Wog is greatly varies from person to person. I am a Wog, though others may see things differently.

Wog is a term many Rant Media community members use to describe themselves and their cyberpunk survivalist good-doing ethos.

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	Title	Author	%	Category	Thoughts
	Hack Yourself	DarhkHorse		Interest	Idea Group:  Hack Yourself Idea Category:  Interest The concept intrigues me. As well as being something I no doubt need to do.
	Supporting Characterism	Agent Pugsly		Belief	Idea Group:  Hack Yourself Idea Category:  Belief A;ll hero's need supporting characters.  It's important to realize what your limitations are, skill wise and materially, at the moment.   Find someone or a group that you more or less agree with.  Remember to be practical, you will ALWAYS find disagreement in any group or individuals.  (at least, most likely, you should.  Please msg Agent Pugsly if you find someone completely agreeable.)  Become a minion.  Offer to do grunt labor, do projects that support other projects that influence your target.  In assisting someone else you ensure your productivity in your own action, or an accountability trail if needed, while allowing guidance to happen.  This is an invaluable learning tool as well as a good way to make contacts.   Support agreeable efforts instead of starting your own effort.  You learn AND you can survive the downfall when it (inevitably) comes.
	Hack Yourself	RossDoughty		Belief	Idea Group:  Hack Yourself Idea Category:  Belief
	Hack Yourself	bigbrother		Belief	Idea Group:  Hack Yourself Idea Category:  Belief Wetwiring is something I look forward to. I would love to be able to hack the physical limits of my flesh body. To connect to a Snow Crash-esq Metaverse with my mind, interface with computers with thought, and even improve memory/psycsical abilities. That's a ways off but for now a good place to start is the Hacker Diet http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html and anything relating to nanotech
	Schizmatic	Agent Pugsly		Belief	Idea Group:  Hack Yourself Idea Category:  Belief Sometimes it is good to try and convince yourself to truely beleive something contradictory to what you feel you believe as a training exercize and a way to confirm steadfast stance on the initial thought.   This requires a lot of trickery or the ability to train reality tunnels on the fly.

The mentality of computer hackers is a powerfully potent state of mind. The drive is what makes them so dynamic--the constant compulsion to keep asking why, how, and what if i...? This drive, combined with an outlook that is frequently less clouded by social preconceptions than the average person, allows for many unique ideas and outcomes.

It might be surprising to realize that hacking is not relegated to the field of computers and technology. Hacking can be applied to anything. 

One of my favorite examples on the matter is that of a mechanic, who takes apart his car again and again, just trying to squeeze out that extra horsepower. He is a hacker. He just hacks cars.

He does it because he wants to--to see how far he can take it. 

If you can take this attitude, this outlook on life, and direct it at yourself, you can gain a powerful tool for affecting change in your own life.

Keep an open mind. 

Don't let preconceptions and other people telling you what's impossible rule out possibilities for you. Make up your own mind, and try to stay open for all the options, no matter how ridiculous they may sound at first.

Do it 'cause you love it. 

Part of what makes hackers so fruitful is that they are doing what they love. Steve Wozniak said about his development process of the Apple computer line, "I was just a kid with a crush on technology." That's powerful. He loved what he was doing, so it didn't feel like work to him, so much as a wonderful game--seeing how far he could push it.

Take that same mentality in your own life. Fall in love with being alive. The universe we live in is an amazing place, and we are living in very dynamic times. Do what you do to see how far you can take it--how far you can make yourself go. Try new things and don't rule out possibilities until you've thought them through.

Protect your box. 

If you think of your brain as a piece of biological computer hardware, then it stands to reason that your mind would be the software running on top.

Continuing with this metaphor, there are negative influences or 'malware' coming in through your senses in order to attack your mind. These mal-memes are put forth from a variety of sources for a variety of reasons (to make them money, to control your actions, to make them feel better about themselves, etc.), and work in a variety of ways (confusion, fear, peer pressure, subconscious, moral, emotional). 

If you think of it like that, you can begin to develop mental tools for excising these mal-memes, and controlling them as they continue to be introduced to you in the future.

This metaphor can even continue to another level--in computer malware removal, there are a number of tools which are utilized to control different types of threats. Just as in the real world, we have multiple vectors to protect against. Pattern recognition snags a lot of the unclever, copycat known threats. Once bitten, twice shy--after you know what to look for, certain techniques stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. They lose their power over you. 

Heuristic analysis algorithms and run-time protections attempt to find new threats by examining what code is trying to do, rather than relying on a signature of something you've seen before. More proactive, but you have to weight the results for what they are because of the increased chance for false positives.

Immunization patches. If you deal with the underlying vulnerability, the threat is nullified. If you control all of your wants, the push/pull engine of consumerism loses its hold on you and commercials don't affect your judgement as much. If you come to complete acceptance of the reality of a particular situation, the emotional poison of someone taking jabs at that certain subject begin to lose their sting. 

Footprinting.

Gaining knowledge about a particular subject or target before directly engaging. If you're the target, you'll need to footprint yourself. Find out all you can about yourself.

Take personality quizzes, write yourself up a character sheet, tally up your likes, wants, needs, and vulnerabilities and strengths. You need to be honest with yourself, and I think this may be the hardest part. If you're not honest, you won't have accurate information to work with.

Luckily there are tools you can wield to help clarify your objectivity somewhat, but it still has to come with that inward desire to seek the truth, or else you'll simply see what you expect to see, what you want to see.

Journals can be a powerful form of externalization. When you go back and read some of your older entries you'll be astounded by what you may have been thinking. There are several tests which can give you some sort of external perspective, but you must again be careful--if you're deceiving yourself, and you're intelligent, it is often easy to manipulate the results of these tests. The Alexander technique is another tool for gaining an external perspective on yourself. The more objective, honest, and complete your information gleaned from the footprinting, the better equipped you will be to maximize your own efforts.

NLP. 

There is also some research being done into fields like neurolinguistic programming, hypnotic suggestion and the like. I've heard of techniques similar to buffer overflows where many topics or ideas or loops are opened in rapid succession and the mind assigns some part to keep track, but none of them are ever resolved, and eventually, the person becomes lost, and as such more susceptible to influence (i.e. more likely to involuntarily run somebody else's code). 

-cid

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