Please note that it is no longer possible to record comments or discussions on our site. The Museums and Millennium team would like to thank all participants who enhanced the site by sending us their comments, which you can consult below. Secrets of Aging Some would say that we age as we have lived * Future Forecast • Here’s a though, “Today, there are 33.2 millions people over 65 who make up over 12% of the population.” and so far none of them have posted anything here. I’m 23, and was brought here by insanity of continues and useless informational overload. I wonder what will happen to me in those terms when I’ll be over 65. Hopefully I’ll be financially secure enough to have a good health plan in order to afford all the latest in Neural Uptake Inhibitor drug developments. I see the same happening to aging AI networks that will require algorithm based “drugs” instead of “patches” for exact same reason. How’s that for old age, a retirement house-insane asylum for YOU and YOUR computer. * Heart Ages • I read recently that aging and the passing of time do not actually go hand in hand. it is only coincidental at this time which means that some day it will be possible to live forever. * How Do You Defy Aging? • Listen to music and meditate on how each day is a new beginning. I also travel to places and try things i never had the courage to do when I was younger • Govern my mood with women music and good marijuana. female age 65 Foreign Beings - Our images of the other Stereotypes get in the way of authentic encounters between human beings * Types • I'm really surprised that you have not included gays, lesbians and transgendered people in your list of foreign bodies. Lets face it. We are the foreign bodies within the foreign bodies and the white middle-class mainstream • We believe our lives are the center upon which everything revolves. We fail to see that we are all foreign relative to another and that it has taken a millennium to shape our beliefs, our bodies, our people to the suffering needs of the region of the earth that our ancestors choose to live in.~AstridM. * Individuals • It's an important endeavor to extract the person of a woman from the sexual object that she had been (almost solely) until recently. Women will always be pulled in multiple directions. I don't see that ending. Nature demands we be the ones to bear young and nurture. Society refuses to use that alone as a measure of success. We must perform in other realms. Thus, between the two there will always be a strain. • There is no getting away from the fact that women and men will always be portrayed and enjoyed as sexual objects. It is part of the hardwiring of humankind, and is not all necessarily bad. Whether one is successful or not also includes the degree to which they succeed as a sexual object, using that sexuality to promulgate a different appreciation of gender. It is possible to be sexual and allow objectification to breakthrough the stereotypes typical of 20th century imagery and feminist doctrine. If you take the over arching morality out of discussions about the "other" the veneer of victimhood (and the tendency to wrap oneself in its mantle) begins to pale and a totally different appreciation of oneself can emerge. Flogging Society seems to be an increasingly tedious whipping post for the lack of individual imaginative action. The Global Garden – Reconciling Man and Nature Nine “commandments” to save the earth * Do not harm the earth • Treading lightly is difficult to be conscious of from a city person's perspective. The environment is so built up that we don't see the earth or its machinations. When it rains we say 'oh no' not being aware that this as a vital function of environmental survival. • The main thing about the above mentioned OH NO is not only the lack of respect against our environment it is the self obsessed sight of all around us. Everything is only here to effect me, we think. When we learn that we are part of a world we affect as well as it effects us and we learn the respect against every form of life or being on this planet and in this world - only then we will have learned not to harm the earth! C.P. The great illusion • To what extent can we repair, duplicate, conserve, represent or reinvent the human body? * Repairing the body • This has opened up a great deal of concerns...if we modify our bodies so much, who will we become? We will loose our identities...imperfections are what make us so perfect. • Our identity doesn't depend of our body, does it? * Duplicating the body • As suggested in this Website, the death of individuality may be worse than the death of an individual--although look at our department stores, our suburban sprawl, the extinction of numerous species; it is happening already. God'S Millennia Humans always look for a meaning to life, death and the universe * Anthropomorphic gods • The need for the familiar, the assurance that our shape and form must be the center upon which life and death must revolve, the denial of our miniature proportions in comparison with the vast empty space we have filled with dark matter.~AstridM. * God speaks to people and people speak to God • The Muslim "god" doesn't have a name. "allah" is merely God in Arabic. You refer to 99 titles of the Muslim (false) "god." Nice try, but it won't work. * Meditation • If one cannot learn within a simplified lifetime how to become the observer of multiple events but has an awareness of the need to step out of a reference frame, one may feel obstructed and relative time might appear and disappear seemingly at will to haunt the different states in which one tends to dwell. It is necessary to investigate. It is required of each entity or the entities within to observe every detail that is being exposed without disturbing the space or non-space. It is very possible to experience one event or multiple events by simultaneously being within or outside the space or non-space. This is the goal. Astrid M Metissages Human beings, nature, culture, technology… everything is crossed! * Metissage languages • I dream of an esperanto * Metissage ancestors • No, not purely academic but certainly culturally determined, whether you recognize it as such or not * Metissage man and the machine • Reaching a point where nothingness becomes the absolute. Were precise endeavors become so obstructed that the need for the depletion of resources, machine creation and mundane desires take on a temporary role? What is the reference point that one must obtain in order to perceive a direct way towards ultimate control in nature and subnature? One can always choose one in which two different phenomena can be seen clearly without obstructions, choosing the reality of only one phenomenon can lead to a painful deception that might lead to useless insanity. We look outside of ourselves, due to our inability to read what is inside of us. Astrid Every day religions Expressions of great religions in a multicultural society * Buddhism • To remove that which makes us suffer, to obtain or eradicate those things that we wish to obtain, to know that there is nothing more needed.~AstridM. SLO 2000 Individuals & statistics: the power of images and numbers. • I can't believe the silence here, in this space. but it won't remain that way. I love these images of such honest 'being'. thanks, bob@robertappleton.com • I don't agree with you. our country suicides are more than yours • Keep the dialogue global...we need to know what is going on over in all parts of the world.....and the web is part of it all......... • Who cares about figures....it is human lives, for crying out loud! • Did you ever just stare at yourself or someone else and they start to look different....that is what happens here....a different perspective.... American Identities ------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Me gustan los cuadros de Alejandro Obregon y por eso no me parecen nada violentos en cambio qieren decir muchas cosas que nisiquiera nos alcansariamos a imaginar ROCIO 12AÑOS • Los felicito por expresar en tan pronfundas perspectivas la realidad del arte femenino que no es lo mismo que el arte hecho por mujeres o feminista. Creo que el título de una de las obras sintetiza perfectamente el sentido de esta muestra: "La exterioridad de la interioridad del corpo mío" es exactamente lo que vemos y percibimos al recorrer estas manifestaciones. Técnica y conceptos se unen para transmitir el valor de la forma. Gracias y continúen.Magnolia. Artista plástica mexicana. • Hola !!!. Mi nombre es Octavio Trujillo García y les escribo desde la cd. de México. Trabajo en una publicación trimestral que se llama "Gaceta de Museos" - se distribuye en gran parte de Latinoamérica- encargada de difundir el pensamiento, problemática y reflexión sobre el papel de los museos, tanto en su interior cómo en su relación con la sociedad. Bueno mi motivo de escribirles es bajo la idea de poder contactar a especialistas -antropólogos, sociólogos, etc.- que gusten colaborar con escritos o ensayos; y principalmente que nos aporten sus opiniones sobre la relación museo-sociedad; ya que aquí en México se continúa con una visión preferencial por el pasado dentro del discurso de sus museos de historia y antropología, sin vincular en que medida esta historia tiene que ver dentro del proceso de urbanización particular, de cada ciudad del país. Bueno espero tener contacto muy pronto con ustedes. idomumx@yahoo.com.mx Felicitaciones por su página... Octavio.