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Clarian
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| Motivation |
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Clarians are, for the most part, motivated by principle. Considerations regarding property and sex are secondary to those of principle. |
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Varies highly from unit to unit. For the most part breathers are well meaning, although notions of property and/or sex are in most unit the prime motivating factor. These notions are modified by varying degrees of principle. |
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Clarians can live for an indefinite period largely due to their ability to sample. |
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A typical unit may last up to a hundred Earth years (approx.). A cavalier regard for their own lives and high disregard for the lives of others make for unpredictable factoring. The community system of survival potential (so called health care) is all but in a few cases utterly property driven. |
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Clarians may only reproduce in their native physical state. Sexual activity is possible in a sampled incarnation but procreation is not possible.
Respect for life and deep regard for offspring are so embedded in their principles that Clarians rarely reproduce. For example, Clarius had a population of approximately 20 million in the Pre-Sagren Era (almost eighty million Earth years ago). There are some 22 million Clarians today. Of the original 20 million more than 16 million are still living. |
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Units engage in the activity of reproduction without regard for possible offspring. Motivation, highly ego-based, is one of pleasure, tension release or chattel. Quite often the male (considered important than female in most breather societies) takes on a female partner for sex in much the same way that a dog marks his territory urinating on a tree. In many cases of breather sex the female is the tree.
Huge emphasis is placed on what is forbidden. Breathers are under constant programming from television and "pop music" (breather term for songs rendered in a series of monotonous and predictable cadences). Most of the subject matter of this programming is some kind of peculiar celebration of sexual activity that is forbidden or looked down upon. Sex is more
provocative or interesting to breathers when associated with interacial concerns, age inappropriateness, adultery, infidelity, homosexuality, cruelty and perversion.
There exists a small percentage of breather society that engage in rational sex in which both partners benefit by an exchange of mutual appreciation.
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It is not so much a new concept. The idea of entertainment has been around since it was discovered on Earth about 6 million years ago. Thae fact that entertainment is not native to Clarians that make it perpetually interesting much the same way that Mexican food is always interesting to Anglos.
To Clarians entertainment is senior to practically everything. Any effort to be entertained is absolutely justified. In fact
and in many ways, it is like a crusade.
Clarians living on Clarius are very addicted to American pop entertainment with a major focus on the sixties. The songs and music of many of the Beatles and Jimmy Hendrix are played constantly but their Elvis is Bob Dylan, especially his early years. |
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Entertainment to those on Earth is widely diverse. There are demonstrations of proficiency with musical instruments, concerts, that seem to lift many to great heights. Often stories involving a struggle and some final resolution are quite popular on Earth.
The television has made entertainmet very accessible oll over the world. However, due to the easy access to television programming, many are bored (boredom amongst humans is the most pivotal emotion) with it and have inverted their appreciation to the point of wanting to see another human being humiliated orbeyondThe most curious thing a |
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To Clarians religion is about power. The main premises is that for one to receive power, one must align oneself with the goals and purposes of a higher power. One does not follow a higher power that one cannot see or touch.
One must actually change to become more effective and useful. This is done by huge and painful commitment to changes ones own habits and judgments.
Clarians do not believe in making any kind of show over their individual struggles to achieve a higher plane. They do, for the most part, believe in and draw parallels to what they would call the seven judgments. All considerations are based on these judgments:
h1 Mechanical - If it's there, eat it.
h2 Sensual - if it feels good, do it.
h3 Sentimental - If family did it, it's good.
o1 Intellectual - If it works it's good.
o2 Moral - The journey needs less baggage.
03Aesthetic - Inspires me to go beyond.
Supreme - Will it cause life to flourish?
No one judgment is in itself good or evil. Judgements are tools to render different a viewpoints of a dimension. The judgments work in harmony and octaves. For example, h2 is the octave of h1. Judgments are actually bands of frequencies. There are no priests in Clarius.
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The very real
and constant threat of dying brings the breathers to a sort of practical humility. They believe in gods that harbor many of the same foibles (jealousy, greed, vengeance, etc.) of the breathers themselves. Except that their gods have the wherewithall to really punish those that make them jealous or disappointed in some way.
Huge wars have been fought over one set of breathers wishing to impose their gods on another set of breathers.
Often priests are bribed by family members to put in a good word to their god for a deceased family member.
Some "religions" are there for the sole purpose of parting you from your money.
Some religions exist to enable their members to congregate with a preferable economic class.
The prime consideration of most churches is in the process of raising money. The whole process of owning and operating a church is by default self- corrupting.
The greatest influence on the world of religion is a single man who tried to save the world. He was willing to sacrifice himself so that he could make his point and cause others to imitate facets of his life. So the breathers strung him up on a cross for an agonizing death.
He predicted the end of the world system. His followers ask how would the righteous ones be recognized. He answered, "By their fruits you will know them."
Today we look over this poor planet, where greedy inhabitants have perverted its own
life-giving fluids, where rampant lack of judgment is now doubling its population once per generation, where cheap throwaway products are sold to mass audiences who celebrate pain and degradation. Where among the breathers are the fruits? |
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There are no politicians elected in Clarius. There is an inherited line of ruling authority. |
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The only program that a breather politician will promote is a program that will tend to keep the politician in office.
The only reason a politician says anything
is openly or furtively insure reelection..
Politicians take bribes under the name of "campaign contributions" from breathers who want to make money by poisoning other breathers. When there are enough contributions the politician will promote that poisonous product as something for the good of the nation.
Legal judges legally accept "campaign contribution" money from lawyers who try cases in front of the same judges to whom they contributed money. How can an impartial elected judge be found?
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Why are we here? |
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Clarians have come to the
station Earth primarily to relax and enjoy
life. The atmsophere is highly invigorating.
But the entertainment value of interacting
with the breathers and all their foibles is
incomprehensible to any other entity than a
Clarian. It is very easy with Clarian
knowledge to invent some procedure or
product and live off the royalties for many
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Breathers seem to ask
themselves this every day. The pay large
amounts of their income for answers
regarding this question. But in all probably
our motivions to live are the same. It's
just not as easy for the breathers as it is
for the Clarians. |
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