My story - The falling of Hackerfellowship Group

Where should I begin? The story I'm going to share, that's definitely a long story.  I will make it short as possible as I could.

I became a christian in 2004. Then the following years I was reading/learning a lot of stuff about other people's consequence of ideas. In late 2007, after 3 years of thinking, I thought I was still lacking of "aha" ideas. There were more conversations in face-2-face  back then. I sponsored a community to get a group of people together to discussion on some topics. HFG( Hackerfellowship Group) was born in 2007. We have had monthly meeting for 5 years. We also had a lot of discussions on mailinglist. People came and went. A lot of things happened. I tried to build HFG as an organic community but I totally failed. I neglected the most important factor in the organic community: People must already have organic life, hacker's life. I expected HFG could have the spirit of underground community but it never did. Because these guys I was hacking with who were not hackers even didn't understand what hacker ethic is. Nalaginrut/fU9ANg/口水猫/....you are not fucking hackers!  How could people get used to talking about hacker ethic without any experience of underground scenes? Indeed, I was inspired by Phrack. That's why I ended HFG in my life journey. I'm becoming more like a security guy but not as a generic hacker. I shut down the mailing list and set it open for public. Someday in the future, will I be back? I don't know. Anything is possible if I really want to.

Don't give me wrong. Some of former HFG members are still my good friends. Unfortunately, only friends without brotherhood tag. I built my own fundamentally structure of philosophy with the experiences in HFG. Unfortunately again, it was only my philosophy, it always be. I finally decided to release the latest version of HFG manifesto on my blog last month. I hope it could help people who are struggling with sort of philosophic ideas. But I'm not sure if it really could be helpful. I just do what I should do. I know people would like to hear a happy ending. I'm so sorry, did I fuck your mind again? You fuc*ing tell me...

btw: Internet is a incredible system. No one gives a shit about who you are or what you believed in internet. What internet care is only about ideas. V is right about the ideas are immortality. No one can destroy the ideas.
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HFG( Hackerfellowship Group) manifesto alpha-end revised version

what is Fellowship?
In ancient Greece, the fellowship means a group of guys who are hacking together for achieving the same goal. The HackerFellowship will get hackers together for conversation/sharing/hacking. Hackers are always living in the future, and making the definition of the future!


What is our goal?
Hacking, find the truth! Because Hackers want/need truth. Hackers must experience sort of underground scenes. We are trying to build an underground online/offline community to help us digging deeper, which behind the surface. Hacking on 4-layer model of Theo/Philo/Math/Engi with inevitable complexity of this world...


I want to join in, but how?
Wait a min, my dear friend. We wish you could be one of us just like a brother(maybe you are a sister) return home. We all know that choose the strong philosophy is our only option. In the whole eco-system( Sunday school->brotherhood->community->start-up->company->Multi-regional corporation), building a brotherhood is our target. Once you get in, you must share some views/knowledge. Keep that in mind: what we are really concerning it's about your own philosophy, and we need you prove that you have these abilities or background below to contribute:

1, Join in a conversations like a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece.

2, If you are come from computer field, you should have basis computer programming skills either in C(think about the way of Turing Machine) or scheme(think about the way of Lambda calculus). And having the ability to make your own personal world view on computing field.

3, If you are atheist, we only accept those real atheist( like Ray Kurzweil?) who are looking for the truth whatever it costs. If you are not type of them, fuck outta of here.

4, If you are a christian, only the reformed faith(Lutheranism,Calvinist,neo-Calvinist,etc) are welcome in HFG! Because we need a christian who is willing to dedicate to cultural mandate( defined by reformed theology) in his/her hacking field.


Why HFG?
There may be dozen of reasons. We only list some highlighted ones:

1, We are type of people who are following the hacker ethic and focus on the purpose of life. Even we don't know the purpose or our position in this specific era. We are still trying to figure it out.

2, The brotherhood is like the 2nd foundation never existed. Wait...Where the hell is the 1st foundation? Do you get it? Join HFG, which means you have a chance to learn/hack on how to build an underground brotherhood.

3, Not all of us are comes from computer fields. A lot of people did really good job at non-computer field that we called them Generic hacker. Hacker ethic now affecting more places than our thought. We are hackers! We are anonymous! We have different hacking background. But we are sharing the same methodologies.

We suggest you could learn these courses on MIT OCW:
1, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
2, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming( python)
3, Operating System Engineering
4, Computer Language Engineering
5, Practical Programming in C
6, Multicore Programming Primer

Techique topic:
1, Lisp interpreter
2, GNU/Linux
3, Open hardware


Some materials are our friendly arsenal:

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The Holy Bible - SOMEONE
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Hacker, Hacker, Hacker!!!
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Hacker Ethics and the Spirit of the Information Age by Pekka Hiemann
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture - David Kushner
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
The Art of Intrusion - Kevin Mitnick
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Ideas - Theological philosphy & Philosophical theology
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The Institution of Christian Religion - John Cavlin
Redeeming Science - Vern Sheridan Poythress
The Silmarillion -
The trilogy of The Lord of the Rings -
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Webber
The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World - R. C. Sproul
Making Sense of It All Pascal and the Meaning of Life - Thomas V. Morris
Worldview: The History of a Concept - David K. Naugle
Augustine's Confessions - St.Augestine
The Great Philosophers - Karl Theodor Jaspers
Truth or Consequences: The Promise & Perils of Postmodernism - Millard J. Erickson
Twilight of the Idols - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power - Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical Fragments - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
My Life: A Spoken Autobiography - Fidel Castro
Man, his nature and place in the world - Arnold Gehlen
Wild at heart - John Eldredge
Mathematics in Western Culture - Morris Kline
Metaphysics  - Aristotle
Nine Talmudic Readings  - Emmanuel Levinas
Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
On the Trinity - St.Augestine
Thoughts - Blaise Pascal
A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
On Judaism - Martin Buber
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness - Roger Penrose
God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism - AJB
Essence of Judaism - Leo Baeck
Everyman's Talmud - Abraham Cohen
The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real - William Irwin
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle - Saul Singer
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World - KK
What Technology Wants - KK
When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? - Ian G. Barbour
Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
English Deism: Its Roots And Its Fruits - John Orr
The Singularity is near - Ray Kurzweil
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos - M. Mitchell Waldrop
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity - John Holland
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex - Murray Gell-Mann
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中文版

什么是Fellowship?
在古希腊，Fellowship的意思是一群有着相同目的的聚在一起努力完成一些事情。HFG就是这么一个地方。黑客们永远是活在未来，也是未来的缔造者！


我们的目标?
Hacking, 找到各个领域的真相！因为黑客的内心渴望真相。地下的场景是黑客必备的经历。我们尝试建立一个地下的在线和线下的社区去帮助我们自己更好的挖掘在表面之下 的真相。Hacking整个四层模型(神学/哲学/数学/工程)的过程不可避免的会遭遇世界的复杂性。


加入HFG的要求:
请认真思考加入HFG的动机，HFG就如兄弟会(注:兄弟会不等于酱缸)一般，你必须分享你的思想，因为这样可以碰撞出更多的"aha"，除了抱着分享的态度之外，您还得满足以下条件：

1, 抱着开放式的态度来进行探讨，我们关注你的哲学，而不是道听途说的知识。

2, 如果您来自计算机领域,在技术上至少具有编程经验:C语言基础(图灵机路线) or scheme编程基础(lambda演算路线),并具备构建计算机科学的世界观的能力。

3, 如果你是无神论，我们只接受真正的无神论，因为他们为了探寻真理可以不惜一切代价，如果你属于大众意义上的无神论，请马上滚蛋！

4, 如果你是基督徒，只有归正信仰（路德宗，加尔文主义，etc)是被HFG所接受的，因为他们愿意投身于各个领域的文化使命。


为什么加入HFG？
或许有很多理由，但这里我们只罗列最为重要的一些：

1, 我们是一群努力探寻人生意义和遵循黑客伦理的人。即使我们目前没有搞明白我们存在的意义或者在这个时代性背景下我们的位置，这没关系，我们会搞明白的。

2, 兄弟会就如第二基地一样从来都没存在过，wait...那第一基地在哪里？ 你明白这个隐喻吗？ 加入HFG，至少意味着你可以学习和参与到建立一个地下的兄弟会。

3, 并不是所有人都来自计算机领域。有很多人在非计算机领域也做的非常棒，我们简单称呼他们为Generic Hacker。黑客伦理的影响原超过了我们的想象。我们是黑客！我们是匿名者！我们有不同的hacking经历和背景。但，我们却共享着同样的方法论。


HFG推荐学习的MIT OCW课程：
1,Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
2,Introduction to Computer Science and Programming(python)
3,Operating System Engineering
4,Computer Language Engineering
5,Practical Programming in C
6,Multicore Programming Primer


计算机领域的技术话题：
1, Lisp解释器
2, GNU/Linux
3, 开放硬件


参考读物：
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The Holy Bible(圣经) - SOMEONE
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Hacker, Hacker, Hacker!!!
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Hacker Ethics and the Spirit of the Information Age(黑客伦理与信息时代精神) by Pekka Hiemann
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture - David Kushner
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age(黑客与画家:科技时代的思想碰撞) by Paul Graham
The Art of Intrusion - Kevin Mitnick
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Ideas - Theological philosphy & Philosophical theology
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The Institution of Christian Religion(基督教要义) - John Cavlin
Redeeming Science - Vern Sheridan Poythress
The Silmarillion(精灵宝钻) - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,
The Trilogy of The Lord of the Rings(魔戒三部曲) - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism(新教伦理与资本主义精神) - Max Webber
The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World(思想的结果) - R. C. Sproul
Making Sense of It All Pascal and the Meaning of Life - Thomas V. Morris
Worldview: The History of a Concept - David K. Naugle
Augustine's Confessions(忏悔录) - St.Augestine
The Great Philosophers(大哲学家) - Karl Theodor Jaspers
Truth or Consequences: The Promise & Perils of Postmodernism - Millard J. Erickson
Twilight of the Idols - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power(权力意志) - Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical Fragments - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
My Life: A Spoken Autobiography - Fidel Castro
Man, his nature and place in the world - Arnold Gehlen
Wild at heart - John Eldredge
Mathematics in Western Culture - Morris Kline
Metaphysics  - Aristotle
Nine Talmudic Readings  - Emmanuel Levinas
Mere Christianity(返朴归真) - C. S. Lewis
On the Trinity(论三位一体) - St.Augestine
Thoughts - Blaise Pascal
A History of Western Philosophy(西方哲学史) - Bertrand Russell
On Judaism(论犹太教) - Martin Buber
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness - Roger Penrose
God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism - AJB
Essence of Judaism - Leo Baeck
Everyman's Talmud - Abraham Cohen
The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real - William Irwin
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle(创业的国度) - Saul Singer
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World(失控) - KK
What Technology Wants - KK
When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? - Ian G. Barbour
Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
English Deism: Its Roots And Its Fruits - John Orr
The Singularity is near - Ray Kurzweil
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos - M. Mitchell Waldrop
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity - John Holland
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex - Murray Gell-Mann
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