Aug 2 2012: @Juniper Blue - at first it was difficult to perceive something else of your message, it seemed so much of a mockery.
To reply to the 'life form cycle' thing - on one side, poverty, all this over-claim on fertility (from seasonery, locations, cultures and religion) does make life growth (by life I include plants) an issue. On the other side, the existence of consciousness has within it the dilemma that it feels we're suppose to figure something else, beyond the simple "play" & "repeat" on life cycles. (pardon my choice of methaphor)
Jul 28 2012: 7. Wars, murders, injustice, and on the good side, exploration, a lot of things happened and were justified in the past by the experience of “visions”, or “flashes”, things that used to be considered of the divine, and accessed by a privileged few country rulers, in the past. Or access to knowledge that enables perspective and plan-making. Media synchronization and modern day experiences provide a different way of experiencing such, to the point of banality. How does that play in the decision-making process? Is there any other justification for bad stuff people, systems and society does, besides “just because I can twist logic around and get away with it”? Please be very careful with the “passive-aggressive for defence” excuse.
8. If it is a dark-age society underneath the modern-days pretense, and thinking, knowledge, expressing opinions, asking questions, thinking in perspective, at a systemic level of society, and other stuff are privileges of those with a superior society status, looks, acknowledgment and wealth, how do I know that besides assumptions from bad treatment of those around me? If there’s such thing as modern-days slavery, or living-deads, or people-to-be-owned and abused with no human rights, or whatever, why isn’t it a social class that I can get stamped on my skin, my id, my whatever, so I would know it, and not just assume it. If it is just an assumption, how can one get out of these thoughts to more humane ones?
Jul 28 2012: 5. Isn’t the point of long-life span that there’s so much to do and discover in this world? I understand being “sports” with religious and cultures driven by number worship (3 years, 7 years,27, 33,40, 333, 666, 999, etc), but delaying stuff that needs to be dealt with at proper life course, IMO, only delays movement, action and solutions. There’s a quote in my environment that speaks a lot about a similar concept: “knowledge at the speed of people”. I’d dare to derivate it into “progress at the speed of people”.
6. Why aren’t social systems delivering life sustainability yet: i.e. housing, access to health (dental included for poor), education, a chance for employment, etc. Just because the superior classes (i.e. those with access to internet, who get to ponder the lack of meaning of stuff – just because the “spoiled brats” of society go through the pointlessness phase, the impacts of suffering and loss of that can be limited). Why aren’t governments getting past the historical money reserves like (forest, or ocean, or air/space), and just make current day rules? From what I experienced, it seems a society focused more on creating poverty, death and fallen ones than a society geared on solving these issues. “poverty”, “homelessness” and “sickness” should not be “industries –creating-clients”.
Jul 28 2012: 3. Einstein is advertised as a genius figure from the beginning of the 20th century. Yet today I expect most average people to be capable of thinking beyond Einstein’s spectrum. Some might not grasp the mathematics dialect, yet… the ability to process information and extrapolate to community, society and perhaps world –wide systems…that ability. (disclaimer: Einstein lived in a time when idiot was considered a mental illness, I have not tracked down when that was taken out of DSM, and when “idiot savant” became a cool thing. “consumption”, “idiot”, “homosexual” are some examples of conditions stigmatized by psychiatry that were later reversed). Taking that thought forward, wouldn’t that apply for access to education, housing and travel? Wouldn’t it be expected of our present day social systems to allow most average people to learn more, and travel and know the world more than a few leaders from the 1500&1600, the exploration ages? Why is that so limited?
4. Why aren’t the leadership planning sessions publicly announced? Even with a few months delay or one year delay, it would still help people align, input and feel they participate in the world “journey” rather than feeling a non-recyclable reject with viewing and/or chatting priviledges.
Jul 28 2012: 1. What is the mission/purpose of our generation? (or of living in our current times?)What is the most far-out purpose we can conceive of?
IMO
- To integrate technology for the most good it can do (linking people and communities worldwide; enabling fast idea transfer to diminish or balance the inequities between worlds, real or imaginary)
- Integrate and use existing technology to enhance quality of life (quality of senior life, healing, slow or stop disease formation). I believe this will effect into even more enthusiasm for long-living, and quality living.
2. What was the assumed purpose folks from previous generations understood, but not quite verbalized? (war generations, depression generation? What else have they understood about the world besides reproduction, research and faith/behaviour cultures?)
This might become relevant if previous generations thought 'flashes', video-connections, syncronistic "riding" of same ideas is a bad thing, a "glitch" to be stopped and reported, things that the online&media generations are exploring and normalising. Relevant because industries such as psychiatry (imo) have been achored strongly on stopping or putting down such experiences, which on the other side are encouraged in the online, presentdays, social media environments.
It's just an opinion and I might be wrong, but this seems to explain a lot, especially in understanding and solving generational situations or conflicts.
Jul 14 2012: Perhaps for some this might be useful: the earliest historical use of the ____ I have found was in Hammuraby's code, part of Babilon's legilsation in those times. Reading it links into integrating it with Judaic culture, Greece and its myths, and other cultures in that timeline.
How I came about it/used it.
Watching/Following internet mediatized worldwide events, I experienced strong cuffs/bracelet feelings on both my arms. Nature of senzation is strong enough for uncomfortability, yet weird enough not to fit in any of medicine's commonly known symptomatics. Seeing a magazine picture of climbing hooks/tools as arm extensions helped relieve the intensity of that unpleasant feeling. (I kept thinking bracelets, slighty Peter Pan's Captain Hook, but the feeling had a clear mind association with tight cuffs). For some reason, thinking about tablets connected my curiosity if there were any more Codes in ancient times besides the Ten Commandments, and with research I found Hammuraby's and more. Though apparently cruel, is yet another system for some order in apparently barbaric or overly-liberal times/region. Sadly, there were bruising and teeth incidents at work, others and myself included, while I was reading and immersed in observing such connections in the living culture dialect around, in an enviroment with low wages and no dental subsidy.
Awareness of that code dissipated the cuffs/arm grabs/bracelets/whatever it was impression completely, uptodate.
Just to clarify, I am commenting/writing on the use of ____, and not on the "what the world needs" question.
Jul 11 2012: (Location: New Westminster / Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) Last time I read the Mental Health Act and DSM IV, the publicly told documents that the Psychiatry and Mental Health industry is built upon, there was no definition of health whatsoever, besides the concept of "managing" or "controlling" what they've defined as mental illness
In the hypothesys of a pill curing the behaviour or thoughts labeled as "mental disease", whether self-displayed or claimed by surroundings (people, real or not evidence), a logical inquiry is:
What is the "health" that is the end-result to be accomplished? (standard, expected behaviour, allowed thougts, what else would they include under an approved, written definition of mental health, normalcy or social acceptance)
Jul 11 2012: - visible voting.
- integration with official academics (towards degree equivalency or something)
- project draftings - either ideas with grants for completion, virtual+local team, or some sort of actual action besides enlightened tv and chitchat (apologies for the harshness)
Jul 10 2012: The concept of a 200-year plan. Thank you for thinking it, for saying it.
I appreciate the governing powers flexibility for self-empowerment (existence of concepts such as market, choice, etc), but perhaps if grander-scale projects would be a little more visible, people might "align" more with the overall purpose.
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To reply to the 'life form cycle' thing - on one side, poverty, all this over-claim on fertility (from seasonery, locations, cultures and religion) does make life growth (by life I include plants) an issue. On the other side, the existence of consciousness has within it the dilemma that it feels we're suppose to figure something else, beyond the simple "play" & "repeat" on life cycles. (pardon my choice of methaphor)
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8. If it is a dark-age society underneath the modern-days pretense, and thinking, knowledge, expressing opinions, asking questions, thinking in perspective, at a systemic level of society, and other stuff are privileges of those with a superior society status, looks, acknowledgment and wealth, how do I know that besides assumptions from bad treatment of those around me? If there’s such thing as modern-days slavery, or living-deads, or people-to-be-owned and abused with no human rights, or whatever, why isn’t it a social class that I can get stamped on my skin, my id, my whatever, so I would know it, and not just assume it. If it is just an assumption, how can one get out of these thoughts to more humane ones?
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6. Why aren’t social systems delivering life sustainability yet: i.e. housing, access to health (dental included for poor), education, a chance for employment, etc. Just because the superior classes (i.e. those with access to internet, who get to ponder the lack of meaning of stuff – just because the “spoiled brats” of society go through the pointlessness phase, the impacts of suffering and loss of that can be limited). Why aren’t governments getting past the historical money reserves like (forest, or ocean, or air/space), and just make current day rules? From what I experienced, it seems a society focused more on creating poverty, death and fallen ones than a society geared on solving these issues. “poverty”, “homelessness” and “sickness” should not be “industries –creating-clients”.
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4. Why aren’t the leadership planning sessions publicly announced? Even with a few months delay or one year delay, it would still help people align, input and feel they participate in the world “journey” rather than feeling a non-recyclable reject with viewing and/or chatting priviledges.
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IMO
- To integrate technology for the most good it can do (linking people and communities worldwide; enabling fast idea transfer to diminish or balance the inequities between worlds, real or imaginary)
- Integrate and use existing technology to enhance quality of life (quality of senior life, healing, slow or stop disease formation). I believe this will effect into even more enthusiasm for long-living, and quality living.
2. What was the assumed purpose folks from previous generations understood, but not quite verbalized? (war generations, depression generation? What else have they understood about the world besides reproduction, research and faith/behaviour cultures?)
This might become relevant if previous generations thought 'flashes', video-connections, syncronistic "riding" of same ideas is a bad thing, a "glitch" to be stopped and reported, things that the online&media generations are exploring and normalising. Relevant because industries such as psychiatry (imo) have been achored strongly on stopping or putting down such experiences, which on the other side are encouraged in the online, presentdays, social media environments.
It's just an opinion and I might be wrong, but this seems to explain a lot, especially in understanding and solving generational situations or conflicts.
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How I came about it/used it.
Watching/Following internet mediatized worldwide events, I experienced strong cuffs/bracelet feelings on both my arms. Nature of senzation is strong enough for uncomfortability, yet weird enough not to fit in any of medicine's commonly known symptomatics. Seeing a magazine picture of climbing hooks/tools as arm extensions helped relieve the intensity of that unpleasant feeling. (I kept thinking bracelets, slighty Peter Pan's Captain Hook, but the feeling had a clear mind association with tight cuffs). For some reason, thinking about tablets connected my curiosity if there were any more Codes in ancient times besides the Ten Commandments, and with research I found Hammuraby's and more. Though apparently cruel, is yet another system for some order in apparently barbaric or overly-liberal times/region. Sadly, there were bruising and teeth incidents at work, others and myself included, while I was reading and immersed in observing such connections in the living culture dialect around, in an enviroment with low wages and no dental subsidy.
Awareness of that code dissipated the cuffs/arm grabs/bracelets/whatever it was impression completely, uptodate.
Just to clarify, I am commenting/writing on the use of ____, and not on the "what the world needs" question.
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In the hypothesys of a pill curing the behaviour or thoughts labeled as "mental disease", whether self-displayed or claimed by surroundings (people, real or not evidence), a logical inquiry is:
What is the "health" that is the end-result to be accomplished? (standard, expected behaviour, allowed thougts, what else would they include under an approved, written definition of mental health, normalcy or social acceptance)
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- integration with official academics (towards degree equivalency or something)
- project draftings - either ideas with grants for completion, virtual+local team, or some sort of actual action besides enlightened tv and chitchat (apologies for the harshness)
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I appreciate the governing powers flexibility for self-empowerment (existence of concepts such as market, choice, etc), but perhaps if grander-scale projects would be a little more visible, people might "align" more with the overall purpose.