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 3 Dec 2005 @ 06:50, by judih. Personal Development
"It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now."
(Allen Ginsberg) More >
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 6 Nov 2005 @ 07:17, by skookum. Personal Development
Life is a Journey
Though I have cried and lashed back at my emotional pain, yet I realize it has transformed me. More >
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28 Oct 2005 @ 13:35, by swanny. Personal Development
WHAT'S IMPORTANT?
I was somewhat reluctant to turn on the computer today, because, well not sure.
And then it occurred to me, there's a question I seem to be asking myself a lot these
days as I approach my 50th birthday. The question is "What's Important?" or more
so What is really important in this life?
So many times of late it seems my time is taken up by somewhat of mere distractions
and illusions and I have forgotten or never really taken the time to consider what is the essence
or "fundement" is of my or this life.
Certainly like many of youth, I wanted to save the world from the dangers of my time, and I tired
but as a mere youth, what could be done. But now with some of the wisdom hopefully and experiences
ganered from life, I find I must seriously sit down and reflect upon this life, my life and the world in general
and chart perhaps a new and different course or at least take the time to understand , to truly understand
the things and reasons for the things that I am doing.
I pointed that out to a dear friend the other day in that so many people seem to be doing things and yet
they seem to lack any understanding of why things are done a certain way or such. I mean they are simply
following orders or rote without having the benefit of the whys and wherefores of their actions. ie People drive cars
and work computers and nuclear stations perhaps without knowing the nuts and bolts of same. It could be
called a "Credibiliiy Gap"or "knowledge gap" or some but this seems done almost to the
point that such is not relavant or an issue and one simply does what ones told because "it works". And why it
works is not necessary to question or understand. This seems somewhat negligent to me...... for some reason.
Because it creates a world or reality ill or poorly founded and grounded.
Anyway thought it would make a good topic of discussion before we go to far in our ignorance and progress
that ....??? well whatever.
Alfred J.
Alberta Canada
October 28, 2005 More >
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 27 Oct 2005 @ 13:02, by scotty. Personal Development
A friend sent me this article - I thought it important enough to post here ...
Invalidation may be the single most damaging form of psychological abuse..... More >
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 10 Aug 2005 @ 21:06, by scotty. Personal Development
I am ready to accept positive changes in my life Now.
And to help me remember this I've printed out an Affirmations list and posted it on my wall ! More >
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6 Jul 2005 @ 16:48, by craiglang. Personal Development
While very much of a personal trail, I offer this for the benefit of any others who may be on a similar path...
As many on NCN know, I have for years, been casting about trying to find what my career path should be. I often feel like a lost soul, wandering in the wilderness of life. And as a result, I have accumulated a rather interesting trail of tests such as Myers-Briggs, Strong-Campbell (now Strong Interest Inventory), and other similar exercises.
It has been interesting to note how the results have changed over the years. Yet none of it is a surprise, as such tests are really only telling you the same thing that you told them. However, it has been interesting to see the information laid out in a very straightforward snapshot - a "slice of life" in the present day. And it has been interesting to note the trail of results, showing my wanderings through life in recent years... More >
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 13 Mar 2005 @ 03:31, by tlingel. Personal Development
Anomie:
Greek anomia, lawlessness,
from anomos, without law.
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 18 Feb 2005 @ 15:54, by ming. Personal Development
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done -- that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual. --Buckminster Fuller
I gotta quote that once in a while, as it is one of my favorites. The things to do are the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
To me it implies that there's meaning in life. That we're here for something. That there's something unique and useful for us to do. It doesn't have to be taken that way. You can simply use it as a method for grabbing the opportunities with the most potential. The most satisfying kind of success is found in doing something needed, at the right time, which nobody else noticed was needed. There's not so much potential in just doing what everybody else is doing. No, see something different, and do something different. But do something that is needed.
We all seem to be different. From nature's hand we all have a little bit different DNA, different fingerprints. And then different experiences that have influenced us, different information we have absorbed. And including all that, and beyond all that, we each have a different consciousness, a different way of seeing things, a different perspective. It is only natural that we will see something nobody else is seeing, and we'll see things a different way than others. We're perceiving the world from a different point, using different filters than anybody else. And that is probably not just an accident, an error in the production machinery of nature. No, I don't think it is. It is a feature. It is by design. I'm inherently made up to see things differently and to do things differently than anybody else.
It is a bit of a waste if one just tries to do what everybody else is doing. A waste if one only learns to see things like one is "supposed" to. A waste of life. You're boring God, if you want to put it that way. There isn't a lot of use for billions of people who try to do the same thing the same way. It is counter-evolutionary. Short-circuiting the creative process of evolution. We've somehow accidentally created a society that tries to make us all do the same thing. It was a dumb idea. And it isn't going to work, because you just can't stop everybody from having a different perspective. There will always be somebody who sees something different and who acts on it.
There are lots of things that don't need doing, because they don't really add value. It is just like Information Theory. There isn't much information in "0000000000000001000000". There's just that one "1", and its position. Predictable information can be left out when data is transmitted, because it doesn't add meaning, it doesn't add value, it isn't information. Likewise, if you're just doing something that has already been done, in roughly the same way, you aren't adding value. You're wasting our time and yours. The net result is: not very much.
Imagine this reframe of the Information Society: the things that are valuable are those that add information.
A million copies of the same thing is adding no information, no value. It is valuable for somebody to record a new song, which others might find refreshing and enjoyable. A million copies of it add no value in itself. What the listeners might do with them might add value. Compare that with the music industry and arguments for or against file sharing. A new system of sharing adds value. The creative uses of information one has access to adds value. A carbon copy of any of it does not in itself add value. No information, no value.
So, imagine a society that really gets that. Where the value is in adding value. Duh. Economically speaking, I mean. Where the rewarding thing to do is the thing that adds information and value. I.e. you see something new, and you do something about it, and you share it.
We're headed there, I think. And there are well known fields that work pretty much like that. Open source, obviously. There's no point at all in making another piece of software that does exactly the same as another one, if the first one is freely available and modifiable. Might be smarter to look at how one can add value to what is already there, by adding something new, something different.
Lots of people doing what they see needs doing, is probably a very threatening prospect for certain groups, certain people in power positions. So many old structures are based on quite the opposite. I.e. persuading large groups of people to accept the perspective and the needed tasks of a very small group at the top. Here is the perspective you're supposed to have, here are the morals you need to adhere to, and here's your job. Which creates big machines that work, but only inefficiently. So everybody's running around and struggling to do what they're supposed to do. Where the system really could be so much more efficient and fun if we all could be active components, rather than passive. Most of us running on most of our cylinders most of the time. Because our inherent ability and tendency to see things differently and to add value is one of our key qualities. We're conscious players, who have the ability to create information and add value, indefinitely. We just have some unlearning to do, to get back to that.
So, what do you see that needs doing? More >
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 4 Feb 2005 @ 09:14, by skookum. Personal Development
Rose by Ian Britton.. Freefoto.com
A Few Things
There are some things I won’t leave behind
The breeze as it wafts through the curtains
The smell of fresh mown grass
The sound of children laughing
The touch of a loving hand More >
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 2 Feb 2005 @ 12:56, by scotty. Personal Development
The Shepherd's Dream, from `Paradise Lost'
Henry Fuseli
I've just finished reading a book that Astrid sent me for christmas - The Shift by John England ! (Thankyou so much Astrid)
When I got the book I thought hmmm it's going to be more political stuff and sighed !
I started reading it all the same - and then I just couldn't put the damn thing down !
It's the best book that I've ever read !!!
It isn't the best written book that I've ever read - but !! I think it's changed me somewhere inside !!!
I can't help thinking that me - who's always been so 'anti-politics' - well - If I could ever find a party like the one in the book then I'd go with them - hell I'd even work for them !!
I ended up trying to find some kind of party on the net that even vaguely resembled them ( them - being the new party in the book) and came up with zero nada zilch nought nothing !
I thought hmm - maybe I'm supposed to try and 'dream it into existance' !
Sounds daft doesn't it ! hahahaha
I suddenly had this image of everyone trying to dream this party into existance - and I thought hmmm - maybe they are ! Maybe everyone who's read this book feels just like that too!
Maybe everyone is going to start dreaming of a Political Party that is going to be born - one that is going to change the way we look at and incorporate alternative ways of living - and begin to construct a path of change - so much so that the earth will begin to heal and we'll have something worthwhile to pass on to our children and our childrens children !
Maybe the book is going to be some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy !!!
One thing I do know - I want things to change - and the change has got to begin with me - and for the first time ever I KNOW that the Earth is my mother !
Martin Luther had a dream - and now I have one too !
Do try to read the book if you can - it's brilliant ! More >
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