Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Opposites - Is one needed for the existence of the other?

Today I overheard two girls talking at school when I was there meeting up with my mother (who’s a teacher) for a late lunch. I couldn’t avoid hearing their conversation as I was sitting behind a section of wooden divider between my seat and the seat they where sitting on. But also I chose to listen because one of the girls where silently crying and I wanted to know why, perhaps the other girl was harassing her? I thought to myself.

As I heard more of their conversation it appeared to be the sad girl who was actually the bully and the girl comforting her was apparently “the victim”. For as it turned out, of what I heard, the sad girl and her friends had been calling the other girl names and had even put her through (as she said) games of theirs, pretending to be her friends just to betray her at any given moment for them to have a good, long laugh.

To continue on with the point of the story - -

The girl whispered something I couldn’t hear and then the sad girl responded:

Sad girl: “Why are you doing this for me?
Other girl: “What is it exactly that I am doing?”
Sad girl: “Being nice to me, why?”
Other girl: “Why not?”
Sad girl: “You think I’m an absolute A-hole!”
Other girl: "No, you behave like one. There's a difference."

We all know it’s easier to hate, blame and judge - then it is to forgive, forget and being open-minded – but despite the hell she had been through because of that girl and her friends, she chose to comfort her when she was down instead of doing what would have been done towards her if the roles had been different on that day. You could think that she only did it to be on the bully’s good side, so to say, but I don’t believe so. I think the story I heard today tells us; humans truly are good by nature, none depending on the walls built up around them. An image built up by what’s around you as; friends, job, education, money, et cetera, indicates but doesn’t tell who you really are.

This made me think and got me to remember what a friend once told me and perhaps now for the first time I've truly come to believe it may actually be true; that for one thing to exist the opposite also need to be in existence. He meant that in absolute times of darkness humans tend to cluster rather then standing alone, regardless of the content within the gathering. War as my example for darkness; brings people together for the main reason that no one stands unaffected and suddenly without anyone really noticing darkness has brought the people together. So maybe he was right. Perhaps darkness is needed for light to emerge? For bridges to reach the other end, for people to be people and not “us” and “them”. Instead it could be me, me and me. Me in a group of “me’s”, meaning that: it's about being individual within the group, not just being a group of individuals. For as long as there will be groups of individuals there will also be “us” and “them” mainly because they would be parts of different blocks.

I hope my point was found among the lines, I will edit this post tomorrow though to lack of time.

The night has faded and the day is here, so now I say goodbye to you all, of to work..
// "Zeige"

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Quote of the day

"The only solid foundation for interpersonal relationships, is that success in dealing with people depends on a sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint".
- Kenneth M. Goode*
*Refering to Lincoln & Roosevelt in his book: Turn People Into Gold.

Monday, December 8, 2008

The cave & the flashlight

(don't lose interest! the story is my point and try to see it for what it is, a choice, simply a choice)










One day I was riding my bicycle out for a down hill slope on my way home
And was at the end of it to turn left
From the other direction comes a car from nowhere,
I managed to break enough to get out of the incident alive
Because luckily for me the car was standing almost still when I crashed into it
Out of the car comes a tall, dark, well dressed man.
I was shocked of what had just occurred
And I had bruises all over and both my knees and hands were bleeding.
This man gives me his hand and I reluctantly took it since I was in such pain.
The man was to my surprise not visibly shocked or frightened for what had happened.
What he did is something I just recently came to understand.

This is what he said to me:
Close your eyes and see before you the end of a pitch black cave.
Then imagine you're holding a flashlight. Now, light it.

What happened, he said?

I logically responded: I lighted the flashlight and it alight? (Quite confused of what he wanted out of this)

Exactly! The man said with a big smile on his face.

Your point being? I asked.

My point exactly! He answered me.

I wasn't sure then if he was just crazy or trying to make a point without me noticing,
Or more as I saw it then that perhaps he meant that technology was amazing?
And that his car was expensive such which I was about to get to realize by an expensive demand through lawsuit.
But such wasn't the case.
The man asked me if I felt okay and after I answered I was all right,
He stood up,
Walked over to the car,
Sat down in the car,
Started the car,
Opened the window and said: “regardless of anything at all, the cave will lose to the flashlight”
He smiled, put on a pair of sunglasses and went of.
When I got home my wife meet me in the doorway.
And after I had explained what had happened from the beginning to the end a few times, she told me our car had been stolen just a while before I came home. She had reported it to the police who said they were on top if it. I suddenly came to realize that the car I hit was my car and the man was the thief who stole it. Everything had happened so fast I hadn’t seen it before then. The feeling that came over me was, to my own surprise, not anger but instead I laughed. Laughed long and high. I had just realized what he had told me.

What was this man trying to tell me?

I believe he meant: regardless of when or how,
Light will always conquer darkness,
It’s just a choice of lighting the flashlight.


its just a choice, and what good comes out of anger anyway?



My point exactly!

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Quote of the day

"If you teach a man anything, he will never learn."
- Bernard Shaw.

















To strengthen the quotation I'll add a secondary aprox quote:

"Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We learn by doing. (And by the want to do, theirfor can true knowledge only be won by choice to learn) So, if you desire to master the principles you are studying, do something about them."
- Dale Carnegie, in his book; How to Win Friends & Influence People.







Friday, December 5, 2008

"Zeige" World View Of Today

STEP FIVE – STORE AND SERVICE
Stockpile all knowledge and share it -
Both to the beneficial of yourself and others





















A good expression says: “The more you give, the more you get”. That expression expresses reality. To begin at oblivion of a cause is for the greater number of all as water through solid rock. It takes time to go somewhere from absolute zero and has been proven many times impossible. But for those who decide to continue struggling for knowledge and understanding, are those we call pioneers. Those who, didn’t really laid the foundation, but lead the way to it for the continual growth of the cause they began through their visions and dreams.

These pioneers will always be remembered in the history books as heroes, for they will have lived and fought for the future of us all in a none-monetary, yet profitable way. The profit these lesser few among many have to gain through the dreams they have, is to be remembered by the rest of us. And the day their work is used for the greater of all in a none-profitable manner, they just gained all the profit they ever needed.

It always takes a person or an experience to make you take the step from nothingness to “somethingness”, to then reach the point of where you start to grow understanding for others, even though you don’t quite, or at all, understand what they understand or stand for what they stand for. It is here where you come in. The idea was born long before you were but the dream is yours to join and develop. A free way of thinking, a free way to develop, a free cause where you are your own among many such as yourself. People like you are those who give the pioneers and the dreamers their only, yet highest reward.

It is through this that causes can accelerate in its assembling to become foundations, foundations to structures and structures into future and the future into more pioneers and dreamers for the circle to be complete. All of what we do, say and accomplish returns to us in its own way, actions are loops coming back again. Share what you've learned and he who you teach shall reflect your knowledge. Only then can you yourself extend your own knowledge further. There is no one who knows everything about anything, we can always grow taller it’s just a matter of when and by what means necessary. Remember: “The means is the end”.

Till the next time, gods speed my friends // “Zeige”

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Quote of the day

- "Zeige"
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

"Zeige" World View Of Today

STEP 4 – REFLECT, QUESTION, EXCHANGE & DEVELOP
Reflect what is learned to real experience.
- Question the lot, exchange views and develop your knowledge.

When going from scratch, to info, from info to understanding, from understanding to questioning the info and what we up until now thought we understood. Then its time for re-reading everything, over and over again, giving knowledge itself our outlook and by that supporting the information which leads to greater knowledge. Now its time for the exchange of views, opinions, knowledge and for the first time on a deeper lever, to begin our questioning of the knowledge we’ve learned from the first bits of info to the exchange of it with others.

Together we can make sure knowledge never stays definite in its constitution, but to continue being infinite. So it always will grow and always will be questioned for the sake of knowledge itself. For who would want to stay on the first step, when the second step is only one step away and the fourth step is only one step from the step in front the step you wish to reach next? Knowledge is to question what we already know and to bring the answers into more questions. Only by questioning knowledge can we reach a higher level of understanding.

I know I am repeating myself, and that is my purpose.
Goodnight, tomorrow is a new day // “Zeige”

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

"Zeige" World View Of Today

STEP THREE - SELF EDUCATE
Watch
Zeitgeist The Movie & Zeitgeist Addendum Klick Here
Read
The pdf about designing the future Klick Here
Check out
The links on the bottom right panel
Now
With the tools provided & the information learned, take initiative to self education. This isn't my last post! *But for the future of your own understanding - I want you to search the information *See quote under presentation. Happy hunting // "Zeige"

Monday, December 1, 2008

Quote of the day

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought"
- William Shakespeare.








Sunday, November 30, 2008

"Zeige" World View Of Today

STEP TWO - MAKING THE CHOICE
A choice of logical outcome? health or wealth?




What is the future? In a simple way of putting it - The future is now. When people refer to the future they often refer to it as something past their lifetime, while it actually is now. The future is every second past the second you exist. So what can you do to change the future in a positive direction, both for yourself and for the people and environment around you?

Most common answers to that is for examples; Recycling, taking responsibility for ones actions, be a part of the community and do whatever is regarded best for the majority of the community. All of those are good answers and in the long run if millions follow the same pattern the future will slowly change to the better. But if you think about it, to take responsibility for ones actions could just mean; "I've killed today and I'm prepared to take my punishment". Which isn't acceptable in a civilized world. We can live without murder and other crimes we only think we can't because of what society and the media tells us with the power they possess. Though these changes are logical ones and isen't really near as radical as is necessary for the future development of mankind as a civilized species.

The kind of changes we need to put into action are those who will mature us in our way of interacting with one another and in the way we see each other and the world. Most people of today are unaware or just not enlightened enough to take action against the faults of our system. This is why I started this blog and this is what I want to do;

I want to, not educate, but to encourage you in a simple way, giving you all the information you need to make you yourself search for the questions and answers you have interest in and feel driven by. Only by encouragement towards selfeducation can we ensure our future in a civilized world. A world without war, poverty, starvation and crime, for who can help a man who won't help himself?

A few easy steps, logical behavior;
Take responsibility for your actions, encourage others do the same, don't follow the flow of capital but of what the word human really means. Treat others at least as good as you like them to treat you and remember to love the planet you live on for it keeps you alive. Without the natural resources you are dead, a fact you can't flee or hide from regardless of your capital. For with nothing to buy or own what good does wealth or/and possession?

Wouldn't we all want to live in harmony, love and understanding or in other words; without war, without hate and with the knowledge that we can keep living this way forever, for as long as the sun shines upon us? I know we all would and I know we can make this happen. But only, and only if we do it together. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.


Truly yours // "Zeige"

Saturday, November 29, 2008

"Zeige" World View Of Today

STEP ONE - UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSE



Know this: All written here is my own personal statements, views and opinions and do not reflect thezeitgeistmovement or any relations of theirs directly or through webpages, persons or others.

My name is irrelevant but my passion towards the survival, health and protection of humanity and the planet that nourish us isn’t. But to be able to fully understand my views, opinions and to be able to reflect to me as a human being and not just the lines provided on a screen, for now let’s call me “Zeige”.

I have for far to long seen the human race straying from the evolution, which with the intelligence and history up to this day should have brought us towards love, understanding and awareness. Both of our selves as a species as well as of each other as individuals, of the planet we live on and of its content.

I see small pieces of paper often referred to as capital, cash or money, dividing us leaving glitches far too great to jump and driving men insane. Every day men, women and children die for another mans hand, and as I see it, the reason is money in one way or the other every single time. Lack of money or poverty often leads to one or more of the following through direct or indirect association;

Addiction, prostitution, corruption, murder, the list could sadly go on and on for pages and pages.

All of earlier stated offences by/towards humans also lead to divorce, hate, dishonesty segregation and first of all the integration of those who are regarded essential and those who are regarded to as “leaches” or risks of society or just the less fortunate. This separates us, places us in a bad unavoidable circle which again and again feeds the machine that a self-elected few fights to keep running. All of this so a handful of men can maintain power of the “lesser” people of the world, which is all of you who isn’t them.

This has to stop. NOW! The monetary system that has clutched its iron claws around us for centuries, and if nothing is done, centuries to come has to be dissolved within a future able to the living generations of today. To say that this type of Change takes to much time and that what I and others with me want is utopia is to lie to yourselves and to laugh at the intelligence of the now living generation. It only proves the immaturity the monetary system upholds. They hail daily lies upon us making us believe that we are children in need of parenting by the government and by other higher institutions as for example the religious ones.

(I here feel need of explaining my ungodly statement and with underline let my readers know that I do not give up my faith. But that the church as an institution has for as long as its history corrupted and distorted the minds of men “in the name of god”. Theirfor I do not believe in the church as for any thing else then a meeting place and a sanctuary for all who seek it)

With the technology, knowledge and understanding we actually have we can lay the foundation today for a brighter future! Drop the monetary system and open our minds to a resource based system. A system that takes advantage of our resources and technology making them work together instead of making one suffer for the other. Let us build for today and let our children build for tomorrow and let their children have more then just something to live for on days to come. So the future generations can live the change and open their eyes for an entire new culture, living side by side with nature and its content for as long as the sun shines upon us.

For information about essential changes such as these as I have stated and to learn how I myself first opened my eyes for this way of thinking, visit http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/.

Other statements, views and opinions not related to which is written above will most definitely turn up in this blog but the weight of this blog will lay on "zeitgeist view-related" ways of seeing the world and its content.

Once again KNOW THAT: All written here is my own personal statements, views and opinions and do not reflect thezeitgeistmovement or any relations of theirs directly or through webpages, persons or others. Though all have been formed through my own understanding of their cause.