WINDOWS

Windows

Each and every man is a window upon the world.
In the house of mankind the windows are many.
To condemn any window for its’ view is beyond foolish for it is
stationary and can have no other view.

And so it is that all windows contribute and not subtract from our understanding of the outside world...And so subtraction here is purely a matter of not seeing. 

So to have only one window is truly limiting and you remain captive to your one and only view.
Hence, now what you do not see and understand is now beyond measure.
And so it is that the man who seeks new windows has a much and continued understanding of the world around him. He who does not hurts and condemns only himself.     

The Modern Money Fallacy

The modern money fallacy

You do not eliminate money problems by acquiring more money, hence pouring more sand into a bag with holes in the bottom is a “container problem” and not a sand -problem... And who is it that is fundamentally responsible for those holes- those holes which your hard earned money constantly pours? You can’t figure out what the holes are? ...and how to close them? Is it that you have been led astray? Is not the equation: Close the holes and the money accumulates???

So it is that you are on the road to fortune. The rich say “Our supply of sand is so large that we need not worry about any holes in our bags”. “Hence our leasure is so great we now seek to make the holes in our bags even larger as in a competition”...and yes my coffee table is now larger and more opulent  than yours! Somehow I fail to see this train of thought as intelligent...More so another form of ignorance?...

 Final note: You need to find, and control those holes that keep empty your nest egg.
In addition you must farther seek ways in which to close and eliminate those holes in
every way possible. Make no mistake the deck is stacked against you in every way and at every corner. Media, work, friends and even your spouse will work against you in their ignorance.
 You need to stop being your own worst enemy. It’s not easy but you need to resume control of
your destiny...lest you sink.

The Buried Dangers in Specialization

The Over Specialized Lone Woodsman...

Let us now envision our modern form of specialization in the life of the “lone woodsman”.

We shall restrict him to the task of only collecting and cutting wood for his fire place. He shall do nothing but collect wood everyday,every week and every month. He now becomes out of balance. The varied  life sustaining jobs like getting food maintaining his shelter are out of the picture and now they are completely neglected. It is written in the book of nature that neglecting of this life balance any of these skills shall end life. So how important is this?

 He now the custodian of and ever growing pile of wood. He now has no food, water and soon will starve. Now let us farther narrow and focus into cutting and gathering only oak trees a particular kind of wood. He now becomes his very own worst enemy. Loosing scope and vision of what life requires he now practices insanity. Now we will farther increase the insanity by adding competing oak tree cutters into the very same woods. We have now increased his difficulties by ten fold. He has been beaten badly before he takes a single step into the woods!

Nature demands a group of skills for life and never just one. 

Foundations 6

 Specialization The Double Edge Sword

If I lived in the woods alone it would be life sustaining to be proficient at certain skills. Growing food, hunting, building shelters... hence there is variation built into these basic life sustaining jobs from the very start. Specialization is a necessity and life sustaining function.

The theory was that specialization could only grow to become the number one system for all. The basic set  life skills could now be farmed out to others. The trouble was no one thought that there could be a downside to all the promise of good that specialization archived. In short specialization is a fruit vine out of control or like a child not kept in check. Painful to prune the vine or discipline the child but so very necessary.

What is it that would grow neglected by the farming out of skills? Why is it that ones life focus should grow to become so narrow? What is the danger of ones life becoming too narrow? Limiting the scope of your vision is walking down the road toward blindness. Farther and farther limiting choices. Becoming more and more cog- like in the grand societal machine...ever narrowing in function and scope. Does this sound familiar?  Can not you reach deep down in inside yourself and feel that something is wrong?    

Foundations 5

The Faulty Foundations

In society something is amuck. All the evidence is there. I hope that you know and understand that our problems are deep rooted. That is that there is no easy fix. No bandaid solutions exist.
And because the problem is deep rooted its’ errors has spread upward in many directions.

To conclude the the machine should be scraped is ludacris and crazy. Too much good has been
archived. Natural law states that ALL shall come to some use. A deep rooted problem reports that much time was involved in its’ failing. So it is that a reverse healing will require at least as much time and pressure. Will changing society will be too challenging? Are the walls too high and too long? What do you have control of anymore? Do you have control of yourself? You must have control of you lest there is no help.          

MAN ALONE part 7

Man alone  part 7

This “sharing out” of you is the  basic act that provide the support and the help of a continued   existence. This is the beginning seed of all human relationships. There is no other. This act of help forms that essential connective tissue between two like souls. It is the very birth place of brotherly love. So how is it I ask you once again that the number of men should alter, change, the reality of this equation of life? How is it that time itself should detract from this? Brother, what is it that has caused you to loose sight of the very root of life???    

FOUNDATIONS part 4

“Our society is a construction of a wooden platform” ... A holding and a constraining structure for humans. A deck for humans.
The deck dwellers now many generations past... removed and now high above and far away from the planet that brought them into being. They have now become aliens to their very own planet. As long as this wood structure holds they are able to carry on with their "deck-life". Helpless, blind, senseless, robotically existing in a sterilized world. Flat-world walkers where there exist hills nor dirt. What salvation is there for the deck dweller? What words spoken or written out could make any difference? Their only frame of reference is miles away and forgotten. In order to look for something you need to know that it exist lest all your searching be in vain!
Is any change possible with this alien form of human or do we just wait for the deck to collapse.
..And so the the clock ticks...
    

MAN ALONE part 4

 Although it pains me to do so, I shall reduce this to an equation. Your Life = A sharing out. It is a constant. Your continued existence depends on it. If then it is written in stone that your life requires a sharing out then ANY form of selfishness gives rise to the destruction of the relationship between you and your brother man. Hence THAT guarantees the death and destruction of all. That beginning of “selfishness” is the undermining of all. And so it is that your brothers shall say. How is this that you keep extra food for yourself alone?! 

MAN ALONE part 3

So beyond all reasonable doubt this “sharing out” of our common life [or better said as common living] pursuit is no option... And God bless “that common”... the extra hand... the extra help lest I bear that burden of living all alone. This is the true relationship between man and his earth. I do not make this up. It comes from no book. It is and should be self evident beyond all measure! Any other course should be considered insanity. It is in fact a law of laws. It is a “must do”. It is a fundamental of a continued living.
To ignore it. To forget it. To pretend that it does not exist would be the greatest act of foolishness.

And how is it that this requirement of life should ever be lessened or ever changed in any way shape or form over time? The advent of additional hands to the task of simple existence should be no less than a triple blessing... And so on. So how is it that the crystal clarity of this vision of blessed brotherhood be diluted, forgotten and suppressed in our civilization over the years? And I ask you again how is this possible?

FOUNDATIONS part 2

You and the Earth

There is a relationship between you and the earth that for the most part has
been forgotten. It is as if I had built a wooden platform or a deck in my backyard
so that my feet need never touch the dirt again. No matter how much I reside on my deck the dirt is not going away. I can forget about the dirt and its’ qualities for a long while but the dirt is not going away. Generations can be raised on that deck as long as it stands but the dirt is still not going away. If anything, a great disservice has been handed to the next generation because they know very little about how and why the deck was built...And the dirt is still not going away. And as generations upon the deck continue we know less and less about the dirt, the very foundation upon which the deck sits... Our society is that wooden platform... and that dirt upon which it stands is Our Earth. 

MAN ALONE  *

What good is a man alone?
One man alone in the world is anything but a free man. His walls are many.
His humanness constrains him on all sides.
He alone responsible for his shelter...
He alone responsible for his food...
He alone responsible for his clothes...You don’t know how? . Can you live without these? No. Are you lacking? Yes.

If you are a pioneer mountain man are you still lacking? Yes.

His humanness still constrains him on all sides. No break in hunting.
No break in collecting firewood...No hope in sharing out any task because there is no other
for a man alone. Is he going to propagate?  No, he’s going to die off. Is he going to master the
world?  No... He will shortly die. He will run short of food. He will not stack enough wood.
He will fall prey to the environment. One can only conclude that act of sharing-out is “the
way of life” ...The only way of hope for any and every man!.. And so it is that one man say to the other "I can not live without you"... No choice... No option... It is not hard to understand?.. No doubt it has been terribly forgotten. It is the very root of sociality. The very beginning of brotherhood... There is no  helping hand for a man alone... and soon you will perish.

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 And so it is that one man say to the other “I can not live without you” At this so very basic level of life, is there any room for choice or the freedom of man?... Yes, it is but to choose life or death. There is no seed bed here for the fostering individualism or self interest...a "not sharing" on your part guarantees your death and demise. The sharing out out of you, brings you a chance at life. God bless the sharing out... Now alone I don’t have to collect all the fire wood all by myself...All the hunting all by myself...The building of shelter all by myself. There is now another of my own...Not dog nor horse...but of my flesh...the very same as me...God bless the world for another me-A brother of my flesh...Now I will have help...God bless help for without it I soon perish. And so it is at this so very basic level we only succeed together. Apart we doom ourselves to failure and death.

MAN ALONE

What good is a man alone?
One man alone in the world is anything but a free man. His walls are many.
His humanness constrains him on all sides.
He alone responsible for his shelter...You don’t know how to build a shelter?
He alone responsible for his food...You don’t know how make food?
He alone responsible for his clothes...You don’t know how? Sorry.
Can you live without these? No. Are you lacking? Yes.

If you are a pioneer mountain man are you still lacking? Yes.

His humanness still constrains him on all sides. No break in hunting.
No break in collecting firewood...No hope in sharing out any task because there is no other
for a man alone. Is he going to propagate? No, he’s going to die off. Is he going to master the
world? No he will shortly die. He will run short of food. He will not stack enough wood.
He will fall prey to the environment. One can only conclude that act of sharing-out is “the
way of life” ...The only way of hope for any and every man!..And so it is that one man say to the other "I can not live without you"...No choice...No option...How can this in anyway be that hard to understand?... No doubt it has been terribly forgotten. It is the very root of sociality. The very beginning of brotherhood...There is no  helping hand for a man alone...and soon you will perish.   

FOUNDATIONS


Is your survival an option?
And so there are certain things you in fact must do...No option.

I referred to these as “basic needs”. In in reality the words “basic needs” are a bad description.
They are in fact” basic do’s”. They are a call to action. “Basic needs” is a static condition.
It is most correct to say that you must do something or act in some way to avoid death
Again no option. The basic do’s are an ongoing process...There is no time where you can stop doing them lest you perish. Again no option.

The basic do’s involve certain constraints...e.g. We are not able to eat rocks. We do not breathe water. That is that we are bound by certain conditions for a “continued existence”. No options.
These basic do’s are common to all men...No one escapes them. No options.
This is the foundation for life. I am seeing very little evidence of a free will or a free man.
I see a man who is tied up in so very many ways. If there is any slack in the ropes of his constraint, it is small yet still tied to consequence. Hence if you don’t eat now you will be starving later...Yet the present day world touts of freedoms, choices and individual pursuits beyond measure. Is there something wrong here? Is there something amuck? I am not smelling trouble at the very root of civilization?

All this constraint of which I speak, implies a path or road. Any measure of time implies movement. And so it is that we float or swim in a stream to a destination unseen...and once again no option.   
  

A Proverb (from Latin: proverbium) is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity.

We need to redefine this term “proverb” and its’ implications: At face value it’s awful. It sounds like something you should learn in English class...A part of speech...That tells us next to nothing!

A concrete saying...This brings to mind a picture of concrete- very hard and solid...Why is it hard and solid and who is it that is doing the saying??? It is known among many and is repeated...It does nothing to tell us why? I find that this definition raises more questions than answers.

Let us reexamine this and fill in some of the blanks. e.g.  “A stitch in time saves nine”
Obviously this saying has its’ roots in sewing or stitchery. Most applicable to socks and the holes they develop over time.

 And one can pretty much imagine how the saying came about. But the most important thing is how it archived its’ “concrete status” ...And that it not only applies to socks, but to millions of other things. In truth the “saying” represents a discipline. An applicable life long discipline at best. It states that small problems should not be ignore lest they become too big to handle. You are the one to draw the line as to when you should act. Wait a moment too long and now you are thrown out of balance. So in essence it is a saying that helps you maintain life balance and THAT my friend is so very important.