The Future!? How Do We Solve The Problems, And Move Forward?

Born yesterday??? see below

By the by, You can do it all if you apply your total self!

My guess is that we have to do everything at the same time.

While that sounds perhaps scary and probably silly, consider what we have to work with.

We have more than 6.5 billion people. Most of them can think to some reasonable extent. So we can divide up the challenges. Some of the challenges are just work. Others need innovation, based on what we already know. And we have people left over for the revolutionary ideas too, there are so many educated people now. Sure most revolutionary ideas are nonsense, but a few of them work.

So the answer today is that we don't know, and we don't really know what direction to search in. But we have massive capabilities to look for solutions, in many directions.

We will find things we never dreamed of.

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It is not how fast you go
it is when you get there.

Well, I think one of the main things we should focus our efforts is PROPERLY educating the younger generations. Not so that they will be able to somehow figure out the solution to all the messy problems we're gonna leave behind; but to effectively cut off the generational cycles of hate and grudges that undermine all the noble endeavors to make this planet a better place.

When there's ancient resentments over some stupid quarrel or the other, there can be no chance to moving forward. In order to move into the future, we have to leave the past behind.

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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

Red Pill Junkie

Personally I find it difficult not to blame someone, most of the time, and often this can be myself.

But my boss tries to curry a "no blame culture" and how he manages this is by keeping very calm, not raising his voice, accepting that mistakes happen and trying to do something to move things forward. I admire him for that, especially as I have been making more mistakes as I have got older and my health is deteriorating, but that is by the by.

As a child, my father replicated the attitude of the day; he was a loud mouthed stubborn harsh disciplinarian and he would regularly hit me to show I had done somthing wrong, but did not always explain why.

He also took offense quite easily and held grudges for quite a long time. Once my father and I didn't speak to one another for 3 years, but I digress.

At the time people did have an emotional attitude towards life, and discipline, and the competitive instinct was strong often resulting in harsh disputes as feeling ran high. But it also encouraged independence, sustained working, endurance, competitiveness, and also, believe it or not, a desire to help your fellow man/woman when they were in trouble.

Today, whilst there is a lot of violence on tv/films/computer games there is less interest in caring about others, and war is also despised. I put this down to partly taking away a lot of the emotional content of rhetoric and activities and trying to turn us into "robots" who only do as the authorities tell us even if it means going to our deaths unnecessarily. The other part is I believe the food we are given, and the lack of good nutrition to keep our bodies fit and healthy which leaves us lethargic, sometimes almost zombie like, and doing whatever we are told just to survive.

A "no blame culture" can lead to progress but it also can bring about something that is nothing like what was envisaged, and possibly not what people need.

Carol A Noble

The issue we have here is that there is no hard, definite, indisputable evidence to explain what the problems are that we, as a species, face.

Of course we have the big ones; global warming, pollution, terrorism, the current financial crisis but how many of the causes to those do we as a race, agree on?

Pollution is fairly straight forward; we live in an ultra-consuming, disposable society that produces more waste than it knows what to do with, that winds up being dumped, buried or burned, which causes problems for our health and survival.

But what of the others?

Terrorism: This is evil and wrong, but is not new and has been around for centuries. When I was a kid, the term terrorist meant IRA, yet now its meaning seems to have been changed to indicate solely Islamic Extremists. We are being told by the government that all the new monitoring devices and privacy intrusion laws that have been put in place are there for our own protection against terrorist threats, yet there is evidence to suggest that the biggest 'terrorist threat' Al Qu'eda, doesn't actually exist as a solid group as was simply a name given to a perceived threat. So who is the enemy? Should we be thankful for the new protective measures and accept the loss of privacy, or be outraged at the intrusion into our lives?

Define terrorism. An act of violence or intimidation for political or religious ends that causes terror within society, would be a fairly good description and accurately describes people who bomb public places to send a message. But doesn't the notion that we are monitored almost every second of every day also cause intimidation? Isn't the suggestion that if you don't 'look right' at an airport you can be detained as a possible terrorist and subjected to demeaning and physically intrusive searches, absolutely terrifying? Isn't being reminded of the colour of the imagined 'threat level' also a means of keeping people scared?

So, whose to blame for the fear?

The financial crisis: who's to blame? The bankers, obviously. Yet much of society, me included, were happy to take the money being thrown our way, despite the extortionate interest rates. Maybe the banks shouldn't have given us the money if we couldn't afford to pay it back, but we still took it. We can't, in all good conscience, place the blame solely on the bankers and stock market traders, when we happily reaped some of the benefits and spent money we didn't have.

Global Warming: The planet's heating up, weather's changing, glaciers are melting, but why? It's obviously the fault of the human race, whose lust for industry and machines has pumped the air full of carbon dioxide. Everyone with a car, house or life creates a carbon footprint (a term I despise with my entire being), so we are obviously to blame for rising global temperatures. But what of deforestation by logging companies, building on green areas, loss of rainforests? Surely, if humanity is to blame for the rising CO2 levels, these must be taken into consideration. But no, it's me and my car, it's him and his central heating. If we are the cause of increasing CO2 levels then ensuring everyone decreases their CO2 levels does nothing if the means by which CO2 is transformed into oxygen continues to be stripped away. That equates to taking up exercise as a means of staying fit and healthy, yet continuing to smoke.

And, what if we aren't to blame. What if the other side of the argument is correct, that the change in climate is a naturally occuring process that we are powerless to stop? What then? There are certainly a vast amount of articles citing scientific evidence that our existence on the planet amounts to little more than ants at a picnic.

In fact, the reports we keep being shown and the figures that are constantly thrown at us about the state of the Earth and how we are to blame would, to some, appear as scare tactics, to frighten us into action and guilt us into submission. Could this not be described as a form of terrorism?

These are only a handful of the problems that we face as a global society and I use them solely to illustrate my point:

The problem, as I perceive it, is not one of simply naming problems and fixing them; the problems themselves need fixing before they themselves can be fixed.

From: Secret Teachings of All Ages -- Manly P. Hall — “Universal and deep thought bestows amplified spirit in that it reveals the dignity and purpose of living. Materiality bestows death in that it benumbs or clouds those faculties of human soul, which should be responsive to the enlivening impulses of creative thought and ennobling virtue. How inferior to these standards of remote days are the laws by which men live in the twentieth century! Today man a sublime creature with infinite capacity for self-improvement, in an effort to be true to false standards, turns from his birthright of understanding--without realizing the consequences--and plunges into the maelstrom of material illusion. The precious span of his earthly years he devotes to the pathetically futile effort to establish himself as an enduring power in a realm of unenduring things. Gradually the memory of his life as a spiritual being vanishes from his objective mind and he focuses all his partly awakened faculties upon the seething beehive of industry which he has come to consider the sole actuality. From the lofty heights of of his Selfhood he slowly sinks into the gloomy depths of ephemerality. He falls to the level of the beast, and in brutish fashion mumbles the problems arising from his all too insufficient knowledge of the Divine Plan. Here in the lurid turmoil of a great industrial, political, commercial inferno, men writhe in self-inflicted agony and, reaching out into the swirling mists, strive to clutch and hold the grotesque phantoms of success and power.

Ignorant of the cause of life, ignorant of the purpose of life, ignorant of what lies beyond the mystery of death, yet possessing within himself the answer to it all, man is willing to sacrifice the beautiful, the true, and the good within and without upon the blood stained altar of worldly ambition. The world of philosophy -- that beautiful garden of thought wherein the sages dwell in the bond of fraternity--fades from view. In its place rises an empire of stone, steel, smoke, and hate--a world in which millions of creatures potentially human scurry to and fro in the desperate effort to exist and at the same time maintain the vast institution which they have erected and which, like some mighty juggernaut, is rumbling inevitably towards an unknown end. In this physical empire, which man erects in the vain belief that he can outshine the kingdom of the celestials, everything is changed to stone, Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.

War -- the irrefutable evidence of irrationality--still smolders in the hearts of men; it cannot die until human selfishness is overcome. Armed with multifarious inventions and destructive agencies, civilization will continue its fratricidal strife through future ages. But upon the mind of man there is dawning a great fear--that eventually civilization will destroy itself in one great cataclysmic struggle. Then must be reenacted the eternal drama of reconstruction. Out of the ruins of the civilization, which died when its idealism died, some primitive people yet in the womb of destiny must build a new world. Foreseeing the needs of that day, the philosophers of the ages have desired that into the structure of this new world shall be incorporated the truest and finest of all that has gone before. It is a divine law that the sum of previous accomplishment shall be the foundation of each new order of things. The great philosophic treasures of humanity must be preserved. That which is superficial may be allowed to perish; that which is fundamental and essential must remain, regardless of consequences “

Light up. Sit in my back yard and watch the wild world for an hour , while eating a pint of chocolate ice cream. Repeat when needed.

Nice topic Cnnek, I'd like to throw in my two cents:

First we need to curtail our population. If there were only one billion people on this planet, then it would be sustainable to let everyone have hot and cold (clean) running water, washers, dryers, TV sets, transportation, yada yada yada. Because there are too many of us we have wars for resources, territory, ideology etc. etc. etc. So to get on the right track, we need ZPG (zero population growth) right now, and we need reductions of 70% over the next three generations. . I know, I won't hold my breath.

Then, we need to STOP spending huge % of our GDP on weapons and war and use ALL of that money to put humanity into space permanently. Self-sustaining colonies on other worlds is a sure-fire way to expand not only our physical reach, but also our consciousness. Every astronaut that has returned after seeing the Earth from Space has reported that it was a transformative experience. I'm all for large numbers of folks having this experience and sharing the gifts of their transformation among the people.

Our Past, Our Future: To Infinity and Beyond!!!!

AncientSkyman

I agree with Red Pill Junkie on the two main factors contributing to our problems today. Red Pill said Greed and Violence. I would have said Greed and Fear. We need to reign in these two things or we will never solve our problems. I believe we need a re-education of our adults and our children. As Fahim Knight wrote on his blog about us being culturally indoctrinated into certain ways of thinking, we really need to look at that.

First, what are we teaching our kids and each other? We are so disconnected from each other as people and that is mainly because of fear. We are fed news stories every day about how this stranger (fill in crime here) did this to another person or family or child. So we have learned to fear not only people different from us but everyone including our neighbor. That is just sad and it will keep us from ever joining together to work on the world's problems. Our stories, movies, video games, and news media all propagate fear in our society. I think we need to look at what we are exposing ourselves and our kids to. And I'm OK with freedom of expression so don't think I want to censor anyone. I don't. I'd like it to be cool to help each other. I'd like to not have so much fear in this world. Will that ever happen?

Second, we need to take a long look at greed and the role it plays in our society. Who do we look up to in our society? Who are our heroes? Those who make the most money? Is that really what we want to hold up and admire? Our banks were so greedy, they've plunged us into financial disaster. Corporate America is running us into the ground with their unbridled greed. How do we stop that? Can we stop that? How do we do that on a grass roots level? How do we change that culturally? So it's not the guy with the biggest house and the most toys who wins?

I don't know. Quite honestly, how do you stop greed? My only suggestion is to expose it for what it is and how it hurts people when it goes too far. A little greed is necessary for each of us to survive. Could we make it a cultural achievement to want to be a good human being and treat each other and our earth well? That may sound very 1960s-ish but we need to get back to who we really are and lose the greed and the fear. Let's get back to hope.

Maybe it needs to start with teaching balance in all things. Maybe we need an education in how to be a global citizen?

What do you think?

MPajak

Lose your body, and enter motion. Assemble with logic and REASON. You will see your creation in the twinkling of an eye. This is a soulular assemblage.

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Soulular Travel is the physical leveraging of Time/Space for the benefit of knowledge and wisdom to the spiritual soul, the eternal monad. It can only be accomplished by the higher being existing within and throughout the realm of perceived existences. That higher being is ever changeless yet outwardly changing and monadically multifaceted in expression. It has been said that it is almost holographic in its emulation, what some refer to as holo-spirited. Mankind is the progeny of this multifaceted generator or God. His means will be experienced here.

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Learners, I am going to insert you into this program for extracting incremental worth of the Monadic Soul. It is a program not unlike a simulation utilizing holographic virtual elements. It will appear as real as existence can possibly be yet it is a device for learning. For each of you it will initially seem strange because you will experience event sequences via a framework or vehicle that will exist within the Zeta program only. Its parameters are set to various conditions and means of solving vehicular problems within that environment. It is not unlike what you have here in this realm but you will be able to be subjected to existences that you never imagined before and you will not recognize yourself in that realm. It is indeed a very advanced RPG or Role Playing Game.

What is great about this experiment is that you are at present highly advanced in all that you know which seems like everything. But, when you enter this realm, you will be highly unfamiliar with the apparatus of motivation. There will be much learning that will be somewhat frustrating in the beginning. You will be highly clumsy and make many mistakes. There are others of us already in the program that will help you move through all the timely challenges. You will grow to admire many of those who are already moving up the chain of the gambital learning site. Their expertise in this highly challenging environ will aid you in your periodic movement through the various tests.

The program is written to allow you to grow in knowledge and it is the very same for everyone who is in the virtual realm. It rewards and punishes you vehicularly by taking away certain aspects of power and leveraging for movement in the realm. The program is highly robust with the laws of consequence and if one makes too many mistakes you will have need to opt out of the program and start over.

Your vehicle will have an onboard computer that must record every aspect of every event that takes place in this world or realm. It is like a server that keeps everything headed in the right direction automatically. You will have some leeway for creative efforts in the realm but pretty much the program has you by the lifeline when it come to working the challenges that will fly at you from the beginning.

The controls you have for movement in this realm are hair trigger and extremely deft. Of course you are highly advanced as a thinker, and extremely creative, but in the early stages it is mostly learning how to leverage the projected challenges to just sustaining some kind of composure that allows life in this environ. You may find it hard to stand and deliver.

Your other facets of being will join you and become players in the gambit. Some will be ahead and others behind but time will seem the same for all of you. You will play this game through to the end though you will be able to slip out when the vehicle itself crashes on a cyclic basis. When this happens you will return here for a debriefing and briefing with your colleagues where you will try to work out the next sequences of events in this realm and perhaps revisit the same gambit from a different perspective.

I must warn you. In the early stages of this simulated vehicular role playing, you will remember your advanced stages of being here in Timelessness, but as you learn the physical apparatus you will suffer immersion with the vehicle and begin to buy into the gambit. Unless you meditate and seek to maintain your present knowledge of the Eternal Monadic Realm, you will lose all contact with us. I know it seems strange being as intelligent as you are, but the program is good.

Of course, this event of being in the program is almost instantaneous for us, it will seem to you as a lifetime, because everything is on a different sequence coupled to events that are fired at you as potential to leverage.

The Information Float creates this realm of mind moved to its own configuration. The Universe is Holographic in a way but still more complex.

No I don't mean Obama :)

I mean the one really big change we are facing now.

There actually is enough for every person on earth. Enough food, enough housing, all the basic stuff. This happened sometime in the last 30 years or so. Yes, sadly not everyone got enough food, water, housing, and protection from being shot at. But there is enough, for the first time in more than a million years.

This is confusing - for the first time in human and animal history, we have enough. And if we can be smart about it, we can keep this up forever.

The problem is that all our social systems are designed to deal with not having enough.

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It is not how fast you go
it is when you get there.

Everyone,

Thank-you very much for responding! This discussion is great. I'm very happy that this format is working so well. Some execellent points are being made.

What do you think?

cnnek

{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}

Essentially, I agree that a smaller population would be better. And, part of it is going to happen naturally as a consequence of the present reality. By the end of this century, the world population, in my opinion, is probably going to be about 3.5 billion people, +/- 500,000,000 people. Furthermore, I think that birth control is necessary; but, it must be approached with a great deal of caution. Otherwise, it could lead to some very nasty racial, and socio-economic conflicts that would not be in anybody's interest. In this regard, it must be remembered that the world needs its cultural, and ethnic diversity. Furthermore, I think that a world population of any less than 2 billion is too small. But, I think that a world population of over 3 billion would be too large. The ones of us want to colonize new worlds could still do it, and the ones of us that want to stay on this world could do that, too.

What do you think?

cnnek

{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}