Earth Love and Using Ideas for Change

New Haven, CT, USA

There is an age-old statement: is the glass half full or half empty? It is meant to be a challenge for optimism and pessimism. If  the person sees the glass as half full they are promoting a worldview of positivism and hopeful thinking. If the glass is half empty, the person's worldview must be the opposite, yes?

Challenges like this are nothing than old sayings. Did anyone ever wonder why some philosopher a hundred and so many years ago spent all that time looking at glass with its contents?
What is a more appropriate response to this age-old challenge?
"I don't have time for that. I am working on something."

Let us not give all of our mental energy into small sayings that are not proof or convincing evidence of anything, nor are they even axiomatic. Old sayings from years ago might appear to contain thoughtful ideas and revealing brilliance, but they often lead to superficial thinking.

Instead of asking, is the glass half full or half empty, Where is the plan to eradicate world poverty and provide the necessities of life to every single human on the face of the loving Green Earth?

These are the challenges that we face every day, and for some there is no half full or half empty, for they live in drought and dehydration. Let us not spend the entirety of our days chalking up lines from the philosophers and viewing that a lifelong accomplishment, for if we are to continue to advance in this world, we will need more.

We need to use our mental energy to compose methods of action that can be used to make changes in the world. During the course of these actions, we must always be aware of how our behavior, attitude, choices, words, and decisions can affect the Planet Earth and everything in it.

Let us not throw our energy into some long philosophical realm where the icon of our life is composing ideas that are obsolete in action and circular in thought. One of the oldest tricks in the world is talk about nothing as long as you can before someone silences you. If there are still any brick and mortar bookstores left, one can walk through the philosophy section and see titles that promote "The Meaning of Nothingness," "Being and Nothingness," "Nothingness Therapy."

So many pages of writing devoted to talk of nothing, and they charge money for it. Let us create our methods of action, and share them willingly with the world. Examine whatever problem we choose to conquer first, and formulate an idea on how to remove that problem from the world and absolve all of its destructive consequences.

Poverty, child labor, abuses, and injustice can all be cured, but first it will take the courage and ingenuity of a brilliant mind such as yourself to plant the first seed in the fertile Earth. It is time for us to use our mental energy to stand up to the titans of the world who exploit the Earth and all of its people for profit and selfishness.

Let us not forget the philosophers of the past, for their work still has value...but we must also not turn the discussion of ideas into the end game. Philosophy can teach us much, but we cannot allow it to take the place of comprehensive plans of action. It is time for us to use the powers of our minds to bring the change in the world. Full or empty. Glass or no glass at all. Let humanity experience a new dawn rise with the coming of your next idea.

Hindu Musings: The End of Spring, Eliminating Rage, and Future Dreams

Dr. Jordan Peterson gave the suggestion of spending 15 minutes per day writing...as a form of practice. Well, here it goes. My first day.

Good Day to All 

Spring was never waiting for us. Can one let evening come? How much rage can be compacted into a nanosecond? 

Why does the flame symbolize love? I once had a professor that had too many questions, but my answers only led to more questions. I wish I had the courage at the time to tell her I was only writing questions into my work, so she could see the answers more clearly. She wouldn't have listened anyway. 

Some spend their lifetime trying to find the meaning of life. Maybe in that process the flame begins to run out or the spark never ignited to begin with anyway. It has always been somewhat mesmerizing to think that you can control your own destiny, but you cannot make the flame last forever. When you have shared your warmth with another person, perhaps they might find comfort in it for a year or two, but all of sudden your warmth is not a blanket large enough for them, and their minds begin to wander.

Maybe we cannot control our own destiny, but maybe the rage can dissolve and sublimate. Looking back on the past, there are many lessons of life, but I once asked someone, would you trade your old mistakes for anything? This is from a song lyric, and it refers to finding the value in the life lessons that come from making mistakes. The person I asked that question to said no, absolutely not. I, on the other hand, am a little different. I would trade my mistakes for the past. Perhaps there is a certain sense of wisdom that comes from life lessons, but I am still the same person. It is not the value of the life lesson that has so much personal importance for me, it is choosing the pathway that has the least destruction. No matter what the consequence on my personal character, I would choose for destruction to be the smallest. That is what I would say if I could change the past, but I cannot, so I digress.

As we evolve into the world of technology and global communications, we can share messages and our daily life with someone from any corner of the globe within seconds, but one of the largest challenges that the world of virtual relations has never surpassed has been...what is the other person doing on the other side of their electronic device? When you meet someone in a virtual sphere, you do not know what other sparks and flames they have already ignited in their life....Are you just one of many candles around the cake? Or perhaps you are another log on their fire....or maybe you are the only light in their tunnel. The unknown can be a sense of wonder, but it can also lead to personal destruction. Nonetheless, we should never fear it.

Like any fire, no matter how much you tend to it, it can go out. A person who once shared nothing but kindness and adoration with you, has nothing left to give or say, and only keeps you around because there is no conflict to justify ending the connection. Until one day when the knot will either untie itself or the string will be cut without warrant. In the younger years, this used to be a sign of pain. The flame going out, and the cold sweeping in. The string cut, and your life falling.

As one gets older. It is neither of the two things, for people are not drops of fire, nor are they knots tied into string. They are human lives. Some selfish. Some self-absorbed. Yet as we grow older, we always learn that there all traits positive and negative are also found in ourselves. We are not evil, but we can commit evil. We are not dark, but the darkness is real if you can envision it. We do not want to hurt and bring destruction forward, but there are times when we all bring the destruction all the same. 

If peace is the removal of destruction from both the mind and the external world, let us choose the pathways that will rid of destruction and push us toward peace and mental clarity. The warmth that comes from reading the words of a lover is not warmth at all. It is a preoccupation. Bitterness confounds the past. Warmth is in the present for a moment, but the future is that of bliss if we choose to find a way. We must always ask ourselves, which pathway will bring the smallest amount of destruction and bring peace, even for just a moment.