This holiday season is over. Wasn't it a hard time? I think the holiday season got it's joy sucked out of it because of the aweful 2011 we had. So much ups and downs....
It started with Black Friday. More than expected participated. Of course there were the people who got trampled on, and this year was extra special with a shopper using pepper spray on another shopper. Even kids in that incident got hurt. Christmas day came with some murder-suicides. I read about two different ones. Also around Christmas, a woman lost her life due to an elevator malfunction in New York, that was horrific. On top of that I've experienced personal sickness running through my household, and extended family woes and drama. I know people who lost jobs, and even a car due to an accident. On the news I just heard of a young mother who had to shoot an intruder in her home to protect her baby boy. The tragic part is that her husband had died of cancer on Christmas day. Then there is always the concern of the homeless and the less fortunate. Some of my friends commented on how non-joyful the season was.
Usually joy gets sucked out of things because of how busy tasks get. This is what I think happened here. Activity is definitely increasing and it can get out of hand unless monitored. A good schedule with relaxation time built in is key to good health. At least that's how I see it. So take some time to get centered or grounded, meditation, exercise, and just basic time for yourself to take a break from the hectic.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
Why Look Forward to 2012
While some people are predicting doom and gloom for the new year, I rather look to the rarer traits, the good ones. 2011 is ending and will soon be a distant memory. I hear sighs of relief from some. What in the world could we look forward to in the upcoming year?
In my post "2011 and other years....." I predicted 'moderate' growth in the economy in the US. Well I may have been over optimistic using that word. I seemed to have been barely any growth. 2011 prove to be a year of contraries. There was growth for some sectors and there was some downturns for others. This resulted in barely any growth at all. There was activity. And it was the activity in the markets I sensed. Activity will grow in this coming year. Hopefully the activity will translate in some significant growth in the markets. The potential is there. New companies have emerged. Older corporations have emerged from bankruptcy reorganizations. So I'm looking forward to increased activity in the financial sector.
Fledgling democracies in North Africa and other parts have an uphill climb in 2012. Factions will conflict. Societies mettle will be tested. I hope these countries will stand up to the challenge. The challenge is to put down all weapons and pick up the pen and computers and start the democratic process. They should stay in the democratic frey for years to come. Strong emotions are at work here. Unifying the different factions under issues will be the key to success. I wish them good luck.
Geo-economics seem to have their work cut out for them. Individual countries in Europe need to continue to stabilize themselves. Africa has great potential to create new business in 2012. Some African countries have been profitable in the last year. Peace and the fight against violence should help increase the economy. Russia seems murky. They need to deal with their problems before they can have an increased influence on the world, economically speaking. China on the other hand has said it will use its money to invest and create a positive force in the world. I don't doubt the Chinese's sincerity. Business people in China really want to succeed in a peaceful world.
On the geo-political side of things, I've been disturbed by reports of activity between China and the West. I fear war mongering is in the air. It would be a hard time to have another large war like World War II. China is setup now with lots of money. This can only mean that their military will be trying to get to that money and make new things, have a bigger army, and have a warlike attitude to the rest of the world. This is of a great concern. I hope we do not have a war. I would argue that a war with China would hinder the economic advances China has made and will also jeopardize the economic future of the world. Russia is still murky on the geo-politics. They now have internal protesting to the election. I predict hard times for Russia, and a hard struggle. North Korea is something people are concerned with. I have to say I don't see much concern. I do see some reform from the new leader. I also see pretty much that North Korea will go in the same direction as it has before, isolation. The North Korean people are suffering, and I don't see a change in that. Iran is also a concern. I don't see anything new for them in 2012 though. International dialogues with Iran will continue as they have been. I think Iran will stall for time.
In space, India has been progressing by launching its own satellites increasingly. NASA is in an internal battle over two factions, the cost-plus model and the new commercial services model to launch from Earth. Congress also has a hard time to wrap their brains around the new model. I do see the the commercial companies will make new strides in 2012 even with government stalls. Other space programs will continue but with revenue fights. Money seems to be sparse for space these days.
I will say that in 2012, the world will....continue as it always has. I don't see the end of the world in 2012. I choose to look at it as a renewed era of potential and advances. We just came out of an era of stalls, and declines. Rebuilding the world is the name of the game now.
Well, that's it. I do look forward to the positive things in 2012. Be careful out there, its still a jungle. Have a good year.
In my post "2011 and other years....." I predicted 'moderate' growth in the economy in the US. Well I may have been over optimistic using that word. I seemed to have been barely any growth. 2011 prove to be a year of contraries. There was growth for some sectors and there was some downturns for others. This resulted in barely any growth at all. There was activity. And it was the activity in the markets I sensed. Activity will grow in this coming year. Hopefully the activity will translate in some significant growth in the markets. The potential is there. New companies have emerged. Older corporations have emerged from bankruptcy reorganizations. So I'm looking forward to increased activity in the financial sector.
Fledgling democracies in North Africa and other parts have an uphill climb in 2012. Factions will conflict. Societies mettle will be tested. I hope these countries will stand up to the challenge. The challenge is to put down all weapons and pick up the pen and computers and start the democratic process. They should stay in the democratic frey for years to come. Strong emotions are at work here. Unifying the different factions under issues will be the key to success. I wish them good luck.
Geo-economics seem to have their work cut out for them. Individual countries in Europe need to continue to stabilize themselves. Africa has great potential to create new business in 2012. Some African countries have been profitable in the last year. Peace and the fight against violence should help increase the economy. Russia seems murky. They need to deal with their problems before they can have an increased influence on the world, economically speaking. China on the other hand has said it will use its money to invest and create a positive force in the world. I don't doubt the Chinese's sincerity. Business people in China really want to succeed in a peaceful world.
On the geo-political side of things, I've been disturbed by reports of activity between China and the West. I fear war mongering is in the air. It would be a hard time to have another large war like World War II. China is setup now with lots of money. This can only mean that their military will be trying to get to that money and make new things, have a bigger army, and have a warlike attitude to the rest of the world. This is of a great concern. I hope we do not have a war. I would argue that a war with China would hinder the economic advances China has made and will also jeopardize the economic future of the world. Russia is still murky on the geo-politics. They now have internal protesting to the election. I predict hard times for Russia, and a hard struggle. North Korea is something people are concerned with. I have to say I don't see much concern. I do see some reform from the new leader. I also see pretty much that North Korea will go in the same direction as it has before, isolation. The North Korean people are suffering, and I don't see a change in that. Iran is also a concern. I don't see anything new for them in 2012 though. International dialogues with Iran will continue as they have been. I think Iran will stall for time.
In space, India has been progressing by launching its own satellites increasingly. NASA is in an internal battle over two factions, the cost-plus model and the new commercial services model to launch from Earth. Congress also has a hard time to wrap their brains around the new model. I do see the the commercial companies will make new strides in 2012 even with government stalls. Other space programs will continue but with revenue fights. Money seems to be sparse for space these days.
I will say that in 2012, the world will....continue as it always has. I don't see the end of the world in 2012. I choose to look at it as a renewed era of potential and advances. We just came out of an era of stalls, and declines. Rebuilding the world is the name of the game now.
Well, that's it. I do look forward to the positive things in 2012. Be careful out there, its still a jungle. Have a good year.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Self Worth
The other day, I heard that there is a different type of success that is not monetary. Apparently the internet has spawned many people's ambition in making videos, writing, commenting, networking, etc. So the younger generations are growing up with this stuff and it may cause them to measure their self worth by what they contribute rather than how much money they make. I would like to explore this self worth a bit.
Long ago in the 1800's there was a man who had no money but claimed to be Emperor. Emperor of what you may ask? Why Emperor of the country where he lived, the United States. His name was Joshua Abraham Norton. Ok, you may be grinning at this absurd information, but hear me out. Norton was a business man who lost it all and became mentally unbalanced, and called himself Emperor of the United States. Now this man may have well be a bar fly or a colorful character in San Francisco if it wasn't for his decrees and his money. He issued both. Who knows why, but his monetary notes were honored in San Francisco. One of his decrees was that there should be a bridge and a tunnel that would enable travelers to travel across the San Francisco bay. Both exist today. Norton found self worth. He had to give up money to be his self worth, and instead made himself important to himself and to his community. This is the type of self worth we are seeing growing in the internet today. Hopefully nobody will declare themselves Emperor of anything.
What do we have in the internet to make people contribute? There's youtube, twitter, facebook, google+, and many other sites that are social in nature. I write, so I use Scribd.com to let people read my work. I don't expect to make money off of it. I just like people reading my work. I also write this blog. It's fun, and it helps me hone a skill that helps me professionally. I also get a thrill that people read my blog. Its the stats that I look at. I find self worth in writing and contributing to people's lives.
If this alternate self worth perpetuates and continues to grow, what could the future look like? Perhaps we will have a utopian society like that in Star Trek as envisioned by Gene Roddenberry. I can see a society where your contribution to society is not compensated in money but in food, shelter, and transportation. Where the average person does not need money to survive. If everyone contributes to their employment, and that effort is coordinated, why would anyone need to rely on money to live? It's hard to imagine. It's hard to conceive of it, but John Lennon sang of it in Imagine. Some say that this is communism, but I beg the differ. Russian, Chinese, and Cuban communism were not like this. Marx wrote of a utopia society, but he also wrote how that would come about in his mind. That was the communist manifesto. I think the utopian society is not inherently Marxist, even though Marx wort about it. No, I think it's an innate idea in all of us. I believe it to be also written of in the book of Revelation. If what were seeing now as a change in self worth and were headed to a utopian society, then Marx was wrong in how we got there. Today we see things that are small ecosystems of a utopian society. These things include, insurance, food stamps, Social Security, Veterans Administration, Charity organizations, employee benefits, etc. You may not like the idea of a utopian society, but I think if employees were given their food, housing, and travel, then we wouldn't have a housing market collapse.
Self worth in the form of contribution is on the rise. It may not be a bad thing and it may lead to a better future for all. That is for all except the money grubbers.
Long ago in the 1800's there was a man who had no money but claimed to be Emperor. Emperor of what you may ask? Why Emperor of the country where he lived, the United States. His name was Joshua Abraham Norton. Ok, you may be grinning at this absurd information, but hear me out. Norton was a business man who lost it all and became mentally unbalanced, and called himself Emperor of the United States. Now this man may have well be a bar fly or a colorful character in San Francisco if it wasn't for his decrees and his money. He issued both. Who knows why, but his monetary notes were honored in San Francisco. One of his decrees was that there should be a bridge and a tunnel that would enable travelers to travel across the San Francisco bay. Both exist today. Norton found self worth. He had to give up money to be his self worth, and instead made himself important to himself and to his community. This is the type of self worth we are seeing growing in the internet today. Hopefully nobody will declare themselves Emperor of anything.
What do we have in the internet to make people contribute? There's youtube, twitter, facebook, google+, and many other sites that are social in nature. I write, so I use Scribd.com to let people read my work. I don't expect to make money off of it. I just like people reading my work. I also write this blog. It's fun, and it helps me hone a skill that helps me professionally. I also get a thrill that people read my blog. Its the stats that I look at. I find self worth in writing and contributing to people's lives.
If this alternate self worth perpetuates and continues to grow, what could the future look like? Perhaps we will have a utopian society like that in Star Trek as envisioned by Gene Roddenberry. I can see a society where your contribution to society is not compensated in money but in food, shelter, and transportation. Where the average person does not need money to survive. If everyone contributes to their employment, and that effort is coordinated, why would anyone need to rely on money to live? It's hard to imagine. It's hard to conceive of it, but John Lennon sang of it in Imagine. Some say that this is communism, but I beg the differ. Russian, Chinese, and Cuban communism were not like this. Marx wrote of a utopia society, but he also wrote how that would come about in his mind. That was the communist manifesto. I think the utopian society is not inherently Marxist, even though Marx wort about it. No, I think it's an innate idea in all of us. I believe it to be also written of in the book of Revelation. If what were seeing now as a change in self worth and were headed to a utopian society, then Marx was wrong in how we got there. Today we see things that are small ecosystems of a utopian society. These things include, insurance, food stamps, Social Security, Veterans Administration, Charity organizations, employee benefits, etc. You may not like the idea of a utopian society, but I think if employees were given their food, housing, and travel, then we wouldn't have a housing market collapse.
Self worth in the form of contribution is on the rise. It may not be a bad thing and it may lead to a better future for all. That is for all except the money grubbers.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Liars
I came across someones blog post a while back stating that empaths always know when someone is lying. I hate absolutes. If someone uses words like always and never and other absolute words, be assured that there are exceptions to what they are saying. One thing I know about people and empaths is that there are not two alike. There are those who are similar but there are many variations of characteristics. I would like to make a case about my opinion on empaths and liars.
Can I tell if someone is lying, well sometimes. It really depends on who. Can I tell if a hardened liar is lying, well I have not had any success at it yet. Perhaps it's because I grew up with one. Or perhaps it's because they are so good at lying that their emotions don't fluctuate when they do, but rather their emotions do fluctuate when the truth comes out. Emotions are hard. It really depends on the person and what choices they have made and how they have trained themselves. Can an empath be trained to detect hardened liars? Well, I have not heard of any limitation an empath can train to do in detecting emotions. So I have to say yes.
I hold to a certain truth, that people have two brains. They have an analytical brain which is the one we are used to, and they have an intuitional brain which is a mystery to most people. Using the intutional brain, the empath feels other peoples emotions and/or pains. Based on that information he/she can deduce what is going on. It takes knowledge of emotions to figure out what the emotion means. Much of this knowledge is based on self knowledge via experience. Another source of this knowledge can come by observing the individual's behavior or situation. It takes analytical knowledge to be able to interpret emotions to give an analytical conclusion. The interaction of the analytical and the intuitional brains is where the rubber meets the road for empaths and their ability. The ability to detect if a person is lying depends on knowledge and training.
The empath has to also figure out the levels of emotion. People have their own emotional signature. You can tell one from another based on their emotional signature. It's kind of like seeing their face. You can also tell what their current emotional state they are in. These can be done on the fly in a matter of seconds. To get deeper information requires more time, and may require a deeper state of meditation. Given all the time in the world, an empath could write a lot on a person's past, present, and future. The empath also needs to be in a good meditative state to be able to get to a depth of knowledge. The ability to detect if a person is lying depends on time and meditative state.
So to say that an empath can always tell if someone is lying is a farse. An empath can learn to detect if people are lying, but it takes time, meditative state, knowledge, training, and on the liars ability to lie. Nothing is cut and dry. Everything is fuzzy, as in fuzzy logic. We try to approximate truth with our analytical minds, but truth is more elusive than we like to think.
Can I tell if someone is lying, well sometimes. It really depends on who. Can I tell if a hardened liar is lying, well I have not had any success at it yet. Perhaps it's because I grew up with one. Or perhaps it's because they are so good at lying that their emotions don't fluctuate when they do, but rather their emotions do fluctuate when the truth comes out. Emotions are hard. It really depends on the person and what choices they have made and how they have trained themselves. Can an empath be trained to detect hardened liars? Well, I have not heard of any limitation an empath can train to do in detecting emotions. So I have to say yes.
I hold to a certain truth, that people have two brains. They have an analytical brain which is the one we are used to, and they have an intuitional brain which is a mystery to most people. Using the intutional brain, the empath feels other peoples emotions and/or pains. Based on that information he/she can deduce what is going on. It takes knowledge of emotions to figure out what the emotion means. Much of this knowledge is based on self knowledge via experience. Another source of this knowledge can come by observing the individual's behavior or situation. It takes analytical knowledge to be able to interpret emotions to give an analytical conclusion. The interaction of the analytical and the intuitional brains is where the rubber meets the road for empaths and their ability. The ability to detect if a person is lying depends on knowledge and training.
The empath has to also figure out the levels of emotion. People have their own emotional signature. You can tell one from another based on their emotional signature. It's kind of like seeing their face. You can also tell what their current emotional state they are in. These can be done on the fly in a matter of seconds. To get deeper information requires more time, and may require a deeper state of meditation. Given all the time in the world, an empath could write a lot on a person's past, present, and future. The empath also needs to be in a good meditative state to be able to get to a depth of knowledge. The ability to detect if a person is lying depends on time and meditative state.
So to say that an empath can always tell if someone is lying is a farse. An empath can learn to detect if people are lying, but it takes time, meditative state, knowledge, training, and on the liars ability to lie. Nothing is cut and dry. Everything is fuzzy, as in fuzzy logic. We try to approximate truth with our analytical minds, but truth is more elusive than we like to think.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Diversity Of Life
In many documentaries I've seen, biologist and scientist talk about how diverse life is on planet Earth. I find this principle to be true in social situations as well. Many people I've encountered in my travels have been colorful and unique.
I met a person in an airport. We both had to wait for connecting flights. He seemed mesmerized with my accent. While my accent would seem uncommon to most people, he found it uncommon. He was able to pick up the diverse nuances in my speech. I grew up with more than one language and more than one national background. He was able to pick up some, but not pinpoint all of them. Since then, on occasion, I come across people here and there who comment on my accent. I figure that these people have a special gift. Their gift must be in their hearing. They seem able to pick apart things they here and analyze them. I cannot say I can do such things. While I enjoy music, that's where the magic of hearing stops. I can't sing, and I can't even keep rhythm. These people have a special ability. You never know who or what your going to come across.
I know a person who has never had a broken bone. She's even been in a car accident but with no broken bones. This reminds me of the movie Unbreakable. In the beginning of the movie the hero slowly discovers that what he took for granted in life was remarkable to others. He did not break. He would walk away from accidents. This prompted some self discovery and he found out how else he was different. I have encountered just a couple of people like that. I can safely say that they are strong but level headed and quiet people. They don't seem to have egos to bruise or care to prove themselves to anyone. These are amazing individuals and they have my full respect.
Some people I've encountered had a very different gift, if you can call it that. They were unlucky. Unlucky things would always happen to them. They were not necessarily devastating, but there were many of them and they happened almost on schedule or time table at regular intervals. These incidents would be things like a fender bender, or a freak accident. I used to think that these people just attracted these things to happen somehow. Perhaps they do, but now I don't think its intentional. It could be a gift, and if these people would do some self discovery perhaps they may find a way to control it. If I had to guess, I'd say that they have natural intention that is always active and it is unruly because they have not yet found a way to control it. Sometimes these people would say things like that they have tried to think positively but it did not work.
Empaths are natural sensitives to other people's emotions and/or pains. This means that the untrained empath can get into trouble and suffer various emotions throughout the day. This may seem like a disability. The trained empath can turn the disability into an ability. I know several empaths, and I am an empath as well. Most empaths just want to cope with life day by day. Others want to use their ability to help others. I have to say that it was very liberating once I found out how to control my gift. I was able to shore up the weaknesses and improve the strengths. I stopped getting in trouble with my employers, and my relationship with all people improved tremendously.
People are diverse. They have gifts. It's important for people to find out what their gifts are and how to control them. This requires some self exploration or self discovery. Our society only supports self discovery on a limited basis. It's up to each person to discover themselves. You just may be more unique and special than you thought.
I met a person in an airport. We both had to wait for connecting flights. He seemed mesmerized with my accent. While my accent would seem uncommon to most people, he found it uncommon. He was able to pick up the diverse nuances in my speech. I grew up with more than one language and more than one national background. He was able to pick up some, but not pinpoint all of them. Since then, on occasion, I come across people here and there who comment on my accent. I figure that these people have a special gift. Their gift must be in their hearing. They seem able to pick apart things they here and analyze them. I cannot say I can do such things. While I enjoy music, that's where the magic of hearing stops. I can't sing, and I can't even keep rhythm. These people have a special ability. You never know who or what your going to come across.
I know a person who has never had a broken bone. She's even been in a car accident but with no broken bones. This reminds me of the movie Unbreakable. In the beginning of the movie the hero slowly discovers that what he took for granted in life was remarkable to others. He did not break. He would walk away from accidents. This prompted some self discovery and he found out how else he was different. I have encountered just a couple of people like that. I can safely say that they are strong but level headed and quiet people. They don't seem to have egos to bruise or care to prove themselves to anyone. These are amazing individuals and they have my full respect.
Some people I've encountered had a very different gift, if you can call it that. They were unlucky. Unlucky things would always happen to them. They were not necessarily devastating, but there were many of them and they happened almost on schedule or time table at regular intervals. These incidents would be things like a fender bender, or a freak accident. I used to think that these people just attracted these things to happen somehow. Perhaps they do, but now I don't think its intentional. It could be a gift, and if these people would do some self discovery perhaps they may find a way to control it. If I had to guess, I'd say that they have natural intention that is always active and it is unruly because they have not yet found a way to control it. Sometimes these people would say things like that they have tried to think positively but it did not work.
Empaths are natural sensitives to other people's emotions and/or pains. This means that the untrained empath can get into trouble and suffer various emotions throughout the day. This may seem like a disability. The trained empath can turn the disability into an ability. I know several empaths, and I am an empath as well. Most empaths just want to cope with life day by day. Others want to use their ability to help others. I have to say that it was very liberating once I found out how to control my gift. I was able to shore up the weaknesses and improve the strengths. I stopped getting in trouble with my employers, and my relationship with all people improved tremendously.
People are diverse. They have gifts. It's important for people to find out what their gifts are and how to control them. This requires some self exploration or self discovery. Our society only supports self discovery on a limited basis. It's up to each person to discover themselves. You just may be more unique and special than you thought.
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