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What would engage more people in creating a positive future?

Posted on Jul 16th, 2008 by Diana : TheMetaphysicalPotter Diana
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 16, 2008:

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I think that people need to be involved in the telling of a story about our future, one in which we all contribute our ideas of what we think a good future will be. For instance I would like to see a moneyless society and one where we were living more intimately with nature. It would be great to imagine trees shaping themselves in such a way as they grow that they provide housing of a sort so that people could live in living structures. 

So many ideas we could collectively contemplate if there were a place where all of these ideas could be brought together and discussed, pondered, and expanded upon.  We know we create our future with our thoughts and some of us have maybe a greater imagination for things that could be thought of.  I think that were enough of us believing for them, sooner or later they would come to be.  There are so many people on the internet who do illustrations and know how to make animated versions of their ideas which could easily be shown to many people who could check in on such a site in order to see what are the latest coolest ideas coming from the many minds of so many thinkers. We can think of a sustainable world, a healthy world and a very abundant world as well.  

We all  know that science fiction writers (years ahead of it actually appearing) have thought of gadgets for their super heros to use that have actually been created years later and are fully objectified now but often they used their imagination in a way that there was that fear factor built into it. Such that one had to envision the tape recorder  that destroyed itself five seconds after it warning message was listened to or such as that.   So now we have thinkers not so much influenced by fear and the need to imagine technology being used in defensive or offensive ways.  The only thing limiting us is our own lack of imaginination. So if we plan to imagine a positive future, and we get those ideas out there before the imaginations of others as well, then we will directly be creating a new kind of future.  If we don't do it, others who imagine fearfully will do it for us as they have already been doing and are clearly getting us into great peril. 

Einstein said that imagination was more necessary than intelligence.  Maybe  too many of us  are locked into seeing a future where our kids grow up, get that education that qualifies them for the good paying job, so that they can pay a huge mortgage and all the insurance and car payments and live paycheck to paycheck, and have health insurance and live in a world such as we now live in, WHICH to me is slavish and getting out of hand. I know that my children are so involved in just making a living that they feel they have not enough time to contemplate or meditate very much and they make the mistake of using what spare time they  do have watching the news on television. I see it all as a trap but they don't. I see it as a life designed to keep people so occupied that they can not wake up and discover their innate abilities, many of which are more effective when engaged in by at least the critical core of people to get it to the momentum it needs  in order to become fulfilled. 

When I look at nature films and I see how many fish in the ocean have learned how to camoflage themselves so that it is nearly impossible to see them or to make a poison that will take down it's prey that is much larger perhaps, I think "Well they are less complex forms of life and yet they managed to do this".  So what is holding people back?  I am sure that these fish have taken on these abilities because of their connection with Creator.  We have that same kind of connection.

What if someone out there who can create web sites has one where people can join in and illustrate their ideas of the future and how we will live in it.  We could have it where when enough people find that they like one particular ideal, the programmer of that site designs it into a little reality world kind of place where we all can  imagine it better and make there be places where we can go into chat rooms and such and get together in real time and talk.  Sure it would be fantasy at first but before long, it could become objectified. Everything  certainly has to be a thought first, and we should take the responsibility of being the thinkers, the story tellers, the dreamers of dreams that can and do come true.

 Maybe it is not a just a simpler way of life that is more economic that we will want to envision, but one in which life is efficient and co-operative with nature and with the animal kingdom and even the insects.  I used to have a garden and the gophers would take my most wonderful squash plants and kill them and drag them into their holes.  What if the gophers were helping man with irrigation of the plants and there was a consideration for providing them with plenty to eat located in certain areas set aside for them...in return for their help with the irrigation. That may sound ridiculous  to some but the animal kingdom has relationships that solve some of their problems where they work with another kind of animal. 

Even if you yourself can not create such a web site that does this, you can imagine that there will be someone or maybe many someones, who will want to do such a web site. We all help with our thoughts directed to certain ideas, but it takes our desiring and that is something that we are all capable of.




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esaruoho : a human archive
about 4 hours later
esaruoho said

ive been playing around with the exact same idea. except, that it would be built out of the dymaxion map of buckminster fuller - i.e., showing the whole planet as one big archipelago surrounded by a huge sea. and every single progressive movement (earthship biotectures, alt.energy r&d,water purification, etc) is shown in it, as a map, and people can play it, just like the old RISK or monopoly, but with real money.
so that its a movement onwards from KIVA.org microfinancing, instead, allowing us to microfinance the building of earthships, the sending of solar ovens to africa and other places, to allow us to put our moneys into the development of alternative energy systems, and forpeople to see what other people support, and trade info.  watercones, solar ovens, earthships, other waterpurification, PH level increasing, etc health stuff.  no website online is like this as of right now, like a game, where one can sell their own intellectual property be it digital or physical, and to use that to better the whole planet.
after all, a new orleans earthship is still only 280,000USD away. enough people supporting this venture would make it happen, and would encourage people to sell their warez in this marketplace for betterment of the planet, with small percentages or even all percentages of the intellectual property sold, going to the betterment of this planet.
it would allow for people to vouch for the things they believe are necessary for this planet, visibly, and to vouch their generated material for it.

it can be done!
!!

Diana : TheMetaphysicalPotter
about 11 hours later
Diana said

That's a fantastic idea Esa. We need a computer guru to get this off the ground.  Anyone out there ready for that challenge?

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