291. POSTURING > The New Reality?

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Technology with its inherent alienation, can either save or kill us. Too much in the head, we are loosing our grounding. Mesmerized, our eyes lock on flashing hand-helds, each nano-second feeding us new information........ All the while our feet are up our nostrils.

Will posturing become the accepted norm of being? 

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POSTURING  *    a particular way of behaving that is intended to convey a false impression; a pose: 
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Unseen, you can be anyone you want to be. Have you picked your favorite Avatar yet? 

To get your way, tell them what they want to hear! Whisper what they want to see; allow them to be anybody, anywhere...Play to their emotional vulnerabilities, whatever emotions they still suffer from and are influenced by. Feed them what makes them feel instantly ’GOOD!’. The quick hit guarantees immediate results. No work needed.here.

“The Trust* Paradox!” I read in an About Us statement for a chosen ‘Foundation Model’ for a website’s motto about inspiring people development and operational excellence. It is described as a “unique innovation development program.”

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* Trust  noun

1 firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something: relations have to be built on trust | they have been able to win the trust of the others.

• acceptance of the truth of a statement without evidence or investigation: I used only primary sources, taking nothing on trust.

• the state of being responsible for someone or something: a man in a position of trust.

• literary a person or duty for which one has responsibility: rulership is a trust from God.

• literary a hope or expectation: all the great trusts of womanhood.

2 Law confidence placed in a person by making that person the nominal owner of property to be held or used for the benefit of one or more others.

• an arrangement whereby property is held in a trust: a trust was set up | the property is to be held in trust for his son.

* Paradox.
noun
"a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory:"
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Since Trust and Paradox are at war, how, in all sensibility, can they combine to live together as a model for ‘enhancement?’ Beats me...

BACK TO BASICS?

Electricity runs on a Positive, a Negative, and a Ground. All three are required to complete the circuit. Our bodies are the same. Without grounding, we short-circuit. It is as simple as that.

About a month ago I was asked to dowse* for water for a new Community garden plot. Although we are all pretty much alike with our arms, legs, organs and some 5.5 litres of blood,  essentially we should all be able to 'find' the water lines that run through the ground fissures. However, most individuals have difficulty focussing enough to tune in to their bodies and allow their innate abilities to come to the fore and speak.

Finding 'lost' objects may be a little harder, but essentially all so-called 'lost' objects are to themselves not LOST at all! They are very much existing in what ever place they happen to be at. It's just that 'YOU' have forgotten or simply do not have the notion to retrieve them. It is called 'memory.'

As such, concentrating on the object, with rods in hand, you essentially ask to be taken TO those objects. I have 'recovered' lost, hiding chickens this way; chickens that had scattered when an Eagle came to pick one up for lunch. Several had, head first, crawled in to spaces they would have otherwise perished in. Yes, a chicken's brain can not think in reverse...:)

The point I am making is that it is becoming clear to me that the rapid stages of technological  'advancement' are morphing us humans by making us increasingly vulnerable to its ploys.

Our In-ner-nets are being overtaken by the all invasive In-ter-Net. Are we okay with Big-Brother taking over our identity? Are we going to be safer functioning as a single blob? Are we prepared to give up our individual grounding?

Our evolutionary human senses are at war. Is this a mass preparation towards bot-ism, or will the experiment fail, and we self-destruct through bot-u-lism?

Remember how during the cold war * the nuclear clock was sitting at 3 minutes to midnight?
Well folks, maybe our all powerful Mother Gaya is telling us:
"This place needs to get rid of most- a- you's guys!  Enough = enough!"

Will posturing become the accepted norm of being?
There is little time left to figure it out.

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* [Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, grave-sites, and many other objects and materials without the use of scientific apparatus.]

* cold war

ˈkōl(d) ˈˌwô(ə)r/

noun

1. a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.

   • the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.

     noun: the Cold War

290. How a Web-Developer can Hold a Client Hostage!

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So you're an entrepreneur with a clear project idea. You are looking to have a web-developer build you an efficient, attractive, user-friendly, interactive e-commerce website. You have looked around your neighbourhood and gone beyond to find reliable, affordable talent.

Developers mostly charge by the hour. $50 is at the low end; many demand $75 or more! 'Ouch' you go, wondering what is actually achieved in an hour. You can have it done in Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, go the customized PHP route; there's even other formats to create your very own CMS (Content Management System).

You are what is now hugely acceptable and encouraged - an 'Entrepreneur.' You are mostly visually oriented, a 'doer', you speak of your ideas as you envision them, while you think; you know when you like what you see, but have no clue as to what all that coding language means. It's foreign gobbledygook to you. 

You are primarily RIGHT-brain functioning. And that's exactly WHY you need the LEFT-brain 'genius' of the analytic coder's mind to explain the ins and outs of the FRONT - and BACK- END of all those symbols that interpret the intricacies of how those visuals of your website's images and info are presented and interact.

You are presently having a Skype and conversing with a 'Dev.' (Web-Developer) 'They' mostly speak in terms of "WE!" Unless you are dealing with a Project Manager of a larger company, you are likely dealing with a single 'WE,' who is mostly a 'HE!' You have absolutely NO idea who this person is, other than that you have seen some of 'HIS' sites, or someone said they used 'HIM' on some site and were sufficiently pleased.....

He works in the Joomla format, he explains. 'Oh, OK' you go. It's a 'Format' used by millions of coders across the world, on tens of millions of websites. Its complexity lies somewhere in between Wordpress and the more highly intricate 'Drupal.' It has 'Open-Source' software code, created and maintained by tens of thousands of coders across the globe. It is made freely available for use to anyone; hence its 'Open Source' identity. "Oh, OK" - you go! But, though the 'Software' is FREE, you are still paying to have your very own site put together with this 'Open Source Software.' ----

So far, you like the demeanour of the young individual; you've had a pleasant Skype and you feel you can afford his hourly rate at $27.00 CAD (a lot less than most others you have checked, but short of going off-shore to - say India, where you have noted hourly charges as low as $10.00 USD). You decide to go ahead, and give the 'DEV' your 'Credentials' (Username and Password) allowances to enter your Website-to-be Hosting Account, so that the 'Front End', and 'Back-End' can be created with access through your C-Panel. You're not completely stupid.

The word 'Budget' did get mentioned; but you stated you don't per-se have an actual 'BUDGET;' you want to take the 'Pay-As-You-Go' route. The words 'Contractual Agreement' have also been mentioned. You don't want to bother with that either, since you know someone who had a highly itemized Contract with a large, well-established Web-Developing company that had gone hugely sour at some point. He took them to Court. They had a high profile law-firm, while the person represented himself. It cost him thousands of dollars over a number of years, while the firm had Insurance. It ended up going absolutely NO-where. All was a complete waste of time and money. "The Courts are not about justice..." as a lawyer once stated. Apparently the legalese is strictly 'Business.' While the Rules are bent by 'Argument', the operative ploy is about 'Winning!' Due process, fairness and 'accountability' are mere front-end posturing while your back-end gets shafted. Democracy at its finest. 

So I set up my PayPal paying agreement with the 'DEV,' who is seeking an UP-front payment of $500. Using my calculator, I configure that's some 19 hours at $27. PH. Wrongly you think that might just do it, since after all you were told that all of this 'Joomla Software' is "freely available to everybody;" that all that is required is to move the necessary 'Data-Base' Files in to the 'Back-End' of your account; to transfer the 'Freely-Available-Existing CMS' in to your account set up as well, and then start working on the HTML 'look and feel' of your site. You transfer the money, and think the 'Working Relationship' has now begun.

But the first week nothing happens, since you are told your new 'Dev' is "finishing off another job, and won't start on your site until the following week." You remember succinctly when you first spoke with the 'They/ WE,' that he had told you he was readily available....

NOT so! ..... And little do you realize your nightmare has only just begun. You have handed a perfect stranger the keys to your car and house, and, as the paying owner of your private Hosting Account you now share equal Administrative 'Super User' access with God knows WHO!

You start working together, and being introduced to the ins and outs of the ‘Open-Source’ format of the ‘off-the-shelf-available Software'. As a User/Browser you have travelled on hundreds of websites over the past 20 + years. You start asking questions: WHY is this – like THAT? WHY is something else not more like …. and you give an example.

 “ ‘Cause that’s just the way the format was created” you are told by the impatient Dev. “Well” – you argue, “ It’s NOT user-friendly and I just do NOT like it. It’s far too complicated and confusing, as far as I’m concerned…”

So he grudgingly complies with your wishes by bringing in what are called ‘Modules’ and ‘Plugins.’ And as the months go by, you keep paying many additional hundreds of dollars, as more and more of the original ‘FREE FORMAT’s set example is changing. It’s far too late to acknowledge you should've NEVER taken that route.  

The relationship has become unpleasantly heated, but, long deep in to the quagmire, you realize you are bound and stuck with it, like being in a BAD MARRIAGE!

‘HOW’ to get out of this mess? 

  

When you finally DO decide to cut the umbilical cord and change the 'Credentials' to keep your 'Alter-Ego Dev' from doing you any possible harm (because they are in fact capable of shutting you out entirely; I've been there!) ... you take a deep breath, and baffled and depleted, again, go looking for the perfect online match, to complete your vision. All appears to be a perpetual merry-go-round. 

And THAT’s  the average story between a Client and Developer.  

I know it Takes Two to Tango, but this system SUCKS!

289. The 'Apartheid' that lies at the essence of Life.

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Life is built on telling things apart. Without it, nothing can be defined. Any 'growing, living, existing creature,' that can't tell things apart becomes easy prey to those who do. This is the basic Law of Nature!
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a·part·heid

əˈpärtˌ(h)āt,əˈpärtˌ(h)īt/

noun

historical

1. (in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.

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   Like no other species ever before, Homo Sapiens - 'Human Being' - is rapidly changing that essential equilibrium. Living in our cities and suburbs, we are spreading like a non-stoppable virus, taking the law of nature in our own hands, re-interpreting and re-shaping it, as if we are superior, to suit our reigning God-possessed super-human selves. Smooth concrete pavement replaces soil; artificial chemicals - all for convenience and speed. Head-strong, our over-sized brains are running us in to a quick extinction. We are indeed the Selfish Gene!    

   
   

   But somehow the 'Apartheid' continues. Though we can go to the moon, mentally and spiritually, we have gained NOTHING!  

   
   

   WHY is this? 

   
   

   I think it is because each of us, at least those of 'us' in the developed world, feel we belong to the untouchable hordes that live, well fed and taken care of by whatever systems we are allowing to govern over us.  

   
   

   We are not the Wildebeest or Zebra that can become prey to the lioness. We are mostly ahead now of our Natural Enemies. Our 'Apartheid' has become a leisurely and affordable nothing-better-to-do aimless pre-occupation with differentiating ourselves from our neighbouring fellow-humans.
   
   Somehow, deep down in our primal cortex we have been unable to conquer that discriminatory, natural field, that final frontier in our search for superiority and Godliness.  Deep down we have retained that killing instinct. And it will now become our demise.
   
   Unless we become ONE and alike, a whole and single Unit of Homo Sapiens Erectus, to bond and collectively realize we are in a big mess, we will indeed continue our quickly deteriorating spiral towards annihilation, while bringing even more species to grow down and out with us.
   
   And when Armageddon is fully upon us, visiting aliens will scantily find any trace of us.
   
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288. Is our Species Morphing to the Left?

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According to the theory of left-brain or right-brain dominance, each side of the brain controls different types of thinking. ... For example, a person who is "left-brained" is often said to be more logical, analytical, and objective. A person who is "right-brained" is said to be more intuitive, thoughtful, and subjective.Jul 7, 2017

The Right Brain

According to the left-brain, right-brain dominance theory, the right side of the brain is best at expressive and creative tasks. Some of the abilities popularly associated with the right side of the brain include:

• Recognizing faces
• Expressing emotions
• Music
• Reading emotions
• Color
• Images
• Intuition
• Creativity

The Left Brain

The left-side of the brain is considered to be adept at tasks that involve logic, language, and analytical thinking. The left-brain is described as being better at:

• Language
• Logic
• Critical thinking
• Numbers
• Reasoning

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I Googled the above, and will use it to express my own thoughts on the matter. 

As with all languages, whether expressed verbally or visually, all is about communication. The details of meaning lie in the nitty gritty of conception, the choice, structure, and expression rendered by the individual, and perceived by the listener(s).  i.e. meaning is determined by the receiver's interpretation during their personal exchanges. 

Generalization is the middle ground established by those who set out to define the parameters of meaning, in order to define the measurement and boundaries to which, when in doubt, everyone can agree upon.  i.e. 'kill' literally means to eliminate the life force of an entity's earthly existence.  'killing' someone with kindness, although now meaning something entirely the opposite, initially literally meant that. It had been seen that an Ape squeezed its young borne so hard with fond loving, it actually killed it.   

So taking the above separation of Left versus Right brain literally, without exceptions, would be foolish. However, in a generalized fashion, for the sake of argument, on the whole it bares truth. As such, of the two types, I clearly belong in the Right Brain category. I am an idea man, a doer, outgoing, an extrovert. I tend to be loud, and jovial. My background is in the Theatre and Film Business. To a fair number of people I am too much 'in their face.' I don't do it on purpose; it's who I am - an Aries!

This then takes me to my present quandary, and the inability, so far, to find a solution, a working balance to what I am still seeking to accomplish. And it lies in my dealings with Left Brain humans.   

For these past number of years, and expressed through this Blog, I have been battling mostly Left Brain oriented people. Judges, Lawyers, Web Developer Coders. Most all are analytical *  

* analytical |ˌanəˈlidik(ə)l| adjectiverelating to or using analysis or logical reasoning: analytical methods | a suave, analytical type who missed his calling as a lawyer.
I take umbrage with two areas ascribed to Left Brainers: 'Critical Thinking' and 'Reasoning.' As if Right Brainers can't reason sensibly and coherently. Or that they are incapable of 'Critical Thinking'?

WHAT is critical thinking anyway? Like right brainers may be ready to jump of a cliff to their death? They don't perceive the 'critical' aspect of the fact the jump's distance might kill them?  Are they somehow 'handicapped' and less able to survive? They generally have shorter lives? Cause they tend to live life, outgoing,  to the full?   

HMMM, I mull..... some critical room for thought and re-interpretation?

287. Humanity in a Nutshell - our Sun - Time Continuum

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Without the 'SUN' nothing much exists. We call it 'LIFE.' LIFE on 'EARTH!' Planet Earth.

This hot-mass, our ultimate provider, brought us a measurable awareness of dependable, 'CLOCK-ABLE,' dark and light. We call it 'Night' and 'Day.' The regularity of these repeating phases we call 'TIME.'

'Humans' as such, live in various geographically defined jurisdictions, locations, 'SPACES' on this Earth, defined by the 24 time-zones of the original British Greenwich clock; notwithstanding some oblivious Amoebic entities not requiring photo synthesis or "light,' or 'clocks' to exist in the depths of the nether sea world - many yet to be 'discovered' - in order to determine origin and importance to our general evolution.

But we are not talking about the earliest lifeforms here, we are speaking of our species, how we  morphed into becoming what we now are, during that measurable and clock-able time period.

Each of us, self-absorbed and 'RIGHT' at every turn... In fact, likely not that interested nor caring enough to really try seeing it from that other side.  How do you think we are doing in this present 'NOW'?

Are you soaking up sufficient light? Are you getting along in your particular sphere of existence?  You have managed to outgrow beefs you may have held against another?  You have managed to work it out and create a greater understanding and acceptance and appreciation among your 'dear family,' your close friends, your 'adversaries'? Are you more insightful, less self-absorbed; stuff is making better SENSE now?

Life is unfolding, day by day; you have gained a certain control over your 'being.' Your ducks are in a row. In fact, you feel harmonious from within.
- How would you describe our environment, our equilibrium, from this more 'objective' perspective?

So, we each hold differing perspectives. Our beliefs and truths lie wherever we have been indoctrinated, or decided to place them. Our IDs are ultimately self-induced, evolving realities. Responsibility operates from within. We DO what we do, based on whatever we decide to be our 'Reality.'

You have discovered that blame and negativity, initially easy, have become a hindrance to your greater fulfillment. Productivity takes effort - requires time. With work, it will be worth it, since it ads to your dimensionality of the time you have on this Earth. Each of us are alone as single entities.

Most, searching for help, have been reaching out and created their 'God'; others re-discovered, as early man did, on calling it 'Nature'.  Those who call it Nature do not/ can not, have an argument.
It is what it is.

Those who decided to call it God are forever at odds.

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NOTE: The following is my account overview of an online connective I have had with 2 consecutive off-shore web-developers. I worked with both on the creation of a website  
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Dear 'X' :

I can well image your focus is on your needing young family. That you are eager to make additional income. 

Fishing In the online haystack, Googling for JOOMLA, like rolling dice playing the Lottery.  A message read by ‘someone’ / somewhere...YOU, brought us together; you there; me here.

We've become this trying team, worlds apart, our linguistic differences, our generation gap, with aggravants galore at every step, left-brain/ right-brain, trying to achieve the impossible during our daily email connectivities. 

Still, we continued to hang in, regardless our frustrating exchanges, regardless my existing debts, incurred by the desire to succeed in my one last ’SOME-thing’ before I fade from life to live in nirvanian obsolescence.  

EVERY new relationship brings on its own challenges. 

Letting go of my former dev, after many hype-ful months of promises, assurances, re-assurances and thousands of dollars, I configured him a sociopath. Then, out of the blue, he sent me an email lately, wanting/ motivated, to tell me his recently retired father (from a respectable middle class position) had died, at 61….

Why the need to tell me this? 

I responded with empathy, asking him several angles to his life. 61 is young. Was it Cancer? No response. I guess it was motivated by a single need/ desire/ outburst of grief to connect, brought on to inform this far older individual, me. The fact he took me for thousands not an issue.

Like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates,"you never know what you're gonna get!"
Life is a happenstance, a crap-shoot continuum in time.