Well, you are the light of the world. Do you not know this?
Everyone is, when they choose to be.
"What can one person do?",
you ask (the eternal conundrum).
R. Buckminster Fuller:
I know that I am not a category,
a hybrid specialization.
I am not a thing - a noun.
I seem to be a verb -
an evolutionary process -
an integral function of the Universe.
And so are you.
Harold Pinter (2005 Nobel Prize speech):
I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all.
It is in fact mandatory.
A random thought for now:
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
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In the Philosophy and Wisdom Teaching of all ancient civilizations, human beings and the Universe were seen as being interconnected and inseparable. In contrast, Modern Empirical Science is only a net of observations that permit the development of a smoggy outlook of the reality, a tiny window to the Universe, always incomplete in this vast endless search for the meaning of existence. Modern Empirical Science and Secular Education are blind without spirituality, ancient heritage and the teachings of past and present spiritual teachers.
Modern Empirical Science lacks a practical value system.
...More.
Since 1966, I have been in computing and I.T., I was a computer software developer and implementer, and am currently a documenter/technical author in IT.
My career has mostly been spent in self-employment and in running my own, small, computer business.
But, I've also spent long periods in some form of community work - including a year off in Brixton some years ago - and
(with some regret) in party politics.
My interests include travel, genealogy, broad aspects of history and spiritual philosophy.
Also sport, and in particular Aston Villa. Married to Anasuya, I am a grandfather, but youngest son Adam is still living at home.
Adam's most remembered quote (at age 4 when trying to get him to learn to swim..):
"I'll learn to swim when I'm 6...." (and he did, and soon gained his 800m. certificate!!).
Click here for a reflective account on my life (if you dare!).
What I prefer to call practical philosophy has become more of a central focus of my life over the past 30 years - everytime I've moved away from it, I get pulled back screaming!
I strongly suspect (as the affects of the events of the past few years impact people personally, and as future events unfold) that practical philosophy will become more central in peoples' lives.
Certainly, since ca. 1990 there have been a prolific number of writers that have constructively had something to
offer in the world of practical philosophy; Redfield, Walsch and Chopra being leading contenders of that group.
Another that has caught the imagination of a number is the Englishman David Icke, who, I am sad to say, generally misses
the really important issues by some distance. His recent book talks of the proposition that Love is all there is - and that the rest is illusion.
That proposition is pure Vedanta, and the real 'argument' of spiritual teachers such as Krishna, Buddha and Jesus, amongst
others. Who am I to argue with this? But if he had written this book first, before all the rest of his output,
then I am sure he would have gained more credence in his work.
Icke and I have something in common, as I also originate from the midlands, and went to live in his home city, Leicester,
at the end of the 1960s, and then worked at Coventry at a time when he was a goalkeeper with Coventry City. But that's
where our similarity ends.
It has been reported that, in 2004, Britain exported 1,500 tons of potatoes to Germany - and imported the same amount!
Also that the UK sent 10,200 tons of milk and cream to France - and imported 9,900 tons! What kind of logic is this?
But, of course, it's not just the illogicality, but also the question of wasted energy usage in the transportation of those goods.
Sustainability is a current and unavoidable issue: There have been opportunities to hold back growth and be less
greedy - but now we're rapidly losing the race against time. The following sites promote further debate on this issue of
great concern:
Politics, Life and Us:
(For U.K. residents) OR - Don't you sometimes wonder what the politicians are on about?
Don't you wish for a fairer world?
How can we obtain proper answers to those questions when we have the situations of:
Action without proper discretion;
Power not justified by credentials;
Leadership lacking commonsense;
Leadership lacking sincere humility;
Erudition lacking sagacity;
Education sans wisdom;
- and more! But perhaps we (individually) do have the answers - if we but wish to find them!
Read more - click here.
"Your political viewpoint IS your spirituality demonstrated."
Education:
Right Conduct, Truth, Love, Peace and Non-violence - do not these characteristics in a person appeal to you?
Aren't they best embibed when young? British schools (and in other countries) have received much valued input from
the work of The Sathya Sai Education in Human Values (SSEHV). Volunteers work tirelessly in this regard.
Please click here to link to the UK SSEHV site
Helping The Poorer World:
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 2006:
Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Foundation,
a unique method of funding cottage industry.
On that fateful day, it just so happened I was on contract to do some computer installation work at our local hospital (the same hospital where Elizabeth Taylor's life was saved in 1959!). It was when I went about my task in the Maternity Ward on that day in 2001, that I saw the most incongruous sight of so many heavily pregnant ladies watching those very events unfold on the lounge television screen. They were in a state of shock.
And their unborn babies?
How could this happen?
How could God cause this to happen?
Did God cause this to happen?!
Click on this image for more on Practical Philosophy issues...
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 2006:
Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Foundation,
a unique method of funding cottage industry.
