What a cool article. I have so much to say on this. Mystery has been central to my knowledge base for forever. I will reframe an assertion made several times in the article: those that have successfully combined action with intuition have given us the best we've got.
I'm going to take it one step further and offer the same extrapolation made in other notable cultures around the world, which is that action and intuition have masculine and feminine traits, respectively. The making of things, esp. an environment for good living, is masculine, active. The making of people is feminine, intuitive. Nothing a man makes can match the creative power of what the woman has in store. Or, hell, I don't know, maybe it can, but, a whole new person -- that's up there. And all of that is intuitive. All she needs is to eat and live well and be happy in order to express her strongest power. A man needs to make things to show his creative output.
I hope this type of understanding can empower people and help heal the rift between the sexes. I see a tendency in our culture to lessen expressions of both masculinity and femininity. Personally I think it is a put-on by the controllers to keep control of the controlled. Humankind is not androgynous, not even those born with both male and female traits. There is no just-human. There are male humans and female humans. The universe seems to be a lot like that, as various cultures have asserted over the ages, and neither action nor intuition accomplishes anything good when they are divorced from each other. Just a thought.
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StanMar 5, 2015
The US population is about 300 million. I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that more than 300 million people around the world would move to the US, if allowed. Are you saying that if the population of this country suddenly doubled, there would be no overcrowding anywhere? Do you really think this would create harmony and peace? Now imagine them all living the lifestyle to which you have become accustomed, to which americans feel entitled. Imagine the environmental consequences of that.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Try out this "peace and harmony" thing by brining an undocumented family the same size as yours into your home to live with you starting this Thanksgiving. Check out that no overcrowding anywhere idea.
If that doesn't seem appealing, why not give 10% of your income to organizations which improve the standard of living of people in their own countries. That's my approach.
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What a cool article. I have so much to say on this. Mystery has been central to my knowledge base for forever. I will reframe an assertion made several times in the article: those that have successfully combined action with intuition have given us the best we've got.
I'm going to take it one step further and offer the same extrapolation made in other notable cultures around the world, which is that action and intuition have masculine and feminine traits, respectively. The making of things, esp. an environment for good living, is masculine, active. The making of people is feminine, intuitive. Nothing a man makes can match the creative power of what the woman has in store. Or, hell, I don't know, maybe it can, but, a whole new person -- that's up there. And all of that is intuitive. All she needs is to eat and live well and be happy in order to express her strongest power. A man needs to make things to show his creative output.
I hope this type of understanding can empower people and help heal the rift between the sexes. I see a tendency in our culture to lessen expressions of both masculinity and femininity. Personally I think it is a put-on by the controllers to keep control of the controlled. Humankind is not androgynous, not even those born with both male and female traits. There is no just-human. There are male humans and female humans. The universe seems to be a lot like that, as various cultures have asserted over the ages, and neither action nor intuition accomplishes anything good when they are divorced from each other. Just a thought.
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The US population is about 300 million. I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that more than 300 million people around the world would move to the US, if allowed. Are you saying that if the population of this country suddenly doubled, there would be no overcrowding anywhere? Do you really think this would create harmony and peace? Now imagine them all living the lifestyle to which you have become accustomed, to which americans feel entitled. Imagine the environmental consequences of that.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Try out this "peace and harmony" thing by brining an undocumented family the same size as yours into your home to live with you starting this Thanksgiving. Check out that no overcrowding anywhere idea.
If that doesn't seem appealing, why not give 10% of your income to organizations which improve the standard of living of people in their own countries. That's my approach.