Ready for a solution?

All we have done lately is talk about wanting to save the world. We have even touched on how we can save the world. Yet, no action has been taken, no plan have been made. We have to come together and come up with a plan. Saving the world is going to involve creating a "tribe" where everyone's veiws are important. We cannot save the world alone, but together our new minds and new ideas just might do the trick.

I wrote earlier that I wanted a reward. That the ideas we were discussing were much to heavy to not reward ourselves with some kind of a change. Giving yourself a reward gives you all the more reason to try and create a solution. So here is my reward to you: A saved world.

Now how.. how in the world are you going to do it? Lets start a stand where we actually talk about what can be done. Lets work on forming ideas TOGETHER that just might fix what we think will be forever broken.

Last class we talked about how nothing is holding us back but ourselves. Well cut yourself loose and tell me how you plan do to something about the crisis at hand.

Trudging Towards Creativity??

Trudging, trudging through thoughts, memories, ideals. Trudging through the distingtion of right and wrong, through daily activities, through sleep and eating. We are all trudging through the murk of our lives, reluctantly blaming gravity for the weight that bears down upon us. Inevitably causing knees to buckle because "we are flawed" even physically. Not knowing that our footprings for a path, a path generations will follow, slowly and reluctantly headed where we headed once before them - though even we dont know where the path ends. We are trudging, trudging until one willing soul gets their feet wet to form a new path. A path that will rescue us from forever trudging through our culture.

I dont know about you, but I am sick of following the same path. I could never bear a life where I am a part of building a pyramid I despise. I am willing to get my feet wet, to get creative even when society frows upon my creativity.

"The trouble with him was that he was without imagination" - good news! I have an imagination and thank goodness I do because I can imagine so much more beyond civilization. I just have to wonder though, is it enough for just one person to get their feet wet and try something new? How will we, if we do decide to change the world, how will we spread it to others so that they may make the same choice? hmm.. time to get creative ;)

No One Else on Earth

Aliens vs. Gods



A conversation we had in class after a fast write sparked an interest in me about the similarities and differences between aliens and gods and how the Taker and Leavers culture views these beings entirely different.


First, to establish similiarities I can't help but notice that both beings are viewed as all powerful and all knowing. The gods have always been a symbol for complete power and influence over all human life in one way or another. Aliens too are most commonly viewed as a higher being with tecnhologies much farther advanced than our own. Both beings have the capacity to control human life, whether through religion or destruction.


Before I go on I have to shoot down one doubt that may be crossing your mind. This doubt it "This all may be true, but ALIENS dont exist" my answer to your doubt is we have no more proof that gods exist than we do aliens.


What really interests me is the views human society has on each of these beings. Leaver cultures used to fear the gods in very much the same way the Taker culture today fears aliens. Takers view the gods as "teachers" in the sense that we look to them for answers and quidance, where as we fear the power aliens would have over us, the same power we allow the gods to hold.


We have asked the gods for quidance for thousands of years and the advancement they have given us has only led to our destruction. The gods couldn't show us the right way to live yet we still continue to ask them to quide us.


Ishmael says that we need to invent our way out of our problems. We pride ourselves on our technologies but also fear the tecnhologies greater than ours. If aliens are out there and they are more advanced than us. Whose to say they dont hold the answer for how we can save our world? Why is it that human instinct is to fear the very advancement that we need inorder to survive?