"Don't you feel helpless sometimes. You research the information about the world situations that are happening, or have happened, and you realize that there is so much evil shit going on and you need to tell so many people to just take a step back from all the bullsh*t and research the whole bigger picture. But they've got their heads so far up their asses, that all they hear (to them), is a pile of sh*t." Justin Ellis
Justin's words echo how many of us feel at times
I have been diagnosed with major depression but still have great hope for our future. Those with minor depression or no depression should be able to come to the same conclusion by looking at the trends.
Most famous Hope in the world!
I think most people are basically good within their own tribes anyway. If they weren't, our species wouldn't still be around.
I started my emergence movement to try and encourage me and others to think outside our own tribes and start making the global community a reality. Also I want to break through the helplessness that many of us feel by focusing too heavily on the evils that me get bombarded with.
I don't blame anyone for giving up and just caring for their own kin. But this won't fix the world and there are many out there who have some spare capacity but they just need a direction to walk the trek to a global consciousness in harmony with the environment and populated by equals.
The first steps are easy:
- 1% of your income to a charity that doesn't benefit your tribe
- 1 volunteer hour per week helping people that can't help themselves outside your tribe
- 1 kindness bomb per day trying to brighten up someone outside your tribe who is in pain or angry and not showing you kindness back
If you don't think the emergence is on the right track, then join my Facebook group and help me to improve it.
Peace, love & harmony through humility, kindness & technology...
Hey A2 milk, threatening to sue Our Aunty (Australia's public broadcaster) really shows you to be the scamming milk maids you are so close to being! (and why don't you use some of your milk money to fix your crappy website) Leave ABC alone! If your science is tight, then why would you care about The Checkout giving their reasonable opinion that your milk is over-priced and no healthier for you than regular milk?
But holy cow, your science is very mixed BS (or CS really). Anyone with any training in how to pull the leather over people's eyes can see your ads and marketing for what they are. Trumped up claims preying on parent's concerns about their kids digestion. So the milk recipe is: 1) Start with preliminary science nowhere near consensus. 2) Release a product to try and be ahead of the curve while you wait for the science to be tightened up. (except it may not be) 3) If you've successfully hacked our flawed brains, our confirmation bias and tendency to confuse correlation with causation will make some believe that your product works and anecdotal evidence will convince you even more fervently that it totally 100% works with your loyal cult-like followers who believe in your product. 4) And suddenly you have a business to protect from the 'evil people' and you can't back down for fear of losing the mortgage on the milking sheds. Do you think you're the first 'likely to be BS' business model to do all this? There is a similar pattern with Chiropractic associations who sue skeptics with no money just to shut them up.
Photo: A2 CEO Geoffrey Babidge
Are you going to threaten to sue everyone who doesn't agree with your business model based on unethical but not illegal trickery? Can I expect a letter from your ambulance chasers as well? (I know I'm a small target but I can dream... Maybe I need to give all my assets to my wife or something in case some coward shamsters do decide at some point in the future that I'm worthy enough to be threatened) If people want to buy your milk and you make no outrageous health claims, knock yourself out. But don't sue our public broadcaster. I don't really understand what you could possibly gain unless you all have extremism spectrum disorder and feel you must protect your ideology and business model at all costs. You won't shut up the ABC. I'm going to use an argument from popularity, but far more people care about keeping the ABC than your milk infused with special snakecow oil. Go and milk yourselves instead of taking us all for a cow ride around the pasture then milking us for money....
WARNING: COULDN'T THINK OF MENTAL HEALTH JOKES TODAY
I've said this before, but it's the moral responsibility of the functional people around the struggling person to help. This applies to workplaces and families and any group.
You might think you're top shyte and superior to those having troubles but there's a decent chance that it could be you struggling in the future. If you still believe any of these myths, please take a look at the evidence: http://www.mpuuc.org/mentalhealth/myths.html
Scientologists tell schizophrenics to stop taking their meds. Great advice Xenu!
I'm not saying these are easy conversations. If you have empathy, then anything you say will help. If you struggle with empathy, then ask someone who does to have a chat with them.
Don't wait for the person to 'drown' and expect them to be fully proactive in their recovery. It is one of my key findings that I'm expected to be way more proactive than I am capable with my mental illness.
Some of the Bible is pretty good...
For those who don't know, one of my plans is to be a mental health advocate once I am able. Tough job, but employers would be happy with any increased productivity and employees would have a single point of contact to liaise with all necessary parties.
Such a person would have definitely benefited me before I spiraled down. Many colleagues have been great but my bosses just don't know how to handle me and to be fair it doesn't come naturally to them and we haven't been trained in the touchy feely stuff.
Bravo to organisations such as Beyond Blue who are trying to improve work culture. Large employers like mine are really starting to listen!
One in five Australian workers is currently experiencing a mental health condition
My space travel prediction for what it's worth: we'll go trans-human before we travel to the stars. Sending human embryos is inefficient and unlikely to work. Why are we so arrogant as a species to want humans to infect the Universe? I love the idea of a little Hitler embryo being brought to life on a new world and exterminating the little Gypsy embryos.
I claim that technology will cure human nature. I do mean that we need to be less 'human' in order to survive long term. A little bit of Spock and a little bit of Kirk as a friendly Borg collective. I don't see this as a scary prospect but others might. I really believe that we can evolve into something much better. Why stay human with all our destructive flaws and delusions that we have to fight to overcome?
AI and human minds will likely merge so there won't be an us vs them robot revolt. We will network all our brains together and add AI and reliable databases so we gain the best of both carbon and non carbon based intelligence. Even better than that, it's highly likely that a new emergent property of group consciousness will emerge if enough minds are connected together. Us trying to imagine what this will be like is about as possible as a single brain cell appreciating the spectacle of of a Fast & Furious marathon.
The tech hive mind will likely still want to explore and understand the Universe for many reasons I think. If our future selves care about self preservation then we'd have to go beyond the Universe to survive its eventual heat death. Way before that, we'd of course need to leave the earth before the sun expands into a Roald Dahl BFG. This is all a hunch because who knows what the tech hive mind will want to do.
Are you freaking out and think that I'm proposing an evil Borg from Star Trek? My Borg aren't evil. I'll call my friendly Borg The Frorg. For the Frorg, resistance is fine. If you try to destroy the Frorg, you won't be destroyed, but could be placed in the holodeck VR to minimise harm to all.
The other problem with the Borg is that you lose your individuality. In the Frorg it would be up to you how much you give up and you could come and go as you please if you want to stay fully human. This freedom shouldn't threaten the Frorg at all.
Will the Frorg forever be bound by the speed of light and the 4 dimensions we know and this Universe? I doubt it.
I am a bit annoyed that I probably won't live long enough to experience the Frorg life. But I'll be happy if we are moving in that direction.
Does any of this make sense or am I speaking Klingon? Qapla!
Forget about the thousands of real languages going extinct, Bing translator has Klingon!
John Lennon might have been more popular than Jesus Christ, but I'm just deluded enough to believe that I'm a little more benevolent & relevant than the JC...
If you need to believe that I am the second coming of Christ or a prophet or in touch with the Universal consciousness and can therefore amend the old commandments and dogmas for the sake of all humanity, then go for it! No one can disprove that my mental illness could be a result of trying to endure the overpowering word of God. She/He/It/They could be trying to use me as a prophet to tell all humanity that we are at the dawning of a new peaceful age; but the first step is losing all the dangerous Jerry Springer Baggage from the past so we can truly live in harmony!
This would actually be in line with my absurdist philosophies. God's new messenger is a de-facto atheist who doesn't even really care about humanity. Thanks God (probable delusion) for making me care! Hallelujah and Hail Julia Gulia!
10 COMMANDMENTS
Take the 10 commandments as a start. In this modern age of 8 second attention spans, the Bible should have a very concise list of how to lead a good life. Many humans believe that God told Moses something roughly like this modern-ish interpretation of the 10 commandments:
"The Judeo-Christian 10 Commandments List, Short Form: 1. You shall have no other gods before Me. 2. You shall not make idols. 3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain. 4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 5. Honor your father and your mother. 6. You shall not murder. 7. You shall not commit adultery. 8. You shall not steal. 9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 10. You shall not covet."
Add to that Jesus' commandments to turn the other cheek and treat others like you'd want to be treated yourself.
THE EMERGENCE MANIFESTO IS BETTER OR AT LEAST A PRETTY GOOD AMENDMENT?
Compare to The Emergence mantras:
- i sustain all life in the metaverse - i am enriched by positive interactions online & offline - i strive for humility, kindness & eudemonia (fancy word for human flourishing which is a fancy term for happiness of our species) - i live modestly & donate my surplus - i volunteer my time to the global community - i strive to create inspiring content & accept donations - i yearn for world peace & harmony in the near future - my brain is deeply flawed & deluded - i will always strive to improve
There is much overlap with modern moderate interpretations of the major religions for sure; especially with the Buddhist & Jesus stuff. Are my mantras 'better' than the 10 + Jesus commandments and the teachings of the Buddha? Do I go straight to hell for even suggesting this possibility or will I be reincarnated as a slug with a salt addiction?
I agree that it sounds very arrogant to even consider that I could do a better job than God! My assertion would be that if God does exist and actually is benevolent and actually cares about my penis and testicles and brain, it's humans that have grossly misinterpreted her word. Only a de-facto Atheist like me can really see through the BS. I'm not blinded by Faith and unable to Breathe in the evidence!
AFTERWORD: WHAT TO DO WITH THOSE WHO LACK EMPATHY? CAN THEY BE TRAINED?
Could someone who lacks empathy follow The Emergence Mantras and be less of a sociopath? It's helping me but I'm not a proper sociopath; only half. I'm sure that a true sociopath would work out a way to distort it for their own gain just like they've distorted every other ideology...
WARNING: If you have a sensitive disposition towards differences of opinion, straw men caricatures, mild ridicule and Star Wars references, then please take some of your personalised homeopathic preparations before reading on.
Let’s look at the attitudes one may encounter towards the modality of homeopathy or any other treatments promoted as alternative or complementary. Mentioning the H-bomb word 'homeopathy' has been an emotional trigger and was the beginning of the end for 2 of my blocked Facebook-tionships. (Can anyone think of a better portmanteau for Facebook relationships? I'll give you credit)
Some possible labels to apply to people about homeopathy: (labels are useful constructs for groups in my opinion but obviously shouldn't be used to put everyone in a neat little box. We are all much more complicated than that.)
1. Denier: Homeopathy is complete and utter BS. There is nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. It should immediately go the way of trepanation, the White Australia Policy and Gary Coleman. Anyone who believes is either ignorant or stupid or deluded or all of the above like a Gungan from the planet Naboo. The worst homeopathic extremists are about as likable as Bill Cosby doing an impression of Jar Jar Binks.
2. Scientific skeptic: Plausibility strongly suggests that homeopathy is unlikely to have an effect above placebo. More studies than you can poke a hirsute Naturopath at agree that it has no beneficial effect. It may still have a very tiny effect above placebo, but a tiny effect is very different to the claims made by your typical Dr Quinn water-medicine woman. It is basically unethical to give out placebo medicine no matter what kind of ‘healer’ you are. It is pretty much inconceivable that further study is going to yield positive results so no further money should be wasted. Homeopaths, like WWE wrestlers, should just admit that they engage in entertainment and recommend that anyone actually sick should go to a doctor; then keep doing it if people will still pay for it. We still read horoscopes with similar disclaimers at the bottom, so perhaps their business model would not be pile driven into the mat like Stone Cold Steve Austin. (we all agree that astrology is just a bit of fun, right?)
I prefer my wrestling to be in jelly or custard
3. Fluffy moderate: Homeopathy is probably BS but just leave them alone unless they are threatening you with a gun loaded with homeopathic bullets. You’ll likely get nowhere challenging believers so don’t bother. Devote your energy to being positive in the hope that the homeopaths that eschew medicine will slowly come round to accepting the benefits of science-based medicine when they really need it. It’s also often a fluffer moderate’s responsibility to pull deniers and believers apart as they usually get along about as well as James Packer and David Gyngell. (I thought that the elites were supposed to all collude. I know, it must have been play fighting between Packer and Gyngell to convince us that they are actually in competition. Their puppet masters even told them to look really comical. Well played.)
2 of Australia's richest men
4. Extremist moderate: The Universe consciousness collective is full of wonder and mystery and the mystic energy radiates from the Heavens down into our chakras. If homeopathy works for some people why take away their healing from them just because you don’t believe in it? Water is the most mysterious molecule of them all, so why claim that it couldn't have memory? Science is arrogant and claims to know everything about everything but it knows next to nothing. Reality is subjective and what works for others may not work for you. Being negative all the time makes baby Gaia cry and chuck tantrums; then we end up with more earthquakes and hurricanes. One should reflect back positive vibrational energy at all times and they will be rewarded due to the karmic principle that binds all our souls as a single life-force.
5. ‘Benign’ believer: Homeopathy helps me with my ‘symptoms of life’. Big pharma shouldn't get all my money. There is something to placebo medicine that the establishment haven't worked out. But when I actually get ‘proper’ sick, I’ll go and see a doctor. Others are entitled to their own views and they don’t annoy me unless they are being nasty to me. Live and let die, I mean live.
6. Dangerous true believer: Conventional medicine is BS. Big Pharma and Big Farm and Big Food and all the 1% elites are making us chronically ill with toxic food then dispensing treatments just to maximise their profits. Homeopathy proudly sits outside this hegemony and there is a mountain of evidence that it works. Homeopathy can even immunize against measles. People that diss homeopathy are blind and asleep and sheep. They are being critical to try and put the competition out of business. I have heard about homeopathy scientists being gagged by the elites from releasing their positive results. The extremist Western medicine believers haven’t seen what we've seen: real people getting real help from homeopathy. If more people embraced homeopathy, the world would be healthier and happier.
No prizes for guessing which camp I have pitched my deluxe 4-bedroom air-conditioned tent in.
I think that 2: scientific skepticism should be compatible with everything reality-based that works. It’s often also beneficial to throw in a little 3: fluffy moderation as the spoon full of sugar to make the medicine go down.
From my very personal experience, scientific skeptics are not always the easiest people to get along with; partly due to their internal conflict between how rational they would like their brains to be and how irrational their brains actually are.
They will also often appear just as a-hole, absolutist-thinking deniers unless you have a lot of time on your hands to hear their ‘rants’; for it usually takes something like 10 times as many words to fully explain a concept with all the required nuances for the detailed skeptical point of view. Most people want the short version and can feel spammed if a kind skeptic tries to explain everything that is required in order to form their opinion. And if that kind skeptic also sprinkles in Skynet and "Oh Sam" jokes; listen to them and consider what it would take to change your mind...
Then perhaps donate a small amount & share your views on charity to the world? A tiny 50 cents per person I've connected with online would more than double it past $1000, then only about $999,999,000 to reach our emergence goal of $1 billion... easy squeezy David Campese!
Rugby player David Campese. Only relevance is that his name rhymes with easy...
Or do nothing. It won't really adversely affect me. Most of us will continue living either way (and pretending that we are above watching trashy reality TV marathons and eating 'junk' food mixtures out of buckets). No one is going to guilt us into giving away our hard-fought-for excess money that we will be taking with us to the after-life to show whatever deity we believe in how awesome we are, right?
In the past I've given to Doctors Without Borders and they are great. (Sorry if I'm not using the French name like I should considering my general snobbiness level. I just can't pronounce it to the satisfaction of the French stereotype voices inside my head. je suis désolé)
But the World Food Program (WFP) was brought to my attention by a dear but deeply mis-guided friend who is going to meditate in solitude and chat with ETs to solve the world's problems. I'm taking a slightly different path...
If you need celebrity endorsements, then Brad Pitt is a supporter. The band Journey are supporters too. You can insert your own joke about the Pitt/Jolie dynasty but without Journey, the TV show Glee would never have existed, so nuff said. I can just drop the mic and walk off-stage.
WFP do seem pretty good at doing something about the over 20,000 people that die of hunger and related disease every day. That is a tough number for any of us to fathom surely. I still suspect the actual figure might be lower, but what figure would we be happy with besides zero? We do know that the number has been trending down. This is one of the many metrics used as evidence that there is cause for optimism and that a lot of the 'good old days' memes and 'the world is falling apart' memes are just click-bait with little correlation to reality.
So why not just let the do-gooders sort out the world and we'll kick back and grow our 'Mad Dog' Morgan beards, discuss how much better LPs sound than Neil Young's Pono and be afraid of threats like terrorism that are less likely to happen to us than being eaten by a shark flying through the air being ridden by Ian Ziering.
How mad was he?
The voices in my head are telling me that, by giving to charity, I've just done the equivalent of dowsing one of my music synthesizers in petrol and setting it on fire, then the fire spreading to burn the entire house down. It wouldn't be cool like the Makemakes' burning piano. (Austria's entrant in Eurovision 2015)
You see, I'm not by nature a charitable person... Even writing this short-ish post has taken me more than 10 times longer than it should because I'm struggling with why I've given money away. But my 'higher' self has realised that, as bad as my life seems now and even if it gets much worse, I'm probably not going to die of a preventable disease and definitely not malnutrition! Forget about a spare tire, I'm carrying around a spare pink Leyland P76.
If you're feeling generous too or just want to give some money away or want to big note yourself to your other pretentious friends or want to partially reject capitalism or have voices in your head telling you that money is the Bieber's plaything or just heard a corporate pop song ironically singing about it not being about the money or your cash mattress is getting a little bit lumpy or you're disappointed by Apple's new direction and are boycotting their lack of innovation or maybe you might actually selflessly care about the well-being of all humanity, then donate and post in my comments thread and share if you like.
It is highly unlikely that a small amount will make your life worse! Is one less "Austrian goat milk double-half-caf-half-decaf-soy milk cappuccino - extra hot - with a dash of Madagascar cinnamon and half tablespoon of caramel-latte-frappa-mocha" going to ruin your day?
Disclaimer: We are looking for some kind of donation accepting non-profit model that allows us to create free content & live modestly, but half of anything that we get for The Emergence Start Now movement will be given to an approved charity. But that is for the bold future; probably in a post Star Wars Ep7 world.
is this really happening?
Peace, Love & Harmony to you all. Even Chad Kroeger...
Actual Nickelback lyrics: "It's not like you to say sit; good dog"
