Think,
if you would meet someone from the future, from
an age when all or at least most of the present day problems were
already solved. Maybe then you could understand what hese thoughts are
about.
The UFO example goes too far: that is not the level of
generality of these thoughts here: these are human thoughts which apply
also to the possible UFOs but that is different from UFO thoughts about
humans. These thoughts here are based on my experience of life and on
the ordinary things that are taught to all in schools all over the
world: that humans too are animals and that we originally lived in a
much closer contact with the nature and that we too are products of the
evolution.
(But I have thought these
thoughts silently on my own, since
no-one in my social environment has ever been interested in them at
all. I have discussed intellectually about other subjects that have
interested my environment, so my thoughts here reflect some academical
education too. But in a sense they come from nowhere, they come from
living in a culture which values holistic objectivity almost more than
anything else.)
"AN UFO STORY"
I was just playing
with this idea of meeting an UFO, don't know why.
Maybe I am frustrated: there is a paradise in this world maybe possible
and no-one is interested! No-one has ever asked me a single questions
about it, no-one answers any of my e-mail except maybe to say that they
are on a holiday...
(My own sex
theory has had over three thousand watchers and about one
thousand readers
but my own Gaia
paradise theory only a little bit over a thousand watchers..
WHY???!!! Paradise
includes sex too
but of course you have to be "smart" enough to get to think about that!
People do not seem to be all that smart... Paradise like sex in a
paradise is better than ordinary sex without a paradise.)
Meet
an UFO
In
the astrophysics laboratory of X there are the collected results of
interviews of an UFO. This probram has been made based on those
intellectual discussions, so that you too could feel what it feels like
to meet an UFO.
Is there
life on Earth?
- Not in
its ordinary form, but it is true that certain charachteristics of the
organisms on Earth interest the inquiring mind.
Is there
life on other planets?
-
Certainly yes, even though not at all in every place and not always of
the same kind.
How would
you define life?
- An
organism which is intengrately part of a bigger planetary organism
system which has the task of protecting those organisms and which
brings the meaningfulness in their lives in addition to the living
requirements of the organisms.
How would
you describe the organisms found on Earth? Us?
- Your
species used to be a form of life. Now it is broken. It will not
survive long. And the catastrophes causing its disappearance will have
disastrous consequences for much of the rest of what there is now left
of the life on Earth. It will propably take a long time for it to
recover.
What is
the primary charachteristic of life?
- It is
the securing of the future for its kind via allegiancies with others.
In other words: universal love.
What is
your reaction to the present situation on Earth?
- The
human overpopulation and the development of technology before the
means to guide it have been fully developed are both dangerous to the
organisms on Earth and to the broken whole that they form. Such lack in
planning skills must be seen as a serious defect which should be
dropped away. At earlier stages of the evolution those who went solely
with growing teeth were dropped away by pay their lack of paying
attention to the other sides of life. Now the whole is in danger. Those
who started going ashtray should have been killed right away. Love does
not mean losing compassion to those who are not present here or to the
future generations to come. So life on Earth is broken since it did not
prevent this and it did not repair the planning skills of those who
lacked foresight.
Shouldn't
You the healthy ones the cure us?
- Yes.
That is what I am here for.
You alone?
Is one enough?
- If you
do not listen to one, your reason listens to no-one and so you
all deserve to die away, leaving a healthier and happier world.
How are
you going to cure us?
- I talk
to you about the basics of life, about the need to secure the
future, about the interdependence of all life, of your dependence of
the nature environment and not on tools,... About the need to think
holistically and to feel: to be a fully functioning individual and a
fully functioning group.
A
TRUTH WHICH IS SO VERY OLD
THAT IT IS IN THE VERY NATURE OF THINGS AND OF THE WORLD
A HUMAN BEING FORMS AN
UNIFIED WHOLE WITH ONE'S LIVING ENVIRONMENT.
"All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the
Earth, happens to the children of the Earth. Man has not woven the web
of life. He is but one thread of it. Whatever he does to the web, he
does to himself." said the indian chief Seattle.
Whatever we do, want to do, feel motivated toward, is meaningful in
just the larger picture of life, of the lives of us all, of the world
at large.
The healthier the pieces of our natural living environment
(including the society) are and the better they are at their right
places, the better we function, the happier we are.
The amount in which we have reached the Gaia paradise,
determines what life is like to us and in what kind of shape we are and
so what life feels like to us.
We are by our nature parts of the whole world. So we are healthy just
when we are interconnected healthily and naturally with the rest of the
world. If we are treated as separate, that connection gets broken and
consequently we are broken in what comes those our interconnected sides
and so our functioning suffers a lot. This can be seen in how the state
of the world and the state of the society etc. affect our own chances
in life and our feelings and our motivation, our picture of the future.
It can also affect in more subtle ways of which we are not necessarily
aware of - see my example at increasing
intelligence.
Gaia is All Your Dreams Come True
One problem is that when you think of the past of the human race, you think only up to the stone age and not about the even earlier times when humans were not grasping tools.
GAIA IS THE
MOST PARADISE LIKE PARADISE OF ALL POSSIBLE PARADISES
(To
the religious ones: it may be that if God created the world, he created
it to be such that healthy kind of religious life is a part of full
health and so the healthy world is also a religious world but otherwise
just like I have described here on my pages.)
The healthy
biosphere which I call Gaia paradise is the most paradise
like paradise of all possible paradises. Any imaginable paradise is a
paradise just the amount that it is like the Gaia paradise. Since Gaia
is the state of complete naturality and health, the whole world in
peace and happiness, which fulfils all our natural needs in natural
healthy ways - also the need for peace and security and our needs in
how each of the needs should be answered.
And each kind
of imaginable world will do well in competition the
amount that it is like Gaia, especially in the biggest matters. Since
Gaia likeness is what gives power and well functioning, Gaia is the
ready-made solution to everything - by God or by evolution's
competition.
Gaia is the
whole biosphere in a state of complete naturality and
health: an interconnected whole whose parts carry responsibility about
the whole, like is natural for beings with an understanding about their
life and living environment, about the beneficiality of allegiances.
Gaia is something like superbly moral co-operation in all scales.
How can moral
win? Isn't moral a thing of the past, of the age before
technology, military competition and trade? No! Moral brings the force
of cooperation. To be moral means to act for the common good and that
happens to be the most beneficial arrangement.
And feelings
tell about the importance of things to life, so they tell
information which is essential whatever one does, whether in
competition or otherwise.
Technology is
just an addition. It does not change the nature of things
in what comes to living beings' functioning. Technology's effect to
competition ability must be counted as a sum, as an addition,
separately from how to treat the living beings. As technology is
developed, it gets adabted to the requirements of living beings.
Technology is capable of adabting, living beings are not. Evolution
happens only upon time, upon many generations and it isn't jumb like,
it is gradual and that is not the case in adabting to the technology
since the technology is a new factor, a factor of a completely new
kind. We must survive through technology based on our old functioning.
Our most efficient ways of handling the technology, the enermous
amounts of information in the modern world rely on our natural ways of
functioning, for example on our capacity to handle sensory information
of seen nature landscapes - much of the most efficient thinking is like
watching imagined landscapes of structures, such is also engineering
work. And the best training for such is to lead a natural healthy kind
of life.
What then is
the ideal way of life like? It is something like the
traditional ways of Americal indians and of the other so called
primitive cultures of the world with their close contact with the
nature and with their healthy ways of living � with their enermous
amount of sensory stimulus and other factors which keep us healthy and
fully functioning. But that way of life has to be combined with having
the technology: a portable computer, a phone, etc and importantly:
modern kind of work to do. It may be that as the time passes, we will
find more efficicenct natural way s to handle the modern work too, but
for the time being we just have to combine two different types of
building blocks: academically or at least school educated with the
technology and natural healthy life with the nature. The latter gives
us the capacity and endurancy, the former is what matters a lot in the
modern world. Still, the piece of understanding that I am offering
about the value of natural way s of living and natural living
environment, may make it possible to change many things in how the
cities and modern sociewties are run, at least on the level of looks
and feelings & atmospheres, and that ought to cure a lot of the
nasty feelings that people have: we matter after all!
What is this
kind of intelligence then? Why and especially how expliciptly does it
offer advantages in the moderns world?
Based on the
natural healthy life in a healthy natural living
environment you ought to have all your capacity in use. So you would be
naturally intelligent, strong and wise also socially.
But this
presupposes that you do value the life in the nature, all the
natural aspects of your life, placing them close to your heart. Since
if you wander in the woods and say to yourself that this is only the
woods, nothing special that is, you weill pay no attention to the
complexity of the view around yourself. A huge tree will be just one
piece of something to you and you will bypass it in a fraction of a
second. So you will get no training from anything. At large I consider
it important to never say "just/only" but to trust one's emotional
understanding of the worth of things instead! So if you wander in the
forest and are touched in your heart by what you see, hear, sense and
smell around yourself and in you while walking there, you will use all
your natural capacity to conceive the things in the forest and get so
much practise that there is no other way than other forms of healthy
natural life to get such.
EVERYTHING
IS BUILD UPON THE HEALTHY
All
functioning is build upon the healthy and a healthy part is by its
very nature a part of the paradise in the beginning of time. So
everything is build upon pieces of the paradise in the beginning of
time.
This
is at the same time completely free and non-destructive, very
constructive for happy life in the world at large, a movement for
EXCELLENT MORAL IN HARMONY WITH THE DEMANDS OF THE MODERN WORKING LIFE
AND THE PERSONAL QUEST FOR HAPPINESS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL OR SOCIETY. And
since it SHOULD BE EASY TO LEARN, it could spread, maybe even all over
the world in some sense, to some extend at least.
Could
this work efficiency (or what ever) perspective of mine make you happy
for the rest of your life?
CHRISTIAN RELIGION
AND GAIA: EDEN WINS
Gaia is
the paradise at the beginning of time: Eden. Gaia is the world the way
that God created it: a nature paradise, Eden, the whole biosphere, i.e.
all the created living beings and their environment, in the state of
complete health and naturality.
GOD CREATED A
PERFECT WORLD
God in his great
wisdom created a perfect world:
whatever you do, it is wisest to do it the way that God intentioned
human animals to function, that brings the best result. Anything else
leads ashtray, is a much less efficient and much less pleasant way to
do things and brings much less understanding than the natural ways to
do things and to live.
EDEN EQUALS GAIA
At the beginning
of time, there was
Eden. It is the same as Gaia, except that Gaia mentions the
interconnectedness of things and love while Eden mentions God and
belief in God. So Gaia goes well with the perspective of these pages
and my two books: just these scientifical kind of facts I want to
describe. But what I say about Gaia, applies to Eden too. So Eden is
the victorious arrangement. Our true nature is still connected to Eden.
Eden is the way to understand us.
GOD'S PARADISE
God in his great
wisdom created a perfect world. It is the best
possible also at these times of modern competition when there is in the
world an element that God didn't create: the man-made artificialities
which confuse our nature and make us more stupid than what we would
otherwise be. Understanding this is our road to the paradise in the end
of time: by a free competition of all the options we could be led back
to healthy natural ways of living in a healthy natural living
environment: the world and our way of living just like God intended
them to be like. This is a realistical possibility: that is why I seek
to use all the possible points of view, so as to enable people to add
this piece of wisdom to their own view too. This could also be a way to
prove God's infinite wisdom which was inherent in her (God being above
our concepts of manly and womanly, I take God capable of both and since
these modern times need especially the upkeeping and nurturing aspects
of God, I use the feminine here) creation work.
CREATIONISM
The deductions on
these pages and in my two books are based on the theory of evolution.
What is God created the living beings without evolution?
It makes sense to
guess that God created well functioning thoroughly
thought of beings whose parts fit well together and support each other,
like makes sense from the practical point of view. For such beings all
of these results apply.
GOOD
OUGHT TO WIN OVER EVIL
Good
ought to win over evil in a strongest one wins competition, like the
evolution was. To see this clearly, let�s go through the good tough
sides of moral step by step:
Human values bring
a stronger force than no or too little human values.
Objective thinking
with a holistic view brings a better arranged group than lesser quality
thinking or no objectivity at all.
Honesty makes it
possible to see how things are and so it is more benefical than lies as
a practise in a society.
Justice
gets the society arranged for the common good and is so useful while
unjustices fail to support good things and support harmful things
instead. So unjustice is a much less benefical practise in a society or
group than justice.
Carrying
responsibility helps to get at least the main things well, so it is
more benefical than irresponsibility.
So good moral would
win in a strongest one wins competition.
MORAL IS THE MOST
BENEFICAL OPTION!
Lots of allies
-> the force of masses
No conflicts in the
large scale -> no forces spent needlessly to war etc.
Doing things
according to their nature = according to how they really function
Correct feedback
optimizes and corrects errors and weak points away
Use all of your
understanding in the largest scale! Remember the value
of cooperation, in other words of peace and prosperity and safety
forever.
Natural rationality
in the major goals in life, in the workings of the society and the
world at large:
the optimised arrangement produced by the evolution:
*
compassion -> human values -> health,
*
justice -> each thing treated according to what it produces
-> health of practises in this respect,
* carrying responsibility of the things that one affects ->
guidability,
*
sincerety in communication -> a correct picture of how things
are -> guidability,
*
holistic objectivity -> things treated according to their role
in the world;
in
other words: excellent moral is the optimised choise.
Since all do not
see this themselves, there may still be some doubt
left, So I will go through the problems and classify them according to
the above principles and other cost-benefit analysis factors that they
break against:
Here are the dangers feared and after each of them explanations why
moral is a better choise than them.
Robbery, criminals,
unjustice of every kind (= a fractured whole):
* give feedback to those who cause each thing (health), so you can
optimize toward better (health)
* breaking (= a fractured whole) versus cultivating (health)
Slavery and other kinds
of forcing (= a fractured whole):
*
the human goals in life and the human needs are connected (health) +
answering the human needs and the working condition of the human are
connected (health)
* too much forcing (= a fractured whole) forces one to a rebellion, to
extreme means, so keeping the people under control is the harder and
the more unprofitable, the more artifical, unhuman and unfair the
arrangements of the rulers are (= a fractured whole)
Drugs, hypnozis, torture
etc. (= a fractured whole):
* less individual guidance (= a fractured whole)
* typically such means would be used against the reasoning of the
individual (= a fractured whole), against the individual�1⁄2s needs (=
a fractured whole) and so against work efficiency and work endurance
�1⁄2 such doesn't make sense
* also if such means are used to put a wrong class of persons into
power (= a fractured whole), against justice (= a fractured whole),
that means against reasoning (= a fractured whole) and is harmful to
the whole and to the parts;
it also centeres the lives into wrong questions (= a fractured whole)
compared to the efficiency, guidability and work endurancy point of
view (health)
Fakes, lies, false
propaganda, ignorancy, mistaken beliefs (= a fractured
whole):
* such cause that one's actions do not correlate (= a fractured whole)
well enough with the reality (health),
such creates malfunctioning (= a fractured whole) in those respects
* the natural goals of human life make sense and fit together with the
happiness of others too (health), so one should be able to live with
the whole group in a good functioning order (health), that would give
the strongest group (health)
Manipulation by the
social instincts, by religion etc. (= a fractured whole):
* manipulation by the strongest instincts of humans is like
manipulation by hunger,
it causes a situation where the manipulated person is in a wrong role
(= a fractured whole) in the society, the benefit of their work and
ways going to different hand than which created the benefit and so the
system supports some malfunction (= a fractured whole) instead of the
healthy life, prosperity and good of the nation (health)
Other kinds of
manipulation (= a fractured whole):
* manipulation means often that things are used to wrong purposes,
some shortsighted technically thinking parasite like persons benefiting
instead of those building the society, like farmers for example
producing food (health)
Mutations (=
a fractured whole):
* mutations usually create non-functioning (= a fractured whole)
individuals which die very young (= a fractured whole)
* somehow benefical mutations or gene manipulation would bring new
qualities which are not fitted well together to the whole (= a
fractured whole), so they do not support the life of the organism and
the organism isn�1⁄2t strong enough to support them (= a fractured
whole), much less of being adabted to the larger environment (health)
Cool calculating
behaviour (= a fractured whole):
* it is important to measure sizes correctly (health)
* humans have feelings in order to help in understanding things
(health),
not using feelings as a way to guide one�1⁄2s behaviour (= a fractured
whole) makes one dangerous to one�1⁄2s social environment (= a
fractured whole):
a person who even alone destrous much of the society (= a fractured
whole)
Selfishness
(= a fractured whole):
* humans are pack animals (health), the group supports the functioning
of the individual and social life is emotionally rewarding (health)
* cooperation (health) creates the force of masses, so moral is
benefical: moral means cooperating for the good of all (health)
Commercial things:
* meeting human needs sells best (health)
Supercomputers, computer
networks etc.:
* rationality (health) and optimizing
* the value of human ways (health) from the efficiency point of view
* feelings of humans connect to their needs (health) which in turn
connect to their actions and well-functioning (health)
* differencies in the type of understanding of humans and computers:
the natural understanding of humans about human functioning (health)
Technology at large,
control devices etc.:
* control to only a few persons (= a fractured whole) of a certain kind
versus
a correctable system (health) with the thinking ability of all used
thoroughly (health) in making the arrangements of the society (health)
* real support (health) leads to safety (health), guidability (health),
cooperation (health), higher intelligence of the system (health),
better endurance (health), more optimized toward efficiency
Artifical living
conditions and malfunctions created by them (= a
fractured whole):
* the human nature s still the same, one created by the natural
evolution: human needs and ways of functioning (health)
* the human being is an optimized whole: the different parts support
the functioning of each other and the whole (health) �1⁄2 if one tries
new combinations (= a fractured whole), they typically don�1⁄2t produce
good functioning since humans are very complicatedly structured (= a
fractured whole)
War, armies, militaristic
ways (= a fractured whole):
* the enermous harm caused by war versus the benefits of peace and
cooperation
* human values (health) are connected to well-functioning of the
soldiers and civilians
* upbringing of the next generation needs peaceful circumstances and
human values (healthy whole)
* a home to defend (health)
* making sense correlates with profitability, moral and cooperation
* guiding of actions (health) and correctability (health)
* alternative means (health) and optimizing
* ground for future life: fair enough, peace (health)
Short term view at the
expanse (= a fractured whole) of a long term view
(health):
* our thinking and our instincts demand us to take care of the future,
so they do not support our actions if we do not care for the long term
success. Such a deficiency in planning and motivation is a serious
short term drawback.
A partial view at the
expanse (= a fractured whole) of a holistic view
(health):
* the first point in thinking is to get at least the main points right.
That is possible only via using a holsitic view. So one using a partial
view lacks the guidance of true objectivity.
I hope that You understand that these results aren't
presupposing
that you work for the good of some group. They are all right also if
your are purely selfish, care purely for yourself alone, since then
also it matters to you in which kind of environment you live and what
kind of relationship you have to your environment. You
are a part of
the world and the world's influence on your life is a part of your
fate. So it matters to optimise these things towards your greatest
survival & well-being, instead of having arbitrary goals like
"I
want to be nasty toward my big sister". This optimising is what leads
to choosing the strongest allegiancy together with healthy ways of
living, i.e. good moral and natural ways of living. The allegiancies
are wisest to form according to the society agreement type of thinking:
you will get the results of society agreenmet like thinking: you get
the results of what you cultivate, likewise do the others. Remember
that you are special only to yourself, not to the others who similarly
care mostly about their own benefit. And remember that moral in the
sense that I mean it is different from what your mother maybe taught to
you.
(Repeating:
Natural rationality in the major goals in life, in the workings of the
society and the world at large:
the optimised arrangement produced by the evolution:
* compassion -> human values -> health -> able
workers,
* justice -> each thing treated according to what it produces
-> health of practises in this respect,
* carrying responsibility of the things that one affects ->
guidability,
* sincerety in communication -> a correct picture of how things
are -> guidability,
* holistic objectivity -> things treated according to their role
in the world;)
in other words: excellent moral is the optimised choise in how to
arrange one's own group and consequently also one's own behaviour -
also for the purely selfish individual!
MORAL
Human values take care that the parts of the biological systems stay in
good health, so it is an important thing in evolution�s competition and
in God�s plan. Like I mentioned already, our feelings are connected to
keeping us healthy. So human values help to give room to our feelings.
Objective thinking, honesty and justice take care that each thing is
treated acoording to what it is like which is very important to the
functioning of the system. They make it possible to put each part to
its best place in the system. Those with good sides from which others
cab kearn, get a good position for the benefit of all. And those with
bad sides, especially irresponsibility, get punished to a poor position
so that their harmful qualities get discouraged. This means having very
many partial hierargies: one for each subject, skill, thing to decide,
piece of knowledge,� Always the ones who understand best and carry
responsibility about the consequences are in a deciding role.
In doing things intentionally the main point is to get the main things
right. That means that the biggest matters of the largest scale and of
the long run are especially important. Likewise are all questions of
life and death important. Here one must remember that 100 000 lives is
much much more importat than just one life and that the number of
people in the human kind is 6 000 000 000 lives which is about 10 000
000 000 lives which is another 100 000 times the 100 000 lives and so
even an much much bigger question than the huge question of 100 000
lives. So the large scale things affect enermously more than the small
scale things. Thew large scale consists of the small scale, of its
added effect. Our feelings should go with the large scale!
PUNISHMENTS AND MORAL
In my opinion the world is full of evil people. Trying to punish them
creates a so big counterforce that it is imposiible in practise. So
trying to punish all evil just makes no sense at all. Instead one
should find other methods of guiding the world toward better.
Usually it is evil people who have a negative idea of moral: their
moral is impossibly and uncomfortable to follow in practise. So people
in their social environment tend to get angry at moral people, as if
the moral ones were the ones forcing them and not the evil ones. But
the moral people know how to live happily and be easily moral, their
moral is pleasant and enrichens life instead of robbing anything - it
is like a gift given to them and to others. So they have surely not
deserved the attacks of the evil ones. It is the way of evil ones to
rely on brute force in guiding people in their environment, regardless
of its consequences, so just they are the ones whose demands make
people so angry that they feel forced to attack.
A REBELLION IN HELL
Suppose that you were
in hell and wanted to get out of there but there is no way: just the
hell everywhere. The only way to get out of the hell would be to change
the hell to a livable place but that seems quite impossible, things
being as they are.
In hell there is fighting all over the place. So you can
easily find people eager for power since power gives you protection,
wealth and might over the others.
Suppose that you knew about optimising the basics of what I know.
Then you could start with a group eager for power and success and
optimise it toward best success:
Those of the group who damage the group would be strictly punished.
Those who benefit the group would be rewarded.
The relationships of the group to others would be decided by the
leaders only. Those who do not follow orders and cause unneeded
conflicts would be strictly punished, since the group loses its
strength in conflicts while at peacetime it can develop in strength via
a better health.
It is beneficial for the group to ally with large powers, so it will do
so - maybe even with God too. Wjatever it is that brings the most
force, must be used fully.
Optimising this way one gets a group which is used to justice and peace
and which one can optimise further toward a better survival. Respecting
human values keeps the persons in the group healthy and makes so the
group stronger. Holistic objective thinking, honesty in communication
and demanding responsibility about all the consequences of one's
actions create a system, group, which can guide its actions in the most
intelligent and wise way according to each situation.
Optimising this way you will get the most optimised group, in other
words: the strongest possible one: which is
a moral paradise movement! since the above guidelines add to a perfect
moral of the kind that evolution or God planned us for, and which so is
the road to which our feelings and instincts guide us: the paradise
like direction.
One could of course start with a paradise movement, moral people etc.
if such are available - or with a combination of all these kinds of
beings.
A STORY
The teacher took
his decorated shaman drum and told them that they were
to take a dream journey to a past life. Lying on their backs they
listened to the steady slow voice of the drum as it took them to the
journey. She imagined that she was in a town sheltered by a stony wall,
and the enemy was attacking the walls. There was fighting all over on
the walls. She wondered how had things come to this point. Hadn't they
communicated with the enemy? Told them how peace and moral were better
for even selfish people than war and evil running free? How could she
live in a village of people who lacked social skills that badly, lacked
rationally grounded moral? Hadn't she herself been talking about these
things? It seemed unlikely. No, she would not find herslef in such a
situation! The dream was impossible, like had been the previous dreams
about past lives when she had died a violent death: with her social
style and her social skills such negligience was impossible! (It is the
friendly good willing fair playing persons who can avoid the violence
of others against themselves, not the opposite type!)
In her eyes all the
others looked needlessly, destructively malicious.
Being a thorough character that made her ponder about her own
decisions, her own courses of action. Could it be that the others,
careless though they were, had somehow managed to hit the point, that
they were somehow correct after all, because there were so many of
them? A time after time she checked and rechecked and rerechecked her
own estimates, taking everything into account – checked the thinking
types that the others had used, what they led to, what where their good
and bad sides and how one ought to correct them toward better. And a
time after time she again and again arrived at the same end result:
that she herself had been correct to begin with, that the others were
not thinking almost at all, even though they guided their lives by this
pretended selfisahness which in fact was mostly malicousness harmful to
them too.
Each day of her
life, all the years through, she checked in every way
that she could think of, in every way that true objectivity and realism
demanded, that she truly was right. And as far as she could estimate,
and that was much mcuh better than what the others were capable of, she
was right, had the correct main course of action, correct main
guidelines in how to arrange the world at large to her best benefit.
The others were just stupid, bypassing even their own wisdom – because
the TV serie films did bypass it, because they were not skilled in
making beneficiality estimates, because they could not make the
difference between irritation and an enemy, or the difference between a
harmful act and an enemy: they grouped all things as harmful to them,
oblivious to the fact that humans are pack animals by character, that
the force of masses exist at all.
They were the
masses and they thought that someone up above was
deciding all the things for them, when it was in fact their
maliciousness which decided their lives for them – not their healthy
selfishness, like they claimed even to themselves.
They referred to
the theory of evolution, to the survival of the
fittest, thinking that life was a game like a civil war, all against
all, only the evil ones prospering. So they searched to be as evil as
possible, as if that would make them as mighty as possible. They
thought that there were evil rulers in the world and deduced from that
that any kind of evil would benefit them. They did not understand that
it was health, wisdom and the efficient use of tools which bought
success.
Sometimes the
common ideas of moral did not agree with what was
healthy, so that things like self-defence and sex got labelled as evil,
this leading to evil ruling. And as the people equated their mothers
with moral, they typically equated moral with subordinance toward evil,
which is just completely irrational, crazy, but explained by the
dominant position that their mothers still had in their lives. They
knew no other ground for moral. And since their mothers had commanded
them to live in healthy ways, their disobedience turned against
themselves, against the health of their ways of living. They could not
make out the difference between artificial ways of living, unsuited for
humans, and the usefulness of tools and hard rationality in handling
tools. They thought that they could benefit from treating humans as if
humans, including themselves were as simple as machines, as
ununderstanding about the human nature and best ways of functioning. So
they ended up destroying most things of value that they could have
based their lives on, destroying all the understanding human sides of
their lives: feelings, instincts, compassion, moral, healthy ways of
living – everything of worth! They were the stupid ones.
She was wise, she
had still aglimpse of the original human nature, of
healthy ways of living and of emotional kind of wisdom of life, her
soul was still intact, the core of her being partly unharmed. When they
were stuck with inspecting single blocks, she was glancing at a whole
landscape understanding also its each detail and of course their roles
in the whole – much better than what they could even imagine possible.
Huge
Systems,
Pure Power Play and
the Fate of the Human Kind:
THE GLOBAL
PARADISE OF A
HEALTHY WORLD WINS!
Survival strategy:
Either: Be the winners
Or: Get the winners to be
on your own side
If you choose a winning
strategy, you are likely to achieve the latter if not even the former!
In short:
Biggest allegiancy gives
you the strongest force, so ally world wide, in a way that is safe to
you.
And health is the
strongest arrangement produced by the evolution's
competition, so choose the cultivation and safeguarding of good health
as your competition strategy. (The
concept of health can be generalised
to situations including the artificialities in the world. It gives you
the optimised arrangement of the whole.)
With
the existence of technology
the word "healthy" gets a new
generalised meaning:
a
well arranged
and fully functioning system.
In what comes to the living beings this is the same as the old definition of health as natural fully functioning, as a product of evolution. In what comes to the technology, it means that the same principles that the nature found useful are useful also in optimising the technology and the large systems consisting of both technology and of humans - it means that there is no better option. But if there would be a some still better arrangement, we would adobt it of course...
Selfishness means wanting things well for oneself and not caring much about other things.
It fits well together with my view here.
Wanting things poorly for others I term maliciousness. It is different from selfishness and even in contradiction with selfishness, like one can see if one uses a holistic view of the world.
So maliciousness doesn't fit together with my view: you have to give up maliciousness if you want to live in a paradise. The reclutancy of people to this I see as the major obstacle on our way to the final paradise.
Self-defence is arranged in other
ways than by maliciousness, for example by fair play.
A GLOBAL PARADISE IS MILITARILY
THE BEST OPTION
First of all I would like to remark that my idea of what moral is
includes healthy self-defence. So if someone hits you you have the
right to hit them back but not any worse than what their crime is. So
moral this way isn't as naive and defenceless as non-violence. Even
though I have heard one version of Gandhi's nonviolence principle (it
was in a book that I was reading a while ago) being the noviolence, the
positivity of love. That means nonviolence, love when watched from the
holistic point of view and not the bearing of all wrong just in order
to follow the rule of nonviolence untill everything is conquered by
others by the force of arms. Holistic nonviolence means trying to
achieve the best possible state for the whole, i.e. it means good
moral. So it is not the tools that amtter, it is the end result, which
should be good.
So if you get hit by others, try to cure the situation, whether you do
it by the force of arms or by talking or by any other means, work
sincerely for the goods of the whole. One side of that is having the
good ones in power. So if you behave morally, you should take care that
you get the dominant role. That is self-defence with a good moral and
it is good for the future too, good for you and good for others since
it is good to have the moral ones in power since they arrange things
for the common good.
In fact my main goal in writing has been to prove the following, so I
will add the text here even if it does not fit well or is too cynical:
Starting from Sunzi's The
Art Of War I can prove that a global paradise is the best
option:
Sunzi says in the point about rolling stones that it is the nature of
stones that "on a level ground they remain still but on a slope they
move". Similarly the wise commander uses his men: it is the nature of
the men that when they are truly motivated they act with force and when
they are not motivated they do not act at all. The profoundnes of this
principle is illustrated by the use of it in the major (i.e. its
dimension is huge) point in the beginning of the Sunzi's book: "The
people must agree with the goals of the government."
If we now take a look at the nature of the men in the light of our
present day scientifical understanding of the world, we notice that the
charachteristics of the men stem from the time when humans were still a
part of the nature, of the healthy natural world. (You can compare this
to the Tao.) It is the nature of healthy wholes that they try to cure
themselves when wounded, so the men as parts of the world have as their
motivational ground the making of the group as strong and flourishing
as possible without it costing overly much to them. All the natural
motivational factors of the men together with the aim for strenght and
safety guide them toward best health and that means living as a healthy
whole as a part of the healthy world. That is the safest and strongest
choise which is also supported by our nature, it is a paradise upon
Earth and the best ultimate goal for a military commander to choose.
What kind of choises in what comes to the course of action and values
to take that entails and why, I have discussed in my free book Power
Politics Leads To Excellent Moral which is available at
stores.lulu.com/khtervola but which might demand a some kind of
registering first.
Natural rationality in the major goals in life, in the workings of the
society and the world at large:
the optimised arrangement produced by the evolution:
* compassion -> human values -> health,
* justice -> each thing treated according to what it produces
-> health of practises in this respect,
* carrying responsibility of the things that one affects ->
guidability,
* sincerety in communication -> a correct picture of how things
are -> guidability,
* holistic objectivity -> things treated according to their role
in the world;
in other words: excellent moral is the optimised choise.
So let us take a young happy and healthy naturally beautiful (beauty
tells of well functioning - see my other book or my pages about
feelings) young maiden on a flowery meadow as an example of a paradise.
You may ask: how is this a militartily strong way to arrange things? I
must refer to my usual example of a wooden leg working less well than a
real alive leg. Also stiff unreactive parts of the body and mind, of
whatever alive thing, work less well than those parts as healthily
working and reactive. So the young maiden is an example of healthy well
functioning and since she has a rewarding social life too, she is a
good social example to others about those healthy ways to live. The
world being huge and complex, it does not matter whether you were given
a strong manly structure or a "weak" female structure if you just can
serve as a model of the best kind of way to live to others, since there
are so very many of the others anyway. And the maiden isn't stiff like
the men - she is alive and has an excellent understanding about life
and about the world - see my page
www.paradisewins.net/atmospheresthink.html. Well, this is a feministic
perspective but should be militarily correct.
A remark: a fine instrument seldom looks sturdy but can be extremely
valuable in practise.
What you ought to do
if you were a beautiful young butterfly on a
meadow and knew that the world was conquered by giants who build ever
larger works of their own, making the world so uninhabitable to a large
part? You ought to cure the situation but being small and wise you
could not build any competitive structures. Instead you would have to
rely on other means: on social communication, on being a healthy
example of a good healthy way to live. But if even the social skills of
the giants were damaged, you would have to rely on being beautiful, a
part of the nature that they would remember and treasure close to their
heart and so learn from you. So you would have to fly beautifully,
nearing a flower completely thrown to the flow of your deepest
heart-felt emotions, the letting go, flying freely, nearing the next
temptation etc. So beautiful, so healthy, so universal, such an
enermous cure: just follow your own nature fully, it tells you what to
do and what to not to do in the wolrd! And sure: butterflies are like
that! What an enermous emotional kind of beauty they are: what a wisdom
of life they have!
In social
relationships she valued friendship instead of military
practise like the other kids did. She knew that the healthiest soldier
was the most capable and that the biggest healthy group the strongest,
so she valued everything that could give her full health in every
respect and was prepared to commit herself to achieve the best kind of
allegiancies: real friendship. Toward the healthy we feel love, love is
what gives us strenght, so it is also militarily the best option. There
is no difference between the search for happiness and the fight for
survival, as long as one does not resort to artificial means like drugs
and negligience, lying so to oneself in one’s search for happiness. And
moral and happiness connected via the need to do meaningful things in
one’s life, to gain social position, to protect the things that give us
good life, to protect the future too. Living in social contact with the
rest of the living world you can best form allegiancies and in other
words care for their well-being via compassion and they will in turn
protect you since you are useful to them, to their happiness and
well-being, to the state of the large things in the world that affect
their lives enermously.
Maybe you could
understand this better if you thought about each human
relationship as a fighting team on life's sea. That is what it really
is!
The unequality in human relationships ought to be taken into account in
the following way: you get what you buy for a certain price only - this
is the healthiest way to arrange things, giving the strongest
allegiancy. If you want to buy loyalty, a quarantee that the other one
will not hurt you without a really good reason, you have to pay the
price by being loyal yourself that amount - or by being safe enough for
the other one and exchanging the rest, upon the agreement of the other
one, to some other good side of yours that the other one lacks, like
teaching the other one some great skill that is useful in living and
that the other one really wants to learn. The other one needs to know
your lack of loyalty, if the human relationship is one-sided. Otherwise
it is just like an attack against the human nature, against the natural
society agreement, which says that you cooperate for the goals that you
have in common and are in a clearly seen way on different islands
otherwise. Emphaty together with other social skills ought to make this
natural society agreement work naturally and with least danger,
producing the very strongest allegiancy for all parties without
endangering the ground for life, like less instinctual arrangements may
do.
Follow
your heart's voice in the tough world!
Your
nature was created by the evolution to guide you toward the best
survival. Your feelings and instincts guide you toward that best
fitness by helping to answer your needs which in turn safeguards your
health: your overal fitness needed for any task at hand. So the demands
of modern work efficiency agree with your wish to live your life fully
according to feelings.
Living
fully according to feelings does not mean lying to yourself.
Thinking must form a holistic view of what the situation is like. Only
after that will you be guided correctly by your feelings!
This
explains for example how good (=allying as much as possible, as
wisely as possible) can be better in a fight than evil (=having the
additional goal of causing needless damage): realism demands that the
good too have to fight, otherwise they lose all power to the evil ones
who bother to fight. It is used to be a part of the generally accepted
moral that one ought to fight to defend good and oppose evil, but wrong
kind of pacifism has removed thsi part of moral, making so the power
dynamics of the world go all wrong. All the usual kind of motivational
factors are for a happy kind of allowing non-religious moral, nothing
for evil, IF healthy self-defence is allowed and encouraged as a part
of moral. Realism says that we have to defend ourselves. One should not
group moral wioth pacifism, not with the refusal to defend oneself, not
with the giving of power away to the (evil) ones who do not care! The
destructuveness of modern weapons means just that they should be used
with great care since they cause great losses. All the available means
should be used in guiding the use of weapons rationally TO the defence
of good! There isn't any new factor in the world because of the
existence of nuclear bombs etc.: just the dimensions have changed. Even
at earlier times countries were afraid of too large destruction and
figured out treaties to solve problems before arriving at such. So
there is no need for changed policies: taking all the factors and their
dimensions into account the old rules, like aiming at justice, should
be all right! No need to replace them, for example true justice and
carrying responsibility about one's actions, by pacifism by any means.
Universal love, as I see it,
does not mean pacifism by any means,
without any limit i.e. without regard for its costs to human (&
other) lives. It simply means that you care for all and try to affect
things toward better via your greatest ability, for
example while
understanding that you just have to carry responsibility about all your
actions: you cannot help devil like people out of kindness - that would
be torture-orientedness in practise when watched from the point of view
of their victims AND of the world at large, of the fates of us all!
What is the use for an army from:
∑ An increased ability of its members?
∑ A better organisation of the whole?
∑ A better motivation?
∑ A better acceptability of its actions in the world at large?
∑ A real apprexiation of the rationality of its decisions from both the
outsiders and insiders?
∑ An increased understanding and responsible action of its members?
This is what my thoughts: the health, excellent moral, the so called
soft values and women can give to the army.
A question: What to do
when hard reality (the existence of all kinds of
evil, wars, lack of moral, cool calculating behaviour with a complete
disregard for feelings and the good of others, etc.) meets the soft
values (moral, feelings, religion, the values needed in upbringing
children, etc.) ?
Then it is a matter of who is the strongest. That means that one must
increase
one's own strength via health and the strength of one's
group(s) via their health and the number of one's allies via as many
allegiancies as possible. So the answers given by the soft
values
apply, but one
must be keen on noticing who is on one's own side and
who not, so social skills matter a lot. Between the groups
there is a
"war" of some kind, it depends on the groups how much figting there
will be. A
society agreement like picture of the situation would help
one to see how much one can trust each party and how one so can form
the maximum, best amount of allegiancies. For example one
can form
rules of behaviour inside the allegiancies that take care that people
behave all right even if they are not themselves moral. But defence
orientedness is needed. Inside a big group tha often happens via
specialization while individual evil ones try to fight on all fronts at
the same time. The same happens when the level of moral in a group is
low: the individuals get forced to a fight against each other and so
the remaining part of their forces is smaller, producing less strenght
and a lower standard of living.
How to go about this fight in practise then? You might agree with Sunzi
who says that "The victory giving battle is like a stone smashing to an
egg." But just take care that you are not so the egg and the stone the
enemy, i.e. generalise
enough in order to see the true consequences of
your actions: if you attack women and children thus making the war more
disastrous than what it used to be like, the others will do the same to
you and so you have lost safety instead of gaining. The point
is to not
to break any rules of the society agreement but to fight with excellent
moral, opposing only evil things and things which lead to evil if they
are allowed (like pacifism to the extreme of allowing all evil),
thus
you see the targets of aggression and the things to defend and the
motivation behind your actions and those of others. What is needed
after that is strenght, intelligence, knowledge and skill. That you do
not gain by attacking the innocent, you gani it by fighting with your
true enemies. A good way to understand the ground for things is to use
the islands of the society agreement like picture of the world: all
things being created and supported by certain factors, persons and/or
groups: just oppose or support each kind of island's supporters. Thus
you can build anything and safeguard things valuable to you, while
seeing in which way to prevent the disastrous things.
In theory it goes like this: suppose that you meet a mean guy
or a group of mean guys and find yourself threatened by them, then you
should look for someone higher in the hierargy than what they are or
for some more intelligent mean guy who is interested in one's own
benefit. Then you could use these efficiency grounds of mine to speak
for justice, human values and responsible behaviour. If you find
someone who really trusts objective estimates of things, that MIGHT
solve your problem...
One
can optimise wholes in practise a charachteristic by
charachteristic: if they are very different, they are independent, and
if they are very similar, one can optimise them the same way. So choose
from the following what health is (always the first option in the list):
strong
or weak,
sensitive
and intelligent or unsensitive and idiotic,
allies
witha huge group or in conflict with a huge group,
follows
one's feelings i.e. follows one's own instructions of usage or
does not follow feelings i.e. does not follow one's own instructions of
usage,
allies
to build the strongest group possible to the extend that is
prepared to sacrifice one's own life to protect it or does not care to
invest in the strenght of the group,
social
and so able to take the most out of encounters or unsocial and not able
to get anything much from encounters,
follows
rationality or does not follow rationality,
thinks
of the whole or not.
You may ask: how can one then ally if one is a predator. For this see
the answer in my own Gaia theory in my Gaia pages. One way to ally is
to ally with the group instead of with its individuals: to eat away
only the ill ones in order to increase the health of the population and
to live healthily so as to by one's example support healthy ways of
living in the society. One can also ally on the parts that one is not
in conflict with anyone, like for example a murderer who is against
rape does...
So if soft values really are a wiser choise, how do they exactly win
over the hard values? In my opinion one needs the hard values too: the
safeguarding of good. But the point is that the soft values, especially
good moral, are the rules in how to arrange the whole and not the hard
values, especially not evil as a rule. Moral used to be a matter of
defending good. In that sense moral is still the correct choise. But
moral which is almost equated with pacifism suits inside a group of
allies, not among all.
So maybe you believe that health of all the wholes that you
belong to, is the best alternative to you. But what about having
enemies? Make their moral a condition for their health,
i.e. demand
health of their relationship to the whole world as a prequisite for
their own health. Then they cannot use the fact that they are to a
large extend healthy themselves unhealthily in what comes to the rest
of the world. In other words: do not give the evil ones too much room
to live and to ruin your life, the lives of us all. A happy moral way
to live builds a better world for all of us, so it is good to let it
rule, even if you are not all that moral yourself - yet!
Then why is the paradise here a global one and not for your own group
only? You are a part of the world, so your relationship to the rest of
the world matters a lot. If you are for a paradise for all, you
obviously ally with the motivation of the enemies too, even if their
own side isn't able to ally that much... But what matters especially,
is that you should follow the most beneficial guidelines in the world
at large in order to benefit from them, in order to win as much as
possible in the future and to lose as little as possible in the future.
If you do not follow justice in the world at large, your own side may
degenerate since you do not always support the best alternatives. If
you do not allow human values for those who aim at the global paradise,
you lose allies. But of course you must demand that the enemies must be
moral enough before you can support them. Anyway, the level of the
whole is important and just in that ( and in other things too) it is
important to follow the best choise, the moral paradise movement.
Otherwise people would copy the strategy that they considert the most
intelligent and the leader's too "selfish looking" choises would be
repeated in their own group which would weaken the group, see the page
/justice.html (?).
SELF-RELIANCE IS A
NEEDED SAFETY PRECAUTION FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF THE SYSTEM
In order to arrange
the whole well, each part has to be treated
according to what it is like. This is a fact well understood in market
economy, justice, honesty and holistic objectivity. But what it demands
in practise is that all the parts of the system are enough self-reliant
in answerig their basic needs, so that they cannot be pushed about and
robbed arbitrarily because someone else controls the answering of their
basic needs. Instead each part has to gain its place in the system by
its own virtues only (and lose position fairly because of its faults).
HONESTY AND HAVING ENEMIES
Moral demands honesty toward the healthy parts of the natural world.
Those healthy parts form a whole whose functioning is beneficial to you
and to your group.
If your enemy is just malicious and overaggressive compared to what is
fair, refuse to communicate with that enemy at all. Keep your mouth
shut. Since if you would lie, that would be like pretending to be a
part of the same group. It either is of no use or then works only for
the part that you are taken as a group member when you in fact are an
enemy. Not recognising who allies with whom and who supports what, sets
the whole ashtray, everything to more or less wrong role in the whole,
so it is one of the crimes that OUGHT to be most opposed, since it
takes the ground away from the system: supporing parasites instead of
farmers etc. But of course lying is widely spread and kind of accepted
as a major part of human to human interactions. One cannot remove it
just like that. One still could avoid lying in the major matters of the
world, say in questions of life and death and in more important
matters. That means among other things that one should value honesty in
leaders. I guess that that works only after people have learned to see
their enemies as partly healthy and as partly "the shadows that one
oneself casts" like the chinese classic Tao-Te-Ching says and only
partly as things/deeds to fully resist because of being evil/harmful in
essence.
DARKER MOTIVATION:
WHAT IF THERE IS DEVIL IN POWER?
Suppose that the worst happened: that the big devil did exist and got
to rule the world. Why would we still have hope?
Devil worships evil or then he is power oriented. In the latter case he
listens to the optimising of wholes.
In the former case we can conquer the world from him by the force of
arms and by the force of optimising.
In any case the healthy world: a global paradise i.e. good would win.
A
BAD DREAM
She
awoke with a start. Someone had been
taking to her, repeating something again and again.She did not know
whether it was a dream or something else. She barely remembered what
they had said but the basic idea was clear: she was inside a finely
build artificial world and the world was broken. It had been finely
build for the purpose of living in it, but people had not understood
the need to live in such a world, so they had tried to escape, or to
oppose the rulers. In any case they had done everything imaginable to
oppose and to break the whole system. They ahd opposed every single
thing of worth in it and opposed even their own natures to break it.
And they had succeeded. Now she was inside a giant torture machine.
Since that is what a giant life sustaning system becomes like when one
intentionally breaks it. Her only hope was to repair it. There wqas no
special method of repairing. She had to trust in her ordinary everyday
communication skills to convince the countless others inside the
machine that one ought to stop sabotaging things and repair them
instead. It was an ages old problem of creating good moral to where
there were nothing to begin with... There was no on-off switch. It was
a long road to travel, and her fate depended on her travelling that
road all of her life!
Is
this our future? If it is one of the possibilities, the we had better
prepare ourselves for it!
THE
EXTREME POSSIBILITY OF ALL BEING SPIRITS OR ALL LIVING IN A VIRTUAL
WORLD ("NO MATERIAL WORLD"):
THINGS
STAY THE SAME IN WHAT COMES TO THE BEST OPTION IN HOW TO ARRANGE THINGS.
THE
SAME APPLIES IF THERE ARE LOTS OF ARTIFICIALITIES IN THE WORLD.
What
if we are spirits or virtual, what if the world doesn't consist of
atoms, molecules, we not of cells, what if everything such is just
faked, how are things then, what happens to all our deductions about
the usefulness of Gaia? Things stay the same since we are still some
kind of entities, which have the same characteristics as wholes, so the
theory about wholes and fractures in wholes stays still valid, and Gaia
is the most beneficial option.
(If
everything were of spirit and the world at least partly created by
our beliefs about it, that could appear to us modern people as a
virtual world.)
Also,
if whoever would rule a virtual or spirit world, the ruler would
need guidability - that means honesty, objectivity with a
holistic view
and true justice - and well-functioning of the parts and of the systems
and subsystems - that means health (since healthy parts
function well
while broken parts do not function at all) and naturality
(since our
functioning is based on the natural ways of functioning and on nothing
else) which mean at the level of individuals human values.
Putting
each part of a system to its correct place and correct role in the
whole, so as to get the whole to function as well as possible, means
health and naturality of the whole and its parts and structures since
that's what their functioning is based on.
It
is quite easy to figure out what is the best way to
arrange a virtual world for just about any purpose: respecting health
of the individuals (human values) and of the systems (including
naturality and moral) while having natural hierargy in who can affect
what. This should be easy for all to learn and to
understand:
NATURAL
HIERARGIES
There
is a natural hierargy in human societies: the way that is
according to real justice, for the good of all.
If we get apprexiated for our good sides, they get supported for the
good of all, and others can take us as an example for themselves
without losing position at all. If we lose position when we do not
according to justice deserve a good position, our bad sides, especially
irresponsibility, get discouraged.
When the one who understands better and carries responsibility is in a
deciding position things get done well for the good of all. This is
possible by using many many partial hierargies at the same time: one
for each subject, skill, thing to decide, piece of knowledge,...
Correcting one's own errors is a thing to value and to be demanded from
all, especially from those in a deciding position. This creates a
natural repair mechanism for the society and is an ideal way to arrange
things.
CARRYING
RESPONSIBILITY of the whole and using a good picture of the whole with
all emphazies and roles of things right, guide the whole toward the
good of all. One is not allowed to affect things which one does not
carry responsibility over.
There
is a saying in Finland: "Honour those who truly deserve respect."
(Meaning: even when it is an unorthodox choise, and do not give honour
according to custom to those who do not according to justice deserve
it).
This
is the way that we organize things in my homecountry Finland in North
Europe.
Let us suppose that
we are all virtual, all the humans, all the animals
etc., maybe even theUFO:s adding a flavor of their own to that mixture.
Each human is virtualised to one's own virtual world with its own
rules, everything run by huge superhypercomputers or however. How does
that enrmous huge complex whole work? What would make sense for the
individuals to do in such a world? What are the dynamics of that
system? Each human being is different, so we have to take a look at
what we all have in common, take a look at the human nature. All
dynamics 9in connection with the living beings is born out of what the
living beings are like. So if someone wants power or workers or
whatever, they have to
count on the human nature. That's what gives the
functioning needed for reaching any kind of goals. In that one must
remember the value of human values: a healthy one works better than a
broken one. Also justice and true objectivity are musts for the
buidlders of such systems and for those who want to benefit from their
dynamics: treat each part
according to what it is like, so you can best
benefit from it. Read the texts about rational moral! … So it stays
valid that Gaia
is the best option, the answer to the question
of hgow
to arrange one's forces best and how to best arrange the rules in the
virtuyal worlds. And Gaia for Gaia
is the answer to how the individuals
and groups could best benefit themselves and their goals in such an
enermously complex and seemingly arbitrarily arrangeable world.
Paradise is the
best
Let's take the hypothetical situation where people are just a computer
figure colonny living inside a computer so that everything
is possible.
Then you might think that if someone has something good, one ought to
take it and spread it as widely as possible, via artificial
arrangements. But that does not work since that makes people copy from
all those lower quality people when they want that good thing for
themselves too. So the whole deteriorates all the time. That is
contrary to the situation of fair play where all get their own good
sides and nothing else. Then everybody knows from whom one can learn
things that one wants to one's life. This is a better way to reach good
life and even a paradise upon the "Earth(?)".
SELFISH TO THE EXTREME
In the end, what matters,
is what life is like to you yourself, since
that affects you the most. What happens to the others is
of little
significance in itself, but is of course important in giving you the
environment that you live in. So it matters enormously to be selfish,
in a sense that is the only possible rational choise for the
individual. But that does
not mean carelessness in what comes to
treating all the others, more likely it means well planned
strategic
action in social contacts: sometimes careful and sometimes when there
is no need to be careful, even completely careless. A well planned
strategic attitude toward others is different from pure maliciousness
which is more like a thing based
on social feelings than any cool
calculating behaviour that would be determined by its beneficiality to
yourself. Rather than to act based on maliciousness, anger, agitation,
the wish to neglect others or any other negative or positive feeling,
one ought to
start by examining feelings: what is their role in your
life, what are they caused by, why, what do they lead to and is that
end result beneficial or unbeneficial to you?
Whether God created living beings or they were purely results of the
natural evolution, life goes on. The very weak die and the very fit
prosper. As the time passes that produces a situation like the
evolution, which God and the genetic wisdom in living beings born from
the unnumerable many generations of natural evolution must know well.
So what we are like has
been chosen by the previous circumstances so
that it brings us the best fitness for the life in our living
environment.
What
we are means our whole being, including instincts, feelings and
social life as well as thinking and knowledge. All those things in our
nature are beneficial for our survival if we just know how to use them
right.
One of the strengths that is good to have, is the ability to estimate
situations right, in other words good observational skills and real
objective intelligence to make the deductions about what one has
observed right.
The first point in objectivity is getting the main points right. That
is impossible if you have no idea of what the main points are like. You
can get that idea only by having a proper view of the whole thing and
of its major relationships to other things in the world & of
its
role in the world. So only holistic thinking is objective thinking.
Other more partial forms of objectivity are just fakes and no use to
you if you want to find out how things are and what would be best for
you.
You are just a one single person and the world is enermous. You can
affect you fate by doing different things in the world, which will then
have (positive or negative) consequences on you yourself. The wise
affects one’s own fate toward the positive, but what that positive is,
depends on the individual: someone would like to be happy, for the
others security and survival in the long term are often the only
possible goals. But the evolution or God was wise: it is often possible
to use the search for happiness as a tool for survival, that is how God
or the evolution meant things to be. So before you drop all feelings
away as a needless stuff, let’s examine more closely their usefulness
to you. At big catastrophes to your wishes & needs in life, you
feel down. When something great happens to you, you are glad. This far
fine: feelings guide you in a way that makes lots of sense. But what if
you have many contradictory causes of feelings? Use a holistic view of
the situation, with proportions right and causes and consequences taken
into account, and let the feelings find their balance. Typically if
things still do not work out all right (do you feel happy and
secure?!), you have neglected some causes and consequences in your
thinking. Typically such happens when someone that is more intelligent
than you are fails to understand the importance of a holistic view and
uses a partial view instead, taking so only a part of the facts into
account and neglecting all the rest regardless of how important they
are in practise. One can do this big errors only at a great cost to
oneself. Well, this thing about understanding how to live with feelings
without giving up selfishness is a thing to be handled by making honest
observations about the end results of following feelings – and remember
that looking less fortunate is equal to failing, not equal to being
manlier than you! Others trying to save face when they are in fact
stupid is usually of no use to you. Please read my book Work Efficiency
and Likings about the rational grounds for trusting feelings!
I care about myself but why would I care for the people of the whole
world, much less for the animals? A holistic
view means thinking about
the whole world, it does not necessarily mean caring for all the
people, even though it easily leads to it as we see how caring is
really beneficial for ourselves. We are not alone, the
world affects us
enermously. But where many go wrong is the thought that since the world
is so enermous we cannot ourselves affect our living conditions, since
after all we do affect enermously our nearest social contacts – whether
they are near because of living constantly with us side by side or
because their identity is like ours – for example selfish. If you
choose a certain strategy in a certain kind of situation, all those
near you, all those like you and all those like thiose near you,
reflect on how well you did succeed by that strategy, and if you
succeed really well, the rumour spreads and all of them start to invest
in that same strategy in life, making different versions of it. So if
you think that you have a good strategy in life, ti is not yours alone:
it affects an enermous number of people, so you know one thing for
sure: your environment does NOT stay constant regardsless of what you
do. So you just have to take a look at how you affect your
environment
in the likely case that others copy from you. That is done by assuming
that all or a big part of the humans in your environment rely on the
same type of tactics, with individual variations and inventions of
course. This is easiest if you think that as some fraction of the
effect of all following the same course of action: for example do
people get supported for doing beneficial things (= justice, market
economy) or do they guide their actions in a way that makes most sense
(= holistic objectivity, carrying responsibility of the consequences of
one’s actions). Because it is a questions of masses of people – your
environment + its environment etc. – working together for the things
that benefit them all, it is the same things which has traditionally
been called moral: the optimisation of the whole, wisely!, toward the
greatest benefit for all fairly. Fair play allows feedback for the
chosen strategies, so that the masses of people ca guide the whole huge
group toward the greatest benefit: safety, prosperity, happiness,…
whatever goals the people have.
Kind of gold rush connecting your strategy to the behaviour of many
many others, making your own behaviour so echo in the behaviour of the
masses of people, changing os your whole environment and making it thus
important for you to think of the consequences of that change instead
of estimatig everything as if others did not notice anything of your
strategy. So you have to use a holistic view and think what would
happen if everyybody would do like you! That brings your attention tio
the laws governing the whole and makes so you work for the common good
instyead of bering a parasite - IF you want to advance your own good.
You can count the optimised result for the whole: that is best for you
since the effecvt of your environment to your life is so enermous. And
that optimised option is perfect moral, like you will see if you count
the best allegiancy for you: it is to ally with an as strong group as
possible. In the strongest group all work for the strenght of the group
all that they can and are fairly rewarded for that. Another word for
that is moral.
THE TRADITIONAL
EXTREMELY RATIONAL MORAL OF THE FINNISH SPEAKING MAIN CULTURE OF
FINLAND
The traditional
moral of Finland in northern Europe is on strong
rational grounds which can be put to the form of optimising wholes.
These grounds are largely based on two simple advices which all
children are given: "It is good to cultivate good health (of the
individuals, of the ways of living, of the social relationships, of the
society, of the environment and of the world at large)." and "It is
stupid to break."
The easy principle
"A HEALTHY WHOLE WORKS MUCH BETTER THAN A BROKEN
WHOLE" helps you to find answers to seemingly impossible questions,
like the value of peace, justice, human values, honesty, democracy,
freedom, Gaia, love, beauty, sex etc. from the beneficality or
efficiency optimising (military or economical) point of view. These are
all charachteristics of the healthy world and thus beneficial.
HOW TO MAKE GOOD
WIN OVER EVIL
Build in your mind
a good picture of what a healthy whole is like:
healthy society, healthy human kind and healthy living king, a healthy
world. That is what to term good.
Now, compare the
evil option to that picture: what is lacking, you
should see as a fracture, brokedness in the whole, also malformations
should be seen as brokedness of the whole.
And healthy works
better than a broken one. So good is stronger than evil.
Also on the following kind of ground it is possible to find that moral
is the most benefical, winning option.
WHICH ONE WINS (MORAL DOES WIN)
What means totally value-free optimizing of benefit without
preconditions:
It means interest in
what gives most force, power,
what gives protection and how,
what is the best strategy,
what must one take into account about the future,
how to arrange one�1⁄2s relationships to other powers,
which solutions win and why,
what is the most benefical thing,
what must be most feared and
how to protect oneself,
who are the benefical allies etc.
In this analyzis one needs
Extremely good objective thinking with a good holistic view
And openeyedness toward all options, both the dangerous and also the
non-dangerous ones is needed in this because it is the creation of
force which is important in this analyzis, so if soft means give any
advantage that too must be used FULLY.
HEALTHY VERSUS BROKEN
All functioning is
build upon the healthy. Healthy versus broken is the
pair of opposites to use in order to understand the world. I will apply
this pair of opposites again and again, all through this book. With it
you can understand a lot about the functioning of biological beings and
societies and about the value of moral.
What about the old
pair of opposites then: healthy versus ill? Ilness
is a healthy function of a broken biological being, a way of it to try
to cure itself. In other words, ilnesses are combinatrions of
brokedness and of a curing reaction which seeks to make sure that the
living being survives better in the long run by resting, having a fever
etc.
In my opinion the
word �ilness� isn�t as useful in understanding things as the new pair
of oppoisites that I use.
So. A healthy
individual works better than a broken one. And a healthy
society works better than a broken one. But what are the healthy
individuals and healthy societies like. What to aim at?
A healthy individual
is by one�s nature a part of a healthy
society. As a part of the healthy society one works best, is the
happiest, has a most rewarding life. Healthy functioning at large gives
the most rewarding life. That�s what the evolution � or God �
quarantees about feelings.
But if the society is
broken, it is the same as if in individual is
broken: the healthy parts try to cure it back to full health. Each
healthy individual is a center of recovery for the whole society, even
for the whole human kind as a part of the biosphere. Health in this
sense means healthy ways of living. Having found the true chord about
the art of living, understanding deeply about life, the healthy
individual is naturally a center figure in the social environment
having a healthy curing kind of effect on all. This is a moral thing to
do since it is for the good of all. So a healthy individual is by one�s
very nature completely moral in a healthy happy natural way!
The health of a
society means that it is completely morally arranged. A
society is a cooperation attempt and cooperation is something which has
turned out to be useful during the evolution � or in God�s eyes.
Objective thinking says that cooperation is useful because it brings
the force of masses. That can be seen as a vector sum: harmonical or
contradictory vectors. Those with like interests can ally for the
common good.
WHAT I SUPPORT
To the readers of
these
pages: please do observe conscientously what are the starting points of
my thoughts (= all the points of view that I have heard of) which I use
ONLY because you others use them, and what are the end results of my
thoughts, the thus supported values (= paradise, excellent moral
ad a
life completely according to feelings) that I support from my heart.
Here observe that the starting points are not logical premises for me
but premises only for the other parties that I do oppose and to whom I
try to prove my point in a discussion. I do support only the end
results and not the starting points, even though I value realism but to
me these end results ARE realistical values!
SELFISHNESS
Technology is
typically build to a certain purpose only, with a
complete disregard for its relationship with the rest of the world.
That is contrary to the nature where the health of the whole (incl.
pack & liv. environment) helps the survival of its parts. And
since
animals can understand the value of their own health, can they via
compassion and an analogy of the whole to their own life UNDERSTAND
also THE VALUE OF THE HEALTH OF THE WHOLE, WHICH understanding HELPS
THEIR OWN SURVIVAL. -> GAIA!
What is already
ready made, complex but well fitted to form a
well working whole, well suited to its purpose,like the nature is, is
in character very different from things in their building phace where
product development is still lacking, like is with tools and technology.
We have natural
ways of looking at the nature, understanding it in its
complexity and intentionality: emphaty and feelings at large. The ways
of looking at the much less complex technology and the build world are
different.
PROTECTION
To live happily
and to wish well for others sounds nice but how to
protect oneself? The need for protection isn�t in contradiction with
the wishing well to others. I didn�t say that you should sacrifice
yourself for others, I said that you could live happily! And if you are
moral yourself you deserve to be protected because you thus work for
the common good. You can yourself be one of those who protect you. You
must protect yourself from those who might harm you, that means from
the evil actions of others and of yourself i.e. you must demand moral
from yourslerf and from others. If you yourself err from good moral,
from the wish for good life for all fairly, you are thus not allying
with the health of the world and so you are harming yourself compared
to how things would be if you allied with the health of the world.
Better than unjustice is to build on things of real worth. That�s why
you can sometimes benefit from punishments which guide you toward more
moral action. It is better to see the power dynamics of the world: of
how people like to be treated, what they answer with good, and how they
do not like to be treated, what they answer by attacking. Wish well and
protect yourself � that�s morally fully OK, even demanded by moral
since as a moral person you are a person of worth� Protection of good
is an important part of moral, and what would be good if not happy life
with no suffering and a good future ahead? This is exactly so when
watched from the holistic point of view!
If you have
difficulties with just this point, please read my page
www.paradisewins.net/societyagreement.html . Friends can coperate and
benefit from that, enemies cannot and must defend themselves against
each other, not trusting the untrustworthy. But one can be fair and
moral in this. One should divide all rights on the condition that they
are not abused in any way. So all rights are conditional. This leads to
very unequal division of rights since the individuals are very
different indeed, but that is only fair and not against the equality of
individuals since all are entitled to the same rights IF they only
satisfy the same comditions demanded by true justice and responsibility.
IDEA SOCIAL GROUP
= the best arrangement created by the evolution
Loving feelings
tie each part to its best place in the whole.
Imagine two parts
(berings) loving some good sides of each other. They
get tied together by that love, forming so a subwhole = friendship.
While they are independent where they do not like some charachteristic
of the other one.
Hate (which, like
love, MUST always be directed toward /against JUST
the thing that caused the feeling - otherwise things go badly
ashtray!!) gets rid of parasites and of other harmful things.
In the perfect
group all beings and all parts of beings get their place
according to what is best for the group: high if skilled and
responsible, low if unskilled or unresponsible. One hierargy for each
thing to decide.
Justice keeps
things so.
Honesty helps in
keeping up justice, so that one can form the strongest
possible allegaincy and aren't fooled to accepting a much much weaker
one instead.
These calculations
about the effect of practises to the whole concern
so huge things to the individual that they overrun in importance the
position of the single individual in the group - it is better to have
the whole on a good ground: also rewarding social life where you can
trust people and not jsut some money - so very few have enermously much
money, it aren't beneficial to support parasites benefitting that much,
since money counts only when there are big differenciesd in the money
available for a certain use.
THE HEALTH OF A
SYSTEM, OF THE MODERN SOCIETY
There are some
basic truths about the functioning of complex
wholes. This include the importance of putting each part to its correct
place in the system. This is connected to the value of objective
thinking, honesty and justice and to the success of market economy: in
each of them one gives things feedback according to what the things are
like and that enables one to put each thing to its correct, best place
in the system.
Having each part
at its correct place in the whole means that
the system isn't broken. This is connected to the value of unifiedness,
fracturelessness in well "planned" systems.
The value of
fracturelessness is in turn connected to the value of harmony:
Imagine a system
broken into pieces, starting to repair the system you
put some parts to their correct places: you get small unified,
harmonical islands, the better repaired the system becomes, the more
harmonical its functioning, the more unified the whole. A well planned
system functions without contradictions and fractures, harmonically.
The next step from harmonival is unified well functioning. Such are the
systems of nature.
The value of
harmony as a vector sum
Several harmonious
forces sum up to much a bigger force
than a group of contradictory, unharmonical forces
or a separate one of the forces in question.
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v ^ contradictory
versus
> >
> > noncontradictory, harmonical
Harmonical
solution creates more benefit and loses none to opposition
- unlike the
contradictory solution attempt.
Thus, cooperation
gives strength while strength is lost in conflicts.
So one who values
cooperation is stronger than a like one who values conflicts.
And so "soft"
harmonical means prove to be valuable.
Like this one can see how peace is more beneficial than war and count
the difference. One must just add the huge effect of the enormous
destruction caused by the enemy. Also there is a loss in war to the
safety of the future, like the society agreement with other countries
tells.
Applying this
result thoroughly gives the efficiency-optimised result:
the most
harmonical arrangement:
the natural and
healthy (in harmony with the natural ways of functioning of the living
beings)
loose (according
to the way that things are)
global (all
parties in harmony and cooperation)
cooperation.
Ally
as much as you can. That brings you success in life. Ally with the
society in order to produce good living conditions, ally with the moral
ones for the same common cause and with friends to defend the things,
which you value. Ally with the living kind to achieve the paradise,
Gaia.
Compare the value
of harmony to the value of unifiedness and f