Archive for January 4th, 2011
Reply on “Notes on Notes”
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 4, 2011
William’s reply to my comments on https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/notes-on-notes-solving-the-communication-conflict/
“Thank you for your feedback, i find it unnecessary to reply to your post, as it offers no constructive feedback, and highly misleads the purpose of my notes. at the same time, i see it as an opportunity to clarify some points to the community. i understand that the reader might be misled by your false assumptions about my person, take them as true, and completely miss the beneficial points behind my notes; and so it becomes worth it to write the following:
1. you have to understand that each person has his priorities, for me, these priorities do not include learning more about the middle eastern conflict, nor about relativism, as you might have mentioned above (this does not make either one less valuable). by commenting on both of these topics, you miss the point of my notes completely. additionally, i never claimed to solve the middle eastern conflict, i only propose a method that would facilitate communication between 2 or more people.
2. Asking pertinent questions that demonstrate our sincere ignorance on a subject matter IS rewarding and honorable. at the same time, it absolutely cannot be done if you are in a heated argument with someone, emotions are hot, and everyone is overreacting. which makes the following claim of yours confusing, and with little meaning: “it’s better to ask questions that demonstrate our ignorance, than to avoid an argument.” instead i would say: “avoid an argument in the first place, then ask questions that demonstrate our ignorance, and help us understand the other part better”
3. i believe you extrapolated prematurely, assuming that i drew the 9 steps from this one conversation with my brother. this was an ‘example’ to make the 9 steps more tangible. if you refer back to the note, you can see that i started with: “for example, my brother…” the information i shared have been acquired from countless courses that i took, over the period of 2 years, specifically on communication, and on understand how to approach the mind in a way that the mind would find favorable. i don’t claim to be an expert, however, i do claim that i am more expert than others. and this means that those others will find benefit from what i share.
4. you also extrapolated prematurely that i failed to learn more about relativism. you yourself wrote that you witnessed the last past of the conversation with my brother. the very first part that you missed was all about me listening to everything my brother has to say. i did not interrupt, and i was not thinking of an answer. i was merely listening to what he understood from relativism, and asked some questions along the way for things that i didn’t completely understand. and although learning more about relativism is not a priority of mine, understanding what the other party is trying to say, is a priority.
5. it is true, i have confidence, and i also believe that you extrapolated prematurely as well, by assuming that my overconfidence will prevent me from fine-tuning and reviewing my technique. so far, i have gone back and edited 4 notes based on constructive feedback and comments from readers of my notes, and their personal experiences and knowledge. my personal approach to sharing is that of a community collectively growing the knowledge. i never claim that what i write is the ultimate truth. these are “notes” not PhD publications. and these notes are available for the public to build on, remove fallacies, add credibility, and expand them. and if you had provided any constructive input to fine-tuning the proposed technique, i would have gladly reviewed it; that’s how the collective & the individual benefit most. and i most welcome you to propose ways that would build on the technique i proposed.
Notes by me: The first sentence in the reply was not promising for such an extensive and detailed post. It appears that he listened patiently to the “lucubrations” of his brother and asked a few questions on relativism, a topic he is not interested in. As for the 9 steps for avoiding arguments in conversation, William spent two years formulating them, although the last paragraph in the “Ramallah’s discussion” implies that it all got clear to him after the session and not that he was engaged in the formulation for a couple of year. My apology again. My critics of his disengagement on the Near East conflict still stand and with more insistence and vehemence as he declared that he is not interested in understanding this conflict! I don’t expect William to “solving the Near-Eastern problem”; just demonstrating concerns when it is discussed; like writing a few notes on the topics. I am under impression from the vehemence of his reply that my comments were a shock, sort of a first experience coming in the written form. Publishing is exciting and very engaging to the mind and emotions.
Oil producing States generate more income than the State budget can spend; thus, the tendency of these governments are not to taxing citizens or in many instances subsidizing many daily food ingredients and gas for cars. For example, in the State of Alaska every individual, adult or child, receives an annual check of $1,305.
In Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, and other big oil-producing countries subsidize gas for cars and other food staples such as wheat, rice, sugar,… The State of Louisiana, and the States of Alberta, Terre-Neuve, and Labrador in Canada experienced one-party hegemony for many decades because their citizens were freed from paying taxes,or the taxes were minimal.
The damnation for relying solely on natural resources and generating surpluses in State budgets is that democratic processes are practically abolished in return for no taxation.
The embargo on Iran pressured the government to cancelling subsidies and gas; thus, the citizens in Iran will have to be taxed higher and consequently, more equitable representation will have to be restored: “No taxation without representation”. The theocratic leadership or “willayat fakih” will be content to becoming figure-head as Queen Elizabeth of England.
Norway has this foresight of preserving its oil revenues from political discourse or being used in political campaigns. The citizens of Norway are being still taxed but the tax rate is not increasing as in other developed nations; thus, politics is shifting to the right-wing parties because of abundance in oil surpluses.
In big oil-producing States, women are the first to pay the heavy price in the abridgment of their right to work and constituting a larger part in the productive structure. For example, in States poor in oil resources such as Tunisia, Morocco, and Lebanon women had to participate in the work force for running the small and medium industrial and service enterprises: In this case, women have more liberty and the potentials to demanding equal rights and responsibilities. The Saudi women are revolting because they are forbidden to drive and to travel inside their borders without being accompanied by a male member of the family.
States rich in natural resources with the exclusion of oil are not witnessing the same consequences for several reasons: First, extraction of the raw materials is expensive and require constant investment in transport, machinery, and maintenance; it not like you build a pipeline and watch the oil flow in terminals. Second, the regimes are maintained in power by the multinationals backed by their government and thus, citizens are getting poorer because of fictitious lousy extraction contracts.
Energy recharging among friends? What energy?
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 4, 2011
Many people talk and write of recharging on energy and how to exchanging energy and replenishing on energy among friends or circles of friends. People are suckers for energy because they feel depleted most of the time and seek the company of high-energy type people as a way to recharge on confidence and “feel-good” attitude…
And I keep wondering: “What is meant by energy in this case?” What I am being told in response for a description of how we recognize a high-energy type individual and what you feel as you “recharge” is a physical feeling of being in a vibrating synchronization with the partner; feeling focused, active, and high in the company of the friend…
There must be a physical and scientific explanation for these personal encounters and the consequent physical and mental effects of meeting experiences.
What I know is that the only kind of energy that the body exchanges is heat; we might as well sit beside a heating implement. Maybe a few people radiate magnetic fields at longer distances than others to affecting the electro-magnetic constitution of an audience and equilibrating their energy levels. I doubt that we emit gamma rays that would kill our audience.
The valid cause in recharging must be internal, sort of internal combustion. When we meet with particular people, their body language, voice, and conversation trigger the mind (body and brain) into activating an array of hormones that fire networks of neurons and nerves and re-establish adequate internal energy level.
My hypothesis is that high-demand physical activities store hormones, such as capacitors in electrical wiring. When we meet friends and engage in high-powered intellectual activities and conversation then, the hormones are released and we feel recharged.
The difference among demanding physical activities done alone, with strangers, or with circles of friends is that in the latter category the hormones and chemical energies are not simply stored but activated as the physical activity is on. You can consider the metaphor of a container and a hose: The activities done with circle of friends is like a hose; the energy captured from any source is immediately flowing through the hose to whoever need to be recharged; there is no need to store anything. It is kind of hormone activation and exchange reach optimal levels due to learning practices and frequent application.
Consequently, it is the meeting in conversation (mental engagement) that recharge people while the vigorous physical activities restore the hormone and chemical energies.
Someone was describing her dissertation on neurological experiments and she claims that mental activities are higher after a vigorous physical activity like jogging, meaning a person makes fewer mistakes on specific mental tasks. It must be an expensive experiment since MRI technology is used for every subject in order to registering and recording neuron activities and blood flow to the brain.
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