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Meaning of Life

My Wisdom

13 Commandments for Reasonable People

Millennium Resolution 1999/2000

Last revision: 2007 

1. Hope                          I shall believe: “Tomorrow will be better than today.” 

2. Truth Through Justice           a. .always search, test and advocate truths by rational and objective means and apply symmetrical (fair) test

                                               with all of my thoughts.

                                                b. .apply the filter of justice/fairness to extract the truth.

                                         c. .utilize Qualified, 3^rd Party, Double Blind Test and Successive Approximation Methods whenever warranted.

                                             d. .apply In Mind (Brain Washing Compartmentalized VS. Understanding -Connected), In Tongue and In Hand (Action) Principle.    

                                                   Formula: Action (in hand) OR Talk (in tongue) = Truth, as we know it / (our Weaknesses * [some constant factor].)

                                                 e. Not only the words that are used but the coherency, consistency and holistic nature of a message/truth that gives it the strength

                                                f. Natural selection gave us selfishness and altruism, use both of them wisely.

                                                g. Incessantly drive for excellence and spirituality (self-actualization-Truths)

                                            h. Among Material, Psychological and Spiritual Rewards, I shall strive for SR the most but will enjoy the world (MR- id and PR ego/super ego)     fully by Living, Loving and Learning (pursuit of happiness). Due to interdependency of MR, PR and SR balancing act is required. 

3. Love                          .selflessly (figuratively) care for selected few. I shall fall in love with the Truth, SS (Spiritual Sense). I shall be passionate about truth. 

4. Faith                          .have confidence on my knowledge, ability and trust selected few wisely.                                                                                                                 

5. Health              .strive to eat balanced food, actively participate in sports and exercise regularly. 

6. Character                  .keep my words, respect others, and refrain from lying, stealing or hurting others’ feelings. I shall strive to be fair.    

7. Knowledge                    .excel in school, university and hone my communication skill by differentiating between dictionary and logical definitions of words for processing                                            thoughts; not lose the sight of the fact that my observation will alter the reality-OCR (Observer Created Reality), therefore, balancing is paramount. 

8. Wealth and Power    .acquire money and power by moral and legal means, by working hard, long and smart for the purpose of doing greater good. 

9. Discipline                   .manage my time wisely, postpone gratification for a better one whenever it is feasible and control emotion. 

10. Friends & Family   .have many wise, fair-minded, powerful friends and strong tie with my family.     

11. Compassion                 .improve my sense of empathy, help unfortunate ones wisely without blurring the precedence of justice over compassion.  

12. Realist            .believe society and nature are not always fair. I shall learn to live with imperfect self. There is No Free Will 

13. Skepticism               Due to uncertainty of my knowledge I shall revise all of the above commandments whenever necessary. I could be wrong. 

We, Tim , Jill , Alpha & Beta Ferrer shall always strive for all of the above and forgive ourselves when we fail to do so. 

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  © Tim Ferrer- January 1, 2000- 2007

Hope could be pretty close to wishful thinking

You will know human mind needs some reality and some wishful thinking to live, thrive, and evolve.

Read and ponder "Stumbling on Happyness"

http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/gilbert/

Hope is also genetically embeded in our gene. Natural selection did it.

No wonder we all enjoy day dreaming to a certain extent.

It ia a matter of balancing act between day dreaming and being 100% ralistic.

Notice, hope is on # 1 in my list. This is ingrend in our psyche that keeps us striving in difficult time. Required natural selection for the survival of species. I agree, that too much stupid hope could be deterimental. Too much of anything could be bad.

Thinking from your angle, "Not stealing someone else's money when I am reasonably sure I will not be cuaght" is undesirable and stupid attribute as well.

But due to altruism is embeded in our gene by the natural selection , most of us feel guilty by stealing and therefore, it is, what it is.

Plase try to read "Stumbling on Happyness" if you can. Used copies sell for 6 or 7 dollars. This book more than about happyness. This book deals with all kind of psychology of human mind. Text is very easy to understand. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/03/stumbling_on_happiness.html

Notice only 3 things in my 13 commandmends are from Bible, Hope, Faith and Love. Notice, i have redefined (logically), Love and Faith in my 13 commandmends and left Hope defintion unchanged. Notice, money is also in my list.

Most importantly:

Anyone can list out 10, 13, or 17 commandmends of their own. the most important thing is can we logically connects al the dots in our mind or not. That makes all the difference between a coherent, networked, understood mind and a brainwashed mind.

You know what evidence of a brain washed mind is to me? It someone who repeats the same statement over and over as if they were programmed to spit out phrases at the end of every statement.

The quote above illustrates you are the one that is probably brainwashed.

(edit for clarity) 

FYI, the first post (which I think the mods may have corrected) is MUCH easier to read. I understand the urge to give posts a bit of flare but it really just makes it harder to read.  

 BGH,

False,

Repeatation show the weight of it, how often it is used. How much importance one place on certain thing.

There is only one logical definition of Brain Washed data in mind. That is, disconnected, isolated, compartmentalized data.

Repeatation has to do with iteration. A for loop runs many time in a software. If that for loop is disconnected from other logics then it is brainwashed otherwise not.

Noone is 100% brain washed or 100% networked. But facts reamins what I stated.

Now, the psychoanalysis of your statement ove the internet.

Your above statement is an emotional statement, knee jer reaction.

Your ego circuit kicked in that short circuited your logic circuit.

Please focus on the logic.

If you can do one think then do this.

Love the truth regardless of if it proves you small or big. You will see the magic.

marcusfish,

As long as you have even shred of anger, hate, or an objective to prove me wrong, to knock me down, or to humble me in deep psyche of yours, you will not be able to see or debate me over my 13 commandments and its implications.

if your true objective is to sort out the truth and falsehood in those commandments then it will work.

Look marcusfish, I am no perfect. No one is. We all know that.  I have all the negative and positive aspect of any human being have. This is not about me. It is about the truth. With some effort we (including me) can understand that due to our weakness - reluctance to give up age long faiths we delusion ourselves.This ego centric, brain's natural defense mechanism of not being able to see or accepting our fault, was necessary to be implanted for our survival hundreds of years ago. Unfortunately some time we use this trait in wrong place and wrong time. That is where it create problem.

The trick to get around it is to isolate 3 things,

1) in mind (understanding) - networked mind. Things can be in mind in two ways - a) brain washed b) understood.

2) in tongue (spoken) -- if you know the truth speak about it without asking who is for it or against it.

3) In hand - Action -- without action you won't see the result.

When in mind, in tongue and in hand are in synch then we are happy and when they are not we are unhappy.

Obviously, no one is perfect therefore, even after understanding or being brainwashed about something we might not be able to translate those in hand (action). Hence the pain. To get rid of this unhappiness our brain natural defense mechanism delude ourselves from the truth, rejects it and get a different one that could be and/or is more in synch with our action. As a result we are a little bit happier.

However, if we accept our imperfection, weaknesses and do not bothered by knowing that "my understanding and seying matches but action doesn't matches" then pipeline of truth works like miracle. And we then can get the happyness without compromising the truth. That's why I talk more about what is in mind and tongue than what is in hand (action). Otherwise, it will be even more difficult for me to show people the truth. 

Now coming back to your question of FAITH.

Faith is not based on reason. However, in certain situation, under certain circumstances, Faith if based upon "not entirely unproved thing but at least somewhat proven things" then it works. Faith probably is not the perfect word here. That is why I explained it with the word "Confidence.". The closest word I could think of Faith without conveying the wrong message is "Confidence". If you can give me a better word. I will take.  

Figure skaters, or snow skiers. who so graciously shows away their art and skill has tremendous confidence (Faith) on their abilities. Some might call this Faith. Without this Faith/confidence they won't be able to perform such feats. yes, some time, they over estimate their abilities and falls. Let it be. But some succeeds too. Some breaks the world records.

That is when the statistic of laws of large number comes in and natural selections does it job. Faith, confidence, hope, passion are closely connected. Evolution, natural selection required hope, faith, confidence, and passion. 

Did you know that intellect won't survive a day without passion?

I say, ignite your intellect with the power of passion. 

Ok, we are not too far apart then.