Health care.

Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 by

Leo

Chatting with a friend recently i found my self speaking to myself in parody resulting in a newly realised aspect to personal reality. It was with regard to psychosimatic ailments and remedial activity. Me being a tobacco smoker, i asserted, the cost of our self destructive activities shouldnt be bourne by our fellows. It is, after all us who desire our own difficulties which grow from our activity.
If one should choose to eat "junk" foods, resulting in high bad cholesterol, consuming unnessecary fats, sugar and salt it is us who inflict the logical conclusion upon ourselves. Bearing in mind, all the while the bodys metabolism is being deprived of nessecary nutrition also as a result of these choices, inducing a function below optimum in performance.
What can one say.
How obvious can logic be.
For a nunber of years now, i have been of the considered opinion
a very high percentage of ailments are psychosomatic. Self inflicted.
Whether in ignorance, laziness, self destructive tendancies, what ever,
we engage in unhealthy choices, sometimes with gratuitous pleasure.
During the last century we allowed ourselves the privilage
of dumping responsibility for our health upon an industry
who have come to thrive and become dependant upon our patronage.
This is not to say the entire health care industry is adventitiously capotolist by nature,
but, those who are seek to harness the generous, selfless offerings there-in.
What is one to do ?
I feel, of nessecity, the median line of consensus must return
to a place where we are required to assume responsibility
for our choices and favored activities.

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Where are we going.

Posted on Apr 28th, 2009 by

Leo

These appear as heady days in our evolving as a society
with president Obamah calling for comprehensive downsizing
toward elimination of nuclear weopans.
For me, this is a first.

Our Australian and other western governments
dispensing resources to almost all, accompanied
by encouragement to spend like there is no tomorrow.

The frivolous greed of our captains of industry
bringing on the credit crunch and a near universal
recognition of the tangible threat of terrorism
and the power plays of war lords.
(This being most relavent in the 3rd world.)

For me these spell issues of security.

Not being overly burried in scripture of the bible,
a passage wich strikes my mind is the "mark of the beast",
where one is unable to buy or sell with out this facility.

I am inclined to view a credit card of some sort,
or micro chip perhaps, a device which would be
able to establish an individuals identity with certainty
resolving concerns re allocation to and use of resources.
Cash becomes redundant.
Also, such a device would resolve security issues,
re terrorism and crime at a personal
and collective level and seems inevitable.

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Regarding the credit crunch saga.

Posted on Mar 29th, 2009 by

Leo

Recent developments which have caught my attention are as follows.

The CEO of General Electric Corporation describing his perception
of corporate executive management not having "domain knowledge.
Domain knowledge, in a nut shell, is the knowledge
of the nuts and bolts mechanics
of the business being managed.

Also, the revelation that Harvard business school
and similar western institutions are primarily responsible
for the wayward activities of delinquint
corporate executives due to self serving precepts
advocated by these schools.

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Greed.

Posted on Mar 26th, 2009 by

Leo

Having times of abundance, comfort and security never before known in civilisations, we find our selves desiring still greater reward in exchange for less input,
Seeing the few above having more and the multitude below having less,
only feeling moved to aggrandise our selves still further.

Satisfaction loses definition
with one seeing most clearly what one covets?

If lust for affluence were a psychiatric disorder or moral transgression
with individuals considering only their selves
not regarding the welfare of the collective whole,
exposing them selves as a rampant parasite.

How much more integrity and genuine happiness
would be ours were we to content our selves
with what is sufficient for today
trusting providence for tomorrows needs.

I am hoping a new day dawns when greed and lust for power
are recognised as symptoms of a psychiatric disorder
and these disease ridden victims remedially treated,
lest they infect or abuse those about them.

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Evolution of entity.

Posted on Nov 1st, 2008 by

Leo

Ever evolving, becomming more refined,
or rusting away in the matrix of time and space,
Returning to its basic constituents
to be made available for yet anther enterprise,
in this fantastic experiment,
Designed to faciitate an evolution of entity, environs and circumstance.
Even with demise, we bequeath the fruit
of our interfacing to those folowing.

Is the glass half full or half empty.
Are we too close to see it all clearly.
Many colours and flavours.
No time to stop and smell the roses.
No time for one to examine ones self.

Time, that "bitch". She is a comodity too.

Could we be central to creation,
or
creation central to us.

Who is to say.
From where is who's perspective.
From who is where's perspective.

Desiring to see what is unfit for us,
and wanting what we see.

We humans are a parochial crew.
Security takes all shapes and forms.
What is the measure and how are we to use it ?
What is worthy of measurement, it figuring so prominently in our lives.

In keeping with my understanding of astrological proclivities and pre-dispositions we all have those parameters aquired,
by way of pre determined conditioning,
to move within,
expanding our horizons
within the limitations of our personal realities.

Quality of choice determining our evolution of circumstance.
Collectives also, as collectives have a beginning and end too.

Apparently there is a fecundity of life all about us,
dynamic beyond our imaginings or understanding.

All this while, a myriad of miracles,
for the most part going unnoticed.
We are preoccupied with the mundaneness
of what comes to pass.
In another place in time and space
we might find capacity for appreciation
of this realm of "being" as an incredable gift.

In the "real" world, comfort, security and indulgence
might take a back seat, making way for hard choices,
decisions not nesecarily agrandoising ego centric exercises.

I have been led to believe we are here on this plane of existance
for the opportunity to evolve in a dramatic way
not possible in other planes of existance.
This premise seems eligant to me and in keeping with the "Edgar Cayce"
understanding of what is happening.

Surely this could not come about by accident.

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The future of our future.

Posted on Jun 28th, 2008 by

Leo

Food, indululgence and sustenance.
Breeding and farming of micro organisms in industrial vats such as yeasts enriched with what ever nutritional requirements we may possess sees a way forward, given environmental toxicity and loss of arable space for conventonal farming methods with reduced attentive labour and energy input.
Which ever mineral or vitamin might be most required or desirable could be incorporated in to the brew.
I dont intend to convey this being desirable but choices deminish.
That being so available, we all become more homoginised, (one being what they consume, through what ever sensory facility) us becomming more and more homoginised and pasturised. This encompases media out put.
While our collective human "character" takes on definition, our micro social climate also takes on its prevailing substance with similar tactileness,
Can we understand ourselves to be victims or sheep-herded into an inconvenient corner by "unworthy" shepards.

Energy and catalysts.
Presently we are experiencing energy supply and demand difficulties but, in due course we may come to understand there is no shortage at all, as we are in a soup of energy and the difficulty is in asking the correct question, then to find the best suited answer.
Kestler, drawing energy from the environment and, or atmosphere.
Apparently this man lit up Grand canyon with energy drawn from the atmosphere.
All is energy and there is not any thing else, in keeping with the prevailing string theory of quantum physics.

Society and inter-personal relations.
Largely estranged using 19th century norms as a measure.
At present we instill in those in our care an awareness of stranger danger of nesesicity with a view to avaidng pain and grief.
This phenomena taken to it's logical conclusion promotes insularity, particularly with regard to those with different characteristics evident being isolated or compartmentalised for our greater convenience.
After all, if it could happen to them, it could happen to me.
Better these things and people be out of sight.
Interfacing becomes a process of initiating protocols.
An insular orientation peripheral to what we understand to be the substance of society becomes desirable as other individuals are unknown variables embodying potential threat and unnessecary hazard.
In due course i belive it to be expected that genetic screening wil become mandatory as a means of discerning who is suitable to be incorporated into society, exclusion being on the basis of social eptitude or pysical fitnes, there by cutting overheads in the management of human frailties.
Anticipating conditioning programs of expedient content.
Socialism, of nessecity, becomes a thing of the past with compassion carrying too great a cost. The hand which feeds may be bitten. User pays as the bottom line becomes more an imperitive.
The age of Aquarius is idealistic and visionary, but, void of compassion.

Genetics and evolution.
Personally, i am inclined to believe the genetic code is not
a static blue print
but subject to prevailing influences
and, unfortunately, manipulation.

Given the desire for expedience in meeting challenges
we may deem eradication or enhancement of human natures expressions
through us, we thus becomming more thouroughly homoginised.

Communications and transport.
Conventional fuels become exorbinant
adding to cost of comodities.
Trade locally will become relavent choice
for improved quality of produce and better value.

Apparently, gravity beneath a spinning super conductor
is reduced or anulled to some extent.
UFO's, should they exist, I presume,
are composed of super conductive material,
and, as have been depicted, they quickly spin.
With gravity not a factor, or less so, transport of cargo and people
becomes less a problem.
The ability to focus gravity, and harness such energy
is easily capable of transforming our capacity for transport
with reduced energy input.

Comerce and Industry.
Unversal currency metamorphosing into transaction card, this being increasingly a choice of nessecity.

Environment
The environment becomes toxic.
Acid rain and the climate
change has conditions becomming hostile
for vegetative live forms.
Toxicity affecting human population also,
the afluent affording closed and supported environments.
Air and water filtration in particular being basic needs.

The toxicity presenting ever greater health problems,
most graphicly, due to their social impact,
re psychiatric conditions, general physical malaise,
which tests the durability of the social fabric.
At present depression and schitzafrenia
are becomming relatively common.
As these illnesses become more prevalent
and not managed with chemical straight jackets,
manifesting in transgressions againt each other,
those able to will tend to exclusivity.
The afluent respond by aboding in enclaves
for safety from the ferile and the environment.

A situation prevails among our contemporary scientific community re canvasing contingencies to cope with and mitigate global warming.
The idea comming to the fore involves
injecting phosphates in to the atmosphere,
there-by reducing the solar radiation
impacting upon the earth.
One side effect of this may be acidifying the oceans
at a greater rate than would otherwise be.
As i understand it, more than 90% of our oxygen
comes from the flora of the oceans.
A desperate situation prevails.
Governments take these ideas seriously if they appear
to cut corners and abrogate the sociol and economic
implications of our prevailing liabilities.
Oxygen or non toxic air becomes a comodity available
to those with available recources.
User pays.
Amenities and resources we have taken for granted in the past
become allocated to the afluent and influential.
I understand the following to be prevailing at present.
In any case, global warming or not,
the health of our oceans have been assailed for some time now
,eg: with dumping of nuclear waste,
the plastic polution of the north Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
gradual acidification of entire biosphere.
The Pacific holding implications for the southern ossilation.
The Atlantic affecting the gulf stream.
These are arguabley driving forces
for this planets weather impetus.
Atmospheric pollutants settling on the oceans
might only accelate the situation to it's
logical acidic stagnant conclusion.
The burden of "plastic soup" delivering drag to nessecary motion
for sustenance of traditional paterns

It is a big job wrecking an entire biosphere rendering it inhospitable
for the vast array of life forms which have evolved
to be a companion occupying almost every niche,
but, i believe we are able and willing
to rise to the occasion, unfortunately.

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Of Love and similar things.

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by

Leo

Love.
Yes,
This ephemral thing.
Few other indulgences could hold such appeal
for one residing within this realm of humanity.

I would like to feel the substance of this manifestation
of guiding pupose has discretion and rational direcion
in the steps it takes.
I think , on occason, it might appear other wise.

Due to the lack of ratonale one might be inclined
to believe it's impetus lies in the ego and it's asperations,
or the soul with the animus-like need for connection,
perhaps a need for intense interfacing ,
providing a sounding board about which to orient one's self.

Whatever, It could appear the tail is wagging the dog.

What is one to do.
Take hold and see good sense prevail by an exercise of will.

Psychosis ; Orienting ones focus about an exterior autonymous entity.
Perhaps, should the dark side be providing impesus for attraction,
a time may ensue following the honey moon period
resulting in an unhappy penance.

Commitment ; another being as important or,
even more important than ones self.
Their comfort, security and welfare being paramount.

Lust ; The desire to be subtly connected with another.

Passion: An energy interfacing exuberantly.

Compassion: Justification, aleviating guilt.
Are we compasionate when we tend to our own ?
Should we feel compasionate when we tend to another,
A fellow human.
Another of our own.
As i see this situation at the present time, while, maybe one third of our humanity live on less than a dollar a day, there are some accruing many millions.
I feel inclined to believe they would not allow them selves to behave so,
if they had a realistic "down to earth" understanding of the "unhappiness"
others endure for their relatively unlimited comfort and luxurious environs.
After all, such afluence could not prevail without sucking the life from another.
But, then,
There is a food chain after all.
The sorting out of a heirachy.
Where might limits lie.
Where do we abandon achievement,
as we presently understand it,
to persue some thing more mature,
some thing of greater substance.

Fell in love Feb 06 with a lady whom i met over the net.
This woman was utterly beautifull and unambiguously wonderfull.
We married Feb 2 years later.
I had found and engaged with a lady of mutual commitment to persue
a "partnership" being soundly at one with each other.

My lady had 2 "early teens" children who had lived their lives, thus far, without patriarchal influence, and their protective mom determined to negate presenting challenges regardless of determined long term objective, whether behaviourly, socially or in any other facet of life.
My "daughter" 13 yo, managed little more than a grunt for a greeting till only 2 days before she returned to her origin 5 1/2 months later.
In spite of the communication difficulties i felt i was holding the most wonderfull woman in my arms and felt blessed with the priceless opportunity to love her for no other reason but the euphoric state resulting and her presence colouring ones perception and understanding of life.
Surely, it is better to have loved and lost, rather than not to have loved at all.
Perish the thought.
5-June 09. My love and my life has departed me.

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What economic structures might help shift to sustainable living?

Posted on Mar 29th, 2008 by

Leo

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for March 29, 2008:

What's the economy for, anyway?
The economy is a nesecary part of the infrastructure which describes and helps orchestrate the collective activity of the society it refers to.
Macro economics is, in large part responsible for this mess assuming consumers to have the purpose of consuming.
Micro economics can go some way toward healing, placing worth in people without incorporating the accessories into the assesment of value,
Quality of life needent nesecarly be in keeping with ego centric aspirations.

How does "the economy" make it hard to make choices for sustainability - a healthy balance between material, social and ecological needs?
The stock market and it's mechanics, I believe, has contributed in a big way to the insensitivity of corporate greed with the requirement that returns to share holders be maximised and the share holder being largely ignorant of strategies employed to achieve that end.
Whether the victim is the environment or people, they need not feel subject to the resulting onus and guilt that is theirs.
Unfortunately supply and demand goes some way toward bestowing value on comodities even including sustaining food and water.
We in the west decadently dispose of waste sufficient to appease another from less fortunate disposition in other parts of the world.
For a sustainable economic scenario a radically new vision is required where those not incorporated into our collective need to be accepted by virtue of the fact that they are members of the great collective called humanity.
Always there will be those unable to meet their own needs by way of incapacity or limited ability, absence of natural resources, so they need extra attention requiring structure and commitment for support.
At one time we cared our own infirmed and elderly.
Now we have places to "put these, this being a byproduct of city living where time rules our lives resulting in anxiety, our being driven to escapist activities as is possible.

Where have you seen economic structures that actually contribute to greater sustainability?
Low interest banking,
Bartering skills and home grown or made resources.
Organisations providing opportunity for voluntary input contributing to collective welfare enhancing individuals self esteem and sense of purpose.

In a sustainable economy, how would you and your community meet your needs for the basics and also for those things that make life worth living? Bartering in the stead of standard monetary currency,
Refusing to be on the tread mill deeming ones personal attention of too great a value to squander in such a fashion.
Production of consumables locally, shopping locally, the facilitators being content in the knowledge that bigger in not nesecarily better.

The answer to this question has it's response at the grass roots.
We, being subject to the foibles and quirks of human nature tend to measure our worth in terms of the resources at our disposal, the appeal of our image and refinement of accessories.
Advertisers , knowing this, and, being prepared to say anything to achieve turnover ,with a view to having what we are seeking at a personal level. That being aquisition of power and control, produce "what ever" to be dumped upon consumers who they created the market for, to achieve that end. So, it is we who are the problem and the solution.

Moderate income aspirations,
Being content with who we are with out the enhancing and value adding accessories.

Contentment with the joy of living rather than the security of having

The knowledge of ones personal value , all others having same value as ones self.

Abandonment of the economy of scale where possible, This facilitating aquisition of skills at grass roots level providing desirable value for craft skills and trades professions.

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How tolerant are you?

Posted on Jan 20th, 2008 by

Leo

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 15, 2008:

Tolerance, Intolerance.

You got a bug bear here for me.

Feeling tolerance is the normal state of affairs all being well.

Intolerance, however, is another kettle of fish.
Feel all is tolerable except intolerance.

Am thinking intolerance to be the fruit of bigotry and a crippled spirit.
The need for egocentric expansion so great so as to inspire one to stand atop another to appear greater than those below and greater too, than the stature of one equal to all others.
The ideal situation might be for another planet be made available
for these where they could climb over each other,
without detriment to the inocents.
I cant help but understand greed and lust for power
to be a symptom of psycic illness needing remedial action for every body's sake.
Greed,and lust for power appear synonymous
with the catalyst for this condition.

Also, the proclivity of people to congeal into cliches and collectives constructing values and objectives facilitating ecclusivity.
Of nessecity, the sacrificial lamb is required to burn upon the altar of the god created in their own image.
Any differentiation will serve the purpose, colour, creed, race.
Any variation will suffice.

Also, the phenomena of people being attracted to their own darkness making certain issues prominent to the perceiver.
On a negative basis, it seems this is also food for intolerance
and most unfortunate.

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Father

Posted on Jan 12th, 2008 by

Leo

My well remembered Father.
Dad, my well remembered father.
Pleased to have had you there. It was all good for me in retrospect.
The strap wasnt much fun, but, some how,
every thing seems to be what was required at the time.
Hope you are happy and content now, having done the hard yards here.
Would have liked to have done you prouder with-in your seeing.
Mother remembers you proudly and with on going affection.
Love you always dad.

Hoping to occupy the position only a peer can accomodate in times to come.
Who knows what lies before us.
At a young age this man left his family home never to return, improvising and making do as he went north along the west coast of Australia at a time when the "out back" was rarely traversed by any other than a pioneering spirit.
His unplanned excursion continued till he went , nearly full circle, meeting mother in a small country town, where he set about putting down roots,
fathering 3 boys and committing him self to his new family.

On one memorable occasion while attending primary school in grade 2 apparently i managed to frustrate a teacher so much that, while in the playground the teacher took up a limb fallen from a nearby tree and hit me on the head with it. My father, on hearing of this was beset with rage. The teacher had decided to leave town quickly and my father gave hot persuit losing the scent some 300 miles away deprived of the opportunity for revenge.

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