Lateral and Critical

Two of the most crucial skills needed in attaining positive personal growth is through the use of critical and lateral thinking processes in your everyday activities both at home and the work place.

It is my belief that the more capable you are with critical and lateral thinking skills, the greater your chance to achieve any goals you may set for yourself.

These skills must be applied to business practice and taught to the up and coming influential and powerful people throughout all industries. This task represents the future context of applied thinking and ultimately the success for those that can utilize it.

If the ideals of  critical and lateral thinking are scaled back and applied to your own day-to-day activities and challenges the results have the potential to be positive and bold.

Ethical Culture

“Without ‘ethical culture’ there is no salvation for humanity.” This quote is attributed to Einstein when he was asked to comment on Humanism/ Atheism.

For what it is worth, here is my 2 cents:

I think it is generally agreed upon that Einstein was a brilliant and highly intelligent man, with whom many great accomplishments are attributed. He was, by his numerous biographies, a man who in his early life had anger issues, eugenics beliefs, a massive ego and an ambition for things not yet fully explored. In short, he was flawed, brilliant and rational.

From my own end, i wish to comment on the quote above.

It would be hard pressed to find someone who wouldn’t agree that theist institutions promote degrees of ethical/ moral cultures. It is my argument that these promotions are fallacious and wholesale lies, perpetuated by a structure whose focus is only power and money. The inherent hypocrisy theism represents is nothing short of destructive and negative to all humans and their varied social constructs.

Humanism, by it’s very name, is a true Ethical Culture since it is inherently evolving with us and by it’s inception promotes greater ranges of free-thought and mutual association. The major difference, in my opinion, between theism and Humanism is that religion assumes that no person can change on their own, while Humanism asserts that only people can change themselves through reciprocal relationships, knowledge, inquiry and gathering of communal and self wisdom.

I state that religion wants all people to fear themselves, other people and the inevitable change that underlines all life on Earth. Qualities such as generosity, respect, and love can be achieved through self-reflection, encouragement and community without resorting to dead end religious ideals such as gods, prophets and mass fear. Is a person expected to repent everyday? What is the point? Shouldn’t progress encourage forgiveness on its own? I feel it is so.

If i want to change, i must be willing to participate in journeys of self development and also be willing to encounter the negative aspects of my self and face them without fear but excitement knowing that any change is a step forward towards true self understanding.

Do not be fearful. There is no fear.

All peoples should be ethical simply because that is what any person should want for it’s own sake, not for the sake of fear. Once the human factor is excused, what reason for love is there?

J

War

I have juxtaposed opinions about war. I see that on one hand, without a natural predator Humans have evolved to predate each other. On the other hand is see war as barbaric, primitive and wasteful leading me to wonder if the rational side of my thinking is separate from my primitive human instincts that remain in my genetics. Codes of genes dating back to pre-homo sapiens. Conflict of the evolving mind.

Eg: Opposing governments/gangs/groups/people have a disagreement. The disagreement seems unavoidable and impossible to move forward from. All sides accuse eachother of the worst atrocities and manipulations and back again. All sides have ligitamate and illegitimante reasons to be angry. No side seems willing to sit down and talk with civility or consider establishing lines of communication. The problems are related to peoples lives, money, power struggles and political rivalries and religion. The conflicts have been continuous for many generations, resulting in many deaths and untold destruction and waste. Deep seeded resentment, anger, mistrust and suspicion reside with many people on all sides.

What can be done? How does anyone even begin to attempt to solve a problem of this magnitude? How do you help people to stop living in the past and move on in positive ways?

Let go of hate. Do it because your tired. Tired of the pain, the waste and the struggle. Tired of hate.

Want enlightenment for yourself and for all others.