What we are supposed to do

[RaKaR]

I salute you all, Humans of the Future!

May this day also be in the Sign of the Spirit.

I would like to suggest to go through the points, which would lead us to the Creation of Another Future, as expressed in both 'Zeitgeist' and also at Project Venus website.

A/ Preliminaries: Actions for Social Transformation - individual Self Commitment.

1- Expose the Fed Cartel
-) Boycott Citibank; JP Morgan Chase; Bank of America.
-) Move account eventually to other more Socially Oriented Institutions.

2- Boycott the News Networks(CNN; NBC; ABC; FOX...)
-) Use and Protect The Internet.

3- Boycott The Military
-) Share information with other People over the True Nature and Agenda of the Current Military.

4- Boycott The Energy Companies
-) Move to Clean Energy; make Your Home and Car Self Sustainable.

5- Reject The Political System
-) Focus on Working to Dissolve the Outdated System of Politics, in Favor of Technological Redesign(Resources Based Development)

6- Create Critical Mass
-) Join The Movement at: www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
-) Work towards A Revolution of Consciousness
-) Share News; inform others of the Real State of Technological Achievements; move towards Cooperation and The Declaration of Resources as Common Human Heritage
-) Transform Yourself, Live Differently
-) Promote Self Responsibility.

B/ Ultimate Goal and Means

www.thevenusproject.com

This new experimental city would be devoted to working towards the aims and goals of The Venus Project, which are:

1. Conserving all the world's resources as the common heritage of all of the Earth’s people.
2. Transcending all of the artificial boundaries that separate people.
3. Evolving from a monetary-based economy to a resource-based world economy.
4. Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.
5. Redesigning our cities, transportation systems, and agricultural and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and conveniently serve the needs of all people.
6. Evolving towards a cybernated society that can gradually outgrow the need for all political local, national, and supra-national governments as a means of social management.
7. Sharing and applying all of the new technologies for the benefit of all nations.
8. Using clean, renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal power, etc.
9. Ultimately utilizing the highest quality products for the benefit of all the world’s people.
10. Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega-projects.
11. Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavor.
12. Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth-control to conform to the carrying capacity of the earth.
13. Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry and prejudice through education.
14. Eliminating any type of elitism, technical or otherwise.
15. Arriving at methodologies by careful research rather than random opinions.
16. Enhancing communication in the new schools so that our language and education is relevant to the physical conditions of the world around us.
17. Providing not only the necessities of life but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind, emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.
18. Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the possible changes that lie ahead.


Like all other innovative social proposals, it starts out with a few devoted people that dedicate their time to informing others of the humane benefits of this new direction. People are invited to participate in whatever capacity they can to help carry out the initial design phases of this new experimental city. An interdisciplinary team of systems engineers, computer programmers, architects, city planners, sociologists, psychologists, educators and the like would also be needed.



Your assessment, Pioneers!

Behold the Future, it is within You.

RaKaR
www.futureofmankind.co.uk

[RaKaR]

PERSONAL ASSESSMENT: steps and thoughts.

Pioneers, i would go through point A/ Preliminaries.

1- Expose the Fed Cartel.
As far as know, i have directly nothing to do with these institutions.
I do not have much money and my account is at 'Postbank', The Netherlands, a bank partially owned by the state.
I will work to find more about the business connections of this bank(weten jullie daar nog wat over, Mensen?) and if it appears to be linked to one of the abovementioned institutions, i will move my account to another, more suitable bank - possibly 'Rabobank', which is supposed to be cooperative. I will check this point too thoroughly.

2- Boycott the News Networks
Every now and then i do watch some news on CNN.
The last time - yesterday, the US Presidential Debats - is definitely the very last time!
I will relay more on Internet for news and cooparation, making use of my own intuition, some guidance from my fellow Comrades here, and particularly by sharpening my discernment.

3- Boycott The Military
This institution is alien, so to speak, to me.
I will see in which mesure i could contribute to its extinction or adjustment to its true mission - serving and protecting People.

4- Boycott Energy Companies
This one is pretty difficult, but not impossible.
I rent a flat with an 'incorporated' energy supply system.
I have always tried to go wisely about energy, by saving, eating as often as i can vegetables, salades(no need to use gas and/or electricity through cooking); using just a couple of spoons, plates and the like(little to wash afterwards, saving on water, hence).
Furthermore, i applied classic tricks to use as less energy as possible by launching only full loaded washing machine and i use no drying-apparatus, hanging my wash instead; by switching off then unpluging all devices when i am going out and... so far so good(i pay monthly only an advance of 86 Euro to my energy company(ENECO) for all my use of water, electricity and gas - and at the end of the year, i get around 500 Euro back!).
I would eventually move to the countryside or to a flat i would be free to bring major changes to.

5- Reject the Political System
I am a member of the Dutch Socialist Party and i regularly support the initiatives and purely environmental legislations of the Green Party.
Those two parties are by definition internationally orientated and, i think, closer to the People than the other parties we have here.
I have sent 'Zeitgeist: Addendum' to the headquarters of the two parties as well as to all their members with whom i have some personal contact(i know the emails) and i am now waiting for their reactions.
If they stick to the old paradigm, then i would cancel my membership by the Socialist Party. I would however continue to support the Greens, when and if their ideas, in my understanding, serve the environment.

6- Create Critical Mass
I am with Project Venus, with heart, spirit, will and all dispositions.
I have been sending the movie-manifest 'Zeitgeist: Addendum' to the four corners of the Earth, trying to stimulate healthy discussions on the current state of our affairs and the voluntary, reasonable ways forward.
I will work hard to transform my way of life, myself and my consciousness.
Practically speaking, i have a pure humanitarian education, as i stated above in a previous post. I do not understand much about technics and technology, but i am quite handy with my two arms.
I studied Philosophy and i am currently following some Law Studies(i would eventually see through); i am fluent in French, Russian; my English and Dutch are pretty good and i am working on my German - and i would eventually take on a couple of languages, for in the context of this project, i assume that communication would be important and we, so far, have no Universal Language.
I have also decided to know more about agriculture. To this end, i will go through the section 'Books' at Project Camelot(thanks to the members who so generously provide us with such vital items!) and any help from you, Pioneers, would be highly appreciated.

So i said, so i will do.

Peace and Wisdom.

RaKaR
www.futureofmankind.co.uk

[Aware_Belgium]

here's a poster i made for Zeitgeist / Venus Project, 2 formats for desktops or printing:

http://www.4shared.com/file/66332765...s_poster.html?

[RaKaR]

UPDATE:

Project Venus Pioneers,

The Zeitgeist Movement has a message for you: (www.thezeitgeistmovement.com)



The Goal:
The Means is the End:
We intend to restore the fundamental necessities and environmental awareness of the species through the avocation of the most current understandings of who and what we truly are, coupled with how science, nature and technology (rather than religion, politics and money) hold the keys to our personal growth, not only as individual human beings, but as a civilization, both structurally and spiritually. The central insights of this awareness is the recognition of the Emergent and Symbiotic elements of natural law and how aligning with these understandings as the bedrock of our personal and social institutions, life on earth can and will flourish into a system which will continuously grow in a positive way, where negative social consequences, such as social stratification, war, biases, elitism and criminal activity will be constantly reduced and, idealistically, eventually become nonexistent within the spectrum of human behavior itself.
This possibility is, of course, very difficult for most humans to consider, for we have been conditioned by society to think that crime, corruption and dishonesty is "the way it is" and that there will always be people who want to abuse, hurt and take advantage of others. Religion is the largest promoter of this propaganda, for the "us and them" or "good and evil" mentality promotes this false assumption.
The reality is that we live in a society that produces Scarcity. The consequence of this scarcity is that human beings must behave in self preserving ways, even if it means they have to cheat and steal in order to get what they want. Our research has concluded that Scarcity is one of the most fundamental causes of aberrant human behavior, while also leading to complex forms of neurosis in other ways. A statistical look at drug addition, crime and incarceration statistics, finds that poverty and unhealthy social conditions comprise the life experience of those who engage in such behavior.
Human beings are not good or bad... they are running, forever changing compositions of the life experience(s) that influence them. The "quality" of a human being ( if there was such a thing ) is directly related to the upbringing and thus belief systems they have been conditioned into.
This simple reality has been grossly overlooked and today people primitively think that competition, greed and corruption are "hardwired" elements of human behavior and, in turn, we must have prisons, police and hence a hierarchy of differential control in order for society to deal with these "tendencies". This is totally illogical and false.

The bottom line is that in order to change things for the better fundamentally, you must begin to address root causes. The current societies system of "punishment" is outmoded, inhumane, and unproductive. When a serial killer is caught, most people jump up and down and scream for the death of that person. This is backwards. A truly sane society, which understands what we are and how our value systems are created, would take the individual and learn the reasons behind his or her violent actions. This information would then go to a research department which considers how to stop such conditions from occurring through education.

It is time to stop the patchwork. It is time to begin a new social approach which is updated to present day knowledge. Sadly, society today is still largely based on outmoded, superstitious dispositions and resolutions.

It is also important to point out that there are no utopias or endings. All evidence points to perpetual change on all levels. In turn, it is our personal actions everyday of our lives that mold and perpetuate the social systems we have in place. Yet, paradoxically, it is also our environmental influences which create our perspectives and hence world views. Therefore, true change will come not only from adjusting your personal understandings and decisions, but equally from changing the social structures that influence these understandings and decisions.
Protest/Political movements are dead the elite power systems are little effected in the long run by such means at this point in time. We must move beyond these 'establishment rebellions' and work with a tool much more powerful:
We will stop supporting the system, while constantly advocating knowledge, peace, unity and compassion. We cannot "fight the system. Hate, anger and the 'war' mentality is a failed means for change, for it perpetuates the same tool the corrupt, established power systems use to maintain control to begin with.


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The Distortion and Paralysis:
When we understand that all systems are Emergent and constantly in a state of evolution, along with the reality that we are all Symbiotically connected to nature and each other in the most simple yet profound way, forcing the realization that our personal integrity is only as high as the integrity of the rest of society, we then see how twisted and backwards our social establishments are and how their perpetuation is largely the cause of the social instability in society. For example, the Monetary System has been long deemed a positive force in society due to its claim to produce incentive and progress. In actually, the monetary system has become a vehicle for division and totalitarian control.
It is the ultimate form of "Divide and Conquer" for at its very core are the assumptions that (1) We must fight each other in order to survive. (2) Humans must have this reward "Incentive" to do anything meaningful.

As far as Number 1 (We must fight each other in order to survive.), this characteristic of 'competition' in the system guarantees corruption in society on every level, for the basis is "us against them". Many argue that the "free market system" is good... but it is corrupt in the modern day due to bad policies, favoritism, bailouts, etc. They assume that if a "pure" free market was allowed to flourish then it would be okay. This is false, for what you are seeing today IS the Freemarket at work, with all its differential advantage and corruption. No laws will ever stop the insider trading, collusion, monopoly, labor abuse, pollution, planned obsolescence or the like... this is what the competition based system produces without fail, for it is based on the premise of taking advantage of others for profit. Period.

We must begin to transition out of these oppressive ideals and move towards a system which is "designed" to support human beings... not force them to fight in order to survive. As far as Number 2, (Humans must have this reward "Incentive" to do anything meaningful.) this is just a sad and an incredibly negative perspective of the human being in general. To assume that a person must be "structurally motivated" or hence "forced" into doing anything, is just absurd. Think back to when you were a child and had no idea what money even was. You played, were curious and did many things... why? Because you wanted to. However, as time goes on in our system, that natural curiosity and self-motivation is striped away from people, as they are force to conform to the specialized, compartmentalized, nearly predefined labor system in order to survive. This, in turn, often creates a natural rebellion within the person due to the forced obligation, and this is how we came up with "leisure" and "work" separations. The laziness assumed to exist by the monetary system proponents (who claim it produces incentive) do not recognize this. In a true society, people would follow there natural inclinations and work to contribute to society not because they are "paid" for it, but because they have a greater awareness which recognizes that contributing to society helps them just as much as everyone else. This is the heightened state of awareness we hope to communicate. Your reward for contributing to society is the well being of that society... which, in turn, furthers your well being.

Now, putting things into perspective, it is important to understand that our world is currently run, undeniably, by a small group of dominant men in high positions of those institutions which are most dominant in society- Business and Finance. The establishment of government is in tandem with the influence and power of corporations and banks. The life blood is money, which is, in fact, an illusion that now has little relevance to society and serves as a tool for manipulation and division along a kind of social organization that guarantees elitism, crime, war and social stratification.

Simultaneously, individuals are taught that being "correct" is what creates their value as human beings. This state of being "correct" is directly related to the prevailing values of society itself. Therefore, those who accept and support the social system's views are considered "normal", while those who disagree are considered "abnormal" or even "subversive". Whether it is the dogma of a unique social tradition, or the alignment with a worldwide establishment religion, the basis is the same: Intellectual Materialism.
As we realize that knowledge and hence our institutions are always evolving, we see that any belief system which claims to "know" anything, without allowing for dispute, is a failed perspective. Religion, with its foundation in faith, is the king of this distortion, as it claims to know something definitively about the most complex and elusive origins of human kind, and this simply is not possible in an emergent universe.
That being said, it is then realized that equally as dangerous as the Establishment Power Structures, are the people who have been conditioned to completely accept the static understandings put forth by these systems... therefore becoming: "Self Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo". This applies to every system, especially political, financial and religious systems. Since people's identities become associated with the doctrines of a Country, Religion or Business ethic, it often becomes very difficult for a person to change, for his or her identity has become combined with the ideologies which have been imposed upon them. Therefore, they perpetuate the doctrine of the institution, simply to maintain their personal integrity, as they see it.
We must break this cycle, for it paralyses our growth not only as individuals, but as a society.



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The Truth and Transition:
Once we understand that the integrity of our personal existences are directly related to the integrity of the earth, life and all other human beings, we then have our path predefined for us. In turn, once we realize that it is science, technology and hence human creativity which creates progress in our lives, we are then able to recognize what our true priorities are for social and personal growth and progress. These points denoted, we can then see that Religion, Politics and the Money/Competition based Labor system are outdated modes of social operation, which must now be addressed and outgrown. Our avocation is to achieve a social system which operates without money or politics, while allowing superstition to work itself out as education flourishes. It isn't the right of any person to tell another what to believe, for no human has a full understanding of anything. However, if we pay attention to the natural processes of life, we then see how we can align with nature and thus our path becomes more clear.
For example, many people are worried about population growth on the planet, while very spooky comments by despotic figures like Henry Kissinger claim that some kind of "reduction" is needed. This is, of course, very scary. However, the real question remains: Is population growth really that bad? The answer is that from a scientific perspective the earth can handle many, many times more people if need be, once high technology is harnessed. 70% of our planet is water and cities in the sea ( one of many projects by Jacque Fresco ) are the next step. In turn, education about life operations will inform people as to the ramifications of their reproductive interests and population growth will naturally slow as people begin to realize how they are related to the planet and its carrying capacity.

In fact, the only true "government" that can possibly exist is the earth and its resources. From there, all possibilities can be assessed. This is why an intellectual unification of all countries is needed, for the most important information we as a species can have is a full, highly detailed assessment of what we have on this planet. Just as you would examine the land and resources of an acre of land to see what you could do or grow on it, this is what needs to happen with the planet in order to optimize what we are capable of as a species, resource wise.

Of course, many who consider the ideas presented above will often ask: "How can we do this considering the distorted value systems which are currently in operation.? How do we make such a move or transition?" This is, of course, the most difficult question. The answer: We have to start somewhere. There are many things that can be done by a single person or community that can begin to shape this vision. The most important step is education.

On March 15th 2009, ( or "ZDAY" as it was called in 2008 ) there will be a worldwide action day to expand awareness of this sociological direction. Our hope is to have regional meeting in as many cities, states & countries as possible. We here at thezeitgeistmovement.com will work to provide materials in every language we can, while doing whatever we can to help each subgroup. We will never ask for money. We are here to help, for we understand one central truth that has been lost for a long, long time:
The more you give- the more you get.

Thank you for your help.


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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality".
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


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"We must become the change we want to see in the world".
-Mohandas Gandhi.



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Behold the Future; it is within You.

RaKaR
www.futureofmankind.co.uk

[Peer]

I am a Shiatsutherapist for about 30 years now and I discovered that the right word spoken in the right tone works at least as good as pressing or puncturing the right acupoint.
I see myself as a doorkeeper.
Nobody among my customers goes away without the talk that is part of the treatment.
Why is this so and so going on?
What happened just before you couldn't move your leg anymore?
What sorrow did you carry before your back gave up?
What were you thinking when you stumbled on the sidewalk?
What occupied your attention just before that car hit you?

Asking the right question opens doors to unseen opportunities

There is always something you can pinpoint that caused an emotional or mental problem just before the physical problem occured.

It is likewise on a global scale:
What happened just before it went wrong?
Where did we lose the path?
Did someone promis you the world? Or power? Or money for nothing?
What made us hide our abundance so scarcety could take over and create hunger and greed....
Wasn't it the fear of need and scarcety and hunger and who or what put that fear into our minds?
So what did we co-create?

What is the solution?
Share and you will have abundance for everybody.

And wouldn't it be nice to have more abundance than your neighbour??

Originally Posted by MartyMcFailure

hey i did quit my day job! i dont know what to do with myself except practice starting fires and distilling water. i am a total mess. but the vision you describe is the one i want, is it possible?

No its not possible... If you keep starting fires we have a different future for you...

You live in CA by any chance?

[indakaz]

[QUOTE=Xammy;43537]Last night I finished watching Zeitgeist Addendum, and after a few days of worrying about 7th october, and feeling rather awful in general, I was very happy to see something with a positive view of the future.

And then it hit me.

The second part of the movie Zeitgeist Addendum, is the exact image of the future I have had ALL MY LIFE.

The TWO things in life so far that have been able to make me forget that WONDERFUL vision of the future, my future, our future, are:

no1: The Establishment

no2: The Conspiray Circles

So, for everything I have learned and figured out with help from dedicated researchers, hobbyists and smart people in general, I have also picked up on A LOT of NEGATIVITY.


I have more thoughts regarding this matter, but initially I just wanted to share this simple observation with you all.

I wish, and focus and pray (yes even that), on the green clean harmonious advanced enlightened, wonderful, comfortable GLOBE that we can have, of discovery, travel, expansion, involvement, and Loving care of this sphere that we dwell on.

Please let me know if any of you have seriously thought about what you actually walk around and spend your emotional energies on.

And I also think it´s important to be realistic and practical about this.

QUIT YOUR DAYJOB!

GREAT POST, MOST IMPORTANT, WELL SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!