Bitterness vs Ability to reflect

It’s true, if you think about it :)

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The Longest Way

This is a short film about a man (Christoph Rehage is his name) who travelled by foot through China for over 4000 km in one year. He took a picture of himself every day.

The film resulted by putting together all these pictures tell a wonderful, thought provoking story of transformation and self discovery.

Here it is :

The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

His website is here

About success - a more humane vision

How do you define success? How do you think a successful person should be, in your opinion? Does he/she must have a career with lots of achievements, a big bank account, a beautiful family? But what about people who are not "successful" ? What do you think about them? Do you consider them to be inferior?

How many about the ideas you have about success are really yours, and how many were taught to you by others?

If these lines sparked your interest for a little introspection and you want to fire up those neurons a bit, watch this interesting TED Talk :

Home - Documentary

It's a very interesting documentary about the distructive effect of humans on planet Earth. The enviroment is degrading more and more each day, and the measures humanity takes to prevent this are inefficient or none at all. It seems that even the most pessimistic predictions of scientists are better than what is actually happening.

In this documentary it is stated that we have only about 10 years to take measures to prevent catastrofical climate changes. Some of them are already manifesting : global warming, the melting of the ice caps, the extinction of numerous species of plants and animals, the depletion of planet's resources, etc.

Every thing that man does has a local effect, as well as a global effect. A short term effect, and a long term effect. Unfortunately, people usually think about short term and local effects, and very little about the other 2 types.

Human intelligence is in vain if it's not used together with wisdom. Intelligence is much more dangerous than stupidity when it's used for selfish or distructive reasons.

We use our intelligence to create useless things, distructive weapons to kill each other, new substances that poison the enviroment, but we fail to achieve our full potential in creating positive changes. We refuse to realize that most of our actions have a distructive effect on the planet's ecosystem.

We are so blinded by our greed and egotism that we are unable to really understand that the destruction of the ecosystem will inevitably lead to the distruction of the human race. We are not wise enough to realize that it will all come back against us. What goes around will eventually come around.

The people who have the power to start the necessary change in humanity's mad plunge towards self distruction are the global elite (large corporations CEO's, state leaders, religios leaders, trend setters, etc.). But, in the end, the change must come in each of us, and everyone must do something to fix this.

What can we do to change things?

• First of all, we must realize that every action has global and long term effects. This may be the most difficult thing to do
• Second, we must use the planet's resources with moderation. The civilized countries' citizens consume the most of the planet's resources. What moderation means is to eliminate wasted resources : electricity, water, fuel, plastic, paper, glass, metal, etc. Then, we have to recycle as much as possible from the resources we use.
• Third, we have to raise awarness in our leaders, by showing them this kind of information. They have the power to start the change.

The film is available here (embedding is disabled by request):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

Un site ce merita citit : http://www.reasoned.org/

Daca ai timp sa citesti cele 27 de capitole de pe site-ul asta, chiar se merita. Nu te lasa pacalit de aspectul monoton al site-ului, continutul lui e important. Daca nu ai chef sa citesti atata la calculator, poti face ca mine: mi-am printat cateva capitole, si le citesc dimineata in metrou in drum spre munca, si inapoi seara.

Daca n-ai chef sa dai click pe link si vrei sa iti faci o idee mai clara despre ce este, in titlul site-ului scrie "REASONED SPIRITUALITY. Exploring spirituality, the meaning of life, the concept of God."

Continutul site-ului s-ar putea sa iti schimbe destul de mult viziunea asupra unor lucruri la care majoritatea oamenilor nu se gandesc prea mult.

Daca vrei sa iti folosesti neuronii, si iti asumi riscul ca o parte din imaginea ta despre lumea asta sa fie demolata, citeste ce scrie acolo, si apoi intreaba-te daca e chiar asa. Ideile exprimate acolo se bazeaza in primul rand pe logica si bun simt, si primul gand pe care o sa il ai cand le citesti o sa fie probabil "Dar toata lumea stie deja lucrurile astea".
Problema e ca lumea le stie doar la un nivel intuitiv, dar nu le constientizeaza, si din cauza asta, de cele mai multe ori uita de logica si bunul simt.