October 15, 2006 We are Staying Awake to our intentions, sensibilities and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand. Your Subscription Management — Commentaries — click a topic Manage Our Cognizance Is It Just Me? Too Many Questions » Focused Excellence author, publisher, originator of this ezine, Staying Awake. » Newsletter Production » Graphic and Web Design » Life Coaching » Staying Awake Blog » DavidMoorhead.com 1+ 214 341 5599 Email Staying Awake I bring together fun-loving, thoughtfully curious and dynamically creative people! That’s the possibility I bring to clients’ businesses. ~ DM I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition are one. ~ Albert Einstein (b 1879) Almost always in politics the result is contrary to the expectation. ~ François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (b 1768), French writer, politician, diplomat, considered founder of Romanticism in French literature Cosmology One of the three philosophies in metaphysics is cosmology: The study of the origin and evolution of Universe, especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and choice. Ethics don’t set us up to be saints, instead, decent humans. Morals insinuate our soul might somehow be periled if we cross the line of man made laws established in what eventually become lawless systems. Allusion. Indirect reference, as ‘without naming names, the politician criticized leadership by allusion.’ Assumption. Something taken as a starting point of a logical proof rather than given as a premise; the act of taking something upon yourself; something believed to be true without proof, as ‘hurricane Katrina was a supranatural event.’ Delusion. An opinion strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, as ‘humans were created about 6,500 years ago.’ Disinformation. False or deliberately misleading information, as ‘voting machines are foolproof.’ Distraction. Something that interferes with concentration or takes attention away from something else. Doublespeak (originated by George Orwell). Language that has no real meaning or has more than one meaning; deliberately constructed for political purposes; language intended to hide something, as ‘area denial munitions’ are landmines; ‘operational exhaustion’ is shell shock; ‘protective custody’ is imprisonment without due process of law; ‘collateral damage’ is, among other things, perished human (and other animal) lives. Illusion. Something false many people believe is true; an erroneous mental representation considered magical by naïve observers, as ‘angels have wings and haloes, play harps, and have six toes;’ or, ‘if we rejoice, pray, and dance enough, we can change other people’s minds (or make it rain).’ Insinuation. An especially artfully indirect, often derogatory suggestion; something that deceives the senses: appearing to be one thing when it is another, as ‘the teenager insinuated her overbearing mom to be too attentive.’ Meme. A cultural practice or idea transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another, as ‘a sense of belonging to an imaginary community of others who purchase the latest fad garment, or who drive an expensive red sports car; or, who succumb to believe success is deemed the end all/be all of all things—even a measure of divine love and grace.’ Metaphor. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable, as ‘food for thought.’ Misinformation. Correct information, but put in an improper context, as ‘television sitcoms can be funny, especially for monkeys.’ Myth. A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people, as ‘the account of Noah and the ark.’ Presumption. A belief based on something considered reasonable or likely; an inference that something is the case in the absence of evidence rebutting that assumption, and on the basis of other known considerations, as ‘you will live longer if you have a good diet and think positively.’ Pretext. A misleading impression justifying the concealed reason for an action, as ‘decision makers may use biblical scripture as a pretext for generating combat.’ © 2004-2006 All rights in all media reserved. You may quote my words as long as you attribute my name. Staying Awake content may be forwarded in full without special permission for nonprofit purposes only, provided full attribution and copyright notice are given. Thank You. Staying Awake Archive and publication dates. My email database will not be given away, borrowed nor sold. This ezine is freely distributed by EZezine.com Our constant curiosity is key to watching what’s being created. ~ DM

Hello Everyone,

Would you believe most of your time in this ezine will be spent reading questions? This newsletter is a rave for humans’ much understated capacities for memory, inquiry, and intuitive responses! Let’s be grateful again for being alive, breathing, and staying awake. Should I remind you of the importance for taking deep breaths from time to time? Okay, I’ll wait until you’ve taken a few…

You’ll find in the right column words that distinguish some literary devices through which messages are delivered to Earthlings. When we’re awake to every day conversations, we’ll notice that we parrot, without thinking, another person’s judgments, opinions, and evaluations without having done our homework.

Manage Our Cognizance

With a little intention, and a lot of listening and reading, we unconceal manipulations of imaginations. The juggernaut genius advertisers and marketers seemingly manage our cognizance through layers upon layers upon layers of symbols (and colors) in icons, logos, photos, signs, and writings as well as the spoken word.

Consider, during the most recent ten millennia or so, leaders became leaders because they discovered they could manifest their desires through unsuspecting Earthlings’ thoughts and behaviors. Through the coup of beatific and horrific story forms, leaders finally convinced enough Earthlings to imagine themselves separate from, or not good enough to perform, whatever manifestations that might have been imagined.

Eventually, most Earthlings sadly forgot who they were, where they came from, and what might have been their prime purpose for the planet out of which they were birthed.

Let’s revise that. Many leaders can manifest their desires through threatening or forcibly insinuating fear into Earthlings’ thoughts and behaviors, then promulgate manifestations as divinely guided acts or ways to secure safety for society.

Now that I’ve brought to our attention all sorts of ideas, just think of this ezine as a spark to kindle your curiosity. Why should the sacrosanct hyper-commercialized entertainment / military / corporate state presume upon our minds and the wonders they contain?

These days and in years to come, managing our cognizance and capacities for memory, inquiry, and intuitive responses is most important to our children’s and grandchildren’s healthy, well informed, independent psyché!

Is It Just Me?

Is it just me, or are peace and quiet nonexistent in Earthlings’ collective psyché? It appears many of our global sisters and brothers have more for which to be circumspect than the rest of us. And, I wonder about the rest of us.

Is it just me, or am I the only one catching on that peace for humankind has not ever happened for all Earthlings at the same time?

Is it just me, or am I the only one who sees that during all those centuries in the medieval ages peace could’ve been installed? Doesn’t it seem the vaticanic pious men of cloth and red slippers just wouldn’t have peace, but imposed unpeaceful delusions upon most everybody with allegations of a vindictive deity (not to speak of vengeful pious men)?

Is it just me, or am I the only one who scratches his head when I hear one governance proclaim we’d have peace if another governance would stop being provocative? For some reason, the metaphor of Tweedledum and Tweedledee comes to mind, neither of whom have grown up, yet. Which global governances are not provocative? Are provocatives only newsworthy to keep us alert? So, what’s the picture, here?

Global leaderships are likely downhearted. They knew from their ancestors’ expertise the judgment day would come in which leaders would be viewed as messengers of delusions. Myriad delusions, illusions, and varieties of allusions and insinuations would become leaderships’ sinking sands. Their judgment day isn’t around the corner—the day is here.

And, it’s not a pretty picture, actually, when you consider how many industrialized nations’ masculine leaderships are gambling amongst themselves for power seemingly at the expense of citizens’ well being. Again, I ask, ‘To what end?’

New trainings are upon us, right now, to quickly intuit meanings of words, and how those words infer good will but mask fraudulent systems. Is it just me, or does this ezine sound like it’s about psychology or some social science? Well, so it is!

Too Many Questions

Are we asking enough questions? What is the meaning of too many questions? How are we being trained to ask good questions; questions that may or may not require answers of yes or no?

Do you struggle with sentences that contain strings of words each of which are five or more letters, or three or more syllables? Why would you think that slowly reading an article is not the best use of your time?

How many insinuations can you find in this ezine? If you’re unfamiliar with definitions of words in this ezine, are you willing to drag a dictionary to the computer?

What do you know for sure? What do you care about? What thwarts your intense care for something? Where is apathy not present in your matrix (or network web) of life?

Which so-called facts are you curious about? Do you read to research? Do you read just to gather more information? Do you read to feel good when reading someone else’s feel-good story?

Do you encourage your children to ask questions, or do you just want them to learn stuff? What does dumbed down mean? Who has been or is dumbed down?

Is evolution a religious debate or a scientific debate? What does religion mean to you and to those around you? What parts of religion do you not talk about within circles of family and friends?

What are the implications of believing only one monotheism is the right one? What is fundamentalism? What is theology, and which parts of theologies would be considered unprovable beliefs? Whose biblical doctrine includes beating children?

Are history books the memoirs of humans? What have history and philosophy, or sciences, like geology, anthropology, and astronomy, or aesthetics got to do with your life, the lives of your children, or your business and clients?

What is embargoed science? What do you know about climatology? What are distinctions of climatology and meteorology? What have the physical universe and our galaxy got to do with Earth’s climate changes over decades and centuries?

Are you self repressed, and how would you know? What do you know about subjugation, oppression, and repression as they relate to you, your familial relations, social groups, and your clients? Are any of your clients depressed, and how would you know? What would you do when you presumed a client might be depressed?

What is the definition of eugenic, and what are the insinuated purposes of eugenics? What is discrimination? What groups of humans might discrimination exclude? What is racism? What races might racism exclude? As you think about racism, what or whom is protected, or why would protection of something be necessary?

Why would global peace be an insinuation? What are the purposes of selecting some countries for peaceful means while other countries are not chosen?

What is human trafficking? Could you believe the human sex slavery industry accumulates USD $240 billion, annually? Could you believe the current cost of U.S. armaments, accessories, and combative performance stratagems and peoples’ wages is astronomical?

What is the meaning of money and its uses? What implications can be presumed from paperless shopping and banking, or from getting out of debt? What implications can be realized with the slow disappearance of paper money and coins?

Which world affairs are you an eyewitness to? If you’re not omnipresent, how do you know what is true any more, or how would you know what has ever been true? Or, does truth matter? How long does one truth exist before its replacement appears in still another person’s story, interpretation, judgment, opinion, or evaluation?

What are your definitions of ethics and of morals? What is an anarchy, a monarchy, and an oligarchy? What do these groups have in common: theocrats, autocrats, aristocrats, bureaucrats, corporatocrats, cosmocrats, kleptocrats, securocrats, stratocrats, plutocrats, and republicrats?

What one word defines rule by fear? How does rule by fear appear for citizenries? Does rule by fear appear in religions? in media? in governments?

What is the definition of the word sovereign? Why would a taxpayer want to become sovereign, and how is a citizen’s sovereignty authenticated?

Was that too many questions? Good. More are on the way.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. ~ Albert Jay Nock (b 1870), American author, educational theorist, social critic

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