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Human Advancement

Add comment March 2nd, 2006

I found this blog called Human Advancement, and frankly, I was quite impressed with the content of it. Impressed enough to immediately add it to my blogroll under ‘Blogs I like’. I encourage you to have a read as well.

I liked what he was talking about regarding humanity’s advancement and the essential elements of what moves us forward, paraphrased here:

Life
Life gives us the opportunity to exist and to move forward. It’s about making advances that help us move forward better.

Intelligence
Intelligence is not just about the individual but about the species. It’s about sharing knowledge and ideas with each other, and understanding the connection between the past and the future.

Changing my style of writing

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I was talking to mli last night about the Holocaust, and how I write things. During the conversation I realised that I don’t actually write with a spiritual outlook. I look at what’s wrong, but I don’t look at how to make it right. I’m judgemental.

But then, I already knew that. I wrote about it in January, saying:

The style of writing I’ve been doing for the past few years has been highly judgemental about others. I thought that I was being ‘controversial’, and ‘exercising my opinion’, and that if people had a problem with what I wrote then it was a reflection of themselves, and not me.

The balance of being selfish

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If you’re like most people, you’re taught by your parents and society to avoid being selfish, to give of what you have to others. The main reason is to be of assistance to others, to help them when they’re down or in need.

But apart from giving because you’re told to, or because you’re expected to, why else would you give?

Because it makes you feel good.

Being of assistance to someone else makes you feel worthwhile, useful, and needed. It gives you a warm feeling deep down, which can inspire you to do even more for others. So even in the throes of giving, we’re being selfish.

Camping at Lake Wairarapa

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Tomorrow night Deidre and I are heading off to Lake Wairarapa (pron. why-ra-rapper) for Deidre’s boating club’s ‘annual sailing social weekend’. You can find the photos of last year’s event that I went to, here. Click on the down arrow next to ‘Articulate Championships’ and choose March 2005 (10). I’ll try to get some more photos this weekend and put them in this blog.