My last entry was almost ten (10) days ago, so it is about time to make one. And today I have a good reason, because I finally was able to post by Left_Hand_Work book1 on my web site with its new design. This involves the use of Ajax techniques that prevent the blinking effect when enlarging picture.

Getting this all to work with the newly designed layout of the book1 webpage as well, was what kept me away from making any daily entries for the last week or so. Some fine tuning remains, but the bulk of it is now complete and functions. Four more books are in waiting, but the design pattern is more or less firm the way it is.

I am also working on my up coming talk and for this I have used notes so far, but I now need to give it a more definite frame work and the fleshing out and firming up, will have to start.
This aft a visit to Sharen, now that the weather is snow free. Tomorrow a coffee visit with John, with on Friday lunch with Herman. Last Monday Jack was back in town and we had a much delayed coffee visit at the Perk.

My friend Jeltsje, who spends the winters in Southern Egypt, is getting ready to go back to ‘Kikkerland’. She mentioned that law and order are becoming more of an issue, with the police hanging back and the Islamic type rules becoming more prominent. The Arabic spring is like Calgary’s, slow in coming and not all that well defined in appearance.

I would like to make a few notes regarding my planned talk titled “My Belief Explored”, which has about half a dozen points and it is the last one that I want to write on a bit.

This talk closing I have called ‘significance of the human experience’, having the aspects of adaptation and re-orientation. With adaptation I mean that we should honour the traditions of our past, but adapt them to the requirements of the present. This point is relatively clear to me right now, but the ‘re-orientation’ I want to elaborate a bit more, as follows.

All human traditions share the notion that humans are inadequate and need to make improvements. Zoroaster advised good thoughts, good words and good deeds, while the Brahmins advised to be as pure as possible. The Lao-Tzu taught non attachment, while Buddha preached being in harmony. The Semitic cultures teach right action - Ortho Praxis - whereas the Christianity pronounces right teachings - Ortho Doxus - as the way. The Ancient Egyptians aimed at maintaining order - Ma’at - , while the Mayans controlled future event through time.

The authority in all these belief frame works reminded humans that their present state was insifficient and needed to be improved. Each one of these frame works defined also a way forward from this state of inadequacy.

We are in charge and we are responsible and would be well advised to heed our own past as humankind.

If we - as moderns - reassess this notion of inadequacy, we can see that we did make many improvements while we, as Homo Sapience, populated all the continents, going from - for instance - stone spear points to satellites. Or, more significantly, now are able to house over seven billion human beings on this planet in relative peace, with warfare being limited to less than five percent of our world population.

We may first conclude then, that improvements have proven to be possible over the foregoing period of 60k-years and secondly that we now may also observe, that by adapting the handed down traditions to our modern times, we can shed the notion that humans are inherently in need of improvement. This old notion must be changed to one of being quite capable of making improvements, which then puts the responsibility for this right on our own shoulders. This defines our modern and post-modern situation:
“We are in charge and we are responsible and would be well advised to heed our own past as humankind.”
<9:52am, with editing~