DISCERNING DISTINGUISHING DECIDING & DOING

THESE ARE THE EXCERPTS FROM THE MEETING OF THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSITIONS WORKSPACE SESSION HELD ON FEBRUARY 18TH 2018. WE EXAMINED DISTINCTIONS CHARACTERIZED BY 4 D's.
BLAME: The succor for all SUCKERS.  Yes! We all have all fallen victim, been falsely accused or unjustly punished. It seems that being blamed make us look guilty.  The way we want to see "our view" is free of blame.  Blame needs a point of  focus; anything or anyone will do.  Using "it" and "they" as descriptors is the cowardly way of pointing indirectly to someone or something else in the system.(THEBLAMEGAME) Blame is easily directed and deflected, but rarely owned or taken. The art of deflection is the action used to maintain the perception of what we want others to think, a part of "our view."  One of the most dangerous practices we can have in this lifetime is to interpret life according to our own biases.  "Study the lie and they will tell you more lies.  Study the truth  and you will recognize the lie when it comes."  All lies have gaps in planning and thought; authenticity and feelings or both.  All of our conversations, comprised of imperfect thoughts, are subject to imprecise delivery.  Failure at some point is guaranteed. We can responsibly "take blame" or through accusations "place blame".(THEBLAMEGAME) We all portray ourselves publicly through a pretentious perfectly polished shade of deception. We perpetrate, manage and perpetuate our personal partial portrait of our values. Taking blame removes "blames" power. Placing blame delivers despair, finds faults, tracks blunders, files forgiveness and keeps a tally of failures.  We use blame to exonerate, deflect, and represent. To maintain deceit we must constantly reinforce it with lies.  We lie to save face to deceive others, or to paint a face to impress others.

FAILURE:  A true teacher and best friend. Although affiliated with blame, failure walks hand in hand with life's lessons. Failure is a teacher, while blame is an accuser. Failure's main purpose in life is educational. Our fear of failure is a learned phenomenon that reverses it role. This misunderstanding causes us to overlook or eliminate the best fix.  Failure is impartial but not deceitful; it never tries to hide from us although we try to hide it. Every lesson failure teaches makes it more and more valuable. It is the examination of mistakes along with practical improvements that creates progress. We must focus on our weaknesses not our strengths to get better. This core element of our system teaches us to disclose, exposure and deal with (strengthen) faults, shortcomings and weaknesses, not bury them. Shame is the source of scandal and secrets.  Shame remembers and works through unforgiveness to revive the past and re-experience those same manifestations in the present. Shame employs deceptive and pretentious practices to hide behind.  Failure, in its proper context, defines without accusing and marks without marring. Failure sets our standard above par.  We can gauge failure with the meter of life. We can recognize or penalize it.  How does your meter operate?  How does it fit into "our view?"

SHAME: Blame's little sister. Blame re-lives and reminds us of the painful  humiliating and distressful feelings resulting from a misapplied consciousness of failure.  Shame can cause us to misrepresent ourselves. There is a lot of darkness in this world but darkness disappears when light appears.  Light has many similarities with, and works like failure.  It exposes and illuminates; it reveals that it may heal and it chastens us as it chases us.  Shame avoids light. Shame shades and covers.  The grey areas of life define themselves privately.  Whatever level of sensitivity and privacy we give to a matter characterizes it. How we talk about and label it defines it.  Whatever we isolate or fail to deal with must be hidden or disguised.  Anything hidden or disguised is either highly treasured or a source of embarrassment.  But life is impartial; it treats everything and everyone identically.  It rains upon the "just and the unjust alike." Chastening purpose is for strengthening not demeaning us.  So why do we hide our weaknesses?  Why not "lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for our feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed."  Life design is to evolve towards better.  Life progresses in every area except in those we choose not to include in "our view."

LIFE: Life is about change, growth and transition; however we find comfort in the fixed, routine and stable.  Life is not about interdependence. Interdependence is life.  We do not live alone. We have never lived alone.  The essence of our life is defined by the impact it has on other lives.  Our endeavors are not intended to produce consequences.  Our initial efforts are intended to produce results, but if we misunderstand the system we live in, some of the by-products of our thinking and actions will end up being counterproductive.  As informed individuals we have a responsibility to effect change.  But information alone doesn't change anything.  It is transformation that initiates change. What is our purpose in the universe, in life and on this planet?  Apart from all the issues that influence, affect or impact us; we are here to enhance people and fix problems.  To fulfill this mission we must become our best selves. Our best selves are reflected through what we do and say to help others.  Our experiences are the measure of our mission.  When our experiences fail to align with what's in the best interest of our world we are missing the mark.  For God so loved the whole world not just a particular part of it.

EXPERIENCE: This is one of life's best teachers.  As we experience life and take in information we define and/or interpret it. Most importantly we must make distinctions.  Recognizing the similarities and differences between defining and interpreting, love and hurt, listening and hearing, correct and right, looking and examining, reasoning and theorizing, deceiving and lying, and addiction and balance will assist us if we call a spade a spade.  We may divide information into two categories either a "threat" or a "get."  A "threat" does not mesh or coincide smoothly into our thinking.  A "get" agrees and fits in effortlessly.  As we interpret individual experiences we assigned a value on our scale of efforts and endeavors.  Although we use different scales and units of measure we generally agree that it's not worth the effort if the hassle outweighs the hustle.  The best predictor of future behavior is pertinent past behavior.

INTERPRETATION:  Let's call it the subjective ally of right fighters. Now everyone can have their own personal truth whether it's true or not!  What a tragedy.  We all need an authorative standard to measure up to. The problem is systemic. Balancing human rights, labor rights, women's rights, gay rights, civil rights, animal rights, gun rights and individual rights are all involved.  How do we reconcile or prioritize them. YOU TRY IT!
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THE DILEMMA:  Making a choice between two or more alternatives is difficult but not impossible. Guns don't kill people.  People kill people!  Consciousness creates moral authority that trumps any policy. Our spacial awareness is local; our connected impact is global but our understanding has stalled.  We now live in an ever expanding, exponentially increasing, INTERDEPENDENT world where we lack the consciousness to coexist.  Our interdependence is growing  extraordinarily throughout the world, but it is happening without humanity responding properly to it.   Anyone can hold a position take a stand or keep a tradition, but only a select few can ascend and evolve to the next level.  All knowledge is partial and all intelligence is progressive. Life and its lessons are evolving. Constant course corrections work in our favor if we are honest enough to recognize and "call out" all errors without embarrassment. We need the mind to hear God's voice, with sense enough to recognize God's plan,  strength enough to walk that path and courage enough to practice and sustain it.