Clean energy, strong body, clear mind.

Clean energy, strong body, clear mind.

It’s Not about Me

Happy Holidays

This blog is dedicated to great thinkers and great thoughts. Many are gone but their spirits live on in their words.  The ideas they gave us live on unless we act foolishly and stupidly ignore them. Stop listening to dummies preaching and wise up. You may wonder what I’m doing just sitting here thinking. Watch these short videos and learn. Then sit and think for yourself: then get up and do something that makes sense.

This is the first generation that realizes they must do their own thinking.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

B. Fuller (C: 1974)

I happened upon Bucky in Philadelphia in 1977. He was a fascinating guy to watch from two tables distance. Watch his hands. He talks with his whole body and uses words he created. Listen close or you may get lost.

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Listen closely and check out related videos. Hear what Bucky has to say. Listen to him. He is one of my favorite heroes without a cape.

Charity Rewards Network

Charity is compassion in action. Good thoughts, good words, good deeds are the signs of a charitable heart and a compassionate soul. I am very interested in having others express themselves on this idea, this concept, this behavior, attitude, feeling called, ‘Charity’.

While recovering from an injury suffered training Marines, I discovered that charity is in short supply when you need it. That’s because charity is not really what anyone needs to get: Charity is what people need to give. Charity provides a n avenue for expressing that which cannot otherwise find expression. We need more charity in the world.

Imagine if our leaders were all charitable souls. How differently they would approach their offices and their others. Charity is an expression of love. An attitude of caring to repair and empowering to walk on in faith if not in comfort.  Still on target with its original objective, Charity Rewards Network was founded to funnel giving to supported causes.

————– original model using the HELP card ——————–

The model social community cares enough about its own financial problems to creates a perpetual fundraiser in order to achieve a significant financial objective.

Here’s how the perpetual fundraiser and community that cares works:

1. Businesses pay our members for shopping with them by providing a rebate upon acceptance of the Charity Rewards HERO card.
2. Our members share at least half of their rebates with their favorite charity.
3. Charities maximize their donations by promoting the businesses providing rebates to their network.
4. Charity supporters join together to shop the merchants a pledged amount to achieve a set objective.

What is created is a network of virtuous triangles of support between merchants, consumers and charities. Charity Rewards Network provides the platform that makes it all possible. I am most interested in having our business model examined, criticized, and publicized. I am especially interested in having it looked at for inclusion by TED and BFI, as I believe it is fully compliant with and deserving of the Buckminster Fuller Prize.

A Salve for Trying Times

Trying times such as these remind me of the biblical story of loaves and fishes. The miracle happened when a horde of selfish people gave freely of their personal resources to strangers.  The few fed the multitudes and all went away physically, spiritually, and socially fulfilled.

Trying times make connecting with those around us more important than ever. Connecting means opening yourself up to others not clinging to them. The latter only works for getting to fertile networking ground.  Social networking is a great way to be open and private at the same time. Web sites Reunion.com and  Classmates.com provide great forums for reconnecting with school mates. This greatly expands your opportunities for reaching into your own personal roots and discovering pearls of wisdom that can change your life. Now!  Get started. Join one or both and build a complete profile.

This is important: Put some pics in so we can remember who your were when we knew you. Invite others to join. Remember who you were. Remember your dreams. Remember your passion. Passion is life.

Remember how kids swear allegiance to one another. “Friends forever!” Then go their separate ways to mark upon the world. Time passes and people drift apart. Still, in times of trouble we think of our friends and the “Hey!” days of our youth. The question is: how do you help a friend if you don’t know his/her needs? How do you say, “Helo.”?

Now the world lays heavily on many of us. The broken economy has financially wiped some out who worked hard and lived without frills to invest and save for retirement. Jobs are being lost and some have needs but see few solutions. A percent or two have accumulated or have control over great resources. Some want to help but no longer have contact with their old friends. If you are reading this then you can help by completing your profile as fully, and honestly,  as possible and taking part in the discussions.

Share what you know about jobs and maybe help an old friend get a leg up.  Read stories and send support in ways that make you feel good. Helping someone else doesn’t mean hurting yourself. Offer your services broadly and professionally.  Shower the few and the very deserving with your personal attention, as it pleases you.

In the connected world we live in, it is as if all of us are together in the  best of ways. Sharing what you know that can help another person without jeopardizing yourself is just like the sharing of loaves and fishes. And the miracle continues in these trying times. Nice to know, isn’t it, that giving your wisdom and good will are part of the miracle of abundance.

Connect with your youth. Check out Reunion.com and ClassMates.com.