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Name: thomas
Country: United States
State: Missouri
Birthday: 1/23/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: Studying the Dhamma. Application Development/Design. Music Production.
Expertise: Application Development. DBA. Systems Integration/Migration. Site Design. Project Planning/Implementation. Production Recording, Mastering and Composition/Sequencing of Musical Works.
Occupation: Solutions Developer
Industry: Supply-Chain / Logistics / Tra
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AIM:  exerus
Member Since:
11/5/2004
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| Response to Century of SelfMaybe people don't really buy products and services based on the merits of their functionality or practical usefulness. People want whats missing from themselves. People buy feelings, people buy perceptions. People buy who they want to be, but most often who they want to be cannot be bought. Just maybe... The idea that you can become who you want to be through an accumulation of assets and experiences, and that those assets and experiences should be gained through a career and participation in the market ... is false. Maybe the ideal self we all would like to become is a programmed ideal self generated through controlled exposure to experiences in our society , therefore our plans for attaining that self are predictable and so are the feelings and perceptions we feel we need to get there
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| Remembering our TRUTH, releases our FEARS.
Releasing our fears, releases our LAUGHTER, frees us to BE Happy, JoyFULL, Appreciative, GreatFULL, Honoured, Humbled, Blessed.
Releasing our FEARS, empowers us to BE our TRUTH.
-(http://www.twitter.com/radiate)
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| The Mindfulness of MiscommunicationMost would probably like to think that their communication skills are solid, and even if they were not - communication is a rather marginal aspect of application development. Many would realize sooner than later that most of the challenge in developing an application is not design or implementation related. Most of the challenges arise from effectively communicating and understanding requirements, limitations and potential issues given planned and unplanned directions in the design/development process.
When preparing to meet with one of the partners at my company, my senior asked me what are the obstacles that prevent me from effectively communicating my thoughts with a specific audience.
- When i feel my argument is weak, i take the conversation into other
sometimes unrelated directions that i feel are stronger.
- I try to sell the audience and come up with rebuttals for their concerns , causing me to only evaluate their responses from a defensive perspective. Hearing & Reacting vs. Listening & Responding
- I have trouble listening to responses because i'm too busy formulating my next response.
- When the audience has concerns and I have a history with the audience which is even distantly personal in nature, I tend to take their questioning and concern regarding my points in a personal manner. As if their retorts were attacks at my worthiness of character or value as an employee/person.
The first step to addressing a challenge is to recognize and understand it. I am my own manager, and developing introspection skills to identify/catch potential communication barriers before the fact has been a valuable trait in my professional life. The more I look at it, the more I realize that the same barriers are present in my personal life as well.
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| Jerry Fallwellthrowing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen. - Jerry Falwell
What happened in this man's life to make him so full of suffering? He holds so much contempt for so many people. Anyone who doesn't believe in God and his brand of Christianity is evil to him. He acts so threatened, he seems so fragile and vulnerable. I honestly feel that several things happened to him at an early age that made him resent the secular world. He finds comfort in his role as he sees it with respect to society's adherence to scripture. So do certain Muslim extremists. He is just as hell-bent on forcing people into religious law as he sees it as Muslims hope that the world will escape Jahiliyyah and become enlightened by following the Sharia. Jerry Falwell is a Christian extremist. He may not seem violent, however I would compare the effect of his tongue to that of Sayyid Qutb.
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| Infinite DebtI came to a point where I encountered a long forgotten pattern of emotional self destruction. I would ponder how there is no one around me, and therefore, no one cares and no one is concerned about me. I would conclude that I do not matter and ponder all my insecurities and perceived inadequacies till I would feel so bad that I would physically hurt inside and become sick.
Upon contemplating the nature of good and evil in my understanding of the world, I came to the conclusion that the greater consciousness (the aggregate of systems) in its divine mercy has given me so much .. abstract wealth. There is so much in the world that exists because of nature of our environment on this world. Its been so conducive to our flourishing as a global civilization. There is so much, aesthetic quality , even in the ugly , even in the sickening stimuli that crawl to and fro in the nether regions of my sub consciousness. There is so much expression , freely given to man. It seems to me, that even in one who is suffering to an indescribable degree, the fundamental gift of the greater consciousness to man is our individual consciousness, our position as an element of the greatest element. Our place in the grand design , regardless of how small it seems ... is still a place given , our lives are each an opportunity to change the world forever. No matter how little man has , no matter how much suffering one goes through, there is still ample providence and fortune for our potential so much that to not reciprocate this generosity, I feel is inherently the definition of spiritual death. The greater consciousness has given so much at the risk of its own destruction by the elements that together and as an aggregate, determine its nature (us). There is a loving higher consciousness out there, that regardless of what we do , or how little we acknowledge its existence, still affords to us the opportunity to be immortal through our words and actions in our time in this world.
How can I sit idly by in complacent squalor composed of those emotionally stagnant patterns of thought that in the end, hinder me and do no good to others in this world. How can I do nothing for others, when the higher consciousness has set such a grand example of relentless compassion and altruistic affection for our individuality. Its true, I feel infinitely obligated to return the favor and reciprocate all that I have been given. I should relentless express the nature of my love for the consciousness and all it has provided for me.
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