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Saturday, October 26, 2013

1) Introductory Info (Read this 1st)

In time as more people join this project, we will be able to add and update information with their help.  The information will be added as one of three possible format.  If it comes in videos format, then it will be posted on the YouTube account associated with the project site.  If it comes in pictorial format such as architectural drawings, then it will be posted on the main Tumblr website under the "posts" tab.  And if it comes in text format then it will be posted as a blog like this one, which is also linked from the Tumblr site.

You must understand that building a community is a complex and arduous task.  It require enormous amount of information to be successful, something that cannot be communicated in a few conversations.  One cannot just condense a few hundred years of information into just a few email here and there.  We have spent most of our lives doing the leg work gathering all these information,  so it is not something that we can just convey with a few conversations.  So please bear that in mind when you wish to know more about this project.  Don't just simply say I like to get more information, please be specific as to what area of information that concern you the most and would like to know more of.  When someone is genuinely interested in the project, we would begin the process of teaching them, in order to transfer what we know to them; and this is not a short process.

To illustrate the point here is an example.  Many who join a start up community focused their energy on building and establishing the community, but did not spend time & energy to consider what are needed to maintain that community in the long run.  The numerous ghost towns and failed commune through out history is a testament to this lack of foresight.  Thus learning from history, in order to assure the success of this community project, we had to spend time researching into the different viking start up villages, the different early American colonist communities, the different cowboy and mining towns in Western United States.  We then had to look for the repeating pattern of success as well as patterns of repeated failure, so that this community project will know what to implement and what to avoid.  We had to do comparative analysis between communities that succeed and those that failed and identified the contributing factors.  For instance, why did the Mayflower colonist succeed while those of James town failed?  Even though they both start out with similar population size and similar technology level, and even though  they both faced harsh challenges.  Why was it that the Mayflower people was able to establish friendly relation with the Native people and pull together during tough time, while the people of Jamestown made enemy of the Natives and turn on each other during tough time?  The people of Jamestown even cannibalized each other.  There was something fundamentally different in the way the Mayflower people think & acted and in the way the Jamestown people think & acted that affected their outcome.


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Before contacting us, please make sure to read all the numbered blogs we've posted so far. Though they are not comprehensive, they should answer many of the questions you might have. There are still much more information to be released in the future. The rate of release is determine by time availability to produce and publish them.  If you still have specific questions after reading, then please feel free to ask. We encourage specific questions, it will help us to develop our comprehensive FAQ (frequently ask questions) page.  Therefore, when you do contact us; please include a line letting us know that you have read our posted blogs.  If we do not see this line, then we will simply respond with a standard reply directing you to read our posted blogs first before we will proceed with further communication.

(Note: Everything that is posted or videos linked on our You Tube Channel are meant to provide the viewers with information regarding the purpose & vision of our project, the logic & reasoning behind it, and the plan of actions showing how we plan to accomplish it.  We are a non-political "rescuer-type" organization, so we have no interest in wasting our time getting involve in any tug of war over political issues, no interest in convincing people nor in changing people minds.  Our goal is to evacuate the innocents and penitents who are awaken, who are in need of a helping hand to get out.  We focus our energy constructively in getting people out of harm's way as a community, not as individual.  Therefore, (purpose wise, vision wise) we lay bare our cards on the table, so the viewers can make informed decisions whether to join or to collaborate with us.
     In the event that our communication was unclear or if it failed to address unanticipated concerns that the viewers might have, then we encourage specific questions.  This will give us the opportunity to clarify things or to expand upon the info already given to address the viewers concerns.  However, please do not ask statistical nor generalized probing questions into our organization.  It is rude and of poor etiquette.  If a stranger comes knocking at your door and start asking questions about who are your friends, where are they, what assets do you have or where are these assets?  Would you not find such questions disconcerting and rude?  So please be respectful when you communicate with us.  Beside, if a person is truly interested in our vision and our project, their questions should revolve around subject matters related to the project, and not around who we are.  What is more important, the messenger or the message being delivered?  Should it matter who the postman is?  For prideful people, the outward appearance of the postman matter.  But for humble penitent people, the outward appearance of the postman is of no importance.  What is of importance is the letters and packages being delivered by the postman.


People will naturally come to know us as they collaborate with us.  Trust is best established when people work together to achieve a common goal and vision; because as we work together, we will come to know each other true self.  For example, a prospective employee can buff and embellish his resume all he wants, but the truth will come out when he is actually employed and is asked by the employer to perform those tasks he claimed he can do.  Therefore, it is inefficient for us to waste time going into detail about our organization.  The longer people collaborate with us, the more they will come to know about us.)

Understand that all the linked videos on our YouTube Channel, and the blogs posted so far are not icing on the cake.  They are not there for decorations.  They are the meats, the substances with which we establish effective and efficient communications.  We communicate using an advanced hybrid language system (a hybrid of the language of the arts and the language of letter & science).  All language system and ciphering system start out teaching vocabularies, upon which sentences are created to communicate complex thoughts and understanding to others.  The linked videos and blogs serve to provide background knowledge and background understanding, (the equivalent of vocabularies) so that you can comprehend our communications.



Because we are a civilized organization, we needed a way to filter out violent people.  Violent people by nature are short-temper, argumentative, and impatient.  A non-threatening means of filtering out violent people is to make people read, which require patience.  (Remember: Violent ignorant people do not like to spend time reading, while peaceful intelligent people have the necessary patience to read, ponder & critically analyze what they read).  The Shaolin Monks in the ancient days applied similar understanding to filter out violent people, who wanted to join so they can learn martial art for evil intention.  Thus, instead of rejecting a person outright, the monks would simply let a person wait outside the monastery gate, and waited, and waited, and waited.  A violent person would not have the patience to wait around, they would get bored and left.  So instead of the monks rejecting the violent person, it is the violent person who rejected the monks; thus, there's no animosity nor resentment toward the monks.  When violent people are rejected, they tend to harbor resentment and animosity toward those who have rejected them.  For example, a disgruntled employee who has been fired (i.e. rejected) by the employer.  Another example is a jilted lover who is angry for being drop.  Similar filtering system is employed in modern day University.  A professor doesn't kick out a student from his/her class for not doing the reading assignment.  If a person doesn't do the assigned readings, he/she will not understand the professor lectures, and simply fall further and further behind as the course progresses.  At some point, the person will become bored because he/she doesn't understand anything the professor says, and simply quit the course.  If you truly are a peaceful person yearning to be a part of building a peaceful community, then it is very important that you spend the time to read the blogs and pay attention to the linked videos on our You Tube Channel.  There is a reason why we have invested our time to write these blogs and link these videos.  These videos and blogs are like color tiles in a mosaic picture, or like different letters cut out from different magazines and rearrange into sentences to communicate.  By themselves they might not hold much meaning; but collectively, they formed a picture that communicate hidden complex messages.  As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.









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1 comment:

  1. Very helpful and informative introduction. I find your message clear and to the point. I went back to read it again to be sure I understood the ideas presented there. Also I m taking notes as I study your blogs. Thanks.
    G Roman

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