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  1. What kind of teams are you on?

    Infinite Perspectives · Carl Dickson · 02/01/2024 01:47 AM

    Add to George’s list: Innovation, inspiration, incomparable, ideal, imaginative, ideal, impassioned, inalienable, improving, industrious, influential, inquisitive, insightful...
    Give me a team made of individuals who have chosen to work together and we can do anything.
    But a team made of people compelled to contribute? Eff that kind of team. Is it even a team if you are required to join it? Should a team ask for support or can a team require your support?
    What kind of teams do you belong to? And why?
    What kind of teams do you avoid? And why?
    How do you interact with others who are on the same teams?
    How do you interact with others who are not?
    Now let’s consider some real world examples that you might not have thought of…
    … about this thing called "patriotism." What kind of patriot are you? What is it really that you support? And do you expect others to also identify themselves the same way?
    ... about this thing called "government." From what does it derive its authority? What are the limitations on that authority? And should it be able to compel support?
    … about this thing called a “job.” What do you give it? What do you get out of it? What permissions have you given it? What rules have you accepted? What limitations are there to those rules. What conditions do you impose? Are you a team? Do you steal from it? Does it steal from you?
    … about this thing called “marriage” or “family” or being on an airplane or in a crowd or so many other things. What rules do you accept? What rules are forced on you? What are the limitations to those rules? What support do you choose to give? What support is required from you?
    What rules or ethics do you think you support, and what rules or ethics do you practice in reality?
    Do you contradict yourself? We all do from time to time. Do your rules vary depending on circumstances? Do they do that with or without contradiction?
    What does the teams you are on and the way you participate say about who you are?

  3. Being the change we want to occur

    Infinite Perspectives · Carl Dickson · 02/01/2024 01:38 AM

    Source:
    https://www.facebook.com/ThomasSowellQuote/posts/pfbid02rzv8vMvQqGZKcnVbg2eb7ECz6ctEeCbabMwJLNNFFLZU7m9PQHo5gNda6VF2EdAPl
    This meme is not about politics. At least not directly.  At least in this moment, try not to look at it that way. This meme can help you see why change in the world requires looking inside and not out.  If you think about it, your own responsibilities and society's responsibilities are often in conflict. Or are they? If they are, how did they get that way? And who decided?  But most important of all, was it necessary?
    Because if it was necessary, why didn't you take responsibility before someone else had to make a decision about it?  People can differ regarding what is necessary. Perhaps getting along with each other requires a shared understanding of what is necessary.  And if we want to minimize the need for group solutions based on necessity, perhaps we should take more personal responsibility for things instead of less. The more we issues resolve as individuals, the less we need to impose on others for.
    This is important, because the meme shows that imposing responsibility on others has inherent contradictions if not they are properly handled the imposition will do more harm than good.
    If you take responsibility, not only for the things you do, but also for the things that affect you, the things you affect, and where you can for things that are causing problems that you aren't involved in but can help mitigate, we'll need a lot less imposition to live together. Maybe even none. This change doesn't start by changing others. It's impossible to achieve through imposition. It starts within each one of us. Voluntarily being the change we want to occur. 
    Freedom and imposition directly conflict. Freedom requires individuals that take a great deal of responsibility.

  4. Why we've come together to create LearnGrowRepeat

    Infinite Perspectives · Carl Dickson · 02/01/2024 01:33 AM

    We’ve come together to grow beyond our conditioning and live free of the contradictions that box us in, hold us back, and make the world seem worse than it has to be. We’ve come together to share a minimal set of principles that we have in common, as a way to work together, explore, learn, grow, consider, and live to our full potential.
    We share some of the same basic questions
    The answers to these questions must be discovered and not dictated.
    Who am I? What are my values? How should I manage my relationships? How do I recognize truth and falsehood? Am I wrong? Am I missing some other way of looking at it? How should I make decisions? What is right and wrong? What can we learn from each other? How can I get along without meaningful compromise or conflict? The approach to discovering the answers matters more than the answers themselves As an example, take discovering the truth. There is no shortage of people ready to tell you what the truth is. There are over 4,000 recognized religions on Earth. That means that most, if not all, of them are wrong. At least to the extent that they contradict each other. And let’s not even discuss how many politicians, experts, and salespeople cross the line and try to dictate the truth to you. The approach to discovering the truth matters more than who is describing it or even what they are describing.
    We don’t seek someone that we trust to tell us the answers and then assume the answers are true because that is what we were told. We trust because we find the approach to discovering the answers to be valid. The Perspectives Council is a thought school for teaching the approaches we’ve found to be valid, testing them in practice, improving them over time, and constantly integrating them into our lives to make life better.

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