http://blog.kncell.org Respecting Individuals... Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:01:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All bullies are, or believe themselves to be weak. Believing they could never win in a fair fight, they need to FORCE others to do their will. There are 2 ways to do this. The traditional 'Bully' uses a false sense of power. "Do what I say or I'll beat you up, ... http://blog.kncell.org/2008/08/01/whiney-bullies/ This entry is a continuation of my series on how negative models keep us from thinking clearly about issues. Earlier entries are: "On the Use of Negative Models" & "The Myth of Lift" Let's look at the current paradigm or explanation for how people behave, examine why it doesn't & indeed ... http://blog.kncell.org/2008/08/01/stimulus-response-ass-backwards/ Over the last year I have been following Cesar Mellan 'The Dog Whisperer', reading both of his 2 books and watching his show on the National Geographic channel. Then something struck me, oh how the obvious is so hard to see. When Cesar has what he calls an 'unbalalnced' dog, a ... http://blog.kncell.org/2008/01/19/group-healing/ IF, we are all the same, THEN it is fair to treat everyone the same, and unfair to treat different people differently. However, IF, we are all the different, THEN it is fair to treat everyone differently, and unfair to treat different people the same. In a world of different people, sometimes very different people, there are ... http://blog.kncell.org/2007/10/17/what-is-fair/ This is both a way of thinking and a tool. Example: A central question, or struggle, for many people is: Should I look out for and serve my Self or Others? This has generated many very heated debates. Graphically, let's look at this conflict. Who to help: ... http://blog.kncell.org/2007/07/22/both-a-way-to-understand-conflicts/ Left Brain Creativity and/or Right Brain Editing This topic is very, very personal. I hope it will be a comfort to others who have the same dynamics. This is a topic that is rarely, if ever discussed. I always knew, based on what everyone around me said, that I was 'creative' in ... http://blog.kncell.org/2007/07/17/left-brain-creativity/ Continuing with negative models… Some myths persist for centuries, like the earth being the center of the universe. Some for only a century, like ‘lift’, which supposedly keeps airplanes in the air. Let us look at this carefully, and also trust both our senses, and our minds. Some theoreticians have created an ... http://blog.kncell.org/2007/06/24/the-myth-of-lift/ We have so many negative models around that it is hard to think accurately sometimes. What I mean by negative forces, is explanations that propose a mysterious force, which can't be measured, pushing, or more often pulling things around. Case ... http://blog.kncell.org/2007/06/19/on-the-use-of-negative-models/ We all live in multiple worlds. There is the one shared world of everyday experience, where we bump into trees and get a lump on our heads. There is also the worlds we create in our heads, our own personal map of that shared world. To capture the entire experiential ... http://blog.kncell.org/2007/06/16/experiential-and-abstract-worlds/ This blog has one central theme. To improve many of the worlds most pressing human problems, we must start with total & complete Respect for Individuals. http://blog.kncell.org/2007/06/01/respect-for-individuals-counts/