A Purpose in Life

After writing this out, I realize this is a very opinionated piece. Likely you have a better way of explaining this concept to your own people and self.

This is a really big topic for a group, community even just a lone individual. Someone can spend years thinking about it. What I wish to write about is INDIVIDUALITY–the path an individual takes in life. Since this is not a book, only a single blog post I’ll just touch on it.

Each human being is different. We all are given people to chat with, learn about, be like or not be like. Each one of us makes over 100 decisions in a single day about how we do it. Because of this, each one of us very different no matter what.

Some people try to predict a person’s path in life, even use educated guesses, planning too. What they cannot fully predict are the variety of forces that come upon that person in their life. These can be simple things to complicated influences.

Not everything is at it appears. I learned this. There are all kinds of “face values” that people can easily see, and so many more people can’t. There are obvious things going on, and not so obvious going on within a lifetime of one person.

Influencing others is actually a very natural way of human communication. It is communication. Some do it by example, some do it by explanation, some do it by instruction… and there is the toughest way which is BY FORCE and THREAT, COERCSION. “Being influenced” can cause changes in someone’s hour, day, month, year… lifetime. And most of us are influenced! Reality is, we ARE ALL INFLUENCED. We accept it willingly most of the time. It is what we use the influences for that makes us so individual.

Training is a form of influence. A very different topic. What can be said is, most of us self-train, self-direct and make choices in life.

Choices, even choosing not to make one are what gives us a path in life.

Purpose is what keeps us going. A lot of our choices form our purpose and our purpose(s) form our choices. We all have a “big account” in our soul from which to draw meaning(s). Makes us human. Makes us constant decision makers. My experience in life has shown me it is very human to make choices.

Picking on People

People who are picking on others are NOT WORKING or doing something CONSTRUCTIVE.

I don’t think people should pick on each other. That is NOT what humans are here for on planet Earth… or at home, in school, at work, in places of play, places of sports… list goes on. People committed to “picking” on others means they don’t know what to do with themselves. They honestly DO NOT KNOW HOW TO BE A HUMAN BEING and truly GET THINGS DONE on this planet.

What is really interesting is that “people who pick on others” usually are doing it to the ones who are actually capable and are doing something constructive… for themselves, for others, for the community, for the state, even for the whole world.

If a tormentor is focused on the task of “picking” on someone what is the goal?

“Picking” is not begging. It isn’t just a simple interruption or interference. Sometimes the ones picked on get really hazed, injured, put upon, even defamed… while doing something constructive and helpful to others, or even just themself.

In the wild, an “animal picking on another animal” could be considered “mentally sick” because they are not focused on living itself. They are ignoring basic needs like eating, growing, learning, even interacting in a normal relationship way for socializing.

If a rabbit spent most of its day harassing another rabbit that is eating, gathering food, even being a sentry and looking out for possible predators approaching… what would an animal scientist think?

Theology Homework

Why would I bother to study theology at all and now? I feel it is a missing part of my own experience in life. I have not spent a lot time as a student of any one religion. I wanted to learn about people in general.

Some of the content I will likely write about may be very strong as religions touch upon all things of a life good and bad.

Tammuz, the Cross and Shepherd

I am a beginner in Theology. I am writing out what I am learning and discovering. This writing is subject to future editing and updating.

Tammuz is the both the name of the Cross in Christian literature and culture as well as the name of an ancient deity in Babylon that was a shepherd. Centuries later, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, the Tammuz was a symbol to be feared not embraced.

The story of Jesus Christ as written is about a man who actually sinned in the eyes of the government of his time, and he was violently bound to Tammuz, the Cross as a shepherd of people… a false leader to the formal, organized government of the peoples he was born of.

Was Jesus Christ holy himself? Is he a deity? A human being to be worshiped and followed?

The message Jesus Christ told his followers and general public is that he was dying for the sins of all people. What is not spoken of enough, is that he was labeled a sinner, a real criminal to a whole region of people, beyond his cities and nation. All leaderships (including some of his own followers) voted and insisted he needed to pass away violently and publicly. That is disturbing! As he carried a heavy cross–one of the biggest and heaviest ever through the town he was jeered at, yelled at, spat upon and people turned away from him.

What did we not understand of the message of he, this Jesus of Nazareth? His daily life was to beg for money, food and places to sleep at night. He was NOT known to ask for work. He was also shown to create great miracles to impress and scare people. He worked to turn people away from the local and state government laws and follow his own way of doing things. He essentially created a cult following and performed what in those days was considered witchcraft and black magic–both condemned by high authorities as near as Israel and far as Egypt and across the Ottoman Empire.

What were called miracles in the time of Jesus of Nazareth were known also as black magic and witchcraft. In Egypt, only very educated high officials were allowed by government to perform these extraordinary acts.

Certainly his mother cried for him. He was her son. In today’s world it could be interpreted that he was a creation of her, though The Bible that has his story says, he was NOT her real son, just a son of God. (I wonder now, did he ever pray to the cross or Tammuz for help instead of the One God of the Jews or Egyptians who mostly prayed to the Sun God?)

“Immaculate conception.” Clear creation? Was Jesus Christ an invention of the government to teach people in person what they do not want people to do? Is it possible he and his story is propaganda?

I wonder openly about Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth… if he never performed black magic or something that looked like witchcraft in his time he would have lived to an old age instead of a violent death bound to Tammuz before he was middle aged? He appears to have died for his sins, sacrificed for his sins as leader in activism.

Would Jesus Christ have been so named if he were not most shamefully bound to Tammuz in death? Would he have been such an important figure in religious literature if he hadn’t gone to the maximum sentencing by the government of his time?

If Jesus did live, do we need him back again? Do we all need someone new to live on planet Earth and “die for all our sins” as they and we “pray to god”?

(0d3 to Live By, Is it a Religion?

This is a very opinionated piece of writing. You don’t need to believe in it at all.

“(0d3” = code.

Been watching people from all kinds of places in geography and mind my whole life. I realize even those with a committed religion, most people have an individual code they live by.

Why do I bring this up? I feel people are not as committed to it as they should be. They may deviate hourly, even by the minute to sway with the winds and tides of life. Is it reasonable to float your will and mind to accommodate peace or contest with others?

Everything upon the Earth is moving all the time, should where you stand also? Should you be shifting your feet all the time? Is every person around you that different and not-in-sync with what you are? I found myself this way over and over again in my life. I was always different, very individual.

Looking back at my own history and things witnessed… when will all people of Earth know each other without seeing each other? Will there ever be a world-round complete balance of all minds?

Until then, most of us try to be a person that can get along with many others. Fitting in, being a participant and not an observer.

“the Houston Water Pull”

(repost from Twitter/X)

Boosting this in a regular way for people to refer to. I’m not looking for money on this. This is goodwill during a time of crises. Actually, stood with adults a long time ago, perhaps even in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. after a big rainstorm and witnessed the waters everywhere. Told as a child, too much trouble to develop a system even though we tossed around legitimate ideas. Realize now, I was with people NOT ENTIRELY WELCOME THERE. Since that time I have visited Houston, mostly flying or driving through. It is a beautiful city!

Openly bringing this up for all to think about, maybe develop a better idea than me!

The Houston Water Pull

brief digital sketch illustration showing source water, pullpump tower and direction of flow to a new reservoir.

This idea is to use a very tall tower with a pump to pull water from a source area and up high enough to create a siphon effect on the other side such that once started, the pull of the water can continue without the pump running. This could be built in a series of pump towers to pull water across a long distance. There is an opportunity to even utilize the reservoirs as a source for a water purifier system. There is also a possibility the high pressure flow of the downhill water could be partially used for hydropower generation or other machinery–even creating a push-pump to increase speed and pressure of the water flow to help it go further.

I cannot make money off this system. I don’t think the idea is original. Just bringing it up for conversation. As I write this, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. is very flooded from Hurrican Beryl. If this system is created elsewhere, it could move water out of a flooded areas to dry areas that do not have a connection to a river.

The reference of “Thanks Houston for not mrdring me,” in the illustration above comes from one of my first visits in life to the city. I was mis-identified as a dangerous gang member!

Adding: Turbulent has a small system for hydropower–in mind. I have no verification they actually produce these units and sell them. Just another idea to chat about?

https://www.thecivilengineer.org/news/special-hydropower-plant-can-be-deployed-in-a-week-and-could-power-up-to-60-homes

“Foreign policy” in the U.S.A. that is non-governmental. It can look very negatively mental.

Here is an example I want to write about. It is based on observations of more than one group of people. It is an illustration of what went on not pointing at a specific individual or group of people. This problem could be happening all over the world, not just the United States obviously.

A foreigner comes to the U.S. and gets good work. It could cause jealousy from their home country so much they send hit people to mess them up HERE… in the U.S.A. Then the hit men need enough work to stay. They may leave and if that original person stays, they may struggle their whole life because they got so damaged. They may have come on their own, may have been trafficked with the plan to mess them up. Or trafficked to get them away from their own country–like banishing them.

What if the original foreigner stays, not wealthy even ruined AND the hit people stay also? What if the original foreigner was supposed to be a leadership person for a gang or group of people in the U.S.A. and they are ruined, the hit people never leave…or the hit people are the gang or group who hit their leader over and over and more people within their group who make some money, but not enough for their own family? This example began with ONE PERSON coming to the U.S.A. Over time, this could involve thousands of people daily.

Taking Care of Planet Earth – a “Fish Cannon”

Helping the planet is such a big topic, I am going to make it real small right now by writing about this little invention. A “fish cannon” shows many wins. Simply: The fish that needed to get upstream are given a man-made device to do it, and humans get regular work assisting.

It is the job of the human race globally to help care for animals on planet Earth. In this example humans are overseeing, attending to a species that is also used as food. Food is important, isn’t it? And developing “live food” that is healthy helps us all… and it actually helps the waters it grows in too. So many wins!

Here is one system I am familiar with. Visited a future site when I was a youth and talked about it with other youths and adults. I didn’t realize how far it had come until today. Showing a video about it.

Presented by the U.S. Department of Energy, this is one of the many videos online.

The Big Chair

a repost from X.com/former Twitter.com

I keep referring to “my [professional] identity” having been stolen, bought and sold, used by others. THINK OF IT… like a seat at an exclusive business club.

Alone I could not get the chair in the first place, it existed because of people bigger than me. I got to visit and sit in it briefly in life while very defamed and discredited. Personally, I couldn’t afford to keep the seat funded, nor did I have enough friends to tell others to leave it in place. I did help each person who sat in the chair in big or small ways with what I did have. Sure it happens to other small people. It is why I can’t do much in society. Big people sit in that chair all the time.

What is the seat labeled? I’m not certain what the name is these days for the paperwork. It could be under “Steven” or “Mike/Michael/Miguel” or “Donna” or “Sarah” and other possibilities.

The Small Town Soap Box

fictional mini story

There in the middle of a small town square of a few hundred people… was a very practical wooden box about a meter square or three feet at every dimension. Every Friday afternoon before everyone went home for dinner one person stood on the box and spoke of the week’s currents. Another may stand up on it and give some advice, yet another may tell a short story or some jokes and that’s it every week. Who gets to stand on the soapbox? Well it could be the same people, or the whole town could take turns. What if the whole town did take turns and certain people were “always unavailable” when it was their turn?

One day a youth went looking for an older woman who was never taking her turn. He went to her home on the outskirts of town and knocked on the door. “Ma’am? Why haven’t you taken your turn on the box during my whole life? No one even wants to talk about you.”

The old woman was slow to begin then replied, “I stood on the soapbox for an hour in my youth. I was shaking from injuries and malnutrition and told the story about the sister town twenty miles away that was raided and burned to the ground. This town doesn’t even want to look at me because it reminds them of what happened.”