All worldviews agree: there is a need to take care of Mother Earth. Mother Earth for this blogger is not the uterus of human life. It is the sustainer of it. If indeed macro-evolution is truth, then the billions of years for the planet's existence is the time frame for which she was the sustainer of life's origins to include Homo Sapiens. This blogger is quick to say that based on his musings on biospheric life using the tool of philosophy: nothing comes out of nothing. There must be a cause to produce the effect. There must be a designer and purpose to make-up this reality. And based on scientific data: genetic mutations are regressive not evolutionarily progressive. Darwnistic evidence is getting more near zero as the fossil diggings have gone deeper.
Stewardship of nature, environmental management..call it with whatever name...we are to be leaders of nature, the biosphere. This is the home we share with the rest of living organisms.
This blogger does not want to join the politics of this issue. The politicking going on is destroying the earth more than leading it. The shouting to the other camp, the violence, the emotions..these pollute the spirit of this earth. So, this blogger has one word.
If we are to lead the biosphere: balance man's need along with the available resource.
The 'green activists' follow the lines of bias towards the biosphere. They sometimes kill the inhabitant Mankind in the process. The 'conservative' conserve Man over the resource.
This blogger will live within his means as a rule in life. He cannot speak for others but can encourage to do the same. As we lead people to live austere lives, we unstuff, we unclutter, we enjoy more freedom of movement. We pursue green technologies. This is the balancing act, the leadership we will do for the biosphere. It is a dream, it is our dream.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
In the Life Realm Man is Leader-designate
Who is really being led by who? That is the question!
There is the movement for women's rights. There is this eternal battle of the sexes. This blog is not against reforms in societal structures that oppress women. This is to put men and women roles in proper perspective.
The false assumption is that when the dice of gender leadership was rolled, it favored the male. There is the perceived need to ditch the Book. The book SEEMS to favor the oppressive male leadership dominance.
Before we throw the baby with the bathwater, we should be clear as to which is what. Beyond the book, we know that, yes the men are the head. But the undeniable truth is that women are the necks. They turn the head. The queens and princesses have also ruled the territory. Egalitarianism does exist.
A shout from a mountain to echo on the valley to the next hill is this message:the Book really prescribes that the husband and maledom be servant leaders. Husbands are even asked in Scriptures to give.... to love their wives as they love themselves. They are to give their lives for the other. This is a truth that should cause feminine salvation.
The ladies' world(even when they are CEO's or country's Presidents) are to use their uniquely-women leadership styles to meet for the 50% which men can't do. Both are to be stewards of the biosphere. Both are to make themselves prosperous out of the goldmine of human, plant, animal and elemental resource. God was to be the benevolent Commander-in-Chief. Both were to be leader-partners.
We know the story. Adam and Eve were vying for Commander-in-thief status. Out of their self-centered egos, each wanted to get out of a leadership partnership. Partnership in leadership means a lot of humility. But, one was jockeying position over the other. The Eden story can be made into a graphic movie of that struggle that led to the demise of mankind.
We see that movie replayed and lived out today: Spousal abuse, divorce, paricide, matricide, suicide, husband killing wives and vice versa, children bludgeoning parents, incest, abused and neglected children, single parenting, co-dependency....... the list continues ad nauseam.
God did not make ONLY male. God did not make ONLY female. The Book says MALE AND FEMALE are to be stewards and enjoyers of the the biosphere. In the brokenness of mankind the Three Musketteer Rule must be followed: "One for all and all for one!" That is how we are to play in the post-Edenic world. As leaders we are to make sure that no one is left behind. We are to lead as men and women with our uniquely developed selves hewn out through life's experieces.
We are to lead ourselves as individuals, our families, our villages, our tribes, our nation and the international community. We use the word community because that is appropriate. Society is premised on the principle of laws. Community is premised on the principle of love. We are to lead in love. We are servants, in this realm, to people. We gather our Return of Investments out of our service.
In the midst of these chaos, there are movements that equip leadership. Church, religion, schools and institution for intellectual development, NGO's, governments and many more... all these are very important.
We are social beings. To that, we are social leaders, all of us. We are accountable in this matter. We cannot let go or go out of this responsibility.
That was the first realm where mankind is leader-designate: over its fellow human beings.
We are also to lead in the care of the plant, animal and inanimate world. Adam and Eve was given the responsibility to give names to each of these. One of the most caring tasks we all do is the naming of children. People cannot go through life without a name and make a name for himself/or herself. That was to be the task for Leader-designate team of Man and Woman. They were to name plants and animals, that is to give them value.
The sad sequel to this story is that out of greed, lust and pride, we see the flagrant abuse of Mother Nature.
The extreme stupidity to this picture is when stuff controls the leader. We cannot debate with the truth of what the Book says:"The Love of Money is the root of all evils". We are not totally in a material world. We are not only material girls, boys, men and women. There is an undeniable non-material Self that lives in the material us. By design, we are leaders over stuff. We are to be managers of nature not ruled by it.
When leadership does not balance the value of people and material, we see human suffering rise up. And yes, we have lost so much in the Human Territory of Resource Stewardship.
As leader-designates, we have the wonderful responsibility of managing people and stuff.
These are the areas where we have control.
Leadership and control are mutually inclusive. If you control so much, you might lose your leadership. If you lead so much as to be without control, you lose leadership. We are to have a controlled leadership so we will have influence. We cannot control and lead. We can point directions to lead.
Control needs to be intertwined with leadership. This is how it is.
We can completely control ourselves. We can control our reactions. We can control habits that we can develop. We can control what we pipe-in into our leadership knowledge. This is the first level. This is the level one can completely control.
The next area are people. One can control some people some of the time. But we can never control all people all of the time. But we can be influential and trailblaze for people. This is where many place leadership. Leadership is to have the integrity so one can influence others.
The next area where the variables are getting so out-of-hand is the nature around us. We can subject them to a controlled-environment. But Mother Nature in general has a mind of her own.
But the genius of mankind is inventiveness. We harness the wildness of nature into opportunities.
There it is.
There is a Cosmic Leader. We are leaders in the biosphere. As we do this, we have realized that everything is of, by, and for the Cosmic Leader. But even if one does not believe in a worldview of Intelligent Design, all of us can agree that we are Leaders in the Life Realm.
There is the movement for women's rights. There is this eternal battle of the sexes. This blog is not against reforms in societal structures that oppress women. This is to put men and women roles in proper perspective.
The false assumption is that when the dice of gender leadership was rolled, it favored the male. There is the perceived need to ditch the Book. The book SEEMS to favor the oppressive male leadership dominance.
Before we throw the baby with the bathwater, we should be clear as to which is what. Beyond the book, we know that, yes the men are the head. But the undeniable truth is that women are the necks. They turn the head. The queens and princesses have also ruled the territory. Egalitarianism does exist.
A shout from a mountain to echo on the valley to the next hill is this message:the Book really prescribes that the husband and maledom be servant leaders. Husbands are even asked in Scriptures to give.... to love their wives as they love themselves. They are to give their lives for the other. This is a truth that should cause feminine salvation.
The ladies' world(even when they are CEO's or country's Presidents) are to use their uniquely-women leadership styles to meet for the 50% which men can't do. Both are to be stewards of the biosphere. Both are to make themselves prosperous out of the goldmine of human, plant, animal and elemental resource. God was to be the benevolent Commander-in-Chief. Both were to be leader-partners.
We know the story. Adam and Eve were vying for Commander-in-thief status. Out of their self-centered egos, each wanted to get out of a leadership partnership. Partnership in leadership means a lot of humility. But, one was jockeying position over the other. The Eden story can be made into a graphic movie of that struggle that led to the demise of mankind.
We see that movie replayed and lived out today: Spousal abuse, divorce, paricide, matricide, suicide, husband killing wives and vice versa, children bludgeoning parents, incest, abused and neglected children, single parenting, co-dependency....... the list continues ad nauseam.
God did not make ONLY male. God did not make ONLY female. The Book says MALE AND FEMALE are to be stewards and enjoyers of the the biosphere. In the brokenness of mankind the Three Musketteer Rule must be followed: "One for all and all for one!" That is how we are to play in the post-Edenic world. As leaders we are to make sure that no one is left behind. We are to lead as men and women with our uniquely developed selves hewn out through life's experieces.
We are to lead ourselves as individuals, our families, our villages, our tribes, our nation and the international community. We use the word community because that is appropriate. Society is premised on the principle of laws. Community is premised on the principle of love. We are to lead in love. We are servants, in this realm, to people. We gather our Return of Investments out of our service.
In the midst of these chaos, there are movements that equip leadership. Church, religion, schools and institution for intellectual development, NGO's, governments and many more... all these are very important.
We are social beings. To that, we are social leaders, all of us. We are accountable in this matter. We cannot let go or go out of this responsibility.
That was the first realm where mankind is leader-designate: over its fellow human beings.
We are also to lead in the care of the plant, animal and inanimate world. Adam and Eve was given the responsibility to give names to each of these. One of the most caring tasks we all do is the naming of children. People cannot go through life without a name and make a name for himself/or herself. That was to be the task for Leader-designate team of Man and Woman. They were to name plants and animals, that is to give them value.
The sad sequel to this story is that out of greed, lust and pride, we see the flagrant abuse of Mother Nature.
The extreme stupidity to this picture is when stuff controls the leader. We cannot debate with the truth of what the Book says:"The Love of Money is the root of all evils". We are not totally in a material world. We are not only material girls, boys, men and women. There is an undeniable non-material Self that lives in the material us. By design, we are leaders over stuff. We are to be managers of nature not ruled by it.
When leadership does not balance the value of people and material, we see human suffering rise up. And yes, we have lost so much in the Human Territory of Resource Stewardship.
As leader-designates, we have the wonderful responsibility of managing people and stuff.
These are the areas where we have control.
Leadership and control are mutually inclusive. If you control so much, you might lose your leadership. If you lead so much as to be without control, you lose leadership. We are to have a controlled leadership so we will have influence. We cannot control and lead. We can point directions to lead.
Control needs to be intertwined with leadership. This is how it is.
We can completely control ourselves. We can control our reactions. We can control habits that we can develop. We can control what we pipe-in into our leadership knowledge. This is the first level. This is the level one can completely control.
The next area are people. One can control some people some of the time. But we can never control all people all of the time. But we can be influential and trailblaze for people. This is where many place leadership. Leadership is to have the integrity so one can influence others.
The next area where the variables are getting so out-of-hand is the nature around us. We can subject them to a controlled-environment. But Mother Nature in general has a mind of her own.
But the genius of mankind is inventiveness. We harness the wildness of nature into opportunities.
There it is.
There is a Cosmic Leader. We are leaders in the biosphere. As we do this, we have realized that everything is of, by, and for the Cosmic Leader. But even if one does not believe in a worldview of Intelligent Design, all of us can agree that we are Leaders in the Life Realm.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Worldview and Cardioagology
THE INVISIBLE MULTI-LEVEL LEADER
MICROSCOPE TO TELESCOPE
One of the words that describe and precede the word anatomy is 'gross'. Anatomy is gross. But that is not the meaning of "Gross Anatomy". It just describes the level where the dissection (cutting to reveal hidden structures) is done. Gross anatomy is at the level visible to the unaided eye. When microscopes are used, one goes into the discovery of microscopic anatomy. But then, there is still the level of electron microscopy.
There are still other technology that allows one to observe sub-sub components.
Then we come to the atoms. 'Atom' as a word or term is a misnomer. Etymologically it suggests that there can be no further breaking of its parts ('a' means 'without' and 'tome' means to cut). The atom is still divisible into protons, neutrons and electrons. These subparts have still its subparts.
I do not lay claims of being even close to quantum physicist status. But from the most advanced science as this is written, it is understood that unseen forces make up and control that which is built-up to intermediately compose that which is ultimately seen by even the farsighted or nearsighted..
There is design, whatever level you reveal the components of the putting together of matter. There is purpose and order as you go from quantum physics to the magnitude level of anatomy and physiology. Each level functions to support the more visible realms: the universe of atoms support the universe of elements, which supports the universe of substances, which supports the universe of human physical life.
There is an apparent multi-level designer. There is an invisible leader.
Let's by-pass the level of demographics. Let's go to the level of the Hubble telescope.
There is this fantastic biosphere of planet earth intricately interacting with the solar system. We see in the night sky these bodies of lights. The solar system is part of the galaxy called the Milky Way. The 8.7 million galaxies compose the universe. Whatever there is in that infinite beyond which has not been clearly seen by our most advanced telescopes is now slowly revealed by the space probes that has travelled past the confines of the solar system.
We heard of the Einstenian fear that in relation with e=mc2 the universe will collapse upon itself. Cosmology and astronomy has revealed that after the 'big bang' all the heavenly bodies is going out. There is a suggestion that one of these sub-eternities to come it would come back beckoned by a gravitational pull. But as it is, appearently the earth is in the middle of a stretching rubber of galaxies trajecting in all directions.
There are invisible forces that control starting from the submicroscopic level to the big cosmic bodies that might be no longer visible by the most sophisticated telescopes. It is estimated as this is written that out there in the vast inter-galactic expanse there is 4% atoms, 23% dark matter and 73% dark energy. All these seem to manifest a uni- (one) verse.
There is an apparent cosmic level designer. There seems to be a cosmic cowboy with a herd of stars and galaxies.
Who is the force and wisdom behind the nano-universe as it becomes the mega-universe? Is the dark cosmic energy God? If there is an infinite God, did he cause the big bang to bang (if the big bang occured) ?
The Judeo-Christian Ancient Book seems to have said it all even before the discoveries of modern science: "In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth." Its account of creation and its parallels with discoveries in science has been a strong case for a very credible and logical worldview: there is a plan, there is a wisdom, there is a creation ex nihilo and there is progression....there is a Creator.
The words are written in wall of the universe and in the parts of the atoms: THERE IS AN INVISIBLE LEADER!
Next post : IN THE BIOSPHERE, MANKIND IS LEADER-DESIGNATE
MICROSCOPE TO TELESCOPE
One of the words that describe and precede the word anatomy is 'gross'. Anatomy is gross. But that is not the meaning of "Gross Anatomy". It just describes the level where the dissection (cutting to reveal hidden structures) is done. Gross anatomy is at the level visible to the unaided eye. When microscopes are used, one goes into the discovery of microscopic anatomy. But then, there is still the level of electron microscopy.
There are still other technology that allows one to observe sub-sub components.
Then we come to the atoms. 'Atom' as a word or term is a misnomer. Etymologically it suggests that there can be no further breaking of its parts ('a' means 'without' and 'tome' means to cut). The atom is still divisible into protons, neutrons and electrons. These subparts have still its subparts.
I do not lay claims of being even close to quantum physicist status. But from the most advanced science as this is written, it is understood that unseen forces make up and control that which is built-up to intermediately compose that which is ultimately seen by even the farsighted or nearsighted..
There is design, whatever level you reveal the components of the putting together of matter. There is purpose and order as you go from quantum physics to the magnitude level of anatomy and physiology. Each level functions to support the more visible realms: the universe of atoms support the universe of elements, which supports the universe of substances, which supports the universe of human physical life.
There is an apparent multi-level designer. There is an invisible leader.
Let's by-pass the level of demographics. Let's go to the level of the Hubble telescope.
There is this fantastic biosphere of planet earth intricately interacting with the solar system. We see in the night sky these bodies of lights. The solar system is part of the galaxy called the Milky Way. The 8.7 million galaxies compose the universe. Whatever there is in that infinite beyond which has not been clearly seen by our most advanced telescopes is now slowly revealed by the space probes that has travelled past the confines of the solar system.
We heard of the Einstenian fear that in relation with e=mc2 the universe will collapse upon itself. Cosmology and astronomy has revealed that after the 'big bang' all the heavenly bodies is going out. There is a suggestion that one of these sub-eternities to come it would come back beckoned by a gravitational pull. But as it is, appearently the earth is in the middle of a stretching rubber of galaxies trajecting in all directions.
There are invisible forces that control starting from the submicroscopic level to the big cosmic bodies that might be no longer visible by the most sophisticated telescopes. It is estimated as this is written that out there in the vast inter-galactic expanse there is 4% atoms, 23% dark matter and 73% dark energy. All these seem to manifest a uni- (one) verse.
There is an apparent cosmic level designer. There seems to be a cosmic cowboy with a herd of stars and galaxies.
Who is the force and wisdom behind the nano-universe as it becomes the mega-universe? Is the dark cosmic energy God? If there is an infinite God, did he cause the big bang to bang (if the big bang occured) ?
The Judeo-Christian Ancient Book seems to have said it all even before the discoveries of modern science: "In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth." Its account of creation and its parallels with discoveries in science has been a strong case for a very credible and logical worldview: there is a plan, there is a wisdom, there is a creation ex nihilo and there is progression....there is a Creator.
The words are written in wall of the universe and in the parts of the atoms: THERE IS AN INVISIBLE LEADER!
Next post : IN THE BIOSPHERE, MANKIND IS LEADER-DESIGNATE
Monday, February 4, 2008
Cardio-agology
I have just embarked on this voyage.In all my readings (and listenings), I haven't seen any mention of this term. The closest greek word for 'leader' is where I got agology. I just feel that there needs to be a term for the study of leadership. This term might be the wrong one. The more advanced pedagogues might come up with the accurate one. But this is what I have found or can concoct so far.
Leadership is a science. That section in libraries and books stores is already huge and growing. We have more speakers and writers on the topic in this day and age than all the previous centuries combined. There are colleges and universities that offer this field of study as a degree.
In classical greek, cardia, is the word for both the physical and emotional heart. So, if the pool of leadership gurus choose the term 'agology', cardio-agology will be a sub-study.
I do not claim to have studied it at length or have written about it. I am still a student of leadership even if I have been a leader since day 1 of my life. I have had a very fulfilling experience in being a leader. In all my reminiscings, I have led with my heart.
Here then is a resident fellow of the University of Life's Hard Knocks organizing my thoughts on leadership and the heart........(fanfare music...taaadddaaannnm!!!!!)CARDIOAGOLOGY!
Leadership is a science. That section in libraries and books stores is already huge and growing. We have more speakers and writers on the topic in this day and age than all the previous centuries combined. There are colleges and universities that offer this field of study as a degree.
In classical greek, cardia, is the word for both the physical and emotional heart. So, if the pool of leadership gurus choose the term 'agology', cardio-agology will be a sub-study.
I do not claim to have studied it at length or have written about it. I am still a student of leadership even if I have been a leader since day 1 of my life. I have had a very fulfilling experience in being a leader. In all my reminiscings, I have led with my heart.
Here then is a resident fellow of the University of Life's Hard Knocks organizing my thoughts on leadership and the heart........(fanfare music...taaadddaaannnm!!!!!)CARDIOAGOLOGY!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Introduction
This blogspot is about the science of cardio-agology. It takes focus on leadership as it relates with the heart. This is NOT a medical forum. This is socio-spiritual cardiology. Cardio-agologics has made and unmade society since known history. History, the present and the future... was, is, and will be shaped by LEADERS. The heart of leaders shapes their leadership. The heart of leadership is the leader's inner self, the heart....this fickle wellspring of passionate creativity and motivation.
Any upheaval such as world wars, paradigms, paradigm shifts, revolutions (e.g. Industrial, Information, Christianity etc.), this constancy of change..... all of these were brought about by leaders with their bold hearts, idealisms and dreams. Some for good, some for bad.
So, we now make it exist as a blogspot. We all birthed it January 31st, 2008 7:56 pm California time.
Any upheaval such as world wars, paradigms, paradigm shifts, revolutions (e.g. Industrial, Information, Christianity etc.), this constancy of change..... all of these were brought about by leaders with their bold hearts, idealisms and dreams. Some for good, some for bad.
So, we now make it exist as a blogspot. We all birthed it January 31st, 2008 7:56 pm California time.
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