Six sells! I want to sell you this blog with my sixth posting. My sixth sense tells me that it is right, that it is good. Had it been the sixth day of creating the blog, I could have added some people – and perhaps a scenery. Set the stage.
But there is no stage. There is a universe full of options. A stage would be a limitation, it would be framing some options and dragging all attention to them, leaving the major part of the universe of options into the shade of the minor.
People select their options, set their stages. Each person has limitations, nobody sees all options. The universe is bigger than any one person, and hence, cannot be understood by just one – there is not enough room in the mind to hold it all.
They select their opinions from within their frames. They match their selections with others, leaving the actual selection to one of what they see as common with others. This shapes their minds around the common denominators. The least?
Life is short, life is limited, life is tough. Life is boring to most people. They escape from it – run away to another end of it, partially, hours or minutes at a time, watching TV, playing games, reading blogs. They escape but are still there. Then they do it again.
The treadmill of life and escaping life, the illusion of moving forward based on not looking back. The mindfulness created by ignorance and lack of interest in life. The pendulum that takes us back to where we have forgotten that we already were.
Let us together uncover what that ignorance has hidden. Let’s grow, let’s live!
This text was from the introduction of the blog called “World Pendulum” – which wasn’t done with the first post on the blog, but rather the sixth, posted all the way back in 2014.
World Pendulum still exists, but I never post anything on it. It never found any readers. Maybe a handful of people ever saw anything there.
The idea was to describe such things that seems to get back to where they had already been, or nearby, which sort of reversed the course of history. This, of course, to be considered for a purpose: to save the world!
As described on the About page of the blog:
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The world is ever-changing. Each day is new and presents us with challenges and conditions that we, all in all, have never seen before. It is difficult to control and even to understand.
But certain trends seem to appear again and again – they get stronger and stronger, then weaker and weaker, and then they are gone. But often they appear again later, perhaps in a somewhat different shape.
The study of history helps us understand that there are such recurring patterns, and it helps to see what came out of them when they last occurred. From a historical perspective, details easily disappear. But details are as important to development as the bigger trends – everything big is made up of lots of smaller things. Everything is affected by everything else, causing every attempt to predict the future development to fail, unless a systemic perspective is taken.
Certain trends are there, and some of them seem to show their pretty or ugly faces in a sort of pendulum movement – the trend moving in one direction, too far, then back, too far, then again, and again.
This blog is for all kinds of scientific and philosophic thoughts about the larger patterns of life, an attempt to contribute to a general “meaning of life” discussion, but with an underlying purpose: how can we use our knowledge and understanding, our learnings from history, to prevent the same mistakes being made again? How can we use that same knowledge to save the world?
As for me, I cannot save the world. Neither can you. But maybe we can together. If we can just find out what it means for the world to be saved. What is good, what is bad, what is a necessary evil, what is an unnecessary good.
I hope that readers of the World Pendulum, as I called the blog, will be so kind to express their thoughts in the comments – that a debate will occur and that this debate, even though it does have a nature of individual thoughts based on beliefs and preferences, can be respectful and open. I hope that you will say what is on your mind and that you will allow others to do the same – and sometimes refrain from saying something, if this means that others will then have a better chance to become part of the debate.
Even if you are just reading, you are most welcome here. At least 90% of the most important debate about the world is what takes place silently, inside our own thoughts – in dialogue with ourselves.
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