Tue 25 Dec 2001 20:20
O.k., it is 8:20 p.m., and I've yet to.
What do I want to make happen?
Exactly what do I want my days to be like?
What do I want my project to be?
I would like it to offer an endless series of compelling challenges, without having to spend the balance of time in (re)evaluation of what I might want to do next.
I want to encourage people to dream.
do I want to be around dreamers?
I want to be around people who do not have complaints, or if they do have complaints, feel success in beginning to resolve them. People who feel excited, empowered, thinking of beautiful things and eager to make them happen.
Supposing I fit that description, for the most part, how did I get this way from where I was before, and how can others get that way if they're not there now.

Combining all the areas I like.
basic goal:
to increase the amount of time I love being alive, while helping others to do the same for themselves and the others around them.
assumptions (tentative) and hypotheses:
target audience:
1st: those people who are like me or who are like I once was:

not accepting of the purely mystical, except as representing an experience described by a human signifying something.

also, not having a clear focus of a rewarding place for themselves in this world.

assuming I can foster rewarding interactions with those orientations, I would also like to garner mindshare from the following orientation:

Those subscribing to mystical, religious, and non-scientific viewpoints, which are dogmatic, as opposed to 'experience art' in nature. I.e., people should not begin their questioning and growth from dogma or tradition, but from ... well this is not well-defined.

Basically, if you speak a mystical word, and attempt to organize anyone but one's self around that, that is what I wish to reduce the prevalence of. well, that inkling is going to take some work to make sense of.

I wish to increase the amount of dreaming that goes on which has the potential to be shared with others or one's self as a form of expression ...

fck, how do I differentiate the religious/mystical and what I want? What was Johanna's last name?

I should be able to figure this out.
Reading the bible, vs.
This has got to become a recognized orientation. To some extent this is humanism, is what I'm describing different in any way?
What are people's tastes.

When they ask, what does your group believe, what will I say?
(1) We believe that living can be a wonderful experience.
(2) We believe that wonderful experience can be made more common by encouraging people to dream of possibilities for wonderful experience, or, to have an orientation such that they might ask, there must be a better way (and acting to express that dream), while balancing that with appreciating what is already wonderful about their experience.

How does this differ from x religion.
are no assumptions made besides 1 & 2?

Is that enough with which to build a successful and vibrant social entity which captures mindshare from those entities I look upon less favorably but do not yet have a rational explanation why (they hinder wonderful experience)? They hinder wonderful experience because they encourage in many cases with fear the acceptance of certain assumptions or beliefs. In addition they have at their base assumptions which are less likely to be accepted by others than our two assumptions. Encouraging a portion of the population to accept beliefs they are not likely to accept results in the following kinds of hardship: (enumerate/detail)

In my previous group: it was encouraging people to actively and openly question what is the best way to live.
now it is expressing a dreaming/there must be a better way orientation combined with an appreciating orientation.


An emphasis of this group will also be applying science to the goal of improving experience in all domains.
(what of art?)
And encouraging experience art- experience for the sake of experience.
What of expressive art?

A goal of this group will be ( don't forget to back this up)
to assist others who despair at finding a place in society that they love, to find/create a place that they love.
Alternative lifestyles will be explored, facilitated in some cases (part-time), and documented.

We will work with those non-dogmatic type religious orientations (quaker, perhaps secular humanist)

We will get out on street corners and we will study the success of successful organizations (mormons, scientology, what else?).

We will present possible world/life-views which allow the individual to view herself as part of something larger and longer-lasting than herself.

We will offer and encourage opportunities for lifelong personal/societal growth.

We will emphasize personal action.
Lack of bureaucracy, decentralization, unschooling, rigorous thought.

Will I enjoy this work?

Will it be a different contribution than quakerism/humanism?

clearly I want to start something new, but how will control, planning, and funding in this organization be handled?

I want to harness that energy and need that makes those people stand on street corners saying "jesus will save you!", and which makes people (jehovas witnesses?, mormon youth) go out and talk to people.

will I want to work with people enough to make something happen, or should I just theorize or write social science fiction?

focus home and focus on human dreamers, social and physical theory.

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