last uploaded to htfiddler.net/psdocs: 1/13/08, 10:00 PM sak.pco, Plan S, see \ps\index.xls A. myth of relocalization list ... 1. localization is a myth. We have been building two regional ... a) economies for 10k yrs, and a true global economy for 500 yrs. b) silk road, chaco canyon, mesa verde, aztec, inca, maya c) cahokia mounds, comment from YouTube vid: "I did research on the trade links between MesoAmerica and Cahokia. It is impressive." See video @bm.xls, showing water routes. d) ^^ relocate this quote ... in one of 3 vids bookmarked 2. infrastucture destroyed ... a) top layer of onion, look underneath, all the other layers are gone! b) old note: we are like fleas shot out of a cannon ... 1) all riding on our tiny specialist magic carpets. The only thing that sustains us is the momentum from the charge. We look below and see the long drop down. 2) Or, we are like a herd of buffalo charging towards a precipice, blind to what is in front of us. 3) How are we supposed to "relocalize" when local economies took millennia to evolve. We have lost most of the components. The topsoil is gone, the interlinked economic system & infrastructure is lost, and many vital skills are lost. 4) Relocalization will look more like dieoff + re-migrate + re-evolve. 5) Plan S seems like it has more potential if we can pull it off. c) the Mountain View, AR example: Wal-Mart comes in and destroys infrastructure that took a hundred years to create. d) The mental knowledge in the old timers brains, libraries, museums, is great! But its all worthless if the infrastructure and supply lines have all been torpedoed! e) Cumberland General Store still sells the old stuff ... 1) but only when and where they can get it. As mfrs quit, they stop selling. 2) They sell the old, but thru the new infrastructure. And to whom? By their own admission, the big movie houses! 3. us <> them mentality, rather than us 4. old hippie, new age, activist vibe permeates ... a) the current version. The Christian mainstream is de facto not included or reached out to. It is insular, provincial, and to some in the mainstream, offensive. 5. see also, saj.pco: 6. sustainability, change the world, sub-groups ... a) (+notably absent), list b) Same sort of situation. These are fringe groups that are not reaching out to the mainstream, mostly for de facto reasons. B. action list, what people can do to help Plan S, list ... 1. see also [dw48] 2. simplify ... a) 3 cat: (tax deduct? Heartland) b) 1: one time cash, thx for venue, movies, presentation c) 2: ongoing support " d) 3: gung ho, urgent, large scopes: go to the big detailed lists 3. If you see something missing here, let us know. We'll add it. 4. now, next week, or whenever: ACT! No action, no results! 5. re money, time, or both ... a) Most folks have more of one than the other. Whatever you have the most of is where you might want to think about giving. 6. re "I'd love to help, but I don't have any extra time, ... a) money or energy for this!" b) So this means it's time to get back to the drawing board and reconsider your scopes. Then, make a list of how you'd ideally like to spend your time, money and energy. Then, adjust how you're currently spending. Some things will likely have to get cut out ... let go of. This can actually feel good, as unfulfilling, nonproductive activities get jetisoned, and replaced with fulfilling actions, in line with your newly defined focus. 7. notes re taking action v not taking action ... a) Some of the skeptics think it is not for us to act but for God ... that God will do it all. See quotes.pco for Einstein and Burke quotes. (see "sally list" below) b) My position is that some must act but not all. Trim tab could mean that even 1% would be plenty. In an individual body, intellectual growth occurs in the mind. The rest of the body is along for the ride. And it is similar in our species. Those who feel the calling on an intellectual level will respond, and the rest will then say, "See ... God did it!" Everyone can be right. So I am looking for those who are called to act. c) Attitude 1: It's all up to God and I will gladly accept whatever God has in store for me. d) Attitude 2: It's all up to God and God is watching all of our thoughts and actions. I know that God will help those who help themselves. I will look to be in God's good grace by doing everything in my power to help our species grow and transition to a sustainable, stable civilization. e) All the above are valid. The point is to make a choice, and to make it a conscious choice, i.e. a choice from a state of being fully awake and informed, rather than from being asleep and uninformed. 8. Ran Prieur: How to Survive the Crash and Save the Earth (9 points) 9. staffers: volunteers, employees, review RFP notes from ps_launch01.doc 10. redeploy your and your family's assets, lives and goals ... a) Stop acting clueless and helpless, and start taking bold action immediately. We are available to assist. b) Reevaluate your goals and attitudes based on the information presented here. Stop assuming everything will be the same forever. WC3 is mostly peaking and descending. c) Survey the way you use your material/energy resources, every minute of your day. Working, sleeping, eating, playing, thinking, recreating, praying ... everything that you do. Look at material and energy in all forms: (list is at s01, ^s "personal and family coaching"). d) Develop new goals in line with your scope and new information you are learning. Build a new personal paradigm, i.e. 10 sided emotional structure. e) Redeploy your material/energy as rapidly as possible toward your new goals. Bear in mind that investments in the old crumbling order will be losing value quickly. Seek to invest in a sustainable future, which will be growing. f) Set your scope, i.e. frames of reference. Who and what are you wanting to focus on? Apportion your resources according to your various scopes. g) Overwhelmed by it all? Use our Plan S coaching service to help build a personal action plan for you and your family. 11. Study, re-education, become more of a generalist ... a) Study individually, or with friends and relatives. b) Learn what's going on here, but don't focus on the past and the problems, as they will bring you down. Focus instead on building the future solutions ... they will bring you up and get you excited. c) Be skeptical. I could be wrong about some of what I'm teaching and planning. I will provide competing and contrary views. Check 'em out. You are responsible for your life and what you choose to put into your brain, not me. 12. re scopes, frames ... a) Examine yours and create action plans for various scopes. They may conflict, and that's ok. It's the nature of acting on different scopes simultaneously. b) set time frames: short + medium + long = 100% c) set other frames too: see scope list, frames list d) It isn't necessary to get really detailed here. But it is important to set some boundaries, to help confine, direct and focus your forthcoming actions. 13. urgency ... a) Consider your sense of urgency re collapse. Is there time to read, study, etc? Do we have a year, 10 years? This figures into the mix of considerations re. scopes. 14. --- 15. financial/fundraising area: 16. re "What can I do to help?" and fundraising ... a) For people who have jobs, are already overwhelmed but can do some cash flow: b) Use the thermometer approach and start small. Then start a relationship. Have them watch my/our results. After delivering, ask for more. c) State what will be done with funds. Then do what is stated. Run down the big "to-do" list @ saa.pco. d) They can earmark for a sub-project if they desire. e) TAGR, chapter2.htm "I bargained with life for a penny ..." f) TAGR, chapter6.htm "My name is Phillip D. Armour." 17. re sending money ... a) tax deduct: heartland b) no tax deduct: paypal, mail check (get mail addr), send to bank, prefer an off amt like 99.93 or 102.17 (get acct #) 18. send email, request reminder 19. re the big bucks, "getting rich", accounting, fraud concerns ... a) not for me personally, I live on 1.5k to 2k/mth regardless explain overhead for office, storage, health club, computer, motor vehicle b) all funds raised go to Plan S, reaching all goals ASAP c) you can watch the action at blog, website, Google Group, etc. d) see how we live and operate. see if we walk our talk. hold us accountable! In an era of embezelment and fraud, I plan to be ever vigilant to insure that we don't fall into any old patterns of excess, so that we can channel all donated energy towards building a sustainable, stable future for our young species. e) see notes re planetary management fundraising: s03.pco ... 1) ^s re losing electric grid and world's financial system 2) This also applies to anyone who has conventional investments in CD's, real estate, stocks, bonds, etc. What will these assets be worth after a severe deflation? 1929 revisited. Consider an investment in Plan S as a strategic investment in a transition to sustainable. 20. re fundraising levels or tiers ... a) venue: ? b) movies: 2 to 5 ea c) me: $2k/mth, do the 200 @ $10/mth thing d) tier 1: 100k to launch organization, professional staffing e) tier 2: 1 million, to start on saa "to-do list" f) tier 3: 1 to 10 billion, to take worldwide, get to S-Day ASAP ... 1) Note that there are almost 1000 billionaires, not to mention corporations, governments, etc. These 1000 control about $3.5 trillion, so 1 to 10 billion is small change. 21. cash to bucket 22. check to bucket 23. tax deductible via Heartland > $100 ? 24. earmark funds for a sub-project as in saa: to-do list 25. --- 26. thank you 27. get on Plan S mailing list, join discussion group, blog 28. reciprocal links at your website(s), pointing to/from Plan S 29. pledge $ or time per period: month, quarter, year 30. pledge a tithe: % of income per period: month, quarter, year 31. pledge same for your company or organizational affiliation 32. if pledging time, show ... a) saa.pco: to-do list, HP stuff here \\tasks list b) sac.pco: staffing, needs, list 33. offer services at cost, reduced price, or in kind 34. networking: I know, I know someone who knows ... a) for direct support or stepping stone ... 1) entertainment personality 2) P.D. personality b) to: planetary management personality, especially those on the "mastermind draft trim tab" list c) relentless but gentle networking ... 1) Dan Quinn > Oprah's doorstep example 35. spread the word: do programs in local area ... a) do programs otr 36. spread the word: global outreach C. personal choices, list ... 1. Choose one or more from this list, and split time between them. This especially works well if choices are from different frames. 2. Plan S should support people with information on all these options. 3. - 4. make no changes, hope for the best, resign to fate 5. voluntary simplicity, simple living 6. Penturbia, escape to rural areas 7. intentional community building 8. wilderness survival, withdraw completely 9. city survival, permaculture, retrofit the city 10. Plan S, work towards S-Day D. puzzle slide variations list ... 1. see my new 8.5x11 diagram showing all these 2. This is a list of various ways to depict the puzzle slide and also the generalist database. The 2 are related, and I need to decide whether they should be combined or not. 3. link this to Lessinger & S-Day. 4. link to the Al Gore/Upton Sinclair quote ... a) "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it." b) Then alter the quote for various rooms, i.e. "his job" > "keeping his wife and family", "keeping his golfing buddies", "his church", etc. 5. - 6. 2 piece puzzle. Use the 1967 Sweden example. To avoid calamity, the entire puzzle must switch in an instant, as opposed to gradually. 7. Vertical model with tabs that flip left to right. When all tabs are flipped together instantly to their opposites, they all fit together nicely. But if flipped one at a time, they don't. 8. Graph format with different height bars to depict the strength of understanding of a single specialty. 9. Traditional puzzle but looking like a CD (round w/ hole in middle). This is good for showing the transition from ego-centric to gene-centric. 10. laser pointer model, using 2 discs, with one shining on the round traditional puzzle 11. Library of Congress, flashlight example 12. Internet, 20 billion pages ... a) look @ 100/day, 365 days/yr, 80 yrs = ~3 million pages b) 3 million pages = 1.5 hundredths of 1 percent (of 20 billion) E. solutions: existing solutions, existing plans, list ... 1. Plan S, S-Day 2. The Prosperous Way Down, Howard Odum 3. Plan B, Plan B 2.0, Plan B 3.0, Lester Brown 4. www.jimbell.com 5. Global Marshall Plan, Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, Chap 15 6. Winning the Oil Endgame, Amory Lovins 7. www.bfi.org, Bucky Fuller 8. Ted Trainer, Australia, The Simpler Way, Transition to Sustainable 9. www.foundationwebsite.org, Joseph George Caldwell 10. The Oil Depletion Protocol, Colin Campbell, Richard Heinberg 11. - 12. "no solution", list ... a) dieoff.org, Jay Hanson b) latoc.net, Matt Savinar F. books I read long ago that warned, list ... 1. Silent Spring 2. Muddling Toward Frugality 3. The Hundredth Monkey 4. How You Can Find Happiness During the Collapse of Western Civilization 5. How Much Is Enough? 6. The Limits to Growth 7. Beyond the Limits 8. Survival Into the 21st Century 9. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years 10. Saving the Planet 11. The Coming Economic Earthquake 12. Land of Desire 13. Earth in the Balance 14. The Unreality Industry 15. The Great Reckoning G. skeptics reading/viewing list ... 1. GGWS, with warning caveats @bm.xls 2. The Ultimate Resource, Julian Simon, etc. 3. The Bottomless Well, Peter W Huber 4. Climate of Fear, Thomas Moore 5. Doomsday Has Been Cancelled, J. Peter Vajk 6. State of Fear, Michael Crichton 7. Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse, Ronald Bailey 8. -- 9. then send them to books, websites, DVD's showing the challenges and let them decide for themselves 10. but, is there time? why not err on the side of safety and prepare, transition, paradigm shift H. species-centric list \\human-centric list ;sally list ... 1. Various responses to Plan S and any other discourse on the future of humanity, the earth, climate change, western civilization, etc.: 2. --- 3. God is in control here, not us humans. There's nothing we can do, so why not just sit back and enjoy it, while it lasts? All attempts by humans to plan or design their future have ultimately backfired, so we should stop, and leave it all up to God. When our number is up, it's up! [Reply: God helps those who help themselves. Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. Be prepared. As you sow, so shall ye reap. We need to do all we can do, and then leave the rest up to God. What is the likelihood God will look favorably on a complacent people who do nothing, versus people who do all they can do?] 4. No matter what we plan or how hard we plan, we can never anticipate what will actually happen and when, so why bother? No matter what we do, there is a great chance we'll be wrong, and in retrospect, our preparations will be seen to be in vain. 5. This talk of collapse is ridiculous. Sure, there are a few problems, but humanity has always kept getting better, and always uses its ingenuity and creativity to solve its problems ... read Julian Simon and others on the skeptic list. The doomsayers have always been wrong: Malthus, Paul Ehrlich, and they are wrong again. 6. Everyone should become Christians and behold the rapture. The anointed will rise to heaven together! 7. Islamic Jihad will purge the world of the evils of secular Christianity, and usher in the glorious age of Islam. 8. Why fight our God given design? Collapse is a normal state of affairs. We were designed for collapse, and it will repeat itself time and time again until our species finally goes extinct. There is no way to avoid it, so we should not try. Just accept it, like we accept death of individuals and extinction of species. It is a normal part of the cycle. [Reply: sure, but if this is the way we're going to go, shouldn't it be our species' conscious choice, rather than an unconscious sleep walk?] 9. Extinction of humanity is coming sooner or later. Why not sooner? Collapse of WC and/or extinction of humanity will be welcomed by the larger community of life, and should therefore be welcomed. Humanity is a virus, a cancer, a blight on the earth. So we should all face our demise with good cheer, and stop all efforts to save anything. [Sally: stop being "species-centric", "human-centric", The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement @bm.xls] [Reply: We are like infants or children. Do we treat our infants and children this way?] 10. [Anarcho-Primitivist] We should all go back to being hunter-gatherers and live like we're designed to. When agriculture started 10k years ago, that was the beginning of all our problems. 11. [escapist] There's no way to fix it. Time to head for the hills, and get out of the way. Kick back, far from big cities. Put up a tipi, grow a garden and watch it all crumble and collapse. 12. [head in the sand variants] I refuse to feel any fear. I disagree with this fear-based view of reality. I refuse to give it any energy, as giving it energy empowers it. If we simply ignore it, it will go away or die. [response: good to overcome fear, but this is no excuse to ignore our problems. rather than focusing on fear, become aware of problems, and then build a great future!] 13. I can't change. I'm too old, too set in my ways, too [___(fill in the blank)___, etc. etc. etc.] I just hope the collapse waits for me to die first, so I don't have to feel any of the pain. 14. "I'd rather be dead than red", updated for the 21st century: "I'd rather be dead than have to live in some lifestyle other than the modern American lifestyle, which is non-negotiable!" 15. There is no time left to be thinking about long term, ten million year views! Time has run out, and we must now act immediately in the short term, to avoid total collapse and extinction of humanity. If we don't act in the short term, there will be no long term! [response: We are already in the collapse, and all the near term responses are in conflict with one another, since there is a lack of any kind of long term vision. See "Planet of Weeds" @bm.xls. See saj.pco: extinction & dependence pyramid] 16. Sinking Ship Parable, Daniel Quinn: Refers to all the specialists and NIH (not invented here) crowd, that thinks their specialty or invention is the most important and is the one that will save the world. [retort: Quinn writes: The last thought of more than one of them was, "I never dreamed that solving humanity's problems would take so long---or that the ship would sink so SUDDENLY."] 17. --- 18. assump: go thru all of s??.pco. Do I really need an assumptions list? Why am I doing this? What's in it for me? Do I REALLY believe that Plan S can work? 19. If indeed, I'm like the violinist on the Titanic who put his fiddle down to knock on stateroom doors, is this what (you/people) would prefer? Or would you prefer I just shut up and went back to playing pretty fiddle/violin music to lull you in your sleep, while the ship sinks, and hopefully you get to die quickly and painlessly? I. \cp\csen\stats.xls, list (move to ps) ... 1. see notes at bottom re Amory/negawatts rebuttals 2. esp. that high material/energy route is not provided for in genome J. names, taglines, handles, hooks, list ... 1. "It's a great day at 'Our Sustainable Future'" 2. "We can't change our genes, but we can change our memes!" 3. "Plan S: Sustainable Living for the Long Term" K. why Southern California, list ... 1. new trends often start in California 2. moderate weather year round 3. great concentraction of conventional wealth (per Forbes) 4. Hollywood, movie industry entertainment (funding and documentation) 5. Santa Barbara, Cosmides/Tooby, EP 6. Heartland, Mark Hanson 7. Rusty Huber 8. Agape, Beckwith 9. Tony Robbins L. depression list, PMA list ... 1. \or\letgo1.pco 2. how to deal w/ doom & gloom, depression, negative attitudes 3. Adapt my personal list for general use. Use general categories and give them some good starters that have global appeal. Then let them fill in their personal stuff. M. Where is this coming from?, list ... 1. What assumptions, what genetic pattern, is operating? [behind this question or challenge?] First examine: 2. 3x: know, don't know, don't know don't know 3. genetic pattern/influence 4. centric list (ego, creation, etc.) 5. save the world list 6. scope 7. attitude 8. focus (rear, forward) 9. fearful 10. language 11. personal paradigm 12. sustainability, change the world, sub-groups (+notably absent) 13. species-centric list (sally list) 14. - 15. Often the question will either answer itself, or disappear, once the above are examined. If there are other people present, ask for volunteers to act as a jury, to examine and answer the question or challenge. 16. This same process can be used when there are personal challenges aimed at me. I am an imperfect human, not a god. So I will make mistakes. If my critics, skeptics, challengers want to attack me, I must be open to self learning and improvement. So we then have to examine all these facets from both sides to gain a clear picture. N. brain-mind disciplines, list ... 1. Providing the users manuals for how our brains work. Note that these disciplines are disconnected, and need to get connected. 2. micro : Evolutionary Psychology (E.P.) 3. middle: Neuroscience 4. macro : Personal Development (P.D.) 5. related: Von Mises, Praxeology O. web marketing concepts, list ... 1. DSK Dan Kennedy stuff 2. www.tenniselbowtips.com, has a great model! 3. Google, Advertising Programs P. Occam's Razor, simplest solution, no proof, just a theory ... 1. ref @bm.xls: Occam's Razor and Simplicity in science 2. Re: Copernicus & "It's a Gene's World" chapter, i.e. putting the gene at the center. 3. Occam @ wiki: "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity" This is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." 4. see also Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." 5. Copernicus effected a grand paradigm shift (1543: sun is center rather than earth is center), based on Occam. This greatly simplified astronomers observations, and ability to explain observations. 6. In terms of our new paradigm, it is based on a gene's view of the world, rather than our self-centered ego-centric paradigm. Once we put genes and genetic evolution at the center, then everything becomes very simple and our course (as a species) becomes obvious. 7. In a gene's world, reproduction is everything. From there its all downhill. 8. So we can compare our paradigm shift to the one 300-500 yrs ago. When confronted with a vastly simpler explanation, we can cling to the sinking ship we are addicted to, or build a new ship around the new explanation. This is what was done 300-500 years ago with Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Westphalia. 9. We are in the early stages of E.P. (it's a theory), similar to where the world was at back in the 1890's re. Darwin. Still lots of controversy. But our species cannot afford to wait another 50 to 500 yrs to see if E.P. passes muster as a "law". It's application (putting genes at the center, "gene's world"), greatly simplifies our world view and shows us a path to sustainability, so it appears to fulfill the Occam's Razor test. So let's use it now. Waiting will surely bring dieoff and disaster, and complete the collapse already in progress. 10. What happened with Galileo? The church took over 300 years to finally admit they were wrong. Do we have another 300 years to wait? 11. Cite the "experimental cure", "guinea pig", "alternative medicine" scenario. We constantly submit as individuals to "unproven" therapies that seem promising, out of the hope they may work and cure our ills. In doing so, we don't complain about the lack of scientific proof. Plan S, which is based in the 3 brain-mind disciplines, is likewise an "unproven" therapy for humanity's ills. So what are we waiting for? Let's go for it! 12. Example: the "watering the crops" analogy. While plenty of rain, everyone eats well. A few notice that crops grow faster after it rains. A drought arrives and people are starving. A few suggest hauling water or digging a ditch and watering the crops. The naysayers retort, "But no one has ever proven that watering makes crops grow faster ... it's just a theory." Do we act, or not? It's our choice. Q. Christian support, list ... 1. Where there is no vision, the people perish. --Proverbs 29:18 2. Copernicus (1514/1543, Catholic Cleric), Galileo 1633, Newton 1687 3. Copernicus supported by several in the church 1533-36 ... a) Obviously there were widely varying attitudes even 500 yrs ago! b) see /wiki/Copernicus, notes @bm.xls, ^s heliocentrism, saved local 4. 1900's: William James, Charles Wagner, etc (see 1993 Land of Desire) 5. Galileo: 1979, Pope John Paul II admits treatment was wrong ... a) In 1983, Church commission concluded that Galileo should not have been condemned. 6. Einstein: "Science without religion is lame, ... a) religion without science is blind." 7. 1993: Land of Desire, William Leach, Lewis Lapham review ... a) p 192, Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis ... 1) beseeches, savages, gorge, fast, emptiness, delusion b) p 203-4, 1901, Charles Wagner, The Simple Life, Christian terms c) p 215-6, 1907, Edward Ross, impersonal commercial institutions d) p 260, 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience e) --- f) "land of desire replaces the older religious and political ideals" g) "Christian poverty" h) "liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul" i) "$4 trillion -- the balance tips toward the weight of spirit." j) finis: \ps\lapham.doc 8. 1994: Austin office, "Allah is one, Allah is everywhere ..." ... a) stuck in "new" folder b) see limbic system below 9. Evolution DVD: What About God?, PBS/Nova/WGBH, Liam Neeson 10. Time: 10/25/04, The God Gene, Is God in Our Genes? 11. Time: 10/09/06, Chimps and humans share almost 99% of their DNA. 12. 11/06, Ruth/piano, Lakewood, CO: bible <> science 13. Google: limbic spirit religion amygdala christian, @bm.xls 14. limbic system, neuroscience, @bm.xls: ^s Christian perspective 15. Katrina: Christians, Jews/Nechama, hippies, all working together 16. Creation-evolution controversy, wiki notes @bm.xls 17. Madrid, 1995, Europeans can't believe Americans still creationists! 18. E.O. Wilson quote, 1998 ... a) "The human mind evolved to believe in gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory, when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to the science of biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms." --E.O. Wilson, preeminent Harvard University biologist. b) @bm.xls ^s believe in gods" c) wiki article: d) Scientific humanism e) God and religion 19. Sojourners Magazine, Jim Wallis 20. \MNB\PS.Media\DNA.*.flv < great DNA animations 21. The Language of God ... a) : A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief b) a:Collins, Francis S c) c/2006 d) p:Free Press e) note: 255x4* 22. comment posted on scienceblogs.com on DNA video ... a) "And creationists say that by taking a god or 'purpose' out of the picture, we fail to see beauty in nature! This is a perfect example of what Dawkins wrote in "Unweaving the Rainbow," that the closer we look, the more we understand, the more beautiful nature becomes. 23. Ireland: Catholic-Protestant, Iraq: Shia-Sunni ... a) demonstrating internal disagreement and conflict within both Christianity and Islam. 24. scandals, sexual, financial ... a) Jim Bakker b) Ted Haggard c) wiki:Roman Catholic sex abuse cases 25. --- 26. God's Warriors, Christiane Amanpour, see notes @bm.xls: 27. Richard Cizik, National Association of Evangelicals 28. Greg Boyd, St Paul, MN 29. John Green, Pew Forum 30. --- 31. Joel Osteen, Denver, Pepsi Center, preaching about genes & DNA 32. Republican debate from Tampa, FL, bible is "allegorical 33. 2007 book: Thank God for Evolution!, ref liblist2.pco, exc reviews! R. Wright Brothers, sustainable, controlled flight, list ... 1. Thousands have tried for over a thousand years to fly, and thousands have crashed in the process. It wasn't until 1905 that the Wright Brothers perfected their Flyer III machine, and got it 100% right. Prior to that 90%, 98% and 99% were achieved by them and others, but success was not achieved until 100%. 2. They had no "users manual". 3. They worked, experimented, trial and error, failure after failure, and eventually succeeded, for many reasons: 4. didn't give up 5. applied scientific method 6. worked as generalists, connecting hundreds of specialties 7. learned from their failures 8. finally got it 100% right 9. etc. 10. --- 11. Now, we want to learn how to live sustainably, as a species. Our situation is just like learning to fly. There is no "users manual". We must learn by trial and error. Until we get to 100%, we will crash, but we can't give up. S. U.S. Tour, cities list ... 1. New Haven, CT, Yale 2. major college/university towns 3. big cities w/ lots of capital T. summaries, elevator speeches, 1 paragraph, 1 page, list ... 1. 12/06/06, Brian email, elevator speech ... a) "I am working on a detailed, written plan to create an instantaneous paradigm shift that will put humanity on a sustainable course for the long term." 2. 12/06/06, Brian email, 1 para ... a) The name of this detailed, written plan, is "Plan S". It is about setting a day in the future, called S-Day. On S-Day the big paradigm shift will happen worldwide. The "S" may mean any of these: survival, species, sustainable, save the world, solution box The plan is based on a generalist's understanding of the universe. Humanity is currently faced with an endless barrage of "doom and gloom thinking", and remains stuck in patterns, some of which have been lurking for thousands of years. There is plenty of awareness of what is wrong, and very few plans on how to fix it all. This situation is partly due to our current specialist orientation as a species. My work is about stepping way way back, looking at the big picture, studying many different specialties, and in the process, getting at the root causes of humanity's problems. I then study a variety of solution aiding strategies, and apply classic problem solving and brainstorming techniques to come up with a generalist's solution and plan. This is Plan S, and S-Day. 3. 12/25/06, ps_kotke.doc, 13 point summary ... a) ^s "Plan S is a generalist's plan" 4. 04/12/07, ps_launch01*.doc, 15 bullet point summary ... a) ^s "main points of Plan S" 5. 05/18/07, ps_phase1f.doc, short para ... a) I have spent forty years studying the problems we face as a human species. My work as a generalist has allowed me to step back to see the big picture of how our civilization has failed, why it has failed, and what we must now do to succeed. I am working on Plan S: a detailed, written plan to create a major paradigm shift that will put humanity on a successful and sustainable course for the long term. I need your help in completing this plan. 6. 05/18/07, ps_phase1f.doc, 3 para executive summary