Value of knowledge is a matter of perspective.
What you value as useful knowledge, someone else might not.
"Power" from knowledge comes under many forms. Such as; Social (power), recognition, control, manipulation... reaching any type of personal gain or need by pure interest OR for the good of all...
The essence in having "Power" from knowledge often means that knowledge can potentially provide you the right support to realise your "goal(s)/dream(s)".
Information/Knowledge is a currency in an unregulated market.
Knowledge also has power in the sense that it gives you some steps ahead from everyone else.
Knowledge definetly shifts our focus.
It affects us by waking our awareness of certain things that we haven't thought of. Some knowledge might help our actions (decision-making) in a wiser way... although "processing knowledge"depends very much in who's hands gets into. If you give a certain degree of knowledge to someone that has the brains of a monkey, why not giving an atomic bomb to one and let's see what's going to happen.
Blockchain for ex; it is a "powerful" tool that has the potential to shift all current systems.. it is open source, everyone can access it. everyone can exploit it. it depends how. put them in the hands of gouvernments, banks, greedy brainless people, business corporations... what do you think it'll come out of it.. or if gouvernment had previously discovered it 1st...
Bitcoin/Blockchain has alot of "power". It all depends of "the" person's perspective.
Technology can do beautiful things but as beautiful it can be, it can be also as uggly.
hello my friend.
yes I fell Into the trap of trying to capture reality as knowledge
that is the irony, and why the book of the Dow can not be written blah blah
knowledge is a sacred cow
knowledge is only useful when we don't believe it
if we do, we start reacting to assumption rather than reality
we embody the memory in non flexible ways
when the wave comes it pushes us of balance
I wrote the last post out of flow
so it lacks the quality of playfulness
the line between caring and scaring is subtle indeed
the tension in my tissues is where I may find it
but not if my attention is in my strategy
I see how my whole post reeks of righteousness
even love of nature can turn into something
un natural if I cling.... for nature does not.
perhaps it is my ordinariness that allows me brief moments of compassion :)
I too am lost in mind, using mind to find the way back to my senses...
this is what questions can offer, never the answers formed of words, symbols...structured forms that are not allowed to "dis - solve" lol...
I often find imagination and sci-fi more real than "reality".
Thoughts become reality. since imagination is made up of thoughts, we definetly without a doubt cannot consider it an assumption.
that sounds like a matter of timing :)
which thoughts become reality ?
all of them?
some of them?
When we are with them, how sensitive are we to our surroundings?
Are we still listening and feeling those around us?
are we in relationship with our imagination or with reality?
of course it is fun to be in our imagination, but if we believe it is more valid than our senses, then how graceful will our actions be?
there are times when scarcity is real, when only one can feed
most conflict though arises from alternate views of the same reality
when all parties could actually meet in the realm of their senses.
rigid belief comes at the cost of reality, or it would not even exist.
flexible belief is updatable and fluid, this is what science is supposed to be, until we take it personally, start using it to add value to ourselves - that always leads to control and fear, from what I have experienced so far anyhow..
your comments are always insightful, thank you
isn't flexibility itself a form of "rigid belief'?
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It could be made into one, but then it would not be flexible anymore.
When we take concepts personally, when we associate our own value as a tribal member to the holding of the knowledge - thats when we have trouble up-dating or releasing.
that is when we take concept and make it an opinion.
A pinion, like a wheel - is a point of leverage, for applying force.
for altering the flow of events
that is control
The cheetah and the antelope both give and take from their environment, but neither, significantly alters the flow of resources in their environment by introducing rigid structures - either mental or physical.
The Beaver would be an interesting animal to study lol..
(certainly many men become obsessed with it ha ha)
Unfortunately, this is exactly what humans do.
Yes but we do experience the consequences of that, in a way nature is perfectly consistent. It bounces back everything - it is up to us to remain sensitive to the feedback and learn grace.
I have not been able to demonstrate that state consistently, so am not qualified to state that as fact. I only have glimpses of peace and something greater than "enough-ness".