Are you ready? :) Take your time to answer the following 15 questions.
1.
Hot summer day. You're on a shore of a lake, filled with crystal pure water. On the shore there is abundance of apple trees and pears, plums, whose branches are bowing down under the weight of ripe fruits. You haven't drank the last 24 hours, you haven't eaten the last 2 days. You haven't dug for a whole week the foundations for a new business center and factory. You haven't checked email's the last month and it has passed one month from your last paper work in office. What will you do first?
2.
Which word does better describe persons, who little by little pollute and poison their only source of drinking water?
3.
There are persons who intentionally give their children poisoned food to eat and toxic toys to play with and toxic clothes to wear. Does such persons love their children? Do they care for the next generation or do they care only for themselves? Because majority of people is aware that they are buying such toxic products, we will not take into account their ignorance.
4.
Person X.Y. works for a company which is polluting nature. The company is producing genetically modified seeds or poisons nature with traditional poisons used in everyday use in households such as cleaning products, colors used for coloring your hair, toxic colors used to color our clothes, toxic products which origin from a production of electricity. Our X.Y. wishes to detoxify himself. In his body many toxins have accumulated because of very stressful way of life he is living, toxic food he is consuming... He plans to detoxify with a nontoxic food. Why? Only to be able to continue to support the whole system, business and lifestyle which are poisoning him and others. Such a person is:
5.
In 1948, Preston Tucker made a revolutionary car (1948 Tucker Sedan). The car had a number of innovative security solutions that would significantly increase traffic safety. Let's mention just one of them. He came up with the idea to light the car's path around corners. That would decrease a number of accidents, a number of injured who are frequently because of car accident stigmatized till the end of their life. That would also decrease number of death casualties. Many people would live longer because their life would not prematurely end in a car accident. That would also decrease number of orphans living in material and emotional misery, because they have lost their parents in a car accident.
Politicians, justice system and the automobile industry, of course, had to prevent all this. Tucker was found guilty on fraud and so his car production was stopped. More than 50 years later, the "experts" for road safety started to write very excitedly about cars in higher class whose electronics rotates car's lights to light car's path around corners. As if it was something new! Tucker and his innovative car was filmed in 1988. The movie was titled Tucker: The Man and His Dream. When I saw it, I was shocked - I could not believe such thing could ever happen. Because mantra that you hear all the time goes like this: "Innovation means success." Tucker was innovative, but because it was too much innovative, he failed. He had sense for doing business, but because he had it too much, he failed. Politicians, the justice system, industry, educational system, media and "experts" for traffic safety - all are telling us how they care for our lives, our health, our safety and we believe them and then this story comes up. What do you recognize in Tucker's story?
6.
Whose fault is it? Who is to blame?
7.
Solution?
8.
Our attitude towards life: the car industry had manufactured for a long time vehicles with no seat belts, because seat belts are extremely expensive - they cost at least couple of dollars. After a severe and prolonged struggle, the industry bowed down and now all cars have to have seat belts. Even longer the industry didn't equip vehicles with headrests. So many people who underwent mild car crash broke their necks and backs. Why? Because the industry didn't equip vehicles with headrests. But there is also common people fault - who didn't care and were buying death boxes, which were called cars. We say that we care about life and health, but we are happy to buy unsafe cars. With great enthusiasm we produce such vehicles and with great passion we continue to dream about them and their beauty. Does our lives really matter to us if we not fasten our seatbelts? Are we telling the truth when we say that human life is priceless, but we do not want to use a solution that cost a total of a few dollars, and which would save many human lives? What does this story tell us?
9.
You are a military commander of a naval fleet one of the world's military superpowers. Practically the entire world is at war, only your country is neutral for the moment. You park almost all your fleet in a small harbor, located in one of small islands in the middle of the ocean. You cut your guards to minimum and wait and wait. Then the enemy comes and totally surprises you. He almost totally destroys all your battleships. Are you guilty or at least partly responsible for the death of thousands of your soldiers and humiliating defeat of your country?
10.
Will your country praise you as a national hero and genius military strategist or will you be brought before court as a traitor of the nation? The answer to this question is not easy. If people of your country think with own heads, then you will be condemned. But if they believe anything they hear, then ...
The U.S. court may find guilty anyone on the basis of three factors: if you are able to carry out a crime (ability), if you had a motive, and if you had a chance to do a particular crime ( means, motive, opportunity). 1.
Hot summer day. You're on a shore of a lake, filled with crystal pure water. On the shore there is abundance of apple trees and pears, plums, whose branches are bowing down under the weight of ripe fruits. You haven't drank the last 24 hours, you haven't eaten the last 2 days. You haven't dug for a whole week the foundations for a new business center and factory. You haven't checked email's the last month and it has passed one month from your last paper work in office. What will you do first?
2.
Which word does better describe persons, who little by little pollute and poison their only source of drinking water?
3.
There are persons who intentionally give their children poisoned food to eat and toxic toys to play with and toxic clothes to wear. Does such persons love their children? Do they care for the next generation or do they care only for themselves? Because majority of people is aware that they are buying such toxic products, we will not take into account their ignorance.
4.
Person X.Y. works for a company which is polluting nature. The company is producing genetically modified seeds or poisons nature with traditional poisons used in everyday use in households such as cleaning products, colors used for coloring your hair, toxic colors used to color our clothes, toxic products which origin from a production of electricity. Our X.Y. wishes to detoxify himself. In his body many toxins have accumulated because of very stressful way of life he is living, toxic food he is consuming... He plans to detoxify with a nontoxic food. Why? Only to be able to continue to support the whole system, business and lifestyle which are poisoning him and others. Such a person is:
5.
In 1948, Preston Tucker made a revolutionary car (1948 Tucker Sedan). The car had a number of innovative security solutions that would significantly increase traffic safety. Let's mention just one of them. He came up with the idea to light the car's path around corners. That would decrease a number of accidents, a number of injured who are frequently because of car accident stigmatized till the end of their life. That would also decrease number of death casualties. Many people would live longer because their life would not prematurely end in a car accident. That would also decrease number of orphans living in material and emotional misery, because they have lost their parents in a car accident.
Politicians, justice system and the automobile industry, of course, had to prevent all this. Tucker was found guilty on fraud and so his car production was stopped. More than 50 years later, the "experts" for road safety started to write very excitedly about cars in higher class whose electronics rotates car's lights to light car's path around corners. As if it was something new! Tucker and his innovative car was filmed in 1988. The movie was titled Tucker: The Man and His Dream. When I saw it, I was shocked - I could not believe such thing could ever happen. Because mantra that you hear all the time goes like this: "Innovation means success." Tucker was innovative, but because it was too much innovative, he failed. He had sense for doing business, but because he had it too much, he failed. Politicians, the justice system, industry, educational system, media and "experts" for traffic safety - all are telling us how they care for our lives, our health, our safety and we believe them and then this story comes up. What do you recognize in Tucker's story?
6.
Whose fault is it? Who is to blame?
7.
Solution?
8.
Our attitude towards life: the car industry had manufactured for a long time vehicles with no seat belts, because seat belts are extremely expensive - they cost at least couple of dollars. After a severe and prolonged struggle, the industry bowed down and now all cars have to have seat belts. Even longer the industry didn't equip vehicles with headrests. So many people who underwent mild car crash broke their necks and backs. Why? Because the industry didn't equip vehicles with headrests. But there is also common people fault - who didn't care and were buying death boxes, which were called cars. We say that we care about life and health, but we are happy to buy unsafe cars. With great enthusiasm we produce such vehicles and with great passion we continue to dream about them and their beauty. Does our lives really matter to us if we not fasten our seatbelts? Are we telling the truth when we say that human life is priceless, but we do not want to use a solution that cost a total of a few dollars, and which would save many human lives? What does this story tell us?
9.
You are a military commander of a naval fleet one of the world's military superpowers. Practically the entire world is at war, only your country is neutral for the moment. You park almost all your fleet in a small harbor, located in one of small islands in the middle of the ocean. You cut your guards to minimum and wait and wait. Then the enemy comes and totally surprises you. He almost totally destroys all your battleships. Are you guilty or at least partly responsible for the death of thousands of your soldiers and humiliating defeat of your country?
10.
Will your country praise you as a national hero and genius military strategist or will you be brought before court as a traitor of the nation? The answer to this question is not easy. If people of your country think with own heads, then you will be condemned. But if they believe anything they hear, then ...
If this story reminds you of Pearl Harbor, you are right. Let's look at the first motive. Did U.S.A. have a motive for entering into the WW2? Japan was conquering more and more territory in the East and thus threaten the future expansion of America's Empire, which is depended on resources and market. America was at least interested to enter into the war. U.S. had a sufficiently strong industry to beat anyone in the world, but citizens of U.S. weren't inclined to enter into the second world war. So they had to be convinced in some way, to enter into the WW2 and what better They needed only a little encouragement, and what was better motivation than a brutal attack and almost complete destruction of a small fleet by the cruel "enemy"? American industry was set in motion and produced in a couple of years more weapons than almost all other countries combined.
U.S economy was flourishing, U.S. citizens got jobs, men were with enthusiasm apply to serve in the army - to defend their country and to show women their manhood... to make their parents proud, when they would return home as a heroes. All this nice things would never happen, if Pearl Harbor wouldn't happen first. Pearl Harbor gave U.S. the necessary impetus. Pearl Harbor combined with just a little bit of propaganda (media brainwashing) did the trick. So, the leaders and also common people had the motive for the disaster at Pearl Harbor. Were they able to kill a few thousand of their people? Of course. Brilliant military strategists always sacrifice minority for the majority. Philosophy of most people even today is following: whatsoever is right for the majority - it is right. We don't care for minorities. Minorities are always oppressed by such philosophy. We don't care for a few thousand Americans killed at Pearl Harbor and a few hundreds of thousands throughout the war. We don't care for ruined lives of soldiers who underwent indescribable horrors of the war. In our worldview that is nothing compared with the economy boom! And did the U.S. had opportunity to kill their soldiers at Pearl Harbor? Of course, U.S. leadership gave the command to the fleet to be anchored in the port and just wait and wait.
U.S. court of justice convicts every individual, if it finds these three factors: ability, motivation and opportunity. What is your judgment about U.S. role in Pearl Harbor disaster? Guilty or innocent?
11.
In Slovenian newspapers we have read that the soil in many parts of Slovenia, which is to be considered unpolluted country by majority of Slovenians, is so much polluted so that the fruits and vegetables are not to be consumed by their children. Who is responsible for that?
12.
A typical response: "We cannot do it otherwise..." For thousands of years people could live differently, but today we try to convince everybody that we cannot live like that anymore. This means that we
13.
Have you heard that our world is overpopulated? Have you heard teaching of the one and only new religion which prohibits hate speech? And then they tell you that the world is overpopulated. Do you know what that actually means?! That there are too many people living on the Earth. Who is in excess? Are you the one who new religion wants to eliminate? Who is to be killed? Who is not desirable in this world?
14.
In Slovenia there are more residential square meters per person than ever before, but more than ever, Slovenians are afraid that they will lose their place to sleep and to live. The solution?
15.
Imagine that in this world there wouldn't live seven billion loving people and that nations would fight against each other. Imagine that mafia families would kill each other. Imagine - I know it is not easy - but try anyway - that husbands and wives would fight mental and physical wars against each other, imagine that children would rebel against their parents, and that parents would scare their children and threatened them and try to imagine that they would fight and beat each other. If you can, imagine that whole world is at war. What would you think is the way that could lead us to peace?
Results:
intelligence 100%, common sense 0%, undetermined 0%
I do not know how what has happened to you in your life. It was something very, very serious. However, it would be good for you to read a book Maybe Everything Is not Black After All.. and The Solid Foundations of life. I'm working on their translations in the meanwhile you can stay tuned on this blog. On the other hand - you can proceed on your way till the end. It is your choice. Good luck!
intelligence less than 100%, common sense more than 0%
You have some common sense to distinguish right from wrong. You use your other mental capacities (intelligence) for deceiving yourself and others about your intentions. You are trying to show yourself in better light as you are in reality. You have enough intelligence to persuade people that evil is good and good is evil. Your heart is still stony. You don't believe in better life and because of that you don't want to think too much. If you're actually thinking, you're thinking about how to deceive someone, or you are trying to prove that the world and life is meaningless and useless. I recommend you to read a book Maybe Everything Is not Black After All... and The Solid Foundations of Life. I'm working on their translations and for the moment you can stay tuned with this blog. And of course - downloading books will be for free - they won't cost a thing. In the books and blog you will read everything you already know to be true. They will revel to you practically all frauds and afterwards you will have two options - either you try to deny it all together - and then your heart will become even more stony. It will be also harder for you to continue to lie, because you will know for a fact that you are lying - you will not have any excuse any more. And the second options will be, that you accept what you know it is true and your life will become more joyful.
intelligence 0%, common sense 100%
Wow, you did it :). You don't perceive yourself as an intelligent person as do those who hangs in pubs, as do those Ph.D. and as do those without any title who think they are the most intelligent persons of all time. You're simply smart. You don't feel the need to prove your own right - am I right? Although in a way you know what is this world and life all about, I nevertheless think you'll still find some useful things in the book Maybe Everything Is not Black After All... and The Solid Foundations of Life and of course in this blog. I'm working on translations - so be patient :) And of course - downloading books will be for free - they won't cost a thing. Even more. I think you will be very excited about those books and blog. In them you will get conformation about your own thinking. You know that love is the answer to our problems, but it could be that you still don't know how and where to get it and what love really is.
undetermined more than 0%
Try again :) Either you don't want to answer, because the answer would reveal your dark side, either you don't find appropriate answer. In that case just choose that one with which you agree the most. And if you don't want to answer because the answer would reveal your dark side, just add percentages from undetermined to your intelligence and stony heart. You are so intelligent, that you don't see how are you deceiving yourself. You would find book Maybe Everything Is not Black After All... and The Solid Foundations of Life and even this blog quite difficult and exhausting to read. In them you would namely find a lot of things with which you agree, but you don't want to admit it. Who knows, it is possible that you will at the end finally give up, admit ii and stop harassing yourself. You are persistent and stubborn, even when you know that something is wrong, you insist, even to your own loss... Please, realize that this is not good for you. You are hurting yourself. And of course - books won't cost a thing.
So, you've got an approximate insight into your intelligence, common reason and heart. You've got the insight, about what is this blog and my two books. Also you now know what to expect from them, and whether you'll be content when reading them or you will be dissatisfied... What shall I say?
No matter what your decision is - I wish you good luck ;)