What is point of view; why there isn't world peace

To understand why humans never seem to get along with other humans, we need to understand how the human mind works and how it forms points of view. Afterwards, we need to understand how different points of view and human minds connect together in a type of network to form ideologies. 

Mindspace

The first thing that we shall start with is a concept called mindspace. Just as the universe has space, the mind has a "space" in which it works. This is a mental space where structures such as ideas, feelings, memories, morals, metaphors. similies, and points of view (perspectives within this space), etc, are contained. This is not a physical space, but a mental one. Nevertheless, some studies have shown that the physical manifestation of the mind I speak about is simply the electromagnetic field produced by the brain. This field has structures within it that make up the landscapes I speak about. These landscapes contain within them points of view or perspectives over each mental landscape.  Different people can have similar landscapes in their mindspace, but very different points of view within them. People have a variety of cultural, social and personal landscapes within their mind also, giving people differing perspectives over varying landscapes. A landscape in mindspace is not only visual, but can be moral, social and many other things which are not graphically seen. In fact, all issues that a mind can understand have a lanscape within mindspace. This mindspace has a volume and structures inside it called ideas, memories, morals, rules and points of view, among many others.

The mind's eye

Inside mindspace resides the minds eye. Again it is not physical. It is a point inside mindspace which "sees" or has a certain perspective or vantage point inside mindspace and its mental landscapes. This vantage point is exactly where point of view is found and the mind's eye is located. The mind's eye views structures within mindspace. The mind's eye not only views visual structures within mindspace, but also views moral, personal and other structures which make up landcapes which help form the mind's illusion of reality and therefore, points of view of realty. At the end of it all what one believes reality to be is simply the illusion they have about it. There are all types of structures and areas in mindspace. As many types as the mind can imagine. Since each mind contains different structures which come from differing experiences in life and differing perceptions due to physical reasons such as differences in brain, body and senses in each person, plus relativistic reasons-- which basically means each person lives in a slightly different reality--and because the mind's eye resides in different places in different people and among different structures. A corrollary emerges: nobody has exactly the same point of view in mindspace as another. It's impossible. Furthermore, radically different points of view will develop and lead to conflicts.

Things which contribute to forming points of view

Experiences

Experiences form certain structures and thus landscapes in mindspace and therefore contribute to a certain perspective about reality. Someone who has had bad experiences e.g. abusive childhood, sexual abuse, torture, lived n a wartime situation will have very different landscape formed in the mind than a person who grew up in a loving home, a place where people help each other or where life is easy, etc. Due to the different structures inside their minds, and thus different landscapes, plus the position of their mind's eyes within that mindspace, each person will end up seeng a different perspective of reality. There are several factors which contribute to point of view.

Environmental differences

Each person lives in a different place. A person's location during his/her life has a lot to do with formation of point of view. It is very different living in greenland than in Hawaii. It is different living in India than Canada. Environment includes the mental, social and cultural environment. These differences make people have a different illusion of reality and thus point of view.

Body, brain and sensory differences

Every human brain has a slightly different brain structure and therefore sees reality differently. Brains of serial killers are usually quite different than "normal" people. They usually don't feel that what they have done is wrong. While most people would fear going to jail, some people actually get off on it and like it. They like the attention or be on the spotlight. They get a sexual or adrenaline rush off of commiting crimes, including  murder. Some serial killers have admitted to this reported after they were caught. Obviously, people will have different points of view just because of physical brain differences.

Differences in body structure will also change the mind's perception of reality, thus creating differences in people's points of view. Someone with something wrong with their body will perceive things differently than a "normal" healthy one.

Differences in structure of senses. A blind man will see reality in a different than a person who can see. This goes for all senses. And it is true that a blind man can still see with his/her mind's eye even if physically they can't. That is where many idiomatic expressions such as "to see the light of day" or "not to be able to see the forest for the trees." These idioms refer to the mind's eye and not the body's physical eyes. This also gives more evidence that the mind's eye is actually something that exists.

Relativistic differences

All things are relative.  Everything depends on relative differences between frames of reference. Relativity says that time and space can be distorted. Time marches at different rates for each thing. Military GPS satellites must correct their clocks a fraction of a second each day so they can work properly. This is because time moves slower in space than on the surface of the earth. Space is also distorted and different for each thing in the universe. Hot could be considered cold depending on your frame of reference on what is cold or hot. A penguin might think tropical waters are hot while in the artic regions it would be confortable.
Whereas a human would find artic water unbearable. And like the expression goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Tis expression clearly includes the mind's eye as the determiner; the determiner of a persons point of view about beauty. Furthermore, the uncertainty principle
 is another reason we will never see reality the same as another. There are many relativistic factors which affect one's perception of reality, and in fact show that each thing or person exists in different realities. So here we're not only talking about a perceptual difference, but a real difference between realities of each thing.

So, as we have seen, with all these factors affecting mindspace and points of view, very radically different points of view will emerge and thus conflicts will arise between people. It is no wonder that in the day to day life of the average person there conflicts all around them. It could be a divorcing couple or a jealous coworker or neighbor. Family disputes are common. Fist fights are common throughout the world. So are assaults and murders, all kinds of disagreements between people.  I could go on and on. I think it is obvious that there are many conflicting points of view which ultimately arise to become conflicts.

Ideology

When a collection of points of views and landscapes come together as one unit or system, it becomes an ideology. Where there are many people with many similar points of view, an ideology is formed. When this happens, many people emerge who have similar points of view about moral, social, personal, and economic landscapes. When these people unite as one unit, such as a nation, town or political organization, etc., their combined points of view can be vectorally summed up and the resultant vector becomes an ideology. Ideology in turn is used to justify public laws, rules, and traditions. Public policy is determined by ideology. Wars and revolutions are also motivated by ideology.

World peace very unlikely

Because this world produces many radically different points of view which in turn lead to the formation of radically different ideologies. Furthermore, due to the rule of opposites, opposing ideologies will emerge with irreconcilable differences. These groups of people along with their ideologies will end up going to war with each other in order to preserve their side's ideology or point of view.

Crime-free world

On the same token, there will never be a completely safe crime-free world. Anyways, what is a crime to one could be a heroic act to another. It just depends on differences between their points of view.

Below I put a video which is called the eye of the beholder. It is an old movie and only touches on perceptual differences that make people have different points of view. It is a bit choppy in some parts because it is old. Nevertheless, it shows how different people can see the same thing differently.

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Structure of human psyche

So now I will talk about the 2 counterparts that make up the human psyche. They are the mind and the heart. When I say heart I mean the feelings and emotional part of the human psyche, not the body's organ that pumps blood, the heart. As with all things, there exists a feminine and masculine side to human psyche. In this case, the mind is masculine and the heart is feminine. The mind makes cold, calculated decisions and is logical, while the heart many times is quite illogical and motivated by forces which differ from the mind.

Mathematics, logic, thoughts and other masculine properties are processed by the mind , while feelings, "hunches", vibrations, and "gut feelings" are processed by the heart. In certain people, their mind overpowers and controls their heart, and others their heart does the same to their mind. No mind is 100% feminine or masculine. They come in degrees. Some people  can balance their internal counterparts and use both to react and make decisions about reality and life.  Both counterparts are equally valid and important to take on the challenges of life. Both parts process different kinds of information about the world around them. The mind thinks and the heart feels. Another interesting thing is that the mind thinks in words and the heart feels in music. This is due to the law of 7 which corresponds to the feminine side of things and represents the 7 basic tones in music, 1-do, 2-re, 3-mi, 4-fa, 5-so, 6-la, 7-ti, 1-do Another important point is that the mind has ideas and the heart has emotion. Really there are two types of comunication and learning that the the human psyche uses. The first, the mind, can understand words and the second, the heart, can understand music and other vibrations. These two forces, masculine and feminine, are always tugging and pulling us on the inside all the time. Our psyche and way we behave turns out to be the resultant vector of these two forces inside of us.  This also can be represented as a triangle. All senses and perception of reality is processed by both. Even in dreams these forces are at work. In fact, they're always at work inside each person.

The mind corresponds to the number 3 and the heart to 7. This means that the laws of 3 and 7 are found in human psyche.

Information and learning can be carried through both music and words and is even more powerful together.

The mind thinks and the heart feels.

2 things that all cultures and peoples have are language and music.

How the mind comunicates ideas with language.

When people want to communicate ideas between their minds the main form of communication is through language. Language does not have to be heard. Signs can serve as language. One example is sign language, which is used by the deaf and dumb. Language can be signals also. Language can be in written form too. What it comes down to is that language simply is a code which represents the ideas of the mind. But for language to work both minds must know the same code or language. If they don't, ideas cannot be exchanged. It first starts as an idea in someones mind then he/she turns the idea into words. Afterwards, another person receives the words and decrypts them thus forming the original idea in the receivers mind. Well, at least that happens under perfect circumstances because many times the idea that the receiver imagines is not always exactly what the sender thought. But anyways, that is how it works. That is also why someone who only speaks Russian won't be able to communicate his/her ideas to someone who only knows Chinese. They might have very limited comunication through signs, but even then, the person must know the code or meaning of the sign. This obviously has its disadvantages. It means that much information is hindered because there is no universal code or language or the sender can't verbalize his/her idea very well. It can also be because the receiver doesn't receive the words correctly or can't understand them clearly.

Music and vibration are universal in humans

Unlike language, music can be understood universally.
People from different cultures and languages can all understand the emotions and feelings contained in music. It is also a code, but it is understood by everybody. It is understood by the heart instead of the mind. So a Russian and a Chinese could both understand the same musical piece. The heart can also feel gestures especially facial ones. Through these fine muscle movements the heart can understand others true feelings. It is difficult for the mind to override these movements which are produced by the heart and some people who have well tuned hearts can see through the lying illusion that the the mind is trying create by controlling these gestures.

Now another interesting thing is that both language and music are unique to each person kind of like fingerprints; no two humans have the same fingerprint. Nobody speaks exactly the same, nobody writes the same either. Each person has his/her own style of writing. This makes sense because nobody thinks in the same way. I remember that I could always catch students who copied others in the reports they handed in just because I had learned how and what kind of things each student would write about. Each person thinks differently and so will express themselves differently. Definitely, handwriting is unique to each person. Nobody has the same handwriting. That's why signatures can be verified. But one thing most people don't know is that each person has a unique set of songs and music that they like. Nobody has the exact same library of music that they prefer. So music, like handwriting can identify a person. Furthermore, the type and style of music that someone listens to can tell you a lot about a person's psyche.

Music and its power over the human psyche

I will start with the language of the heart, music. Music and vibration are characteristic of the number 7 and are hardwired into the heart. The ancient greeks realized some of the importance and power of vibrations and music. Orpheus, according to greek mythology, was a person who could use music to transfer knowledge and affect others in interesting ways. Not only could he affect humans but also plants and animals and even stones and inanimate objects. He was one of the few who entered hades and was able to get out--thanks to his musical gifts. He also won against the sirens by playing his music which overpowered their hypnotic singing. Even though this was just mythology, the ancients, just like pythagorus and others of their day, recognized the power that music and vibrations have on humans and even other things. Although it's mythology, the fact that music can do so many things is not far from the truth.

Militaries throughout the world have realized the power of music for some time for different purposes from motivating troops to using them to communicate battle strategies or even as a means of torture. Ancient romans started using music while marching. They noticed that the soldiers not only marched better, but were also more motivated. They also used music to send out battle commands in the field. The Aztecs used a special instrument that sounded like a death cry to psychologically intimidate their enemies. We know the famous bugle call of battle and the emotions the melody invoke. Imagine movies without music? Definitely, movies would lose much of their flavor and enjoyment without music. Even in the wars in the midlle east, music such as metallica and even Diecide are played for weeks on end as a means of breaking down prisoners' spirits. Music and words can be used to strengthen or destroy someone mentally or even to transfer knowledge or information. Music is important to fully enjoy and experience movies. Could you imagine movies with no music? Even in the so-called silent films like charley chaplin a piano or something to make music is necessary to fully appreciate the comedy. This is because the brain works on physics principles and the principles are based on 7 and 3. Scientists are just barely understanding the powers of music and vibrations on the heart. They haven't even understood the power of thought and words. Even less so with music. And they still haven't realized the things that could be done using both parts to achieve certain goals. I will briefly go over some interesting things that some scientists are researching as far as music and emotion go. It's interesting but they've still got a long way to go.

Music and memory

Musical sounds, like all auditory signals, unfold over time. It is therefore necessary for the auditory system to integrate the sequentially ordered sounds into a coherent musical perception. This series-to-parallel transformation can be considered a mechanism of working memory, which temporarily stores auditory units and combines them into a single percept (such as a sound pattern, rhythm or melody). Interestingly, there seems to be a high degree of overlap between working memory for musical stimuli and for verbal stimuli, as has been shown in recent working-memory experiments.

Scientists are still trying to figure that out, but what happens to your brain when you hear a song you love may provide some crucial insight. “Music increases cross talk between brain structures in old reward centers that handle pleasure and newer areas at the cortex that handle prediction and anticipation.” says Robert Zatorre, PHD, professor of neuroscience at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University. In one study he found that the brain released dopamine, a chemical linked to pleasure and reward, in anticipation of a subject’s favorite part of the song. Music can do far more than provide a get you dancing. Song and rhythm can rewire our brains to overcome brain damage. The most high-profile case is that of U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Shot in 2011 by an assailant in the left side of her skull, Ms. Giffords awoke from a coma unable to speak, but she could sing. Music therapists used a technique called melodic intonation therapy (often used with stroke survivors) to rewire Ms. Giffords’ language skills, using melody to shift her brain’s language centre from the left hemisphere to the right one.

At Ryerson’s SMART Lab, They are hoping to leverage the neural links between music, movement and emotion to help emotionally kick-start Parkinson’s patients who’ve lost expressiveness. Researchers think the inability of Parkinson’s patients to physically express emotion in turn limits their ability to understand emotion.

A group of researchers from the University of Texas have discovered that music stimulates several different areas in the brain, rather than just one isolated area. They also found a strong correlation between the right side of the brain that comprehends music components and the left side of the brain that comprehends language components. Because music and language structures are similar, it is suspected that by stimulating the right side of the brain, the left side will begin to make connections as well. For this reason, patients are encouraged to sing words rather than speak them in conversational tones in the early phases of MIT. Studies using positron emission tomography (PET ) scans h
ave shown Broca's area (a region in the left frontal brain controlling speech and language comprehension) to be reactivated through repetition of sung words.

So these are just a few of the interesting effects that some scientists are just starting to realize concerning music or vibrations and the human psyche.
The U.S military has invested heavily to find music or frequencies of sound that could be used to strengthen troops or debilitate an enemy. One system was used in the middle east to speak directly to the mind of the listener, to alter and entrain his brainwaves, to manipulate his brain's electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns and artificially implant negative emotional states - feelings of fear, anxiety, despair and hopelessness. This subliminal system doesn't just tell a person to feel an emotion, it makes them feel it, it implants that emotion in their minds It is described in Patent #5,159,703, "Silent Subliminal Presentation System", dated, October 27, 1992.

Now I could continue with other interesting works that scientists have carried out, but the things I stated earlier still hold. It would be nice to continue researching in this area and use music and the mind for much more amazing and powerful things. But I will leave it as it is for now.

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Realizing something into the universe

So now we will talk about how to realize something into this universe. To realize something is to cause (something desired or anticipated) to happen or become materialized, fulfill something or to give actual or physical form to something.

Again, as we have seen in my other blog, the rule of opposites, there must be a masculine and feminine part to the process. In this case the masculine part is the IDEA, and the feminine part is the ENERGY required to realize the idea. Nothing materializes if the idea is bad (it doesn’t make sense, work or have the right logic to be carried out to its realization, basically the structure of the idea is not viable in reality) or if there isn’t the right kind or sufficient amount of energy to nurture it into existence.

REALIZATION OF SOMETHING=IDEA+ENERGY

Now to make things a little simpler, for humans and on this earth, energy is also equal to the money, material, or work put into an idea. Then the equation becomes:

REALIZATION OF SOMETHING=IDEA+MONEY, MATERIAL, WORK.

Three common forms of energy used by humans to realize ideas: Work, material, money.

Let’s talk a little bit about the three forms of energy. Work is the energy required to get something accomplished. It can be physical or mental work. Research, for instance is work. Gardening is work. Building and destroying are work. Convincing somebody of something can be considered work. At the end of it all, work turns out to be a form of energy. The next form is material. Since matter is energy it should be obvious that material is also energy. Materials can be bricks for a house or books and pens for a class. One’s own body is also material. Material is anything that is made up of matter. The last but not least is money. Money is energy because it can be traded for material or work. All of the three forms of energy--money, material, and work--can be interchanged one for another. Another important thing to remember about the three forms of energy is that their structure is important. This is true for all energy. The only thing that distinguishes one form of energy from another is its structure and form and state. For example, coal is carbon but diamonds are too. Nevertheless, the structure and state of a diamond is quite different from coal. All elements are made up of the same basic subatomic particles—neutrons, electrons, and protons. But their structure and state determine if they make up a gold or hydrogen molecule. It would make a big difference in any planning if you had lots of gold instead of lots of hydrogen as part of the energy you were working with. Steel in ingots wouldn’t be the same as the steel that makes up the engine or body of a car. The difference in structure makes a big difference on any kind of planning or use of the material—steel in this case. The difference in energy structure also determines the utility a particular thing. This also goes for work. The kind of work a scientist could do is very different from that of an accountant. Both are work, but their structures or designs are different. The importance of structure and design also pertains to the idea to be realized. If the logic is wrong or flawed, product realized will fail. The more advanced and ingenious the idea is, the more benefit and value it has. It is for this reason that beneficial complex energy structures will always be worth more than simpler, less beneficial structures and designs. This not only goes for ideas, work, material and money. This also goes for any kind of energy.

Three examples of realizing ideas into the universe.

Building a house.

Let’s take our first example. Let’s say we want to realize a house. First, we must have the idea—the design—of the house. So it gets designed and a certain architecture is formed from the imagination. The design must be feasible and work with the existing laws of the universe or it will fail. After there is a design, energy is required to fulfill the idea. The energy takes on three basic forms which are money, material, or work.

Money, material and work are transferable energies. As we know energy can take up different forms. In the case of the house, one could go and chop down trees to make the boards for a house, then build it by oneself, thus saving money and making the material by oneself. Or one could pay for the material with money and build it alone. Or one could buy the material with money and pay someone else to do the work for him/her etc. It can be done in many ways. It just depends on how much and what kind and structure of energy one has or wishes to use. In any case, money, material, and work are interchangeable. To carry out great works, great ideas and/or energy must be used.

Becoming a doctor or getting some type of degree.

Example two. I want to become a doctor. First you must decide that you want to become a doctor and plan for it—the idea. Then you must put energy and structure it so you can reach your goal. You must work to go and fill out the paperwork etc. Then you must obtain material such as books and pens, etc. You must also do the work of studying. And then last but not least you need to have the money for tuition. As seen, this process also only needs, the idea, money, work, and material in order to be realized.

Becoming a basketball player.

Example three: I want to become a great basketball player. First, I must decide I want to do it—the idea.  I must have the material—in this case a healthy body could be one of the materials required. I have to work---exercise and practice every day till I get good. I need other materials such as good food for example. Food is also material. Food can be obtained by work or money or by bartering other materials. As seen the three basic energies for realization of ideas is work, material, and money. This is how it is currently; however, it can be any energy required to realize an idea.

Time is required to realize anything.

All ideas require time in order to become realized. Time is required for ideas to mold energy into its particular design. The idea through work molds the energy to give it form and structure, but it does not occur in an instant, rather it takes time to do it. This leads to a corollary which implies that only a limited amount of ideas can be realized by a person during a lifetime. It also means that a limited amount of things can be accomplished by a being or group of beings, even after all have lived all of their lives; even for all society and all the world or all the universe together. Time is limited for everything. Even the universe has finite time to exist and realize. And depending on the thing or species, the time available varies. This is one of the reasons that every day should be used the best way possible. This is because once the day is over, you will never be able to use it again.

Everybody has a certain limited number of days that they will live. Our life is like receiving a stack of tickets, each good for one day in life. Then spending a ticket for each day lived. Little by little the stack diminishes until we finally get to our last day, and ticket, in life. Each time the sun sets, remember that you just spent one of those tickets and you will never get it back.

All realizing requirements are limited—Time, money, material, work and ideas. So you’d better start using them wisely. Especially if you want to realize something that matters while you’re alive. So to accomplish anything you need time and energy to do it. Thus, Time + Energy determines what can be done by something during its existence and since time and energy are both finite for a person, what can be realized by a person is also finite. Your whole existence as a being and what you can do simply can be expressed by the equation You=T+E. with more time you can do or be more. Also with more energy you can do and be more. Lots of energy can do much in little time and little energy with much time can also do a lot. But both are limited for every being in the universe and the universe itself. So you better start planning on what your going to do with the time and energy you got left.

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The quest to form bigger organizations

Now that we have talked about friends and enemies. Now we will talk about the quest for energy to conglomerate, build up, resonate harmonically, evolve and become bigger in order to promote a goal or ideology. This starts at the sub-atomic level when photons, the base form of energy, start resonating and combine constructively or destructively to take up form and even develop a "solid" quality to it. The first step is the formation of sub-atomic particles such as the electron, proton, neutron, etc. This is the result of the harmonizing or cooperation of energy to form sub-atomic structures. After this stage, the formation of atoms occurs, e.g., a hydrogen atom. The hydrogen atom is an example of a simple organization. Really, all such cooperations or harmonizations, are organizations at different scales or levels. At certain levels, they  might be called other names such as organisms or organs, but really they are all just organizations. The hydrogen atom represents first-level or first-scale atomic organization.

After first-scale atoms are formed. Higher-level atoms form such as helium, all the way to the biggest and most complex atoms in the periodic table. This is the evolution of atoms. Atoms also combine to form larger organizations called molecules. Here also, there are a huge variety and complexity of molecules. These molecules combine and work together to form systems of molecules.

At the root of all this is a force that drives energy to form stable and cooperative systems in order to survive, evolve, and have greater influence on it's surroundings. It is already built in to the design of energy itself. It seems that the whole universe has the same energy and abides by the same laws as it does here on earth. It's almost as if it were purposely designed to bring about life and evolve to more and more complex organizations. The key to this behavior of energy in the universe is in the design of energy itself. Since it is a wave, it strengthens by constructive interference, resonance and harmony. All energy strives to organize itself in resonating systems which harmonically achieve equilibrium and promote its existence and influence. It cannot exist stably when there is destructive interference or destructive resonance or it isn't in harmony with the universe or its surroundings. The existence of matter when harmonically stable can be seen by the de Broglie model of the atom which clearly shows why electron orbits have the shape they do and why they can't exist where there is destructive interference.

Electron orbits according to the de Broglie hypothesis

This need to harmonize or resonate in order to exist is the basic driving force behind all energy in the universe. This force is what ends up creating everything from stars to planets to living beings. Since it is the same energy--a photon as its base form--in all the universe, it results in the same things. Surely there are planets in other solar systems, and surely there is life on countless planets throughout the universe. It seems as though the design of energy itself was meant to create life and organizations throughout the universe. The organizations of energy harmonize and resonate to form beings which are friendly to each other and have a common goal or ideology. These beings in turn work and cooperate with each other to form even bigger beings. They get bigger and bigger and become more and more integrated with each other as they evolve. They tend to be symmetrical with 2 sides, and always have the forces of the feminine and masculine in them. 

A simple organism (organization of energy)

As seen in the picture above, even in a simple organism, there are many different organizations of molecules that play a role to unite the whole. The system has its own goals and ideology. All of the molecules work in harmony to promote its community and ideology. This organism also has two sides just like the law of opposites would suggest. The DNA in it definitely has a masculine and feminine side.

Afterwards, multicelled organisms occur. These are organizations of cells friendly to each other with a common goal and ideology. These cells try to evolve or build in a positive way. This is all part of the natural design of the universe and its purpose.

Next, we arrive at primitive creatures with different organs (organizations of cells) friendly to each other and which work together towards the same goal and ideology.

 After creatures with multiple organs are formed and some of them have information centers called brains which start to be self-aware, they start to make even bigger organizations called social structures. There are many creatures that aren't humans that have social structures. Ants and bees for example. Dolphins and killer whales are some other examples. With humans, it starts with tribes and then works up to towns then cities, then nations, then worlds. This process occurs throughout the universe. And many beings have gotten to the world organization system. We are still in the nation stage, but we are becoming globalized through our technology such as the internet, cell phones, and computers. Another thing we are developing is the second stage "brain" or information system--the collective mind. Humans still haven't gotten to the point where they can think together all at once or as one, but they're headed in that direction. Computers and machines are helping create the next level of organizational evolution in humans.

Ants working together to make a bridge so they can pass.

In cities and nations we can see different "organs" of society. They include factories, farms, hospitals, military bases, etc. Each organization plays its role in helping the ideology and goal of the whole. And as we see with all organizations or beings, there must be a defense system in place to protect against enemies. It is naive to think beings can exist without some kind of defense system. It is naive to think that only love and friendliness will exist everywhere someday. Unfriendly beings or organizations will always be around. The ideology of stealing, or forcibly taking energy from other systems or organizations instead of cooperating and building will always exist. 

So the quest to make bigger and bigger organizations continues. On some other planets, beings have achieved a bigger and higher degree of conscience than here on earth. There are places in the universe that have a collective mind which is much more unified and powerful than human civilization on earth. There are even interplanetary collective consciousnesses. And even galactic cooperations.  We still haven't unified as a world yet. We are still divided as nations. We still fight amongst ourselves and still haven't been able to form a worldwide friendly cooperative being. We also haven't been able to make a collective mind or conscience, which would be vastly more intelligent than the human mind we have now. The collective mind is just barely starting with the internet, cell phones, and computers. It still has a long way to go though.

Borg cube. Supposedly a race of humaniods that thinks and acts collectively towards the same goal or ideology.

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Friends and Enemies.

Now that we understand opposites as explained in "The rule of opposites" we know that two opposites exist which are called friends and enemies. This is a critical question for every species in the universe. Our great enemies can and would destroy us if they could. Our survival dependes on being able defeat our enemies in the universe.

As I said before, opposites are not 100% male or female. they come in degrees. A man comes with a male and female part in him, as well as a woman. The major female and male hormones can be classified as estrogens or androgens. Both classes of male and female hormones are present in both males and females alike, but in vastly different amounts. Nothing is 100% pure. The maximum is 99.9999....%. This is true for all things. So then it is true for friends and enemies also.

So friends come in degrees. Great friends that would actually die for you they care so much. (99% friend and 1% enemy) And not-so-good friends that would hardly lift a finger to help you out or even worry. (51% friend and 49% enemy) The opposite is true for an enemy. A great enemy would stop at no cost to destroy you. (99% enemy and 1% friend) And a small enemy would be more of a nuisance than a threat.(51% enemy and 49% friend) Then you got all the other degrees of friendship in between those two poles. When the friend-enemy relationship is around 50/50 they neutralize each other making them almost not be friend or enemy but something neutral like a stone or something that almost can't affect you or a person you don't know but exists and does not affect you.

49% enemy 51% friend

99% enemy 1%  friend

33% enemy 67% friend

 

The friend-enemy relationship is not limited to humans. It is between everything and every species in the universe. An object as well as an animal is friend or foe. We must also remember that the friend-enemy relationship is relative. So what is "good" for one person, unit, or entity is not necessarily good for another. The same goes for what is "bad." A friend to one, is an enemy to another. And the universe does not choose sides. Furthermore, enemies and friends will always exist. We will never have a universe full of friends or enemies. There will always be both. So be prepared and don't believe that the tooth fairy will protect you or that someday everybody will live in a perfect universe where everything will love and be nice to each other. That will never happen.

Venemous insects and other pests are undesirable and must be killed by the human race. They represent a threat. They are "bad" in humans eyes. They are pesky little enemies. However, in the point of view of cockroaches, scorpions and others of their kind, we are terrible killers of their race. To them, we are "bad";we are the enemy. They are justified in their eyes. How can we say that humans are the ultimate judges of what should or should not exist? How can we say "Our nation or planet is on God's side and theirs is not." Bad and good are relative. It just depends on who you are and your point of view. And by the way, the universe is not on any side, it is both sides.

When on thing or species attacks or is undesirable or dangerous to another they become enemies.

When a lion stalks a man and eats him. The lion is the enemy. We might even send a group of people to kill the lion because it is now looked as an enemy. But, to it, we're just dinner . It didn't do anything wrong in its mind. We are the bad ones to it. Who's bad  between the two is relative. Nevertheless, who eats who or what defines the friend-enemy relationship. When something is our prey and we try to kill it to eat, it is automatically our enemy and we are its enemy.

When something tries to eat something else, both automatically become enemies of each other

If a meteor is on its way to hit earth with enough impact energy to destroy us. It becomes a great enemy even though it is an object. It must be destroyed, or it will destroy us.

                

"non-living" objects can be enemies too

 This relativity can also be seen in many political situations. For instance, depending on whose side you're on, the same person can be a hero to some, and and outlaw and fugitive to others. To one set of people a certain person is a hero or friend and to another set that person is a foe or outlaw. Pancho Villa was an outlaw in the U.S. while being a hero in Mexico. The same goes for Nelson Mandela, who was a terrorist to some, and a hero to others. This has been true for many people throughout history. It's just your point of view as with anything else in the universe.

Friend or foe? Hero or villain? It just depends who's side your on

                                                                                                                   

Virus and other microbial threats can also be enemies. Anything that threatens your structural integrity is an enemy. At the same time, there are microbial friends like the bacteria in human's intestines. We are surrounded by friends and enemies of different degrees daily.

Bad virus

Good bacteria

                                                  

Friends are things or beings that help or cooperate with you in some way which benefits you. They help build and are part of the structure you need or desire to live and thrive. They can come in many forms just like enemies. An antiobiotic can be a friend if it benefits you in some way. People obviously can be both friend or enemy. Creatures as well. The saying "dogs are man's best friend." is pretty close to the truth. 

So in this universe everything can be classified as friend or enemy to different degrees. The universe takes no sides and is neutral because it is both sides. Both sides are there for a reason and all things are relative so a being must find his/her place in the universe and promote his/her own unique ideology. Not only this, but each being must find other beings which have similar ideologies and goals as their own to work in conjunction with. Beings are usually made up of smaller beings working together in harmony to reach the ideological goal of the whole. These component parts are called friends. One example is the human body with many cells which make up organs and work together to form a human being. Each cell is a smaller being within the bigger being (the whole human) and work towards the same goals and ideology. The body's functions are conducted by organs. Each organ is a recognizable structure (for example, the heart, lungs, liver, eyes, and stomach) that performs specific functions. An organ is made of several types of tissue and therefore several types of cells (see Cells). For example, the heart contains muscle tissue that contracts to pump blood, fibrous tissue that makes up the heart valves, and special cells that maintain the rate and rhythm of heartbeats. The eye contains muscle cells that open and close the pupil, clear cells that make up the lens and cornea, cells that produce the fluid within the eye, cells that sense light, and nerve cells that conduct impulses to the brain. Even an organ as apparently simple as the gallbladder contains different types of cells, such as those that form a lining resistant to the irritative effects of bile, muscle cells that contract to expel bile, and cells that form the fibrous outer wall holding the sac together. All the cells which are beneficial are friends.

Different cells make up different organs which have a common goal

Friends work together in harmony and keep building larger and larger beings which have the same goal and ideology. As we have seen in the case of a human, it is made up of smaller friendly beings called cells, which get and work together to form organs. The next step is these composite beings, called humans, getting together and forming communities, cities, states, nations, and planets (worlds), then sets of planets, etc. It goes on and on with each level or scale becoming bigger and bigger and more and more powerful and even more intelligent. On this bigger or elevated scale, in the same way cells form organs in a human body, humans form organizations that do specific tasks oriented towards the ideology or goals of their component parts just the way cells promote the goals and ideology of the human body. Organizations are for nations what organs are for the human body. At the end of it all, they are all organizations just at different scales and levels. And they are all friends or enemies of each other. These things are true on earth as well as the rest of the universe. These themes come up again and again on all the planets in the universe which harbor life. The same thing is happening right now on a myriad of planets and is occuring at different levels with beings extremely more advanced than us as well as places where primitive life or cooperations of beings is barely beginning. Things aren't so different on other planets. They abide by the same rules as this planet. It is part of the great design of the universe. And it has a purpose and reason.

So now I will state a great law of the universe which is, care about your friend like you care about yourself. This also depends on the degree of friendship. And we don't need to or should care about our enemy. We must beat our enemy. We must be wary of our enemy. In many cases we must destroy our enemy. This also depends on the degree of enemyship something is. A great enemy must be destroyed, a small enemy maybe can just be avoided or ignored. Furthermore, friendship is relative. A friend to one, can be the enemy of another. All things can be classified as one or the other. Even extraterrestrial beings. Also, the universe chooses no sides. It is both sides. We should not be naive to think we are protected by some loving being or all extraterrestrial beings are going to be friendly to us. We also cannot think that the universe is baised towards us. The universe and its design has its purpose and reason the way it is, without being on our side or on the other. It's design and purpose is much greater than us. In fact, its purpose and reason are so great, that we don't and cannot override it. It won't change or protect us. On the contrary, we must change and harmonize with it if we want to survive and evolve.

Extraterrestrials might not be friendly. We must be prepared.

                                                                          

We should help our friends. It helps us in return.

We must also always be prepared and ready for war against our enemies. We cannot sit back and be lazy thinking everything is going to be nice to us. We cannot be content. We must be aware and constantly analyzing our situation. Even so, something will get us sooner or later and we must die, at least later rather than sooner if we apply these principles. At least, we can live well and learn and progress. At least we can progress a step, or scale, in our lifetime. It isn't a waste of time. It has its purpose. But if we don't try, it will take longer to get to our goal of all-knowing and all-being, just like the designer of our universe himself.  So choose your place in the universe and defend it from your enemies and help your friends. Define what and who is your enemy and to what degree then act accordingly.