Shawn – Beyond One World

In keeping with the Project 10 to the 100 I quite like the idea of milestoning to the power of tens. Not the pain relief as described in The Power of TENS but of a way of saying that you have enough people to create a milestone.

For example when 10 (10 to the power 1) people have joined then work can begin on defining the main principles of the system. When 100 people have joined then I can hand over the site and content to the group and just be a participant. Rather personal milestones admittedly but the idea can create its own for each power of ten that joins in and create milestones for each.

Maybe one of my sillier ideas…

I am having a real problem with my identity – nothing schizophrenic and not me personally I know who I am (I think?) but in my different roles in creating this site on Google Apps. I find I have created Email accounts, Sites accounts and Google Accounts amongst others in creating this. It does highlight that we have an identity but often need different roles within that identity and in managing this on the Internet becomes an immense problem.

I wonder what the answer will finally be to an individuals identity – how will they be correctly recognised. This area is very important to the Beyond One World idea to ensure that equality is upheld you must recognise the individual and their capacity. The matter of ID will become an important part.

I am aware of the OpenID project and this is something I must catch up with soon. Ideally an open system such as this will become the cornerstone of recognising the individual. I love their description of the project:-

An open and decentralized identity system, designed “not to crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business”.

Follows the theme of this idea quite nicely.

I have just typed up two more starter pages:-

What are the goals of the human race?
Where should the system be run?

Noticing that my language is getting more forceful – my apologies.
On a positive side the more time I spend with the idea the more important and beneficial it becomes. I keep trying to think of ways of selling an idea without forcing it upon anyone – I just hope that soon others will join in and become the pioneers…

Fascinating isn’t it. I am beginning to wonder whether the idea of unity is actually within us all without a means of actually achieving it. I believe that deep within the core of every person is a form of good will and that it is inherent in our thinking – even though I can attest to the experience that some people, at some time appear to display exactly the opposite. I thought I would look at the entries already to the Project 10 the 100 on YouTube and immediately found Joleenathomas’s entry. I loved her discussion on thought, how it is innate in everything – One day I hope we really get to understand what this miraculous force really is and a new science develop from it.

Here is her video – I gave 5 stars for inspiration…

I must admit – I am feeling quite nervous about the idea. What if no-one reads it? What if they read it and forget it? What if they read it and tread the idea into the ground? Strange how something you believe in 100% can give you doubts – there is a strong urge right now of deleting all existence of it in case of rejection. I got caught up in all this on Monday, realised after a few days of it bothering me that I must do something – I must at least try to bring it all to some coherence. So I ended up not sleeping until late Tuesday trying to pull it all together, trying to remember some of the forgotten things that have come to mind over the years and pulling it in. They are still appearing, almost shouting at me me for forgetting them and not doing anything about them. Ideas can get so aggressive at times can’t they. Well I have placated some of them by writing them down, taking notes of ones I still need to pull in. They are still unsettled however because they need to be written coherently and linked together. I will do it… honestly…

I think it is a disability being an ideas person, because unless you follow them through they nag at you constantly. I have written books and books of them on scraps of paper over the years, which inevitably get lost when I cruelly have a sort out and throw them away. It harms your career too – you are never satisfied with the status quo – you see things – things that could be better, things that would be more helpful to others. Some you try, some work, some fail, but they require much more effort to implement than any one can put into in a life time. Well I look back at the lifetime now, 46 years of it and ask the question – What have I really achieved? Who have I really helped in those years? It is very dissatisfying. I always ‘thought I knew’ that I would do something, create something wonderful that would help everyone in the world. What followed were many crazy ideas through the years that seemed to be wonderful but needed a better person than I to follow them, needed me to be better organised, more intelligent, more of a salesman – well I failed on all counts. I hope one day that this constant battle will end somehow – that either I can do what I really wanted to achieve and help everyone or I can silence the noise and be happy with everything as it is. I know there are others in the world who suffer the same, they get wrapped up in their world (so many worlds) and make themselves ill try to achieve their purpose. Is it an obsession – In some ways it is a beautiful obsession , like listening to a piece of music that at the time of listening seems perfect and beautiful in ways that cannot be described in normal language – everything seems to come together, everything seems possible and your heart is full of the possibilities, then comes along everyday life, the minutiae that takes over because you must survive, you must think of other things, you must earn money, be responsible and take care of the errands of the day.

Well here I present to you – an idea, not a small one, possibly one of the biggest, but it is feasible, it is real, so much can be achieved if it becomes a reality, it can help every person, every sentient being that upholds it going forward – and everyone needs help, a purpose, principles by which to live by, a means of knowing that they have done some good in the world and that they have worked together or by themselves to remove pain, suffering or a problem from someones life.

Lets end all these problems together – put an end to needless want and suffering. Lets put an end to all the wasted opportunities in our life and get up and do something about it.

I began this post by letting of steam and ended up on a soapbox – I’ll get down for now and let you decide.