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7/4 KVSS                                                                                                                                       

7/3 SK @ Team

7/1 SK

When it comes to money there are two fundamental aspects that have to be taken into account. As PG pointed out money is a tool. With any tool there are two factors involved. The tool itself has to be as efficient and practically beneficial as possible and the user of the tool must be a master at using the tool. As I am no economist I will focus on how to become a master of using money where others may focus on how to improve the fundamentals of money itself.
 

7/1 SKS

@KS & All: Please join in the Philosophy Debates knol and write your opinion.
@KS: Kyriakos will answer or his comment will be removed.

7/1 KVSS

7/1 KS about Money Philosophy

(couldn't write on philosophy debates because i want to see what K(yriacos) has to say)
i saw an interesting struture of merchandise without money (6 wares - 15 relations) and with money (7 wares - 6 relations (where money is a ware, but a special ware)) : structure-of-money
so money is a practical tool, as PG and SK said.
btw. if one of the wares is common (e.g. salt) it might serve also as currency for the other wares .
there is another root of money, with philosophical impacts :
if i have no wares, i can give a clay tablet or another promissory note .
if i give it to A, A can give it to B, B to C and so on, till e.g. F gives it back to me .
now i have payed my dept and can destroy the promissory note .
if i do not and moreover make some new promissory notes then i have invented money out of nothing - and that's the mechanism of every financial crises .
the question is : can we make a better money ?

@ KVSS & SK
thanks for the feed back, especially the W100 :-)
there is more stuff I'll have to translate, especially some reviews which we have to discuss .

6/30 SK @ PG

SKS has already introduced this topic in his philosophy debates knol. Please post your insights there.

6/30 PG @ SK & Team

6/30 SK @ Team

6/30 AK

Vote today for the Best Knol of the Month June 2009!

6/30 SKS about Money Philosophy

Money surely has a philosophy. Although I am not quite sure what this is. I suppose the whole "give and take for money" is based on materialism? Could really use your input here. I admit I haven't thought of that much.

6/30 KVSS

6/30 SK

Money is also a practical tool that makes trade more efficient. A wheat farmer may have only wheat with which to barter the needs of life. Others may not even want wheat, they may want flour. So he takes it to the mill who trades it for money. With money he does not have to worry about storage etc. However the more important point is perhaps there should be a philosophy of money; because there are some issues about money that are not an exact science. For instance it is not clear how much money can the US government print before it starts to have a negative impact?

6/29 PG @ KS

6/29 KS

@ PG & SKS
is there a philosophy of money ?
@ KVSS
thanks for improving primal therapy .

6/28 SK @ Team

I think the time has come when we must take the initial steps to start preparing for our knol conference. I have opened a knol where we must all hammer out the theme of our coming conference:  'July 2010 Knol Conference', please post your ideas there.

This time I want to pull out all the stops. This will be a serious international level conference, so lets take the first steps now. As a first step lets make it very clear why we want this conference. Also lets write a joint letter on behalf of our team that we will send to various universities, media, prospective sponsors and to VIP invitees.  I am thinking if we can get people like President Clinton, President Carter, Kofi Anan, my friend and mentor Prof/Ambassador Harry Cahill and my mentor, the world famous and NY times best selling author Joost Ellfers, perhaps I can even try my friend Noam Chomsky, we will get good exposure in the media and our goals of making our agenda implemented by the right authorities closer to success.

6/27 KVSS

I could not open Primal Therapy knol. (there was a confusion . please try again)

I agree with PG. Knol as a new platform has many gaps at every level in every subject. Now I am concentrating on supply chain management revision knols.

6/26 PG

In some cases, what are missing are basic knols on mundane / everyday (but crucial) topics.
I just wrote What is money?

6/26 SK

There is a lot of new stuff that I am saying but as far as cleaning the brain is concerned there is nothing new.
It is like all the ingredients are already there I am just trying to remix them to make a new better version of the same old, same old.  Taking science forward traditional scientists try to research and improve knowledge that is within the paradigm of science. Thus traditional science researching wisdom will stick to using knowledge from the recognized mind science only. But the reality is that religion and culture have all contributed to the knowledge base of wisdom, especially the eastern cultures of India, China and Sufism.

All the brain/mind therapies can be traced to Freud's method, which can be traced all the way to yoga, meditation and even the Buddha's mindfulness! Even my concept of womb-conditioning is kind of mentioned in the Gita, the 5000 BC Indian scriptures.

6/26 SK @ KVSS

Yes, primal therapy is a practical and effective way of removing EBG (emotional brain garbage ) from the brain. All the practical versions of psychotherapy help in cleaning up the brain to lessen and remove the playing of the broken emotional records. I have said this again and again that wisdom education is helping clean the brain of emotional baggage. What primal therapy aims to do is make people normal. What I am saying is that the so called normal is really sub normal and that the same process that is used to make people normal must be continued to make people super normal. Current emotional healing emphasizes managing ones emotions. I am saying lets make the brain +2 super mature; why leave it at so called normal when we can continue to the +2 level. No wonder I call my self - Wisdom(brain) coach.

Just as I have researched wisdom and developed my wisdom hypothesis based on science, religion, tradition and culture I am saying lets combine all the different schools of psychotherapy as well as mindfulness, invented by the Buddha, along with the Sufi traditions and our Hindu yoga etc. I have a knol on this called, 'Contextual Mindfulness'. One of the criticism against primal therapy is that it is unable to bring up into consciousness the deeply buried EBG. Well if you combine all the different techniques from all the above mentioned traditions then it is possible to make all buried EBG conscious.

One of the biggest hurdles to my wisdom education is that science considers so called basic human nature as part of our being human. It is considered as part of our natural infrastructure; as a factor of our genes. As a result main stream science tries to educate us to manage our natural animal nature. Thus management is the highest level of education. Management leaves EBG in the brain. It just helps us learn to control the EBG generated traits of human nature. It is like instead of getting rid of the beast we learn to control the beast. It is amazing many of us follow cleanliness as a religion yet we live with garbage in our brains!

I have a simple hypothesis that states that human nature is at least partly learned in the womb. See my knols on 'Human Nature'. And what is learned can be unlearned. Thus for me managing human nature is not enough. I am recommending unconditioning the brain of the affects of 'womb-conditioning'[W-C] (the affects of nine long months of the womb-reality/W-R {womb-environment} on the emotional and physical brain). The various sciences of 'Management' must be elevated to the science of 'Becoming'. Each individual must be made free of his/her 'W-R' oriented brain. As the Bible says It is all about becoming the Christ that is potentially there in each one of us. I say that the aim of emotional intelligence/wisdom education must become to uncondition the brain from the affects of W-C and the affects of a negative upbringing!

@ KS
If you like you can add my above posting to your knol on primal therapy. (done)

6/26 KVSS

6/26 KS @ SK & KVSS

i made a rough translation : primal therapy .
my question to SK : is this relevant to our discussion ?
i think, it's exactly the same as you write in your knols .
if yes, we can look on the given review to see if there are critical remarks .
by discussing them we can make us an opinion .

6/25 SK

Some one is flagging my knols, today I noticed my knol Wisdom Day has been flagged.

6/25 A @ KS

Dank! Aber warum der gesundheit? :) bekommen diesen Teil nicht ganz...

means : many happy returns of the day

6/25 KS @ A

ich wünsche dir glück und gesundheit .
oh, and have lots of money.

6/25 A @ Team

Hello everyone!

Today is my birthday. Goody. Another year older. Yay.

How is everyone? I haven't been updating lately, terribly busy. Too busy to visit beloved knol! :(

6/25 SK @ Team

I have converted my latest post into the following knol: Seeking Partners for a New Project in Philosophy.
For starters please identify and quantify those questions/answers that can be taken from the domain of philosophy and can be put in the domain of science. Also please list those questions that cannot be put in the domain of science.

6/25 SK @ KS and Team.

"Every answer that helps in making life richer is more important to me and has more practical applications then knowing the fundamental reality of life". When you say that some of my stuff is good and some garbage you raise a very interesting point. I will say that those questions on which one can use 'laboratory methods' ie. can weigh and measure the idea within the paradigm of science I categorize in the domain of science. Those that cannot be scientifically measured are in the domain of philosophy. It is now well recognized that there are some fundamental questions about the very nature of life that cannot be answered by the laboratory method; hence I think it is a waste of time, mind and resources to answer these questions for the sake of trying to figure out these answers for their own sake. We must devote our limited resources to researching questions that can be answered by the laboratory method with the specific objective in mind to improve the quality of life from the so called normal to super normal.

However the way I interpret the Holy Scriptures I have found a way to apply the laboratory method to statements and insights in order to bring these insights from the domain of faith to the domain of science. Take the example of when Gd said to Moses, 'I am who I am'. This is such a powerfully profound statement that we can scientifically prove that it is the key to everything. As I said earlier:

"I am who I am". - Gd
 { The biggest key to self knowledge and self actualization. The biggest lesson of them all. The key to the road to self mastery. It answers the mega questions of philosophy. It defines the goal of emotional intelligence education. It opens the door to heaven on earth.} We must learn from the eternal master of them all - Gd.

Thus not only have I found a way to scientifically prove such statements from the Bible I can also quantify and measure them ie. the above insight from Gd is more than +2!

What I am hoping is that people like our very own KVSS, PG, AK, SKS, A, CQ, MB and you will start identifying insights from the Bible, Koran,and the Gita and start applying the laboratory method to these insights just as I have been doing. I have not even scratched the surface yet; you all can take it to the next level.

6/25 KVSS

6/24 KS @ KVSS & SK

6/24 SK

My latest knol: He who sleeps on the road will lose either his hat or his head. - Nizami, Treasury of Mysteries
Even mainstream science and education is still sleeping on the road to self discovery and self actualization, no wonder most of us loose part of our 'heads'/minds and as a result we loose our true self in bondage to our self image. It is about time main stream education woke up to this cycle of ignorance that is being repeated from generation to generation.

The knowledge to take philosophy and identify those parts that science can take over is now in place; all we need is this awareness that we are standing on the edge of a new era where many of the goals of philosophy can now be accomplished. First we have to redefine the goals of philosophy: to make man into a superior being and by realizing that the so called normal society is actually sub normal and we can educate our selves and especially our future generations to become super normal.
"I am who I am". - Gd
 { The biggest key to self knowledge and self actualization. The biggest lesson of them all. The key to the road to self mastery. It answers the mega questions of philosophy. It defines the goal of emotional intelligence education. It opens the door to heaven on earth.} We must learn from the eternal master of them all - Gd.

6/24 KVSS@SK

You should not publish empty knols. Manage your impulse to publish empty knols. I am just joking - quoting from Daniel Goleman. Don't publish a knol till you feel it is appropriate for reading by visitors. There has to be a reason for publishing a one line knol. Not author's impulse to publish. He can keep it in unpublished mode for his work in process activities.

You have taken a very noble and ambitious mission. The question is about the tools at your disposal. Your tools have to described in detail. And then people need to have confidence in those tools. Like knol, initially many have no confidence. They said all knols are poor quality knols. Now many knols have more than 5000 page views. Will you now say they are all poor quality. No. The view changes. Some college students agree knol articles help them. More writers will register with knol.

Your brain garbage cleaning tools are also a similar stage. People have to see them and people have to understand them, people have to see exhibits. But it is a great mission. Whatever you can do, you do and God will bless you and your mission.

Please read the knols and bio of our foundation member:
Erik van Luxzenburg
He is a convert to Islam and it is due to his association with an Indian Muslim friend. Good to know such incidents and the reasons for such a voluntary decision to follow a different path.

6/24 SK @ KVSS

Instead of trying to find answers to the eternal mystries of life I want to shift the focus from what is the fundamental nature of life and every thing in it; to how to make life of the highest quality for all mankind. For instance what is more important - to know why water is water or how to get the maximum benifits out of the properties of water. Every answer that helps in making life richer is more important to me and has more practical applications then knowing the fundamental reality of life. All that knowledge that improves life itself needs to be uncovered from the domain of philosophy and put firmly in the domain of science. All of this can be achieved by shifting at least some of the focus of research to: How to make life +2 super mature for everyone! The most interesting reality is that the qualities of a self master, a wise human being and a super mature emotionally intelligent being are exactly the same. All three are wise, selfless and have all the attributes of wisdom! Becoming a self master through say yoga and mindfulness is a very long process, cleaning the brain of emotional brain garbage is a much faster process. But at the end both end up selfless - the highest quality of the self. I want to wake up mankind to the fact that making every one a self master is no more a mystery of philosophy; it is a domain of science! The focus of philosophy must shift to dispelling the misery from our own lives and from the life of the world; from philosophy for for its own sake to philosphy for creating a superior mankind.

Today I published a few untitled empty knols to use my days quota for later. I found that some one had flagged three of my empty knols - these knols had not a single word written in them! Why would someone flag empty knols?

6/24 KVSS

Redesigning Philosophy to Master Life.
Title is very exciting. Do you want to alter an individual's philosophy or the subject of philosophy itself?

Some interersting knols on Russia
Knol Sub-Directory - Russia - Interesting Knols
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/1345#view

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