Two motivations:
• I need the most safety and hopeful possibilities for myself and (if applicable) who I am attached to.
• Then, having the ability for emotional connection, I both want to positively and don’t want to negatively, tell the children and innocents of the world, “Here is what I was doing this moment when you needed me.”
One goal: To address all that can be addressed in existence for the most safety and hopeful possibilities.
That sounds big, but it is necessary and doable, as an individual and a global community. Let’s go through the steps of how. And while some might sound “big” to start with, I will explain how they are foundationally simple.
We begin with some base logic: Anything unanalyzed means we move forward without knowing what is known, not known, nor the possibilities. Which means higher risk of experiencing, creating, or/and allowing injury, and higher risk of not working towards what is hopefully possible as best we can.
Then logically, we understand for the most safety and hopeful possibilities, we need to analyze our entire existence, reanalyze as we learn more, and function from that reality. And with that understanding, we recognize our global efforts towards universal analysis aren’t coordinated, synthesized, nor in some cases even being done, as we need them to be. Then, following the logic ,we have to examine the reasons that is not happening, which actually is a point of understanding why all that we could be addressing in the best way possible, we aren’t. And in this situation, it turns out the reasons we aren’t, are also the answer to how we do. Let me explain.
Let’s begin with one key fact of how our world operates - whether of our true free will or not, what we and others are doing or not doing right now affects our and other life’s safety and possibilities. Taking that fact through the motivations for the goal:
• For the most safety and hopeful possibilities for myself and who I am attached to:
o Every moment matters for me to be doing the best thing possible (we will go through how we decide that).
o Because what we are each doing impacts each other, I need others to:
Whatever extent possible have what they need, to decrease the risk of them being unintentionally dangerous, and them be able to contribute their best to our world.
Understand how every moment matters.
• For the children and innocents of the world, I both want to positively and don’t want to negatively say, “Here is what I was doing this moment when you needed me.”
Then, while what we each need to decrease our risk of being unintentionally dangerous and be able to contribute our best to our world is a list we will address, we start with the foundational. What we all within functionality need to start with. And that brings us to the need for logic and connection, understanding them and the best application of them. To explain their foundational importance, let me start by defining them.
Logic is objectively thinking things completely through, considering all possibilities. Then there are two areas of connection, internal and external. Internal – we value ourselves, understand how we function, and stay self-aware. External – we know why and how to connect to others and all there is. Neither internal nor external connection require emotion, but incorporate the emotional when applicable.
As to their foundational importance, if we do analyze all that we need to address for the most safety and hopeful possibilities (from every form of violence to all the areas we need answers), logic and connection are the foundation to them. And beyond regret, is something most of us haven’t been appropriately taught, if taught at all, how to do.
Which brings us back to understanding why the world is the way it is - We don’t have the foundations of logic and connection, and from that we don’t have the understanding of how all our lives are tied together.
So having established that, to decrease the risk of being unintentionally dangerous and be able to contribute our best to our global community for the most safety and hope possible, we now look at what we need to do so that as individuals (within functionality):
• We know how to connect to ourselves,
• We know why and how to connect to others,
• We know how to think logically,
• We know that every moment matters,
• To whatever extent possible have what we need.
To do that, hold those foundational pieces for a moment, while we go back to understanding another part of our existence, then we will put it all together.
The world has so many issues that are within our ability and we have to address. And we know for the most safety and hopeful possibilities, we have to address all of them, and do so with logic-connection. But how can we do that as an individual, (if applicable) family, and as a global whole? Let's start by breaking them down into 3 primary categories:
To whatever our degrees (0-100) and whether of our true free will or not, we are:
• Experiencing, allowing, creating injury (child abuse, violence, poverty, racism, inequality, all the ways we de-individualize, animal cruelty, unexplained, and so on.),
• Destroying our bodies and world (all the environmental impacts),
• Not prepared for possibilities, including possibly imminent worse.
And the first 2 could go together, but are purposefully separated out.
So knowing the foundational pieces and looking at all our issues in those three categories, let’s go through how we can individually to globally address all that can be addressed. A way to remember the process is in the name for it “Five through the Filter”.
The Filter:
Going back to “How do we decide what is the best thing to do every moment?”, we need a way to do that, and that is what our filter is for. We won’t be perfect, but it helps us do the best we can.
Our filter has three parts-
To the best of my situational ability, my daily five (explained next) is filtered through:
• My Identity - I live with the most logic-connection I can. (There are resources to learn this.)
• My Goal- The most safety and hopeful possibilities.
• Every Moment Matters - Knowing the cost to life (ours and other) in time.
And we will go through examples of how using the filter to make decisions works, after our Daily Five.
My Daily Five –
• Take care of myself, and if applicable those I’m responsible for, the best I can.
• Do something to be prepared.
• Take care of my environment.
• Be informed and understand more.
• Ask/help others on some level to become aware and involved to the need for a logic-connection global approach.
And while each part of the “Five through the Filter” has additional explanation, here is a bit more on each of the Daily Five. Again, these are always to the best of our situational ability. And this all gets easier as others also do what is needed.
Take care of myself, and (if applicable) those I’m responsible for, the best I can.
• All that keeps me healthy and connected as possible is foundational - sleep, nutrition, exercise, mental health practices, if applicable medicine or/and health care, relational needs.
• Making sure I have income or/and my needs met.
• Basic chores and maintenance.
Do something to be prepared.
There are websites with easy checklists to help get started on what every individual, (if applicable) family, should have and know. For the daily five we want to do one of the following:
• An item: Find or buy one item I need e.g. I might find free items in local groups, on Facebook marketplace curb alerts, and so on.
• An action: e.g. Complete my ICE (in case of emergency) and print it off to have with me.
• A skill: e.g. While eating I watch a 3-5 minute video on a skill like first aid, how to put out a fire, or so on.
Take care of my environment.
Possibilities include: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose, upcycle, rot (compost), think sustainably.
Be informed and understand more.
For the most safety and hopeful possibilities, we need to be informed and understand our world the best we can. Learning and understanding takes time. And while we are working to get information researched, analyzed, and synthesized in a way that is more efficient for all of us, we have to do extra work in the meantime. So just like the being prepared, we do a little each day.
Examples:
• I take time to scroll the news instead of watching it, so I can pick what is important but have a base awareness.
• My google feed is a scroll of emerging science from diverse fields, where I can pick what is important but have a base awareness.
• I try to think through all possibilities.
Ask or/and help others on some level to become aware and involved to the need for a logic-connection global approach.
Every day we ask or/and help others on some level to become aware and involved to the need for a logic-connection global approach. Since until we have that, we can’t live our own lives with the most safety and hopeful possibilities, and the current and possible cost is beyond my communication.
There are two approaches:
• Getting to lots of people.
• Networking with those who have influence or/and resources.
Who can you reach out to immediately to share with? Can you write a letter others can also use? What other ways can you ask or/and help others?
So now that we have our Filter and Daily Five, how do we make those decisions? A few points before we go through some examples.
• It is always to “The best of my situational ability.”
• We analyze everything we do– Should I be doing this or not?
• We analyze how we do things – What is the cost in time (impact to life)? What is the cost in resources?
• We think through how the five might intersect and if they conflict how to prioritize.
• We deal with the reality that because our world is the way it is right now, there are things we can’t do the best we can.
• It gets easier with practice. And the more everyone does their part, the easier all of it will be.
Some examples:
• Washing our hands ~ We know we want to do this efficiently, since we know the cost to lives in time (every moment matters), and it helps conserve water (taking care of my environment).
• How we prepare our food ~ We think through things like “Should I heat this?” “Add spice?” for the time taken (every moment matters), and the energy and resources used (taking care of my environment). Then we also consider how that impacts our self-care (taking care of myself the best I can). So, while a routine is to not heat or use spices as much as possible, sometimes it needs heated more and certain spices are used to help our body.
• Repurposing ~ When we consider items we can repurpose (taking care of my environment), that can also help us with 'Doing something to be prepared', e.g. empty cans can be used for candle holders. However, somedays with time available and all the other priorities in the Daily Five, you might not take time to wash something to recycle or repurpose and just throw it away, because you also have to do what else is needed, e.g. “I am experiencing avoidable injury, there are children and innocents who need me now, something worse might be about to happen, I have got to reach out to____.” (ask/help others become aware and involved).
So back to how I began –
Two motivations:
• I need the most safety and hopeful possibilities for myself and (if applicable) who I am attached to.
• Then, having the ability for emotional connection, I both want to positively and don’t want to negatively, tell the children and innocents of the world, “Here is what I was doing this moment when you needed me.”
One goal: To address all that can be addressed in existence for the most safety and hopeful possibilities.
And the approach to achieve that, Five through the Filter:
My filter-
To the best of my situational ability, my daily five is filtered through:
• My Identity - I live with the most logic-connection I can.
• My Goal- The most safety and hopeful possibilities.
• Every Moment Matters - Knowing the cost to life (ours and others) in time.
My Daily Five –
• Take care of myself, and (if applicable) those I’m responsible for, the best I can.
• Do something to be prepared.
• Take care of my environment.
• Be informed and understand more.
• Ask or/and help others on some level to become aware and involved to the need for a logic-connection global approach.
If you would like more information or/and have ideas, my email is below. And in closing~
When you’re hurting, when you’re being forced to hurt yourself and others, when who you are attached to has the same needs, when the children and innocents of existence need you, and you're aware it could get worse imminently, you get and stay focused. That’s rational, and where hopefully hope exists. - Take care of yourself the best you can, Gwen
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