BRIDGE THEORY - An Introduction

BRIDGE THEORY - An Introduction [11th March 2015]

Bridge theory is a method of observation, analysis, logistical planning, problem solving, creative expansion and organized development.

That is a long description and perhaps it is still deficient. This is because bridge theory is an encompassing concept which operates on many levels in many spheres.

Bridge theory is a physical and conceptual reality, it thus includes theoretical or ideational knowledge and practical applicability. i.e. it is something you can build upon in your mind and with your hands in your living environment, you can analyze imaginary bridge-systems in your mind or view your whole reality and environment through the prism of bridge-theory.

Bridge theory is based on the idea that almost everything in the universe is a bridge or fundamentally connected to the bridge-form in nature. In short, bridge theory states that things can be fall into one or more of the following categories:-

1) a bridge

2) a terminal/location between bridges

3) a traverse medium (the substance, matter, material, energy, environment, conditions through, around or over which a bridge passes)

4) a bridge walker (the information, energy, matter, individual, group or entity which traverses ('walks') the bridge.

These pillars or designations can exist in the same concept, individual or entity such that something can simultaneously be a a bridge and a bridge-walker, or a bridge and a traverse medium, or a terminal and a bridge etc.

Bridge theory due to it being a pervasive principle can apply in all fields and areas of life whether economic, social, scientific, psychological, educational, political, religious, philosophical, artistic etc.

Bridge Theory rests on rational and observational deductions made from the reality of bridges concerning their design, structure, functions and attributes. The deeper and wider this analysis and the more accurate the classification of its components and states the more accurate, detailed and useful will be any working analogy, understanding or application derived from it.

Some of the fundamental principles of bridge theory include:-

1) A bridge is a connection between two entities, systems, components, attributes, individuals, groups or ideas. This generally exists between two places of distinguished locations and/or attributes. However, moments in time are bridged even if there is apparently no movement or change in a given subject (although in reality change has occurred at some or various levels).

2) A bridge facilitates exchange, movement, association, perception, travel between the two locations or states.

3) A bridge is a fundamental structure, reality and process in the universe. This means that everything is connected to bridges in some form either as a bridge, terminal (locations that are connected by bridges) or a 'bridge walker' that which crosses or traverses a bridge.

4) Events, matters, ideas, objects and reality are better viewed via the filter or spectacle of bridge theory because it is an accurate classification of the reality. It expands the vision and analysis to interrelationships, causes and effects, origins and developments, goals and methods.

5) A subject, entity, attribute, system or concept is understood by bridge searching, bridge viewing, bridge building and bridge walking. This means that connections are made to a subject, environment and it's relationships and connections are searched for within it and linking it to other subjects external to its own system or structure. Past, present, future and potential connections and bridges are relevant. Locations are relevant, structures, components and organization are relevant. The flows of matter, energy and information are also relevant.

6) Bridges lead to bridges.

[This is an important initial marker in a new theory I have discovered/developed. I am writing a book on it and if you just reflect on these few introductory words you will see it is of vast significance and universal resonance.]

Zayd Depaor

When it's hot I wanna be cold & when it's cold I wanna be hot

When it's hot I wanna be cold & when it's cold I wanna be hot

In summer with the sun blazing down direct or through the window and fan not cooling me enough, I'm thinking, "I'm looking forward to winter so I can get on with my work, without being overheated." Winter comes and then I'm often so cold I have to keep warming my hands so I can type, I'm thinking "At least in summer I can do some work outside, sit down without getting wet (if it hasn't rained) and not have to jump up and down to keep warm, roll on summer."

So in one condition I want the opposite and when the opposite arrives I want to return to where I was, the original opposite.

I think this shows two things (at least). One, envisioning is not the same as tasting and two, you can't escape problems as life is full of them.

People on a regular basis hope for different conditions whose absence, in their mind is the cause of their problems and discomfort. In reality however, every situation has its challenges. This doesn't mean though that a change in circumstances can't make a difference to your performance, of course a change can make a dramatic difference. However, it will only be you in that new environment you hope for, so if you don't have the internal provisions then you may starve in your new home, earlier than expected. It is indeed wise to prepare to be a 'man for all seasons', as we are in a changing world with every moment having its pros, cons and trials, just as the Qura'n says "Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as trial and to Us you will be returned" (THE QURA'N al Anbiyaa' [The Prophets] 21:35)

Time to Time Things?

Time to Time Things?

Have you noticed the time speed up recently? Does it feel like a week is shorter than a week, a month shorter than a month, a year shorter than a year, an hour more like ten minutes?

Perhaps this is not a recent thing at all for you, but you noticed since childhood even, that time seems to be speeding up. The experience of time somehow being shrunk down. Secular materialists might declare it nonsense at once and just attribute it to a matter of distorted perception of time influenced by various psychological and sensory factors such as occupation, focus of mind etc.

Or we may now hear the familiar choir of quantum physicists, string theorists or experts in relativity telling us that the stretching of time or shrinking of time is indeed possible, and they may give us a lecture transporting us to the Star Trek episode where Kirk, Spock and co came across a people living at a higher frequency/velocity and so when they were close they couldn't even be seen as they were too fast for our perception and when the Enterprise crew transported into their dimension, those they left behind in normal life were appearing like statues, so slow that they looked motionless.

I don't know where my 20's went nor my 30's (yes they have almost gone too), it seemed like I was dumped in a time accelerator (or is that just a time machine?) and caged up so I couldn't do anything for 20yrs. Or I have been standing with one foot still and the other taking one step in one direction, then stepping back and then taking one step in another direction...so that I have basically been standing in one spot rotating directions but only ever getting one foot forward before it goes back to where it was, and while that unproductive dance has been going on, all the time has been used up.

It seems like it takes ages to do the smallest of things, the simplest of regular tasks. We have the technology and communications that supposedly speed things up but it seems that only time speeds up and nothing gets done. Eating, cooking, shopping, washing, waiting, travelling and then the whole day has gone.

By the time I have got anything done it might be time to drop into the grave. Maybe the watches need to be changed...forget the dials, numbers, second hand, hour and minute hands, just simply the watch saying "You're out of time!"

I tell people the main use of my watch is not to tell the time but to remind me that I'm almost dead. Maybe I should try and use my watch to time things, but by the time I have timed them they will be finished.

Holes in the Finances - 10 Rules to Avoid Squandering your Wealth

Holes in the Finances
Ten Rules to Avoid Squandering your Wealth

1) Don't get into businesses you don't understand...you might only gain some understanding of them once they have swallowed your fortune.

2) Don't get into businesses you are no good at...a pat on the back from your pal and a like from your girlfriend on Facebook might not cut it in the real world.

3) Don't get involved with agents you don't know...they might be here today, gone tomorrow...with your money.

4) Don't store your wealth in volatile worthless currency, instead convert it into real wealth, commodities, gold etc. Something that has value in itself is better than something given artificial value by the manipulations of government and central banks.

5) Don't put all your eggs in one basket, baskets of eggs often fall to the ground...leaving you with no eggs for eggs and no eggs for pancakes.

6) Don't go telling everyone your ideas before you hatched them...people have a knack of taking your ideas and then claiming they are their own when the dollar signs register on their eyeballs.

7) Take note of your real friends in the stage of poverty and weakness...In the stage of strength and riches, your friend list seems to grow along with your bills.

8) Make sure your spouse married you before you got rich...if this needs explaining then you obviously never read celebrity news.

9) Make sure you live in the right country...somehow people have been mind controlled into accepting the principle that half your wealth belongs to the government, some governments are better than others but they all seem to be thieves operating an exploitation racket.

10) Don't waste your money on a whole load of stupid expensive things you don't need....if you really needed them, you would have died before you became rich.

Death at the Door - 27th August 2014

Death at the Door

Death is knocking at the door,
Don't want to let him in,
He wants less but I want more,
He knows about my sin.

Death is knocking at the door,
No place for me to hide,
I once felt rich, but now I'm poor,
He's soon to break inside.

Death is knocking at the door,
I can't resist, I can't delay,
I'm second best in this short war,
I'll soon receive my pay.

(Zayd Depaor - 27th August 2014, 6:46am)

AGEING LINES - 27th August 2014

 

AGEING LINES

More lines upon my face today,
I'm rushing to my grave,
More problems passed my way today,
It's time to hide in caves.

No time to sleep, no time to think,
Words grow dry before the ink,
Fading fast and dying faster,
Coming close to meet my Master.

Hair receded, growth impeded,
Bones are aching, limbs are shaking,
Memory faded, feeling jaded,
No more passion looks my way,
More lines upon my face today.

(Zayd Depaor - 27th August 2014, 6:07am)

Smoking Marijuana to Escape the Mess We Made - Finding our own guilty hand in the society we run from

[marijuana as an escapism by Zayd Depaor]

Smoking Marijuana to Escape the Mess We Made
FINDING OUR OWN GUILTY HAND IN THE SOCIETY WE RUN FROM
 

Whenever I walk through the streets I seem to be smelling marijuana everywhere. With so many people smoking it, despite it being illegal the police and the government have softened their approach to it. It has virtually become legal in all but name.

I can't stand the smell of it, it smells awful and I end up inhaling it as I go about my daily business. But I don't want to inhale it. People's use of it and the societal toleration (or encouragement) of it, directly impacts on me negatively along with its indirect harmful consequences.

Apart from medicinal use, many people take marijuana socially and recreationally. A form of physical and perhaps psychological pleasure. But marijuana, like the use of alcohol and other drugs, for many people is an escape from reality. It alters the mind so that the awareness of the surroundings is distanced. People seek refuge in it from oppression, depression and aggression. An escape from the present mess to somewhere else, even if that other place is nowhere.

An ostrich ducks its head in the sand when problems arise and people take drugs. But taking drugs will not improve the reality. It will only make people incapable of judging that reality and less able to fix it.

There is of course now a growing group of people who not only call for legalization of marijuana but the legalization of all drugs. Legalizing a thing does not change its essential reality nor its natural impact. Marijuana will still be marijuana and it will have the same effect in terms of clouding judgement. And covering your eyes, so that you don't see the mad axe killer in the woods wont make him vanish.

A society where so many people want to alter their minds so as not to face reality tells us society is not working well. People hide from the society as though they are separate from it, but denying a problem rather than confronting it is part of what sustains it. We are in the society, we are its building blocks and its directors.

The society consists of the beliefs, ideology, thoughts and relationships of the people, along with the systems collectively created and administered by an authority emanating from the people and generally supported by them. Therefore the society we live in is the result of our own ideas, actions and relationships.

So next time you reach for that joint, those pills or that whisky which you hope will shield you from the problems outside, ask yourself this – Where is my own hand in the mess? Did I not agree to turn a blind eye to oppression and leave it someone else? Did I not put my trust in the untrustworthy? Did I not follow the crowd without knowing where they are going? Did I not agree to be robbed by barbaric levels of taxation? Did I not willingly enslave myself to those who wish me no prosperity? Did I not support the thoughts and ideas that sow the seeds of chaos in the first place?