Website mission statement

Personal website's are so new to us that most people haven't even thought about ever having one, so the idea about how to structure one is wide open; and in a few years when everyone has one there will be lots of different kinds of personal web sites. I believe personal website's serve two main purposes:

1) To help in self discovery.

2) To express yourself and your ideas to the world.

In the beginning personal website's, PW's I'll call them, will just be photo albums, but as people become less afraid to put their thoughts up on the world wide web, they will become places for us to express and exchange our opinions first about political issues, and then about religious issues and everything else. Everybody will have a site that has their opinions about the most important topics of discussion with a message board attached to each article, and when we surf the web and stumble across other PW's we will just paste our own articles onto the message boards of the articles we read. After a while we won't even have to waste our time writing it all out, we will be able to attach videos of ourselves talking about the various issues.

Once enough people have PW's, search robots like Google will scowl the web for the various topics of discussion and map out the graphs and percentages of what people about all of the main subjects of conversation, so we will know where we all stand.

My PW is a prototype because I have never found a PW like it. So far all I have seen are photo albums with blog's that include ideas but not in an organized way as to be able to find out exactly what the person believes about every subject.

My site will have more to do with the prolific expression of ideas connected to each other with links within the site. Although I will be very interested in flash graphics and cartoons and photo albums, what really interests me is how one can navigate from thought to thought instantaneously by the click of a link. Links within articles will revolutionize the way we communicate because every statement can be backed up by an example on another page through a link, and every claim can be proved by a link to another site that verifies it. Once links to examples and proofs become the norm, people will start talking with examples and proofs ready in their minds to reference when they need to; so that we will be much more credible and transparent to each other, thus, better communicators.

Personal website's are the answer to all the worlds problems

All we need to do to fix all of the problems in the world is for everybody to have a PWS. The logic is quite simple and is explained linearly:

1) The main problem - The main problem in the world, whether people realize it or not, is that we are killing our planet. Because of all the deforestation and pollution and threat of nuclear holocaust we have to change if we are going to survive. I believe it is possible to make a smooth transition to a sustainable lifestyle because we have always managed to do it in the past. For example: Just when the industrial revolution was getting out of control with pollution and pestilence, we decided to make the switch from coal to oil, put the cables underground, make child labor laws and stuff like that.

2) Fix the world by learning to Communicate - The destruction of the world is too difficult for any one government or company to control. To give a simple example, Brazilian deforestation is mainly caused by poor people trying to make a life for themselves by going out and cutting down the forest and putting up a farm. The only thing the Brazilian government could do is try to distribute the wealth some more, but at the end of the day the people with the true power are the individuals.

It will take individuals to fix the problems of the world because of the way multinational corporations are set up. I know that sounds like an oxymoron, and maybe it is; I don't know much about economics. I could be wrong. The way I see it is that individuals buy into public corporations, so if it's the individuals who feed the corporations with their investments, and individuals who feed corporations with their business; it seems to me that these multinational coorporations that a lot of people like to see as being the ultimate evil are in fact the ultimate democracy. My point is that the problems with the world begin and end with the individual and not the corporation. I think the problems most people have with corporations are how laws are designed to boost the corporations and hurt the small businesses. But laws are made by politicians and not corporate leaders, so instead of going after the corporations we need to be keeping a closer eye on the politicians who are elected by the individual citizens. My point is that in order to have a healthy society all we need are responsible individuals. It always comes back to the individual.

We need to empower the individual

Once we truly understand that all the worlds problems can be fixed if we all act responsibly as individuals, than a pandoras box of possibilities will open up, and we will never be bored, cynical, or feel helpless again, because we will all be powerful as individuals.

The best way for you to exersize your power is to express yourself, and the most intelligent way to express yourself is to share what you beleive about all the political and philosophical issues. Most people won't share what they believe because they think they are unqualified to do so. I contend, however, that we are all qualified to express what we beleive, just as we are qualified to vote for who we think would be the most appropriate policitian.

The interesting thing is that the people who control the world right now grew up in a world that was still divided in terms of information access to the other people in the world, so they are in effect living in a world that is no longer relevant. Think about that for a moment. That the old people who control the world right now are obsolete because their minds are out of date. This happens every time a planet makes the transition from division to unity, and it is my belief that the transition from the old paradigm being the dominant paradigm to the new paradigm being the dominant paradigm takes place in about 50 years. I predict this time frame as being between 1968 to 2018. I chose 1968 as the beginning year because it was the first explosion of the new way of thought with the summer of love and all that. I believe the knowledge of ourselves will be strong enough by 2018 because by then the world will be pretty much ravaged, we will be able to see how we can actually live here sustainably, and most people will have PWS up so that we will all know how to actually communicate and understand each other.

3) How to communicate - To know how to communicate correctly we need to understand the two opposite paradigms, the old and the new; and understand how they are opposite. Once we see how they are opposite, all we have to do is take the simple and easy step across the line into the new paradigm and adhere to its laws. The best way to show how they are opposite is with this graph.

Old and new communication opposite Paradigm-shift graph

Under the old paradigm a PWS would never be possible, not only because they would be illegal, but because nobody would actually write what they believe if they know everybody in the world can read it. They would think that anything they write could be used against them in some way, however which way they wouldn't know, and wouldn't want to know. Only when people are not afraid to say what is really on their mind will a PWS be interesting enough to be readable and will the people be able to communicate with each other.

Once people reach out and try to convince each other of what they believe, and show each other who they are and where they come from, the truth will be revealed because the truth will win over the people who haven't made up their minds about things yet.

Once enough people have a PWS that expresses their beliefs about everything, and the search engines have become developed enough to catalogue them and show us the statistics about what we all believe in an undeniably truthful way, we will be ready to act on it.

4) After deliberation comes action - After we have communicated to each other enough through our own little sites, we will be able to use those same sites to network and create the best ways to go about saving the planet and in turn, bada bing, saving ourselves.

The destiny of PWS's after we have saved ourselves from imminent destruction

Apart from using the PWS to communicate with each other so we can find a way to save the planet, we will use them to promote products that we think are cool and sell them to each other through our sites. The more creative of us will use them to create pay sites that offer all kinds of services. Everything from products, to services, to downloadable programs and videos.

My Personal Website's design

My philosophy about my own personal website is multi-faceted. It is to be a tool for me to organize my memories from my life first and foremost, so when I am old I can look at it and relive all of my experiences. Secondly, it is for me to organize my opinions about everything in an organized way. I won't be embarrassed writing my opinions about a subject that I don't know much about because opinions are the primordial soup that make the world go around and can be expressed by anyone. Firstly it doesn't make sense to compare yourself to otheres, but even if it did, I know there isn't a person alive who knows everything about everything so why should I try to compare myself with someone who doesn't exist? Once I know more about a subject I will add it to my PWS.

The second purpose of my PWS is to show others about my life, like some sort of reality web log show, and more interestingly, express what I believe to the whole world. When I write my opinions in a place that the whole world can see, I make double sure to say things that I will never have to apologize for, or take back. So it really makes me think about what I really do think. I don't understand the concept of keeping a journal that is for your eyes only. Wanting to keep a journal private strikes me as being ashamed of oneself, or having some kind of supersticious fear of something that doesn't exist. It's fine to have secrets, but we shouldn't be keeping our beleifs secret.

I don't want to be ashamed of myself or be afraid of the boogy man. I want to be an active neuron in this gigantic brain we have created. We are all one, but we are all such artistically varied variations on that one prototype that it seems to me a waste to not share the various flavors of our colorful world with each other so we can all take part in the celebration of waking up upon ourselves by way of sharing ourselves.

Peace out. Ode to the living brain called planet Earth.