Decisions Underlined

The blogging idea

2010-06-28T09:10:00.000-07:00

It took me a lot of time and thinking to understand the benefits of blogging. Information, sometimes pretty random, people relating... this was a real challenge for me to start - make and remake my social life into a split online and offline life :)

Therefore this is my attempt to enlarge this big market of bloggers and online thinkers, with my own thoughts. Please be free to comment, fallow or do us you please.

I am here now for intelligent purposes like, making myself heard, and as soon as possible try to teach interested people some rules of decision making and social media.

My English Blog - "Decisions Underlined" is now officially opened for visiting :)

For my Romanian Blog please visit - "Piatra Sociala"!

A study on Roma values – EU values

2010-06-27T16:04:00.000-07:00

Motto: Who are to be the New Intellectuals?

“Any man or woman who is willing to think. All those who know that man’s life must be guided by reason, those who value their own life and are not willing to surrender it to the cult of despair in the modern jungle of cynical impotence, just as they are not willing to surrender the world to the Dark Ages and the rule of the brutes.”
Ayn Rand

What is something valuable? How can you define the value of something? To be politically correct, value is “ the usefulness of something considered in respect of a particular purpose“. My vision on “value” as a basic concept of our modern society is that “a value” is meant to be a tool of moral awareness and a form of obtaining happiness for you and all around you. The pursuit of happiness begins thus with cultivating and creating the opportunity for your body and mind to be enlightened with the idea of correct values. People can be happy only by trying to serve the greater good, being valuable to their society, empowering their own abilities to do so. “Values” become now, an activity that can be “learned” on the purpose of finding and doing the greater good, or seeking the essential omnipresent happiness in “things”.

Focusing on EU values as administrative mechanisms meant to create a social cohesion and discovering the value of one, and the power of many, we can understand freedom, security and justice as prime aspects of a good governance, together with the perfect triangle of democracy: opposition – power and the civic society. Applying what said before we can thus conclude that good governance can be described like in the EU’s Plan D, – a wisely construct of dialog, debate and a good act of democracy.

The first principle or value that occur to me when talking about Roma’s values in analogy with EU’s values, is the basic idea of union and togetherness. The Roma family is so tight and so evolved in unity, that nothing could ever break the harmony of an entire society based on cohesion rules, rules that have a natural cause – the need to help themselves. To apprehend those sensible mechanisms that occur in this study, I invite you to open your mind towards Roma people and their challenging history. Can you explain why they didn’t disappear like other nations? They stood together and in the same time in a paradoxical way they lived apart having the possibility of seeing and understanding other cultures. From “this” derives a certain way of living inside and outside their space, evolving and developing a new culture em-bettering the ones achieved by traveling and transforming the true essence of those seen, heard and felt. The value of “unity in diversity” is a basic EU concept, omnipresent in the Roma society that drives us to the conclusion that the Roma people have maybe a more common sense of what a union means and how to be treated than a non-Roma person. Further more, the fascinating culture of Roma people can be revealed as one of the many values they have and conserve with a holly faith. Unique and incredibly diverse, values of a culture that were European before Europe itself stand in front of us today, like a limitless river of information and tradition transferred generation to generation. The power of emerging from “problems” confirms a more focused way of life on needs of Roma and how to resolve them. This practical way of seeing the resolution and the common sense answer to questions makes Roma persons eligible to a true knowledge.

We can once again ask ourselves now, “Who are to be the New Intellectuals?” and answer with no shame or regret that Roma people could be the new stage in moral, ethic and intellectual evolution.

Want to participate to my studies? Make yourself heard! Comment!

Why do people stay at big queues for unimportant things?

2010-06-27T14:32:00.000-07:00

Have you ever seen extremely big queues for donuts? or a drink in the corner? Those queues make life more interesting, but why do people prefer to stay hours and hours at big queues for nothing or at least that's what we think - that those small things that they buy after staying at the queue were nothing...

If we analyse the situation more closely we will understand that the feeling of being part of something big, like a queue is enough for some people to gather around to buy small, insignificant things.

Something like a queue can make people enthusiastic and urging for cooperation and teaming around... Have you observed this? How are you in queues?

Please comment on the subject and contribute with your own thoughts to this research!

What is love? - in music

2010-06-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

If you want something to cheer you up, please listen to this song about love and what is love? and also look at the video and don't forget to be happy and always question your beliefs!

Love is a beautiful state of mind, and if you turn it into a negative feeling surely it will make you ill. Love can heal you, so don't transform love into hate or positive into negative! Clear your thoughts and try to focus on the bright side!

What is love?

2010-06-27T13:03:00.000-07:00

I am starting my research with one of the most important questions for me and maybe for everyone! What is love? Some quotations I found on the web explain love like this:

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles

"Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John Tarrant "We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." - Woody Allen

If you want to read more quotations, you can do so here-> But still what is love? is love something that exists with us or independent from us? Is it a feeling or a state of mind? Other explanations of love imply a form of being, I mean a sort of physical state... I think love is a creation of every particular mind about the "feel good" sensation. What is love for you? What do you think love is? Please help me by participating to my research with your comments!

What is a question?

2010-06-27T12:42:00.000-07:00

I think questions are valuable resources even if they don’t have an accurate answer or a proper one. The importance of a question stays in the link or links that come from it and put together all the other questions. Here I will try to make this / those strong links obvious with small posts and a lot of questions. Take this material as an invitation to question your own beliefs.

I think the basic line for this post is defining “what is a question?”. Probably this is the most important question of all.

We all have known and unknown spheres in our life. The link between those spheres are the questions we ask. This linkage makes knowledge possible and makes as DEVELOPED beings. After all what?, where?, who? etc. are words that clarify our status and the status of others.

I believe that the importance of questions is undeniable and although we have so many types of defining questions we really don’t understand what a question really is with no reference to answers…

What do you think are questions? or What are questions for you?

Flat perspective about the future

2010-06-19T16:54:00.000-07:00

How does your future look like? Did you imagine it? I think that the most interesting thing about perceiving the future is that we can describe it by observing different types of geometry. I mean for me future can be 2D, 3D or ND. By 'D' I'm referring to dimensions.

For most of the people perceiving the future is a 2D mechanism or so I called it here a flat perception. So decisions have a one way behavior and the results are quantified linear with a very well understood concept of causality.

This is my first post and I would like to underline that the purpose of this blog, more or less like a scientific research is to raise questions and provoke answers towards understanding the multi-choice universe we live in.

People once believed that Earth is like a plate... now they believe in linear causality... I would like to discuss this with you. How do you perceive your future? Is it flat or a complex mix of decisions? Do you believe in causality? Please don't hesitate to comment and leave your ideas, questions and beliefs here.