Written by Mathew Naismith
As I have found in today's society, if you
tell the actual truth to telling a desired truth, most of what you will get
back is a show of disdain. I of course have no problem with this; otherwise I
would desist in what I am doing, which I am clearly not going to do. I also
express myself through an Eastern mind as well as a Western mind; this is
obviously way too confusing for the Western mind to comprehend thinking in this
way.
People, I am not attacking Western culture
in favour of Eastern culture, all I am doing is trying to influence an obvious
imbalanced Western mind, in all of us
and in all cultures, to become aware of it's own imbalances in the way the
Western mind uses and abuses energy as a whole. In my mind, everything is
energy, of course going by certain ideologies, this is the same as everything
being of God. Of course mentioning God also offends certain Western minds,
being that the Western mind is in all of us as of the Eastern mind. This simply
gets back to yin and yang. Yang is prominently yang with a bit of yin and
visa-versa. A Western culture is predominantly of the Western mind and
visa-versa, however, the Western mind, in
all cultures, seem to be presently predominant thus depicting an imbalance
in the collective.
My motives have been put to the question
and fair enough too. The following are an example of the replies I gave to the
questioning of my motives and views by some people.
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1: You seem to be defending Western cultures by demonising certain
Eastern cultures when all I am doing is mentioning the Western mind in all cultures. I am not attacking
Western culture or its people, the Easterners have shown in human history how
they can be just as badly behaved and destructive.
I am
not joking; it would seem only the Eastern mind knows what I am talking about
here. It's not about Western and Eastern
cultures but about the Eastern and Western mind, in all of us.
You're
not the only one XXXXX who doesn't quite get where I am coming from. They do
say that the Western mind is easily offended. I am not attacking Western
cultures but their obvious imbalanced Western minds.
The
Western mind is hard to bring back into balance because this kind of mind often
separates itself from all else, especially the Eastern mind. This is at present
occurring in Eastern countries as well.
2: True, however, just because
one is from an Eastern culture, doesn't mean one is not of or influenced by a
Western mind. Easterners have always expressed a Western mind; it's just that
in an Eastern culture it's easier to balance out the Western mind it would
seem.
Please
don't take offence but it seems that only the Eastern mind knows what I am
talking about here. It matters not of what culture or country you come from, we
need to be aware of how the Western mind works, in all of us, especially at present.
Actually,
the multinationals that are hurting us mostly through control and manipulation
are not from China , Japan or South Korea China , Japan
and South Korea are but
puppets, so is the US
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Extract: It is becoming apparent that
we are all capable of thinking both holistically and analytically - and we are
starting to understand what makes individuals flip between the two modes of
thought.
Just
for fun: It was determined that I was more of a Western
mind in the following test, however, if I could have, I would have chosen both
examples. The culture we are mostly influenced by often influences how we will
think, no matter where we live.
Oh, people will always judge. I was a guest on a radio show and it had one of those chats to the side. I was called a salty person which I had to look up. I was very frank without presence so I can see I might be hard to handle. I was told by the radio show guy to speak frankly that his show exercises free speak. I did and naturally would ruffle some feathers.
ReplyDeleteKind regards,
Mike
ps: Good read.
ps: I did the test and I was 3 western, 2 asian.
ReplyDeleteMike