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By Ziad Aazam In the course of my/our finite life, have I/we asked myself/ourselves the following four sets of question types? 1. Do I know MYSELFmy own unique I? Do I know my purpose in life, my strengths and weaknesses, my values and principles, my skills and capacities? Do I know what I want from life and my place in it? Do I know what others want from me and whether or not I can satisfy their needs and wants? Do I feel what I experience or I go with the flow like a piece of wood drifted by a sea of waves? Do I have a sense of poetic imagination, as a sensible human being, or I operate like a machine run on monetary fuel, greed incentive and vicious power control? Do I think and feel at the same time, or I wake up everyday to breathe and eat, as if yet another creature among the animals and plants of this planet earth? Do I know where I am in Space and Time and in relation to other Humans and Things? Do I dream my dream and hope my hope, or beg and borrow someone elses dreams and hopes? 2. Do you know the THINGyour Gods given IT? Do you know what Nature has given you, the materials, the foods, the things we call objects and resources? Do you have your values and principles, your skills and capacities aligned with these Gods given blessingsthe opportunities we call Things? Do you respect the stone, the soil, your Soul, the tree, your Heart, the rock, the mountain, the water, your Body, the air, the metal in your hand, your Mind in your body, the wood in your house and All Things that come from Earth and return to Earth? Do you understand the relationship between You, Nature and Science and what the application of science mean? Do you balance your Subjective view of the World with the Objective view of it, or you see these Things as objects taking control over Humans and Nature itself? Do you understand the difference between the Organic and the Artificial, or you take Things as they come your way, like a helpless bird entangled in its own nest? Do you value the object you make, the Artifact you create as a human being? Do you understand your own external innovative relationship with Nature and your own internal creative relationship within your own Humans spirit? 3. Do we know OURSELVESour own unique WE? Do we know our strengths and weaknesses, our values and principles, our collective skills and capacities? Do we know where we came from, our place and history, where we are now and where we are going as a society and culture? Do we know what we can offer the world and what we need

from it? Do we function as nested societies with higher objectives, operating towards integrated cultural values, or we run around scattered, wasting collective energy to achieve individual gains? Do we contribute to our nested societies and diversified culture to restore our Civilization, or we blindly consume products others make, mindlessly operate gadgets and apply procedures others provide, thoughtlessly mimicking ideologies others spread? Do we collectively respect the Things that Nature offers and shape them into the Things we need to satisfy the purpose of our existence, or we follow the crowd that follows whims and reckless leads? Do we have a human and material culture rooted in space and time, or we create our values from thin air? 4. Do we know the Thingsour Gods given ITS? Do we understand how a finite number of Things, working together in relationships, create structures and systems necessary for Nature and Humans to function? Do we have our values and principles, our collective skills and capacities aligned with these Gods given blessings towards restoring our Civilization and its place among others, or we corrupt functioning structures and systems with our ignorance, greed, individual gains, lack of wise judgment and poetic imaginations? Do we produce structures and systems of functioning Things based on our own internal values, purposes, needs and capacities, or we jump up and down, wiggle left and right and be pushed and pulled by others as if we have no God given Minds, Hearts and Souls of our own? Are we able to perceive, conceive and live in ecosystems, resource systems, economic systems, social systems, political systems, urban systems, educational systems, and global systems, while affecting external positive transformation without compromising our internal Higher Objectives and Human sanity and right? Can I and WE revive the notion of what God created us to BEIntegral Human Beings? Let us ask ourselves: Are we Humans with Wise Judgment and Poetic Imagination? Did you read the above questions as a thoughtful human who is serious about his or her own existence, or as a blipped mind clicking his or her way through the Digital World, perceiving these four sets of question types as yet another post that doesnt deserve more than a Like? 2012 Ziad Aazam http://spacewriting.wordpress.com/