Comments on: There is nothing now other than personal accountability http://www.manifestingsource.com/archives/135 a dialog with Higher Consciousness Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:50:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Henry http://www.manifestingsource.com/archives/135/comment-page-1#comment-9 Henry Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:27:57 +0000 http://www.manifestingsource.com/?p=135#comment-9 Accountability can be linked directly to the use of language in our various cultures. Language is like any great power, it can destroy and it can heal. Even more, it can inspire, educate, entertain, instruct and guide. Yet in today's world of texting, tweating and e.mails we are loosing touch with it's great power just when we think we are maximizing its power. Our growing need to be "efficient" and multi-tasked doesn't just cause car accidents. It's reducing our humanity to zeros and ones and leading to many misunderstandings. Words without sounds are like lyrics without music. The hidden power of language is in it's EXPRESSION, the tone and energy that are its context. The growing obsession with constant connectability with internet based social networking like "Twitter" is a double-edged sword. While increasing connectivity it also enables us to "hide" behind the technology, enabling us to be less accountable because we don't have to be "face to face" when we deliver the message. I remember witnessing my son and his girlfriend texting back and forth about whether they should break up. He was so frustrated because he wanted to talk about it while she insisting on "hiding" behind her Blackberry. Technology connects and it also impersonalizes are connectivity. I fear we will begin to lose our ability to face one another enabling us to be even less accountable. Whatever happened to people spending time together. Social networking should include more "pressing of the flesh", not more technology. At one time, words were a person's currency. A person's "word" was their bond with another, a binding contract. Now, we have litigation, "I'm stupid and irresponsible and it's your fault." Being "unaccountable" has become a national pastime, a lucrative business for many and a contributing source of our economic woes. I yearn for the days when accountability and the value of a person's word were one and the same, when "important" communication was a face to face matter. I hope I never have to tweat! Accountability can be linked directly to the use of language in our various cultures. Language is like any great power, it can destroy and it can heal. Even more, it can inspire, educate, entertain, instruct and guide. Yet in today’s world of texting, tweating and e.mails we are loosing touch with it’s great power just when we think we are maximizing its power. Our growing need to be “efficient” and multi-tasked doesn’t just cause car accidents. It’s reducing our humanity to zeros and ones and leading to many misunderstandings. Words without sounds are like lyrics without music. The hidden power of language is in it’s EXPRESSION, the tone and energy that are its context. The growing obsession with constant connectability with internet based social networking like “Twitter” is a double-edged sword. While increasing connectivity it also enables us to “hide” behind the technology, enabling us to be less accountable because we don’t have to be “face to face” when we deliver the message. I remember witnessing my son and his girlfriend texting back and forth about whether they should break up. He was so frustrated because he wanted to talk about it while she insisting on “hiding” behind her Blackberry. Technology connects and it also impersonalizes are connectivity. I fear we will begin to lose our ability to face one another enabling us to be even less accountable.

Whatever happened to people spending time together. Social networking should include more “pressing of the flesh”, not more technology.

At one time, words were a person’s currency. A person’s “word” was their bond with another, a binding contract. Now, we have litigation, “I’m stupid and irresponsible and it’s your fault.” Being “unaccountable” has become a national pastime, a lucrative business for many and a contributing source of our economic woes.

I yearn for the days when accountability and the value of a person’s word were one and the same, when “important” communication was a face to face matter. I hope I never have to tweat!

]]> By: Dianne http://www.manifestingsource.com/archives/135/comment-page-1#comment-3 Dianne Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:12:38 +0000 http://www.manifestingsource.com/?p=135#comment-3 I really like/truly believe this part of your writing/awakening. "a big part of the awakening that is taking place, and must take place, is founded in a reconnection to the essential self, the knowing that is beyond the ego, the knowing that is pure of influence and that is its own authority" I am so happy to know that we are as human entities reaching a critical mass for awakening. The time is certainly in our Now. Thanks for sharing this and all of your amazing writings. I really like/truly believe this part of your writing/awakening. “a big part of the awakening that is taking place, and must take place, is founded in a reconnection to the essential self, the knowing that is beyond the ego, the knowing that is pure of influence and that is its own authority”
I am so happy to know that we are as human entities reaching a critical mass for awakening. The time is certainly in our Now. Thanks for sharing this and all of your amazing writings.

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