Society?

Society?
What is society exactly?
American Heritage Dictionary describes it as:
A group of humans broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture.
That of course is just one example of what society means for it stands to reason that each and every one of us has our own beliefs and views on what society means to us individually and we live our lives in conjunction with our own dreams, desires, passions, wants and needs.
There are many examples of how extremely divergent our culture is in our ever-changing society. We believe what we want to believe, see and hear things as we want to perceive them and above all, many of us take for granted what others have to offer because we are too busy trying to twist it to our own point of view.
If our society is brought together by our mutual interests then we must come to realize what those mutual interests are. In these ever changing times, it seems our most strongest desire as a whole stands in communication. We all reach out in one way or another to touch others with our thoughts, ideas and views which in return causes even more conjecture. Many of us have a strong desire to learn and understand and the more we seek to find an explanation to our hardest questions the sooner we will find the answers. We must also understand that the knowledge that we already have and our admission of what we believe to be true may still be in the early stages of full comprehension. One of the biggest problems with communication I believe, are the things we choose to accept as truths that shape us and make us who we are. Many of us hang on every word we hear, whether it be by tabloids, word of mouth, rumor, news, etc... There are those that don't stop and question the things they see and hear and in return, make assumptions. Then again, there are times when the answers are right there but are often ignored or never seen. It's complicated for sure, but as long as we keep an open mind and step back and look at the big picture-the answers will come.
I have seen so many changes taking place in society today. The different views that clash in how our children are raised, how we view abortion, racism, crime, government, military etc...
Today, more than ever before, our society is faced with many more challenges. Some new, some old, but still very important in today's society.
As in all things, I still have a lot to learn myself, but I am always open to new ideas, thoughts & views. I have only touched on some of society-There are so many other aspects to our culture I could write about, but I will leave that for another time...Diana

Passion for Thought

I thought I would expand a little more on a thought I had about Passion and the thoughts that moves us. I was talking to a friend the other day about how many of us have this need to share our passions and sometimes it becomes difficult for others to understand us and the desires that move us. This happens especially when we put them into our own words and actions through the things we write and through expressions in artistic outlets. There seems to be this kind of argument over how we express ourselves. When our thoughts and emotions take the lead, there will always be followers as well as critics in our path. It is natural to want to stand up and defend our beliefs no matter what others may say. Although, we must also understand that the things we believe in and the aspirations that drive us dwell the strongest in our own hearts and minds.
We as humans long to let others know how we feel about certain things. We also want others to share in what is important to us. It can be frustrating when others don't understand you or you can't get your ideas across even when they are as plain as the nose on your face.
My friend happened to mention how upset it is when you share your thoughts and ideas and others just don't get it or even worse, they get angry with you. My thought on that was that we all have doors to our consciousness. We filter certain things through experience and through observation into each and every room behind these doors, and we all have the ability to open every door. We choose what doors we leave open and what doors we keep locked, and we all carry these keys at all times. I was telling my friend that when we express ourselves through these different outlets whether it be by feelings, words or artistic abilities we as well hold this kind of master key to everyone's consciousness.
When we express ourselves, others may be uplifted or left angry because you have either opened a door that needed opening and left them feeling alive or you have unlocked a forbidden door to emotions they didn't want out. It gets complicated this way because doors you have opened and accepted within yourself may not be the same for another.
In a way, though, this can be a good thing, for even if they don't listen or understand what you say, you may have opened their eyes, even if only for a second, you may have woke them up and given them thought to open more doors and explore what is deep within themselves. There will be those, the angry ones who may just shut those doors right back up, but the thought will always be there, in the back of their mind, in some room they may have forgotten to lock after all.

Clashes With Higher Intelligence

I thought I would talk a little about higher intelligence and some of my ideas about those who possess such a gift. I am not sure to what degree we consider higher intelligence. I know there are those who grade high on tests, excel far in certain subjects and are able to master the most complex of designs. It seems we base everything on this rudimentary purpose, some inherent knowledge of who we are supposed to be. If you take nature back millions, even thousands of years, higher intelligence did not exist. The cosmos and the planets existed within their own natural order and the laws that govern them are very specific. They still exist and continue to function completely without any outside sources. Now, centuries later, mankind has seemingly taken over with some very specific rules of their own. They have chosen to dominate the laws of nature in every possible way. What was once free has become governed order. We have taken innocence and made it a sin, took purity and turned it into something evil. We look at all that now exists, it breathes because we made it live, we brought it to life with our thoughts and actions. It may have always been there, yes, but we breathed a new life into it, we placed labels of right and wrong and we chose it's new path. So, now, there is this thought on higher intelligence. We all have intelligence, all of us do, no matter who we are, where we have come from, what disabilities we possess, we all can think-it's just the direction these thoughts take that makes us who we are. I think of higher intelligence, and it brings to mind scientists, mathematicians and scholars. They have surely made a mark on the way our cultures perceive things. With the invention of this thing we call technology, it has made communication easier in the way we reach the world and those around us. Yet, in this population growing world, it seems only to aid in the diverse complications of thought. It seems we all struggle to reach out to others with our own intellectual views and ideas in hopes that others will share in our dreams and desires. It does stand to reason though, that there are some people with more knowledge, experience and understanding that cause them to excel above many others. The tricky part would be when those of higher intelligence try to reach out to those that may not understand them. It would seem difficult to try and share your views with those who aren't really on your level of thinking. It's almost as if you are on another sphere of thinking quite different from those around you and this may cause others to think you are weird or different, yet in your own mind all is perfectly normal. I believe the greatest thing someone who is of higher intelligence can do is to share their thoughts, ideas and dreams with others. They may not fully comprehend, lash out in anger and may even think they understand when they don't, but there will be those who truly do understand and for many others, the doorway to higher intelligence will swing open.