THE GOLDEN RULE OF AVOIDING TO USE TECHNOLOGY IN ORDER TO CHANGE AGREEMENTS LESS THAN TWO HOURS BEFORE AN AGREEMENT -- And other comments on use of the good synchronicity SYNCHRONCITY city planner offered for free at yoga6d.org/economy for print-out When we endavour to communicate well and medititavely, as well as rationally, and also do things together that are fruitful and beneficial at all levels -- not just for ourselves as individuals, but for society, and indeed also ethically, spiritually, religiously -- whatever phrases we choose -- then we must NEGOTIATE TIME. In all uses of calendars, agreement books, and also use of computers in one form or another in order to communicate possible and upcoming agreements, and to change these, we must accomodate three facts: [1] All human enterprises have an element of natural openness, probabilities more than certainties, at some levels anyway [2] At times, some people are more stressed [3] For a variety of appointments and tasks, weather and other not easily predictable elements that affect human society may lead to a need to change or just simply break agreements But what many societies at Earth in the beginning of 21st century has seen is an addiction to computerised assistance, constant technological assistance, to an extent in which these assisting devices are used as a constant excuse to change almost everything for no good reason at all except temporary convinence, fleeting impulses, a desire to gossip just a little more rather than sticking to agreements one has made. In short, computers can be devastating to the productiveness and wellbeing and possibility of meditative ease in collaboration between people if overused. There is also an associated challenge in these societies at present: some of the world's biggest companies, whose main income derives from selling a diversity of products, are themselves manufactoring devices which claim to be if not a substitute for human brains, then at least good enough to overtake a lot of its decisision -- esp. for buying -- you follow? I am not going to patronise any company here, just say that much as I love programming, love 'taming' computers (cfr the courier script on top of the drawing I've made that comes up atop the search results pages for Yoga6ddotOrg funBeautyUse search engine), it would be an altogether opposite development if I with my technology-enthusiasm contributed to a sense in which computerised assistants are going to overtake the human brain. These assistants are but digital programs that fail at crucial points, as a kind of 'flash flood' of mis- information, and they do not have enough self- recorrecting capacity that they can EVER be trusted to replace diligent, rational, intuitive, holistic, logical, lovely thinking by real living beings with real minds. A digital computer must be a slave, and the human being a master: any attempt to redefine a computer into any form of assistant, whether by one acryonym or another, by one phrase or another phrase, with whatever set of synonyms, is an assault on the dignity on human life. Therefore also the idea of SEARCH ENGINE: it is an engine -- like a car, like a domestic robot or a streetwashing machine -- that is there to SERVE HUMANITY. Full stop. We cannot replace the whole activity of human mindful presence even in complicated practical areas with automated computerised processes NO MATTER HOW SKILLFUL THE PROGRAMS ARE MADE. This is a philosophical point of view, it is still also something that goes straight into the sexual life and practical life and business life of real active people. The more we rely on technological devices to constantly change plans and make and break plans, and the more we let such as telephones enter into and disturb actual meetings between ourselves, the more we are leaving the synchronistic and meditative and spiritual and dancing ways of life. We want to have a synchronistic and meditative and spiritual and dancing way of life, right? And we want good business, good money as well, and good exercise, and high-quality meetings, the dignity of dialogue, the time to feel over things, the trust in the agreements we make -- even if there are reasons on occasions that agreements are quite simply broken. The time wasted on changing agreements is cut short if we know how to cut technology short when it must be cut short, and at all other places let well-done technology operated by high- integrity folks (not by overgrown advertisement companies or the like) do its work. Concretely, practically, and in connection with the more or less 'weekly planner' or 'synchron' calendar that we offer at the yoga6d.org/economy.htm column in newly updated form each weekend, we suggest this: allow meetings to fluctuate in terms of agreements when that is natural or important, but not right before the agreement, the appointment, is beginning to manifest. Let other people have time to reschedule days by telling them days, not less than 2 hours before a meeting, that the meeting time has to be moved. don't waste other people's time childishly by insisting on you yourself all the time setting other times for prearranged things with others if you do have any communication technology available relative to the person or people that you are going to meet up with, make a point out of TURNING ALL SUCH COMMUNICATION DEVICES OFF 2 HOURS BEFORE the meeting -- and assume that others do it as well. The latter point will on occasion lead to a cancelling of a meeting AFTER one has gone to the meeting-point. But the general knowing that a person adheres to the strict principle of honoring agreements pretty precisely, not to the second but being around the place some minutes before, having no technological extra-check on the meeting anytime later than 120 minutes, will lead people to think more than twice before making a half-thought appointment. It will trigger more intuition. One will not put all the best of one's days into 'probability clouds' ruled by machines that constantly tell one to go soon here, soon there. So the golden rule is then: don't use technology that can change an appointment when it is two hours or less before the appointment is manifesting. This golden rule is a rule of thumb, and there cases where -- perhaps by special agreement, and for reasons involving particular and highly unusual circumstances of security, or simply because one wants sunny weather and go to the beach only if it is sunny enough -- that one will want to consciously make a fluctuating appointment, an appointment, a meeting, a fiest, a coming together that is made on different premises, or one by intuition feels that one ought to check after all. So the golden rule of turning off all communication devices within the two-hour range before any agreement time is not intended absolute, but, let's say, in ninety-nine percent of all agreements. In that way, one can more naturally plan for important luxuries such as to have extra walks to stimulate thinking, to train legs, to calm and soothe one's mind; and one can put in a coffee at a cafe in the quietude of knowing that the agreements one makes, are generally good agreements that do hold up. It also means that the computers are used for more valuable incl. also more esthetically pleasing uses. All this is implied in the perennial concept of the Personal Computer. We wish you good luck with the good synchronicity SYNCRONCITY calendar, always!!!!! FiT