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Focus:
As an analogy, imagine Tiger Woods
in the middle of a major golf
tournament: He sets his
ball on the tee, and in and for that
moment, he focuses absolutely and
completely on one small piece of his
over all goal. His job
is to forget about the present score
-- to forget about winning or losing
-- to forget about what the
other players are doing or not doing
-- to ignore the people watching
-- to ignore the TV and other
cameras focused on him and recording
his every move -- and to set aside his
personal
life off the golf
course. His focus and
his only focus in that moment is on
hitting that small ball with a specially designed
"stick," moving it a hundred
or so yards down the
fairway toward a small,
round hole in the
ground. In that moment
his skills, his self confidence, and
his mind are needle-sharp
focused. Nothing else
matters. The same
is true in regarding obtaining equal
rights for gays and lesbians. Focusing on one, clear, specific,
do-able piece of the overall goal at
this time.
Major
Versus Minor Changes:
Another applicable analogy for
obtaining equal rights for gays and
lesbians is
aptly explained in the concept
called, "How to Eat an
Elephant." Symbolically
speaking, one would eat an
elephant, most successfully, one
bite at a time. Actually,
all activities of life follow this
pattern. It's the natural
pattern for every action on the
planet. Everything in
physical space requires time and
proceeds sequentially.
Even those actions that seem instantaneous
are done sequentially.
To go counter to that process is to
face almost certain
failure. Like Tiger
Woods on the golf course, we applying needle-sharp focus
on one small bite at a time.
Each bite is designed to move the team
closer to its overall goal.
To
Fight Something Is to Feed It:
Still another factor in a winning strategy
is to, whenever possible, avoid
fighting. When one
fights something, one focuses his/her
attention on it, and this attention actually empowers
whatever one is fighting and makes it
stronger. The
classic example of empowering what
one does not want is the U. S.
government's War
on Drugs.˛
The winning
strategy is to focus on what will
make oneself a
winner. This concept is
explained in detail in the section
titled: Vibrating Universe.˛
In
the case for Gay/lesbian rights, we are not attacking the
opposition. We are undermining their propaganda campaign by exposing it as a
fraud.˛ We are undermining their
claims of moral superiority.
There
Are No Bad Guys:
The traditional way of viewing a
problem is to look out into the
world an find someone to blame
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for
whatever is wrong. Life
in this mode is called victim
consciousness. The
universal laws tell us that there
are no victims, only unconscious
creators. Of course we
wouldn't intentionally create some
of the experiences in our
lives. It's not a
matter of intent; it's an issue of
improperly applying the laws of
creations.˛
There
are no bad guys. The people
opposing gay and lesbian rights are not bad people. They are not
enemies. Most of them, with regard to their religion, are
sleepwalking, mindless sheep. They mindlessly parrot with their
so-called leaders tell them and they do as they are told.
They've been told that to question church authority opens them up to the
possibility of burning in hell forever.
Our
job is simply to wake people up with
the evidence. You may recall the classic line
about how to do
that: "We
destroyed an enemy today.
Usually one doesn't brag about
destruction, but today, we made this
enemy our friend."
We are co-creators with
"God" and with each other
in creating the social, economic,
political, religious, and
environments contexts in which we
live.
Cooperation:
Cooperation is one of the major keys
to (and a vital ingredient in) this
project's success. For any one of
us alone, the task is
impossible. For a large number
of us working together and using the strategies and the techniques
described on this website, the task is
surprisingly simple and extremely
effective.
A
Cooperation Story:
To say this by analogy, imagine for
a moment, that your friend,
Sam, is stranded in the woods
and desperately needs to build a
fire to stay alive, but he doesn't
have any matches and he doesn't
remember the Native American
friction
technique for starting a
fire. He does have fifty
small mirrors with him, and he knows
that if he could reflect the sunlight
from each of the mirrors to a small
area all at the same time, he could
easily start a fire. But,
alas, he's alone and cannot direct
enough light to start a fire, so he
freezes to death.
Now
imagine the same scenario, except
that in this version of the story,
Sam has twenty five people with
him. He gives each
person two of the small mirrors and
says to them, "Focus
reflected sunlight onto this pile of
dried leaves, twigs, and small
branches." In a
matter of minutes, by collective
one-pointed focus, the twenty-five people have a
roaring fire going. Not
only is everybody kept alive,
but the roaring fire also attracts
the attention of the Search and
Rescue Team. As a result
of a seemingly insignificant act on
the part of each person in the
group, everybody's life is saved,
everybody is rescued, and everybody
is still available to point their
small amount of light at another
target and start another fire of
transformation.
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