Ideapedia.org: Get Ideas

Ideapedia is an idea network that helps you find what you believe in and how to do something about it. It is a guide to the ideas that influence human thought, motivate action and shape history.

Learn Critical Thinking Skills

Ideapedia is full of ideas to consider for belief and criticism. Learning the critical thinking skill is essential to evaluate conflicting ideas and seek the truth for yourself.

Add Personal Ideas To Your Profile

Find ideas you like and add them to your profile. You get to write what you think about the idea, be it belief, interest or criticism.

Document New Ideas

Describe ideas not yet in the database. Put your knowledge to work so others can understand the idea and subscribe.

Subscribe To Idea Groups

Once you're subscribed to an idea group, you can participate in the idea's social network. It helps organize idea-centric activist communities that pull different people and groups together around their shared beliefs.

Umbrella Organizing

The Net’s idea-oriented system of action and umbrella group organization.

The Ideapedia is created and managed online interactively with contributors and discussions. The printed version provides a digest with only the highest-rated quotes and definitions. The first version of the idea matrix will appear in the RPG to support the idea game mechanic.

To understand how someone thinks, you must understand their belief system of ideas.

Ideas are the key to making sense of how people think and act. By reading this, you can at least be exposed to both ideas you already agree with and ideas you may not be familiar with or already disagree with. Empowerment’s ideas are meant to reflect a broad spectrum of opinion from the perspective of believers, as well as opposing “anti” ideas from critical viewpoints.

Ideapedia Makes Wikipedia Actionable

Ideapedia is a place where you can actually do something with the things you read on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a place for source-documented information and it compliments Ideapedia's much more open and opinionated focus on actionability. Ideapedia articles link to relavent wikipedia articles to minimize redundancy. Ideapedia articles are focused on the applied side:

  • What kinds of things do people believe, and are they doing about it?
  • What can you do about it? How can you side with or against an idea.
  • News relavent to an idea.
  • Counter-ideas with top news

Idea Conflicts

Ideas become rallying points for people around the world to organize. Gun Ownership vs Gun Control

News

Anti-Torture

Groups

ACTFOR

Ideographic Database

"Ideographic or conceptual (ideological) dictionaries as opposed to alphabetical dictionaries are characterized by the way the dictionary entries are organized. The usual way of doing it is to put the words by their semantic relations."
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IDEA CATEGORIES

Ideas are roughly categorized into categories like political, media and health.

Idea Descriptions

The following is a sample of how the ideas are described.

Idea Title

“Quotations as examples of how the idea is expressed.” —Citation + pluses are ideas that the idea supports. – minuses are ideas that the idea opposes.

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DISCLAIMER: Descriptions of ideas are not endorsements!

To oppose something you must understand it, and no description can be perfect. A description of an idea is never balanced or fair or uncontroversial. No explanation of an idea can be complete or accurate. And a description is not an endorsement.

This is just one attempt to describe a huge number of ideas in a very brief and superficial fashion. Mischaracterization, inaccuracy, misquoting, misattribution, misinterpretation, all of these things are inevitable in such a limited effort.

If you want to revise or change any of these descriptions, you can do so! Go ahead and publish your version of a particular idea. Explain why you think the original is incomplete or wrong. You may also request that your version be included in this book. We can’t gaurantee that any description will ever satisfy everybody, and we will not be able to use every suggestion for lack of space, but we’ll try.

Many of the quotations used are not attributed in full academic detail.

Why are the ideas classified the way they are and why are the words included under the headings they are? It is not according to any scientific criteria. It is done in such a way that hopefully helps to understand the idea.

The authors of the quotes are not necessarily endorsing the ideas they are listed under. Many authors may object to being quoted and will be removed at their request. Permission should ideally be sought for all quotations.

Simulations Are Just A Game

It is important to understand that this is a game, a work of fiction. Any resemblance to the actual world is coincidental. It is only loosely inspired by an imperfect understanding of reality. Discrepancies that fail to reflect the real world accurately abound, and no single interpretation will ever satisfy everyone. This does not set out to be a factual reference. For that, you should consult non-fictional source material.

IDEA INDEX

There are thousands of ideas and the index serves as a quick method of finding ideas you are looking for. It can also be printed as a big reference list for checking off what ideas you like.

The trick is to write about controversies from an objective and non-threatening way while still stirring debate and investigation of underreported questions in every area.

IDEAS

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Media Reviews

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IdeaDescription
Empower Yourself: Apathy Is Becoming Obsolete The remaining reasons for being apathetic are being eliminated by empowering tools
Religion System of beliefs that include divine beings, codes of conduct and what happens when we die.
RSVP reader script in second life. A good way to display lots of text in second life.
The Activist Memorial: Honor The Fallen IN HONOR OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE CALLED ACTIVISTS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF HUMANITY
Something smells different in Cuba Cuban Libertarian Movement - Declaration of May 1st 2008
How did you become empowered? How did you become empowered? What experiences and ideas led you to become self-aware, start getting things done or become an activist?
New Environments We're the proverbial eggs and Earth is the basket in which we are so precious.
National Popular Vote Large states can abolish the electoral college without constitutional amendment being ratified by small states by casting 270+ for the popular winner
Farmpunk Growing food with attitude
Life's Too Short To Waste Everything is a matter of life & death. “Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
Empower Thyself Manifesto The Empower Thyself Manifesto is the introduction to the ideas of empowerment philosophy.
Big Challenges Demand Comprehensive Solutions The complexity of the challenges facing the modern world calls for comprehensive solutions that weave numerous threads into a winning strategy.
Universal Empowerment Creates Common Ground Just as Dr. King said that "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere", apathy anywhere is a threat to empowerment everywhere.
Nanotechnology Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter at an atomic/molecular scale.
Do schools kill creativity? Our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future
Anti-Environmentalism Environmentalism is wrong
Christian Conservationism The bible is full of information on proper stewardship of the planet.
Instinct
Endorsement Celebrities should make all the money they can endorsing products
Anti-Endorsement People should buy something because it is good, not because somebody famous gets paid to talk it up.
Media Ideas
Anti-Ad Skipping "Your contract with the network when you get the show is you’re going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn’t get the show..."
Ad Skipping You can always try to avoid ads' invasiveness and irrelevence by muting the volume, looking elsewhere, fast-forwarding or finding ad-free media.
Cyberpunk Cyberpunk
Straight Edge a lifestyle and scene that started within the hardcore punk subculture whose adherents abstain from alcohol, smoking, and other recreational drug use.
The Empowered Symbol The Empowered symbol is a combination of the human head, the power standby symbol and omega, symblizing our ultimate ability to empower ourselves.
Science
You Decide Your Level of Involvement, Start Simple and Progress Rapidly Everyone can begin empowering themselves easily and anyone can take it as far as they wish. There is no barrier to entry or glass ceiling to progress.
You Decide Your Agenda, Empowerment Just Helps Empowerment does not tell anyone what to believe. Empowerment just gives you the tools to discover and act on your beliefs and make them into reality.
Is It Proveable & Doable? There are a lot of things competing for our attention. It is helpful to apply 3 simple tests to any matter: Is it important, proveable and doable?
Media Manipulates
Conscious Evolution
8 Circuits of Consciousness
Inner Peace If you know yourself then you know your enemy.
Seek Truth Above All
Perseverance
Everything Changes Something
DIY
Beware Career Limiting Moves
Christianity A religion based around the life and teaching of Jesus Christ.
Philosophy
Nihilism The philosophical position that there is no meaning in life or existence, that moral codes and objective, meaningful truths are impossible.
God The central figure of many religions, a transcendant being usually possessing great powers and knowledge beyond human capacity.
Existentialism The philosophy of personal meaning rather than objective, universal purpose handed down from an authority.
Dune The Dune novels by Frank Herbert contain powerful ideas that are applicable to life
Spirituality Spirituality concerns itself with matters of the spirit involving humankind's ultimate nature not as material beings but as spirits beyond material
Atheism Atheism is the belief that there are no gods.
Politics
Agnosticism Metaphysical questions about God are unknowable
Monotheism The belief that there is only one deity
Veganism the abstention of consumption or use of products utilizing animals or animal byproducts.
Hack Yourself applying the hacker mentality to affecting change in one's own life
rules to live by rules that you live by in your life
Everyone Can Do Something
After Life, Life Goes On After Life, Life Goes On
Empowering Principles
Good Do good for goodness' sake
Purpose In Life
Pronoia Pronoia is the sneaking feeling one has that others are conspiring behind your back to help you.
Environmentalism
Anarchism The ideal and practice of creating a society in which individuals freely co-operate together as equals.
Safety Third: Risk Smart Safety Third: Risk Smart
population stabilization
Digital Divide A term that describes the gap between people who have access to technology and those who do not.
Get certified! It is good to receive standardized certifications.
Educational Reform Current education models generally don't take a comprehensive solution planning stance to the problems they are ment to solve.
If something for reuse doesn't work try and salvage parts that individually can be reused. Recycling through reuse sometimes means reuse of components instead of complete items.
Everyone should have connection to server. Getting everyone a computer or some other access to the network is important enough to consider a cause.
People would rather pay for a resource than receive it for free. Even with limited resources people prefer to feel that have worked for resources or provided compensation.
Evolution
Tree Sitting Be a human sheild to save a tree and/or prevent logging.
Sun Drying Laundry It’s a simple way to save tons of energy.
Random News Stories It is a good thing to attempt to disperse summaries of news articles into the path of peoples' day to day lives.
Mixed Economics An economic system that makes use of theories from Market economcs and Planned economics.
Planned Economics Economic system where the state controls some or all of the economy.
Market Economics Anarcho-Capitolism or free market economics.
Travelling Pick up and go somewhere else for a while. Maybe forever!
Total Cost of Apathy The total cost of apathy often makes not doing anything more costly than just doing it
The game: Source Engine Develop maps for use in Gmod 9, Source engine
alternative to war if countries who wage war spent money they use for war on other alternatives, there would be less deaths. like a VR FPS to instead of shooring others
Distributed Computing / Cluster Computing Using open source software and multiple idle CPUs to solve immense problems
Competition Two parties or more struggle
Radical-Off In days of yore mighty warriors would declare challenges to each other.
Down is the new Up Constant chasing of trends will eventually turn you upside down.
Question what you feel. Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there.
Safe Sex Education The idea that each individual should have access to honest information about sex.
The secret to ultimate power. The one idea that... when embraced... will provide you ultimate power over other humans.
Synchronicity Finding patterns in two or more seemingly unrelated events
Collective Effervescence Perceived energy from a large body of people
Guerilla Surrealism That which is common should not be universal.
Idea Power
Think For Yourself
SCA (Society of creative anacronism) Modern influence and social misunderstandings Mideveil Society, Commonly percieved as D&D Wife swapping
NAVY SEAL P.T. for Personal development Using the Tested and hardened Navy Seal Personal Training methods for every day life.
Digital Magazine: Digital media production
The Recyclopedia Project A combination of old information and new organisation
Rugged Laptop How to build you're own laptop
Chronicide Wasting time is death by increment: This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
Boycotting Buyers have a moral obligation to boycott companies and organizations which are unethical and when they boycott en mass they can humble them
Wear Message Shirts Every Day A t-shirt is a terrible thing to waste so why not wear shirts that spread a positive message or at least invite people to start conversations with you
Server One of the best SKTFM's idea's
Wog Wog is a term many Rant Media community members use to describe themselves and their cyberpunk survivalist good-doing ethos
North American Union conflict of interest. the people vs the elites
Sort Yourself Out
Singularity Discussion regarding popular, unique, or possible new ideas surrounding the notion of the Singularity.
Transhumanism Transhumanism is the idea that humans are effectively evolving into new species through technology
Toast To Freedom A toast to freedom is a celebration of the students who were arrested for toasting to freedom that inspired the founding of Amnesty International
Pseudononymous Content Development Release of content through a pseudo-anonymous identity to protect privacy while maintaining status as the author
National Initiative National Initiative allows people to directly write and vote on federal laws just as they do in many states already
Keisaku Keisaku is a zen wakefulness stick with which a zen master alerts meditators but anything in life can serve as a wake-up call to awaken your awareness
Ethical Consumption Ethical Consumption
Consciousness Raising consciousness raising
Examplopedia A collaborative knowledge repository using examples to explain concepts, objects, and situatations, rather than descriptions
Political Awareness Actively seeking knowledge and understanding regarding current political happenings.
Alternative Economics Seeking alternatives to traditional and neo-classical economic models
Litany Against Fear For those times when fear begins to grip you, breathe deep and remember the Litany...
Decentralized Government A government with no central authority, no single point of failure, and decision making performed by those affected
Self Jamming Internalizing jamming in order to control or eliminate external influences within yourself
Mindfulness Mindfulness
Zen Zen
Evolution by Choice The concept of governing or causing evolutionary changes with direct intent
Money A system (or unit of said system) which represents and may be exchanged for actual items or services which contain value
Consumerism The idea that consumption (in the form of material goods and services) will make you happy
Thought as Technology The idea that Technology need not be physical
Technology as Magic Technology and Magic can be interchangeable concepts
Bio-fuel and energy. what america should do about the fuel shortage.
empower thyself we can empower ourselves to be all we can be and shape our future
Apathy Apathy
Leave No Trace Leve no trace
next renaissance the next period of time when creativity and culture is allowed and encouraged to flourish
Monetary Reform The Idea that our current monetary system is broken and needs to be repaired
controlled imbalance maintaining a state of existence between the extreme opposites of balance and imbalance
Change Nothing stays the same
Abolition Repealing already existing forms of slavery using legal methods.
Abortion Rights This idea suggests a person take a side on the debate over the morality of abortion and attempt to sway social and legal guidelines to that stance.
anti-furry opposition to fur fandom and anthropomorphic sexual fetishes
doocracy Doocracy: If you want something done, why aren't you doing it?
Buddhism
Energy Conservation
Conservation
diversity of tactics
message discipline staying on message consistantly emphasizes your most important points and limits conflicting distractions
Hope There's always hope