- The Empowerment
- Empower Thyself Manifesto
- Empower Yourself: Apathy Is Becoming Obsolete
- You Decide Your Agenda, Empowerment Just Helps
- You Decide Your Level of Involvement, Start Simple and Progress Rapidly
- Everyone Can Do Something
- Big Challenges Demand Comprehensive Solutions
- Declaration of Empowerment
- How did you become empowered?
- Is It Proveable & Doable?
- Lifelong Learning
- Multiple Activism
- Shape The Future
- Universal Empowerment Creates Common Ground
- We Don't Do Bombs
- Who are we? You may already be a member
- Empowering Principles
- Using EmpowerThyself
- FAQ: Get Answers
- Gold Stars For Good Deeds
- The Empowered Symbol
- Who We Are
- Empower Thyself Manifesto
- The Network: Get Online
- Skillpedia.org: Get Skills
- Toolpedia.org: Get Tools
- Ideapedia.org: Get Ideas
- Mediapedia: Get Heard
- Missionpedia: Get Busy
- Groups: Get Organized
- Spread Empowerment
- The Game: Join The Team
- Fund Empowerment
- Empowerment.tv Podcast
Empower Thyself Manifesto
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posted by KindelingBoy Wed, 2006-10-11 16:08
I intend to evolve and grow empowerment philosophy into a very powerful set of ideas that transcends the use of the empower thyself web site. Some day we will get our own paragraph in Wikipedia's philosophy article.
Empowerment is the power to do what you want to do.
What Empowerment Means To Humanity
Your Empowerment
Empowering yourself is choosing control over your own life instead of apathy.
Empower Thyself is a community that helps you to start finding ideas you believe in, skills to do something about it, tools to use, people to work with, and missions to get things done.
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Empowerment is a state of actualization where you know what you want and you are proactively achieving it so that your accomplishments carry you forward like momentum. Empowerment is a great enabler because empowerment makes it easy to get things done and feel happy. Whatever you aspire to do, empowerment helps. Everyone knows what they want. Empowerment is simply overcoming apathy to do something about it. Do you see something wrong with the world or with how you are living your life? Do you want to change the world, but don't know how? Or are you already trying to change it, but are looking for new ideas or new people to help? Empowerment helps you answer these questions, and it can be more than a state of mind for one person. Universal empowerment is a force that can transcend the individual and become a movement dedicated to helping people realize their goals, dreams and identities. Empowerment is not just personal triumph, it is winning the fight against world-wide apathy.
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"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct."
—Frank Herbert, Dune
“Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand and I can move the world.”
—Archimedes
The future is a shadow cast by what you stand for today.
What Empowerment Means To Humanity
To be empowered is to see the world for the winnable game it is and ourselves for who we are: the world’s true superpower. We live today in a man-made world shaped by people motivated by ideas and what has been made of the world can be remade or unmade by anyone willing to be empowered. There is nothing final about civilization as we know it that guarantees it will continue on its present course.
Without empowered people motivated by sound ideas, the world is like a rudderless ship adrift at sea. Empowerment is throwing off chains that no longer exist, working up confidence to take the steering wheel, and setting a course for a better world; Activism is finding out the ship is captained by pirates, not worrying about walking the plank, and leading a mutiny.
THE EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE
People think and act in proportion to what they believe is within their power. An empowered person learns and does more than the apathetic person believes possible. Anyone who desires empowerment can obtain the tools to attain it.
Education Demands Action
Education without doing something to act on it is frustrating. It makes you aware of problems you feel unable to do anything about. Some people even say it would be better not to know about the outside world. Ignorance, to this way of thinking, is bliss. If they can’t change it, they don’t want to hear about it. Can you really blame them?
People Don’t Do Things Because They’re Discouraged
People mostly want a better world, It is not as if we’re purely selfish and self-involved. We have a deep disempowerment that saps our will to change. Our attitudes would change if we put power back into our hands and minds and voices. This is the recipe to awaken the the most cynical and jaded. Put hope and action together again. Keep hope alive and people will have the courage to change things.
Make Doing Easy And People Will Take Action
Empowerment is about connecting seperated ideas and actions into a coherent opportunity for everyone, not just the most dedicated. Acting on an idea in a productive way can addict a person to the drug of influencing the world. All it takes to create more empowered individuals is to give them a taste of the real power that lays dormant inside each and every individual on the planet. Once people are given an inch they tend to take a mile!
The Institution of Empowerment
Empowerment is our institutional answer to corrupt governments, manipulative media and criminal corporations. It is a movement of people who embrace their own power and responsibility to make the world a better place. It is an organization dedicated to serving people with empowering technology to enable people to transcend outdated limits and unnecessary evils.
The Empowerment is a peoples’ institution which exists solely to serve in a way government, media and corporations do not. The Empowerment is dedicated to serving people regardless of politics, beliefs or economics. Its mission is to provide innovative services for the benefit of all people. Anyone can use the Empowerment for personal development, organizing communities and changing the world. The empowerment is a public institution open to anyone’s participation designed to bring people together in free association instead of subjugating anyone to a hierarchy under elite control.
The Empowerment: Corruption’s Institutional Opposite
Instutions Are Pillars Of Society
An institution is a lasting system of great necessity that underpins our civilization. Institutions have staying power because we need their services to make society work. While the leading forces that fulfill institutional roles may come and go with each passing year or election, the institution endures as long as it is needed.
Our Instutions Are Failing Us
Government, media and corporations are the institutions which dominate our political, social and economic lives. Today these institutions are surrounded by controversy and criticism from all sides. Critics point to deeply systemic corruption that goes to the core of how our society works.
Even people enjoying historic prosperity feel that the problems we face are symptomatic of a growing sickness. There are many competing diagnoses of what is wrong and prescriptions for what to do about it, but most everyone agrees that something must be done. The question is, whose responsibility is it? Who can we blame for not dealing with this?
It’s Our Fault: We’re Failing Ourselves By Not Participating
All institutions are at risk of corruption when the citizenry, audience and customers they exist to serve abdicate responsibility to the managerial experts holding the reigns of institutional power. Without the people’s vigilance to keep them honest, institutions become ends onto themselves unable to resist the temptation to abuse their power and influence. Apathy reigns amongst the public, and few see themselves as playing any part in changing anything important.
Why Me?
“Once upon a time Little Red Hen asked the other animals to help bake a cake. They were too lazy to raise a finger. Hen did all the work herself. Then Little Red Hen pulled the sweet-smelling pie out of the oven. Everyone who refused to help make it volunteered to help eat it, but she no longer needed their help to eat her delicious pie all by herself.”
Many people feel like changing the world is for other people. Why should they worry themselves over things that don’t seem relavent to their daily life?
The moral of the story is that life is sweeter for activists who take action than for the apathetic who stand aside waiting to see what happens.
New Institutions
“You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete.”
—R. Buckminster Fuller
Never destroy the pillars of belief and society: Replace them. Think like an engineer who supports a structure with crumbling foundations: build a stronger framework that takes over the load while the obsolete parts dissolve of their own accord.
Doing Nothing Is Something. Why Not Do Something Good?
Apathy is a self-contradictory because passivity is itself an action. Ask any caffeined and sugared child to sit still for long and the effort required to do nothing becomes apparent.
Your Empowerment
YOU DECIDE YOUR AGENDA
Your Empowerment is what you choose to do with your life. What will you do with all that power? Anything you choose. Empower yourself to lead your own movements because nobody can tell you what to believe, but everyone can use help and help each other achieve all goals.
Use Your Power For Good As You See Fit
No matter what your ideas and interests are, the Empowerment is just a vehicle to propel you forward in the directions you choose. Skills, resources and technology do not lean politically except to the resourceful.
Empowerment Doesn’t Tell You What To Do
There is no central ideology of Empowerment save the principle of empowerment itself, which is based on self-empowerment rather than obeying some central authority.
You choose your agenda. Empowerment just helps.
When people are weak and abdicate responsibility, our institutions run amok: our families disintegrate, governments rule us, corporations own us, media deceives us and schools indoctrinate us.Supportive Ideas:
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What is apathy?