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The Power of Symbols

What is a Prime Symbol?

Variations on the Wisdom Of Confucius

How to Conserve
the Potential

The Human Condition

General Theory

Practical Application

Index of Denial/Acceptance

The Joys in 
Acceptance
Are you vulnerable to denial?
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teachers /media
The Compassionate Curriculum
 
Defining some Prime Symbols

Energy

Energy Efficiency

Power

Electricity

Greenhouse

Warming/Cooling

Science

Information

Carbon

Atmosphere

Climate Change

Exponential
Trace

Potential

Compassion

Conserve

Sustain
Environment
Market
Peak Oil
Conservation 
Principle of Energy
Use
Up/Down
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definition the use symbol 

 

The use symbol is both a noun and a verb. It is the act of using or employing something for a purpose, exploiting its properties. To use something is to employ it and put it into service for some reason. Inherent in the employment of the “use” symbol is the acknowledgement that the act is a personal responsibility. 

Human beings are capable of profound self-deceit and our ego often dictates that we deny our role as stewards/change. Thus when our actions cause us problems and distress we often blamed the used thing rather than our own decisions as user. Common examples of denial include the following symbol uses:

Energy crisis  (Energy is the universal potential. The problem is invariably our use of the potential – our energy use.

Power crisis (Power is the rate at which the universal potential is manifest. The problem is usually our use of Bulk-generated electrical products – our resource use.

Climate change/global warming crisis (Earth’s climate can change with changes in solar, tectonic, galactic and other forces and these can create major challenges to our survival. However it is possible our most immediate threat is our misuse of our carbon potential with its associated atmospheric pollution – our climate use.

Fossil fuel crisis (Fossil fuels, in particular mineral oil/gas, are a very limited resource generated by a unique combination in the life of our planet of climatic, tectonic and other forces. They took eons to form and have vast potential. Our failure to conserve that potential is our problem – our resource use. 

Summary

Conserve the use symbol by employing it at all times with all our actions. Thus our children can enjoy greater sanity and learn how to better act as stewards. 

Etymology use

use (v) :  mid-13c., from O.Fr. user "use, employ, practice," from V.L. *usare "use," frequentative form of pp. stem of L. uti "to use," in Old L. oeti "use, employ, exercise, perform," of unknown origin.

Use (n) : early 13c., from O.Fr. us, from L. usus "use, custom, skill, habit," from pp. stem of uti

 

Enjoy the rewards of being a conservator of the potential of our greatest symbols.

 

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