Life-Refreshment

Welcome To Life-Refreshment www.lifefresh.co.uk

 
 
 
This will be the Front-Page, showing in brief the Contents an d Choices
 
 
 
 
 
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this page
Welcome to Life-Refreshment 
will become the first sort of "chapter",  being written by all participants.
 
It's present wideky various entries will soon be 'sorted' and moved to appropriately-named further pages,"chapters",
"pamphlets", "books", or "manuals".
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 I'm sure I submitted a post to  http:lordsoftheblog.net  under Baroness Deech's "Secrecy" post, and it was published but has since been removed;
so I intend to post it here and on www.minorityofone.net ; www.75l25w.com ; and elsewhere  -  once I've located my copy of it.! 
0400Sunday111211.
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1810pmTh081211.  Am starting the www.minorityofone.net non-profit egalitarianly-social & democratic citizens website;
and will then be able to start a proper front-page on this Lifefresh one, and tidy up from then on.
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0515Th081211
('misunderstanding' removed; refer please direct to  http://lordsoftheblog.net
Baroness Murphy's Post "The Strike" - milesjsd (versus) Twm O'r Nant.)
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0843GMT Sunday 04 December 2011
Please note that this non-profit 'llifefresh minority-of-one' website is being linked to the Google-websites, and soon to 
http://www.minority-of-one.net and http://www.m-of-o.net, all intending to be non-profit mutual and 'egalitarianly-democratic'
 voluntary community websites', initially administered by 
yours faithfully John Sydney Denton Miles
and hoping to find out how to get Create-net to add facilitation for you to post your comments back to these voluntary non-profit
and honestly-responsible free-speech democratic e-sites.
 
 
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gmt0835W30November2011
 
http://lordsoftheblog.net  is  currently publishing submissions by  milesjsd  as a part of a new UK Democratic-Inclusion intention;
please visit, and join-in if you like.
 
A newly partnering site will be   http://www.m-of-o.net  and  .org.uk;  also  http://www.minorityofone.net  and  .org.uk ; 
please visit and join-in  -  tell of your 'one-ness'.
 
There is also similar knowledgfe and know-how on  http://www.75l25w.com .. 
 
 
 
Meanwhile, this 'one' is busy    -  what's that joke-on-an-apron, "I am never busy - I always get it right first time !"    ?   -   Sunday 4th December today
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27 Oct 2011  Whilst Baroness Deech has published my 'not-understandable' comment to her "The cost of hacking" topic,
the Hansard moderator has blocked and deleted my integrally-second comment thereto.
I have applied for 'leave to raise this matter democratically'; but since the British democratic System can not be trusted
to publish, in the interim I am attempting to publish the whole train here and on  www.75l25w.com  (my individual non-profit
democratic citizens websites):
 
 
 
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previously
Welcome again !  at 1015a.m. Wednesday 26 October 2011   -   this time Lord Soley is blocking my  submission concerning
our Future vis a vis being in or retreating out of the EU:
(submitted at 7.30 a.m. approx this morning) and promoting instead the later Lord Blagger's (after 0800 a.m. today)
 
We have no idea where my submission is being held, or who it may have been  'insider-leaked' to;  so until it is published
in its rightful place on  http://lordsoftheblog.net under Lord Soley's "Government divisions on the EU", here it is:
 

To “Govt divisions on the EU” by Lord Soley 

from milesjsd

Whilst I think, and have long been saying and reasoning, that not just Lord Soley nor all Politicians and Governance workers

including the

Judiciary and Civil-Service,

but effectively all of Us, have been falling dangerously far behind the changing Purpose of human-civilisation and of Earth’s

 Lifesupports thereto- 

– so it is difficult for me to say “Lord Soley has got something right here” -

 namely that within a European-Union (note perhaps, and thereby within a Currency Sino-European, and a North-Atlantic

Defence, ‘bloc’ also) 

now-little Britain stands a much better chance of both economic and militarily-political survival and thrival, 

i.e. than we would stand by withdrawing from the EU and in a real sense thereby ‘retreating-in-disorder’ behind a lone

Sterling and a

not-too-robustly-healthy-and-numbers-strong Nation and NationStates) struggling ‘Identity’.

 ———-

 So I ask:

 Why can Britain not face-up-to the state-of-the-planet ?

 and perhaps be the first to re-write an Order, of both Purpose and civilisational-sustainworthiness,

 and in any event make haste to save ourselves by creating the first small-communities living sustainworthily ?

 

other nations’ are probably already trying to ‘pioneer’ such communities, so we shall be not only within a sub-consortium

of nations, in the EU and so forth, but within

the paradigm-updating United Nations, of the whole world ?

 

And thereby we shall be showing real and positively-co-constructive world-leadership and transparent-example, not

merely towards the survival of the whole

World’s Lifesupports, but majorly towards the longest-possible-term thrival of the Human Race and of we British People

therewithin ?

 (<250words) 

Posted here and on www.75l25w.com 1030 a.m. and 1045a.m. (approx) today.  

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previously
Welcome !  0950 F14)  - only me here, busy in the 'backroom', will be posting more soon.  Wishing you freshness of Life.
 
0800 Monday 10 Oct 2011
Being "fit for purpose" is a big necessity, especially you would think for such high institutions as the UK House of Lords
and the Judiciary.
 
Once again, however, these very costly and onerous Constitutional Institutions are showing that they are not fit for
longest-term Purpose;
and thereby are not shaping up democratically fit for short-term purposes.
 
Currently take "Women barristers", a post initiated by a woman peer, Baroness Deech, on  http://lordsoftheblog.net 
who without good  reason
is suppressing the following serious citizen's contribution:

Workplaces and training thereto need to be clearly and safely distinguished from lifeplaces and education thereto. 

 Neither the women & children ‘s purpose & workplace(-cum-creche-lifeplace),

 nor the mens’; 

nor indeed this and the next Earth’s purpose and lifesupports; 

are going to ‘work’ sustainworthily until the following kinds of issue are both tackled and win-win-win resolved,

 and I would suggest they be tackled immediately and independently on the one hand by all Peoples, on the one hand,

and by all Experts:.

 

Carefully distinguish, describe, and define:

(1) short-term and longest-term Strategic Purpose, and thereunder medium-term sub-strategic and tactical purposes

(of every civilisational sector);

 (2) individual and ('versus') collective human development;

 (2) training-for-workplace and ('versus') education-for- lifeplace;

 (3) worker-efficiency and vs lifeplace-human efficiency;

 (4) “earning”, “taking”, “being-paid”, “being- given”, and vs “being-’bribed’;

 (5) sustainability and vs sustainworthiness;;

 (6) “mental ill-health” and vs  “mind-functional good-health”

 

(Please see also Baroness Murphy’s current post “Eat less” (Diet):

 (7) a ‘balanced’ and an ‘imbalanced and/or ‘imbalancing’ diet & lifestyle.

 (8) Natural-Lifesupportiveness and human-civilisational-lifesupportivenesses adequacies and inadequacies

 (e.g. the already seriously advanced depletion of micronutrients from most of the agricultural and horticultural soils

of the Earth);

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 (9) … … …

 

(A near-neighbour having asked me to add

 “And that’s probably just for starters”,

 I would submit that such clarification be continued by ongoing public discussion and scrutiny. JSDM).

 

Baroness Murphy has published milesjsd's separate submission to her post about "Eat well eat less"

including therein a time and space-saving specific referral to milesjsd's above submission   which Baroness Deech is

suppressing.

 

Come on then,  who needs to know, in this "full democracy" self-appointedly claimed by Britain ?  (see publications

by Lord Soley and others).

 ============================  0847 Monday 10 )ct 2011.

 
 
0245Sunday11Sep (trying to improve this presentation)  Welcome 2121Friday09Sep2011
 

(Further to Lords of the Blog  ‘Legalising Brothels’  http://lordsoftheblog.net) .

An Alternative Health therapy, namely a sensitive and highly-skilled full-body holistic massage, by a 3-years trained

and registered  "complementary" or "naturopathic" practitioner, such as in Shiatsu or the deeper Rolfing, is a full 60

minutes long and reliably priced at £30.
 
It is not only more generally satisfying than a rushed 'penis-only' "hand-job" given by an unskilled, clock-watching,

"robot production line labourer"  charging £40 cash in advance for a mere 10 minutes  (that's £10 more cash

(and up front) than the fully trained body therapist charges (pay at the end), 

but the non-qualified, non-registered "professional" (if you ever heard anything so traditionally-historically stupidly daft) 

 has provided only one sixth of a healthily-remedial timeframe, and has been dominantly limited, limiting, and negativising,

and has charged 'murderously'.  Such "sex industry"  is the insidious opposite of being further-educational, life-enriching, 

and spiritually-helpful. 
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Deeper still in English civilisation, that necessary “Spiritual help” part of Love,
that should be provided elsewhere and certainly  by Religions some of whom advertise spiritual love and education as

being “freely given”
by them, is instead lost from or repressively languishing in those sacred places, where we should find The Creator’s Love

being educationally
facilitated and practised, rather than  being merely habitually, repetitively, and blinkeredly partly-preached, or handed out

as mandatory
Bible-readings without sufficient or any holisticly practical 'instructions' and 'rules' to follow.

Focally, religions have a sacred duty to protect and nurture the innate and developmentally-successive seven sacramental

energies 
of the human being. 
Yet no religion provides ongoing holistic protection nurturance and education thereto.

For a good and sober description of the sevenfold-spirit and its physiological and mind-function connections, see
“Anatomy of the Spirit”  (Caroline Myss); 
“Lifestreams” (David Boadella);
and Other works upon The 7 Sacraments, the 7 Chakras, the 7 Human Energy Centres, such as Maya Fiennes's
serialised practical guidance through 
"Kundalini Yoga" on "Body-in-Balance" Sky channel 275. 

In the case of the many Christian churches, none of them holistically nurtures the innate seven sacramental energy-centres, 
interrelatingly between Body, Emotions, Mind-Functions, Environmental-Influences.  Spirit,  Individual-sanctuary, and

Workplace

needs.

Neither is there any other institution providing such basic protection and nurturing.
Neither does the NHS and its Psychiatric arm have specific protection and positive nurturance for these 7 innate

energy-centres,
neither in Physiological contexts nor with the three human brain-levels of Rhinic (Instinct), Limbic (Intelligence),

Supralimbic (Intellect)
for which briefly see "Awareness Through Movement" (Moshe Feldenkrais).

Sex is inborn throughout and connectively between, the seven human energy centres;
so to try to separate it from the other energies within that sevenfold-whole is in a real sense a disfiguration and a

blasphemy,
including against the human Spirit.
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Facilitators, educators, and legislators dealing with this “Legalising Brothels” issue need to seriously scrutinise

every point
of the compass, around both Health and Human Development.

2143Friday09Sep11. JSDM.
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previously
Welcome 0220AM.Wednesday 07September2011.
From the British House of Lords
so-called "democratic contact with the People" e-site
and from the anti-democratic and strategic-reasoning-avoidant Baroness Deech's blogging
currently dragging its feet through the one-eyednesses of the UK Governance establishment and Its Camp-Followers:
"Scottish tuition fees"
The 'no bull' Baroness Deech is so scared of real democratic engagement, truth, and rational strategic reasoning,
that she needs to make Hansard suppress and not publish relevant contributions from milesjsd (my submissions)
  
So here is one, to be going along with (while I try to catch up on sleep)

Firstly, the Training-System,  now having come to mean Schools and Universities as well as Technical and Business

Colleges,

feeds The Workplace with workers on a life-span and civilised-constitution basis; 

 but that Workplace is here for the sole purpose of supporting and making sustainworthy BOTH Earth’s Natural

 lifesupports AND

Humankind’s Civilised 75% Lifeplace therein.

Since The Workplace, its profits, governance, and workforces are owned by The Employers, then all training for

work should be

paid for by The Employers;

 i.e.  school and university costs are properly the Debt of Workplaces and therefore of The Employers who own

and control

both workplaces, the workers therein, and trainee-workers (pupils & students);

NOT by the Taxpayer, nor by the trainee-workers (namely as Students)  nor by students’  Parents.

The 'no bull' Baroness Deech thinks the above Issue has nothing whatever to do with her Tuition Fees
revolving-door.
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 Tune in for further suppressed democratic submissions, now on a weekly basis !   
 
Previously:
Welcome to Life Refreshment  0950W13July11  
Please go direct to  
 >>>>   "watch this space" below
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The story so far: 
the Lords of the Blog e-site appears to be a "promising" step forward towards participatory-democratisation.
However, whilst The People certainly are "underskilled", "under-enabled", and "under-empowered"  to perform
between Elections as people-upwards democratic-governance contributors and scrutinisers,
the Peers are seriously behind-the-times with their knowledge, know-how and people's-advocacy skills &
performance-abilities.

Twelve hours ago I submitted a contribution to Baroness Murphy's post about "Legal Highs" (on drugs); but it is
being "sat-on"; so here is the first part of it:

"One Primary Point, sub-divisible into three, concerning "harm versus good", and "material/money & coss/savings
'versus' human & health quantification and qualification".

1.  We the Public need to be given "Differentiation Lists" (here with drugs/diets; but also elsewhere with methodology
such as between "Directive and Participative" Bodies such as democracvy, boardroom, neighbourhood-clubs,
family-group self-management)
clearly distinguishing "Public Good" from "Public Harm".

(to be continued if not soon released from 'quarantine' and published by Lords of the Blog)
1921W13July
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1235Tue12July11. Baroness Deech has allowed this website address to appear
in her corner of control over Lords of the Blog;
however, she continues to fail to recognise and to discuss the citizen's contributed comment, because she "prefers"
to win-every-argument by abusing Logic;
she still says "I prefer intelligible comment to the point, so as not to put off other commentators with something
relevant to say".

My reply to that is being 'sat-on', not democratically published, by the Lords of the Blog; 

therefore if not published there, it will very soon have to appear here  -  unless someone can show me a better
democratic-sharing e-site for such matters

(Incidentally. Wikileak also gives such people-=participation matters the cold-shoulder.  
They too are in fact among the super-rich, profiteering and living in wasteful luxury off many more human-livings
than any one human-being needs and is by Nature entitled to. 
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>>>> "watch this space"  no-one has shown me a better democratic e-site, so  
here is one of the replies I submitted, which Baroness Deech suppresses (again and again I'm afraid):
"Baroness Deech has again chosen to go public with the foulplay of attacking a constyructive-citizen-contributor as being
"unintelligible",
"not to the point", "having nothing relevant to say".

Anyone interested in honest versus dishonest reasoning will be greatly helped by Tindale's "Fallacies and Argument Appraisal"
wherein he,
a truly noble author unlike some of the Peers on Lords of the Blog, explains the Fallacy of Persona Attack (page 81):

"In the wide public domain, where controversial issues are debated and personalities invariably clash, the strategy of
ATTACKING AN OPPONENT because of some real or 'perceived' characteristic, circumstance, or association is
particularly
prevalent"

p89 "Critical Questions: 1. Has an attack been made on another person in an argument debate ?".
Yes; more than twice by Baroness Deech, against JSDMiles especially against his submitted contributions.
"2. Has that attack focused upon the person's character or circumstance and avoided any discussion of his/her argument ?"
Yes; by Baroness Deech persistently avoiding charitable recognition and honest discussion of JSDMiles's submissions.

It would appear that Baroness Deech "prefers" to follow  'I win - You lose' cheat-cards gleaned from such a cheap source as
Madsen
Pirie's
"How To Win Every Argument -by abusing logic", than to take up the more moral and thoughtfully-studied honest disciplines
set out by Christopher Tindale.

That having been clearly said, there could be one saving grace on the side of the Lords of the Blog, namely that some
Moderator
(possibly in Hansard but probably in this instgance the Baroness herself) has published one of my submissions but then
instead of
ditching it, has tried to publicly dismiss it, out nof hand (which can still come across as "Deeching it").

Let's face it (folks), some other Peers whilst publishing one's submissions therafter total ignore those parts, usually major
points,
that they
find
uncomfortable or unsupportive to their own often loopholey topics and argumentation, or both.

Although the baroness's ostensible reason for rejection rests simply up[on her own personal "preference' rather than upon
democratic-ethics,
he has at least appeared to allow the wider readership the chance to check-out what she has suppressed, by visiting the
submissor's Not-for-profit,
lone-democratic-citizen's information-sharing website via www.lifefresh.co.uk .
0053T12July2011.JSDM."
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I have today Wednesday 13th july further just submitted a short reply, to B.Deech's "I prefer intelligible.." reply, as follows:
" I notice that Baroness Deech has not published my reply to her individual preference for "intelligent comments to the point
(because other commentators are easily put off when they do actually have something relevant to say)"

so in the meanwhile it may be read via my non-profit, lone-democratic-citizen's website  www.lifefresh.co.uk .
0845W13.JSDM.
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Watch this space 


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Previously:
Saturday 09 July 2011

The following serious democratic-citizen's contribution was submitted to http://lordsoftheblog.net ,
to Baroness Deech's request for comments upon "Media Morality"
but has been suppressed, 'censored',;
removed without an adequately justifiable explanation;
but any serious-minded person and any child-in-learning has a right and a possible-need
to be allowed to read it and to form their own evaluation of it.
(Note; the author JSDM has clarified and updated a few parts; but the original intended-messgae is the same).

"Morality" has to be the overarching absolute Truth upon 'what limits and guidelines should & need to be enforceably entrenched
within Governance's constitutions, legislations, regulations,
processes & budgetgings'.

Moral Law stems from the best think-tank minds, namely those of PhD levels in both Moral-Reasoning and Formal-Argumentation -  
or should stem therefrom.

From that Moral-Law are secondarily developed the various "Ethics", of the various Professions and Sectors-of-civilisation,
and of the Nation-State and of its Nation (namely its Peoples, for their Workplce and Lifeplace behaviours respectively).

However, since moral-reasoning and formal-argumentation have been 'wet-blanketed' into an obscurity by The Establishment ,and
by alll sectors of Governance, Academia, Education, Religion, and Community, 'ditched' in favour of Expert-Directives, Competitive
Winner-Takes-All "Debating", and interminably-tomed and protracted "histories" of individual philosophers,
and of their Schools-of-"Thought", posing as Philosophy;

and furthermore since the dominant-ethic of all "civilised-morality & economics" allows and blindly requires there to be Harvested
One-and-a-Half-Earths-worth of human-lifesupports, just to maintain the present 7 billion world-population as it today unsatisfactorily
stands and suffers, which is not only morally and ethically un-sustain-worthy, but practically un-sustainable too;

there is no longer any such useful thing, in any of the eleven or so civilisations around the world today, as "Morality";

and even further more, the heading to this blog, "Media Morality" is out-of-order, since the Media is only a subordinate sector
under overarching Moral-Law;
so thus is only required and entitled to construct its own Media-Ethics.
Matters of Morality are determined and written much higher up than any of the Sectors, including here The Media sector and its
current alleged-criminals The News of the World and the Murdoch dynasty.

originally posted -225F080711 by JSDM.
(**) Note that the ongoing Media malfeasance is a complicity one, in supporting the political and economic strategy requiring
 there to be
Three (3) Earths-worth of human-lifesupports consumed by global-economics by 2050, when the world-population is planned
 and set to reach 11 billion people;

and Governments and the Media tell us, and seem to have capitulatively accepted that, "there is nothing we can do about it".
JSDM 1504Saturday 090711.
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0536St040611  
(Present and correct:  but please let this site be, for the time being,
it is a 'mess' but it's individual contents are and 'always will be' of vital usefulness to the world's
variously-placed peoples,
thank you).
John Sydney Denton Miles.

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re  Our human-race Predicaments: Pomp, Ceremony, USA-President visit to
UK 27May20110200 270511  
the following submitted to The Lords of the Blog on  http://lordsoftheblog.net ; but removed
 by them from the public eye:

" The Predicaments remain, getting insidiously worse, however;
(whilst London splashes-out on expensive Governmentral-Self-Praisings)

but whatever the new-and-;ongstanding Earth-Emergency-Rationing-Rationale is going to be,
 I feel sure about our
continuing and frequent Need, to show such History and surviving good-and-honest talk and
 demonstration
as has been prepared and is being presented around Britain these current few days, to be affordably-
necessary.

Are the peacefujl revolutionaries, and the cost-conscious watchdogs as prepared ?

And will the BBC be (as prepared); - in time to be effectve ?

If the Public Archives are not sufficiently stocked with Recordings and Copies of such proceedings and
morale-lifters,
to be whisked out and very low-cost broadcast to both Nation and World

(because the last thing the Predicaments need is 'L:ive Show' Expenses)

then by that defacto I am no citizen

certainly not the claimed 'democratic' and 'rule-of-law' one pageanted yesterday;

and not even of God's Good Earth.  JSDM. " 
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This space awaiting further copy.


re  Crossbenching and governance-corruption
viz 4 Questions  
1.  What lifesupports are Welfare entitlements meant to "buy" ?
2.  How can the citizen monitor and calculate such ?
3.  What life-models, economic-theories, and reasonings are these founded upon ?
4.  What other factors might be taken into consideration ?


Easter Sunday 24 April 2011
I am simply copying the Friendly Method III to  http://www.life75job25.com .


Last Week:
World Governance Insanities.

There are four main contributory reasons for thinking, not just The United Nations, but

All other International unions,
the EU and Britain therein,
subsidiary Organisations and Communities,
and governmentall-empowered people and individuals 

to be intractably and collectively Insane
and duplicitly Destructive of all Life on Earth
including the self-extinction of our own Human Race :

1)  Their absence of ability and willingness to support positively collective human development  i.e.  to measure
and govern national bodies by Workplace ecolo-nomical and Lifeplace-efficient Sustainworthiness.
2)  Their absence of ability and willingness to adopt, promote, and affordably-implement Individual Human
Development advances; such as Body-Mind-Centering, Perceptual Self-Control, NLP, Friendly Method III Needs
& Affordable-Hows Listing and Win-Win-Win Cooperative Problem Solving, and Six modes of constructively
cooperative thinking, planning, and action-ing.
3)  Their overkilling and extincting of the Earth's living and renewable lifesupports, and over-destruction of Earth's
non-living and non-renewable resources.
4)  Their repression, and suppression, of Human Effectivities, throughout both World Governments, Economic and
Ecological Authorities, Education Authorities, Communities of People and of Religions, and throughout Medical &
Psychiatric Authorities and Services.

There can be no worse Insanity than that of Psychiatry itself,
and of all Governance, Educational,
and Resources-Management Authorities themselves,
to be unable and unwilling to come up-to-date, keep theirselves up-to-date,
and majorly keep all  Peoples up-to-date.

Posted 0730 Sunday 17 April 2011;  via Create.net on website www.75l25j.com . 

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Previously.


Website host John Miles has been busy elsewhere since Sunday26Sep2010'
From May2010 he has been making contributions to an e-site run by some of the sitting members of the
UK Upper House of Parliament, called "Lords of the Blog"  address  http://lordsoftheblog.net .

John appears there as milesjsd, and signs himself off his formal or serious submissions a JSDM, and from his
informal or ligjhthearted contributions as jsdm.
Some current contributions will appear here, in intendedly inside a light-green box  -  
but  Create has changed this 'Box' and 'Edit box' facility such that I can no longer custom a box nor its details.

So here goes trying pasting-in a copy from  http:lordsoftheblog.net  "Libya -by Lord Soley with its first few
comments including milesjsd 's:

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But from this point, older posts will be moved along onto other appropriate pages.

emailed 1020 Sunday 26 Sep 2010 to sundaymorninglive@bbac.co.uk  TV programme calling for public comment viz "Prostitution".
 
Individual Human Development is a lifelong but neglected educational essential, for the 75% timeframe we take spending the pay we get from the 25% workplace.
  
It should be linked to sex-education by a professionally-qualified surrogacy sector which should majorly replace most prostitution, because as a so-called 'profession' prostitution not only renders a dangerously underskilled and holisticly-deprived service , mostly to educationally and socially disadvantaged clients, but charges up to a hundred times more per hour for that botch-job than ever they could earn in a highly-skilled job.
  
John Sydney Denton Miles (read me also as JSDM on http://lordsoftheblog.net).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
0848Sn04July10:  Please click 'Parliamentary matters 1' page, on the above horizontal list of pages to see 'On Strengthening Parliament', Reforming the Lords. and other key democratic and People's-Needs questions.
 
The good news is that some of the noble members of the UK Upper House of Parliament are communicating through a website http://lordsoftheblog.net/ ; and the serious citizen may submit comment to Posts that are still open there.
 
Our second piece of good news is that the following Lords' posts have published our submissions, under our chosen name John Sydney Denton Miles (JSDM; jsdm) absolutely verbatim i.e. without editing their content nor interfering with their respective intentions:
Baroness D'Souza; Lord Norton; Lord Soley; Lord Tyler; Baroness Deech; Baroness Murphy;  and Others as time marches on.
 1210W30June2010.
Our third piece of good news is that we have linked to a local community WordPress.com blog-site through 'talk about St Budeaux'.
 
A previous 'good-news' item has fizzled-out, that William Sutton Homes with Affinity Sutton were looking at supporting Method III Cooperative Poblem Solving, possibly even launching a training-course and small grant therein for permanently low-income learners, of any age. We have heard nothin further from them, so we presume that matter 'dead'as far as they are concerned.
So if you want to know how to use that skill, you had better copy the  below and practice alone or with a trusted friend or two. 
 
In the meanwhile, since we firmly believe in the friendly win-win-win Method III, for first-resort voluntary cooperative problem-solving, and for preliminary recognition every one's respective needs and how-each-such-may-best-be-met, we publish below our  five-steps version of this six-steps Method III, that we have developed over the years since its first publication by Dr Thomas Gordon.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Five Step Method III, for Friendly ‘Win-Win-Win’ Cooperative Problem-Solving and for Needs & Hows Recognition.
 
 
 
Introduction: Read through every part of the following lines before attempting to judge or even to think about this methodology: you will see why the guidelines are of primary and 'deal-breaking' necessity - the method is both voluntary and participatorily cooperative, win-win-win not like the alternative authoritarian legal-processes which are directive, competitive and win-lose.
 
 
 
 
 
Guidance #1 (Rule):  No-one comes with any competitive advantage: each comes 'empty-handed'.
 
Each participates equally, with patience, non-competively, non-invasively, non-leadingly, non-pushily, non-manipulatively.
There will be many 'rounds', allowing every-one equal time and whiteboard-space.
 
Each step needs to have advocacy rounds, representing those not present in the meeting.
 
The penultimate round should probably be preset to be the 'final revision' round allowing questions and suggestions for improvement or better clarity and for confirmation, before moving on to the next step, and ultimately to the closing of the meeting.
 
Guidance #2: Move from person to person in one direction around the table or circle. Each person gets equal non-transferrable time.
Remember that for the first few meetings every-one will be learning, and many patient rounds will yield better results than a few grasshopper jump-arounds or fast 'pedagogic' sweeps.
 
Guidance#3: Silence is golden.
Since each individual may be needing to delve deep inside their own self, to find their own most real and important need and to formulate that into words, there needs to be a whole lot of silences.
 
Guidance #4: At each step keep going round a second, third, fourth or fifth time, until each participant is satisfied with their own finding so far and with the way they have worded it.
 
Guidance #5: Remember: NO interrupting, interpreting, nor altering; NO competing. 
 Let each finish verbatimly at first.
Have the advocacy rounds.
And have one or two penultimate rounds allowing for clarification or improvement-suggestion before making the final necessarily unanimous confirmation of the findings and of the way they have been written-up on the whiteboard and in the publishable-record.
 
Begin the five sequential Steps of Method III :
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Practical sequence of a Method III meeting:
 
Step 1 :  Each participant submits wording or amendment to describe the Problem-Situation at first needing to be written up on a whiteboard or butcher’s-paper, and agreed by each participant before moving on. Keep going around until what your scribe has written up on the whiteboard is perfectly approved by each participant.

Step 2:  Each participant suggests a solution they imagine might meet every-one’s need in the above-written situation. Once again no interrupting, no paraphrasing, no ‘improving’ the speaker’s wording.

  
Step 3: Go round and round, evaluating each ‘imagined’ solution; e.g. by a show of  left-hand = 1 point, right-hand = 2 points, both hands = 3 points, no hands = 0 points.
Step 4: Select one of these shortlisted solutions; OR cobble-together an eclectic-solution made up of the best features from any of the solutions submitted in Step 2.
 
Step 5:  Go round and round again, this time constructing firstly a Plan A, that will best honour and ‘win-win-win’ meet each participant’s (and absentee’s) most-important real-need. That settled, go round and round again constructing a Plan B, for what to do, for whatever could go wrong in Plan A ‘from the inside’, or sabotage it ‘from the outside’.
Further back-up (contingency) plans could be decided upon at the end of this step.
 
[ Step 6 will be the organisation, administration and actual execution on-the-ground, in every-one's real-world, of your plans,
 i.e. the coordination of equipment and other practicalities needed on-the-ground, among-the-grass-roots, by and for each real-life as a component-part of your collective-plans  ].

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Remember: ‘Win-Win-Win-Win-Win-Win-Win’ is a good mindframe, and from it can be included the most-important real-needs of other parties who are unable to be present in the meeting. Those actually present and participating will little doubt settle satisfactorily their needs and how best to satisfy them, but those present need also to include adequate advocacy for all absentees' needs and hows, which might be quite different from present-members' needs & hows.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Other mind-tools that can be added to the above Method III to enhance and strengthen it:
 
Handy-life-budgeting (on five fingers): 1 Personal energies  2 Personal timeframes  3 Personal things  4 Places  5 Monies (see also 'Palmate Life-Budgeting' above or below).
 
 
 
 
 
 
Controlled and Harmonised All-round Thinking: Six Thinking Hats by Dr Edward de Bono: 1 The Facts (White 'hat')  2 Positives (Yellow 'hat')  3 Creatives (Green)  4 Risks (Black)  5 Emotionals (Red)  6 Recap/Next ? (Blue 'hat') .  [The Facilitator may say for example "We need to focus on assembling the relevant facts; so first of all everyone 'wear' a white hat, for 15 minutes, please"; or "That completes round one, let's use the Blue hat to plan what we need to do next".
 
 
 
 
 
 
Human-Ability must strategically and intelligently precede human-empowerment. This means that ongoingly greater Enablementof The People must be the pre-requisite for improved democratic-empowerment of The People.
 
 
 
 
 
In a peoples' democracy, as distinct from any prevailing elite's 'democracy', seriously knowledgeable enablement of every level of
The People is vitally important.
It should be taking primary place, as wholesomely manifold ranges of citizenship abilities and enablements, within the 75% living
 timeframe.
It should not be happening in the 25% workplace timeframe where the Nation's complementary need is for professional
organisational. administrative and governance skillings. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


We shall in these websites provide leading references, from the most respected study-books, as we go along.
 
Because it is paramountly vital that People-Enablement be pre-eminently separated from People-Politicisation, we need to quote
two such  references immediately:
"To be political is to have to choose  -  and what is worse, to have to choose under the worst possible circumstances, when the
grounds of choice are not given ...To be political is thus to be 'free' with a vengeance  -  to be free in the unwelcome sense of being
without guiding standards or determining norms yet under ineluctable pressure to act, and to act with deliberation and responsibility
 as well." (Barber, 2003, page 121).
 
Also: [Western Democracy needs] (")A Strong Democratic Program for the Revitalisation of Citizenship: 
1.  A national system of Neighbourhood Assemblies of from one citizen to five thousand, initially having only a comprehension and
deliberation function, but later progressing to have legislative competence at neighbourhood and local level as well ("). (Ibid. source
p307).
First, however, The Peoples' primary and ubiquitous ability must be to hold strictly non-political comprehension and friendly
cooperative-problem solving meetings, egalitarianly in neighbourhoods, integrable with the wider democratising-world through
compatible computers online.
 
We can, and in a wise sense we must, each start alone and get our individual all-round life-budgetings into our daily diaries.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Life-Refresher aims to help Earth-Lifesupports and Human Civilisations to become inorganicly and organicly sustain-worthy, through sound formal-argumentation, moral-reasoning, and shared life-experience.

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