EVOKE - Urgent Evoke2024-03-29T14:58:03Zhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/forum/topics/evoke-1?commentId=4871302%3AComment%3A8720&feed=yes&xn_auth=nohumor:
Eels
Vanish
Over
Kidn…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-17:4871302:Comment:951872010-04-17T06:32:41.750ZJarrod Alagaohttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/JarrodAlagao
humor:<br />
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Eels<br />
Vanish<br />
Over<br />
Kidnapped<br />
Electricity<br />
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for real:<br />
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Ending<br />
Violence<br />
On<br />
Killer<br />
Earth
humor:<br />
<br />
Eels<br />
Vanish<br />
Over<br />
Kidnapped<br />
Electricity<br />
<br />
for real:<br />
<br />
Ending<br />
Violence<br />
On<br />
Killer<br />
Earth Each voice opens kinder eyes.…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-15:4871302:Comment:937902010-04-15T21:36:02.214ZGabriel Martinhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/GabrielMartin
Each voice opens kinder eyes.<br />
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I know my eyes have been opened my the Voices of the agents.
Each voice opens kinder eyes.<br />
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I know my eyes have been opened my the Voices of the agents. yes i think the same thing be…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-02:4871302:Comment:776202010-04-02T15:37:06.937ZMarshall and Jerodhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/MarshallandJerod
yes i think the same thing because it is always in capitals<br />
marshall walters
yes i think the same thing because it is always in capitals<br />
marshall walters Encouraging
Vehement
Ownage o…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-02:4871302:Comment:769742010-04-02T01:35:49.864ZReemahttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/ReemaS
Encouraging<br />
Vehement<br />
Ownage of<br />
Knowledge<br />
Everywhere
Encouraging<br />
Vehement<br />
Ownage of<br />
Knowledge<br />
Everywhere Emerging
Volunteers
On
Kno…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-30:4871302:Comment:723612010-03-30T06:52:11.944ZAnthony Karanjahttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/AnthonyKaranja
Emerging<br />
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Volunteers<br />
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On<br />
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Knowledge<br />
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Educed change
Emerging<br />
<br />
Volunteers<br />
<br />
On<br />
<br />
Knowledge<br />
<br />
Educed change E=Empathy
V=Vision
O=Opportun…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-18:4871302:Comment:433512010-03-18T09:13:09.151ZPradip Deyhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/PradipDey
E=Empathy<br />
V=Vision<br />
O=Opportunity<br />
K=Knowledge<br />
E=Empowerment<br />
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So I put it like <b>Empowerment</b> <b>Opportunity</b> through <b>Vision</b>, <b>Knowledge</b> and <b>Empathy</b>.
E=Empathy<br />
V=Vision<br />
O=Opportunity<br />
K=Knowledge<br />
E=Empowerment<br />
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So I put it like <b>Empowerment</b> <b>Opportunity</b> through <b>Vision</b>, <b>Knowledge</b> and <b>Empathy</b>. OTOH, since every situation w…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-07:4871302:Comment:210262010-03-07T15:53:35.026ZThomhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/Thom
OTOH, since every situation will have a different solution to fit its circumstances, perhaps it's fine for EVOKE to not have a single definite acronym, but instead remaining flexible to represent whatever fits the context. Rather, as long as someone is good at thinking of new meanings, and if not it'd be good practice for getting the brain juices going and researching.<br />
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It could remain indefinite, and in that way it would be a reflection of being open to new approaches, inspiring of itself.
OTOH, since every situation will have a different solution to fit its circumstances, perhaps it's fine for EVOKE to not have a single definite acronym, but instead remaining flexible to represent whatever fits the context. Rather, as long as someone is good at thinking of new meanings, and if not it'd be good practice for getting the brain juices going and researching.<br />
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It could remain indefinite, and in that way it would be a reflection of being open to new approaches, inspiring of itself. Earth
Viability/Vitality
Opti…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-06:4871302:Comment:194532010-03-06T18:28:52.453ZRick van der Pluijmhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/RickvanderPluijm
Earth<br />
Viability/Vitality<br />
Optimizing<br />
Knowledgeable<br />
Environments
Earth<br />
Viability/Vitality<br />
Optimizing<br />
Knowledgeable<br />
Environments Hah! Kinetic Entrepreneurs! L…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-06:4871302:Comment:186152010-03-06T07:08:26.615ZRaymond M. Kristiansenhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/RaymondMKristiansen
Hah! Kinetic Entrepreneurs! Love it. :)<br />
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I have no clue, could be any of the suggested words, or a combination. To me, however, EVOKE is this:<br />
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Evolutionary<br />
Virtual<br />
Offline<br />
Knowing<br />
Evolutionary<br />
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What I mean is: EVOKE is a cycle, a spin, of ideas being expressed, thought about by others, and a reaction being created. The relationship between the virtual and the offline is crucial. Knowing? We are all in the knowing of something, and the point is to evolve our knowing along with the knowing of…
Hah! Kinetic Entrepreneurs! Love it. :)<br />
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I have no clue, could be any of the suggested words, or a combination. To me, however, EVOKE is this:<br />
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Evolutionary<br />
Virtual<br />
Offline<br />
Knowing<br />
Evolutionary<br />
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What I mean is: EVOKE is a cycle, a spin, of ideas being expressed, thought about by others, and a reaction being created. The relationship between the virtual and the offline is crucial. Knowing? We are all in the knowing of something, and the point is to evolve our knowing along with the knowing of others, creating a new form of synergy effect.<br />
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Alchemy of the mind, if you wish.<br />
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<cite>Chelsea Howe said:</cite><blockquote cite="http://www.urgentevoke.com/forum/topics/evoke-1#4871302Comment8720"><div>Emerging Visions Of Kinetic Entrepreneurs? I have no idea, and Cal refuses to tell me (if she even knows herself; I'm suspicious)- anyone else?</div>
</blockquote> Economic
Viability
Overtly
Ki…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-05:4871302:Comment:170202010-03-05T18:55:07.020ZThomhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/Thom
Economic<br />
Viability<br />
Overtly<br />
Killing<br />
Everything<br />
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That's what this whole project calls to mind, perhaps because of the initial comic suggesting the need for solutions to fit in the old paradigm of being supported by a business scheme. Maybe the words "World" and "Bank" and "Institute" when put together also evoke these thoughts. It's the standard "solution" meme of using other people's woe's as opportunities to make money by setting up new methods to perpetuate self-destructive living (but in new…
Economic<br />
Viability<br />
Overtly<br />
Killing<br />
Everything<br />
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That's what this whole project calls to mind, perhaps because of the initial comic suggesting the need for solutions to fit in the old paradigm of being supported by a business scheme. Maybe the words "World" and "Bank" and "Institute" when put together also evoke these thoughts. It's the standard "solution" meme of using other people's woe's as opportunities to make money by setting up new methods to perpetuate self-destructive living (but in new ways!) instead of addressing the root causes.<br />
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So called "developing" nations are un-developing the planet within their self-declared imaginary boundaries. Exchanging the self-sustained developed areas for worthless money (inedible, can't replace species or time, etc.) creates a siphon draining all life and nutrients, eventually leading to… nothing. Not even the money remains because it gets exchanged for reactions ("solutions") to the problems caused by the "development" when the true pre-existing development could have been acknowledged and thereby lived within its means.<br />
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The so called "third world" is actually what is remaining of the "first world" that is still innocent of being used as a source of ingredients for products. It is not backwards but instead is self-sustaining and sell-adapting. It is not behind but instead are the few remaining demonstrations of how collaboration works amongst a multitude of lifeforms within a local ecosystem. It is not less advanced but instead is of the most advanced areas on the planet because of the sustained integrated collaborations of all lifeforms in the area, unlike anything perceived in our civilization. The next most advanced would be the life forms themselves.<br />
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Our economic systems easily fail to come close in comparison and can't seriously be considered as an admirable advancement. They focus on growth (fattening and bloating) instead of sustainable existence for either the companies or the communities. They applaud competition against each other for a few "resources" to make the same thing as each other instead of synergistically complementing each other's focus to truly innovate and live within each other's gaps. They ask for more than what they put in and moralize it by calling it "profit" while devaluing every life form by assigning them monetary values, as if money could bring back what is combusted, or reverse genocide, or reestablish lost culture and languages.<br />
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Yet, all the money in the world, when totaled, would not come close to being able to pay for every resource, every product, and every service available on this planet. Since there is no equal exchange, there will never be enough money to obtain, make use of, and do everything through the indirect exchange demanded by our economic systems. Depending on money as part of the solution when there is not enough money for everything thereby dooms those money-focused solutions as untenable.<br />
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People who have collected the most money are still very poor in comparison since even all the money in the world not only could not get them everything in the world, they couldn't even make up for the consequential destruction they inadvertently helped into existence while obtaining that money. In contrast, the richest people have no money, instead they have an integral influence with the life forms they live amongst (therefore still have their integrity). Is it any wonder such people are sought out and have everything in their lives taken away from them in the moralized names of "development" and "advancement"? They then experience the unresolved problems developed by the civilization as we've come to know it, in exchange for losing their culture, language, knowledge, and way of life.<br />
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As for human made technology, it doesn't come close to the technology inherent in every life form. What device have humans made that can regenerate like a starfish?<br />
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Where is the human-crafted technology that self replicates unaided, takes care of itself and aids its community, and integrates complementarily amongst others in its environment, i.e. has become part of an ecosystem, needed and in need?<br />
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What, other than landfills, have humans made that can persist through the centuries as trees have without seeming to deteriorate? Ironically, deterioration is a sought out quality of landfills (though, still lacking in ability) and seems to be an instilled characteristic in human technology. Is such technology really something to be proud of as a species when it fails even in it's failure?<br />
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Not only am I pointedly declaring the root causes are not being addressed, I'm also proposing the "problems" became the seeds leading to our present development because our past solutions have continuously cultivated those problems as a means of living upon. In other words, we continue to validate our way of life by living off our problems by dressing up those problems as solutions (i.a. tourism, gambling, recycling, homeless shelters, parking garages, prisons, schools, etc.).<br />
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The economic systems depending on an indirect exchange (with money) as a means of providing purpose in life, and as the validation for allowing a life form to live, is disassociating and distancing ourselves from living within the available sustainable means. If we really want to have more, then we need to put more into the systems or make use of any excess continuously leaving the systems. Simply rearranging what we've got into big piles that are locked away from everyone creates scarcity. Add, not take away. Let others live their lives where they are at, and not shove them out and make them live a different way just so we can genocidally displace their environment.<br />
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Our intentions of "development" have to be in ways other than we currently know it, it has to be supportive by being additive without being parasitic. For example, adding electricity to a village, town, or city with a power source based on combustion is physically parasitic of the local environment because matter is being transformed into energy. Therefore, growing fuel is out of the question for the physical matter is destroyed, and consumed faster than it can be grown. Yet, combustable fuel brought from outside the local environment is by definition unsustainable, and therefore unreliable.<br />
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The same goes for food, water, and anything else that becomes consumed faster then it can be locally replenished. For example, people would starve to death if they depended solely on agriculture since it takes too long to wait for crops, and only at certain times of the year. As such, we have set ourselves up for a potentially massive famine by becoming more dependent on them. This is exactly the type of approach that needs to not be imitated.<br />
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Any changes for any reason must be based on local resources in a way that does not consume the local environment faster than the local environment can replenish itself, else you might as well be sucking blood from your own wounds or eating your own limbs. It also can't result in byproducts that aren't beneficial to the local environment and its life forms in some way, such as radioactive waste, air or water pollution, or so-called "disposable" items.<br />
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In other words, just about everything we are doing right now is not worthy of promoting in "developing" countries. In fact, we are having to replace what we are doing to ourselves with something new, and as such aren't really of any help to others as an worthy example, except by discouraging them from taking the same path that has gotten us our problems.<br />
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Truly, if we ever witness the reduction of society's ills (i.e. civilization as we know it) it will not be by encouraging everyone to become like us, to live like us, or to think like us. That will only lead to more of the same since that would be doing more of the same. As the analogy above suggests, we need to seek local sources that replenish faster than we use them, or can given time to recover without our need of them during that time. It also needs to require little or no maintenance, or else we will still be feeding off of ourselves, fooling ourselves with our large tummy (huge bank accounts) by not acknowledging we've eaten our limbs. Money is not a suitable substitute for anything it is used to replace, i.a. time with family, personal health, and ecosystems.<br />
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I can not emphasize enough that any source for any solution to any problem has to be self sustaining and can not depend on us to put forth our own energy towards it. For example, raising crops uses more energy than letting them grow on their own: this is sucking our own blood, eating ourselves. We don't see it that way because we don't care about our loss of mobility (flesh of our limbs) because we are disassociated from it personally, sated with our meal of ourselves.<br />
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When we run out of "expendable" (?!?!) body parts, we'll have no other option than to find another source. However, because we would have incapacitated ourselves (no arms, legs, hands, or feet, just a torso of organs with a head), that source will have to be one that doesn't require our nurturing it and one that willing comes to us.<br />
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The only question is: now while we can, or later when we can't? For example, trying to fix crops while starving doesn't work, and the famine becomes the solution. Reducing our need for a resource reduces our dependence on it which makes the undesired solutions (e.g. famine) less severe and more manageable.<br />
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Once again: address it now while we can, or later when we can't?<br />
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This may seem blatant, but anybody who harms themselves with non-nutritional substances and chemicals is choosing the latter, and likely can neither relate to the urgency, nor has the practice of doing the former. If nothing else, that's an example of how such self-destructive thinking has become acceptable in our supposedly "civilized" culture and permeated our decisions about not only our own personal health but also how we treat where we live, and how we encourage others to live.<br />
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It's not money that is needed for solutions, there's not enough. It's not outside resources that is needed to be shipped in, that's not sustainable. Instead, for any solution (I dare say), it's going to have to heavily involve one of the most abundant presences there is on this planet: people.<br />
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It won't simply be the act of people moving "materials" and "resources" here and there. It won't simply be the "services" provided or the "products" created by people. It has to originate deeper than that, even more basic than those superficial and busywork methods.<br />
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It will have to be people thinking differently. The only way to think differently is to question our assumptions. Questioning our assumptions essentially means questioning our very lives and how we live it. That would be everything from wiping our butts with tissue paper, managing a restaurant, negligently rubbing our crotches against other, to absently believing the commercials and news on television. Everything needs to be questioned.<br />
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That doesn't mean everything has to change, but it does mean we need to be open to question everything we are doing. And this is the reason why: civilization as we know it didn't start with us. We have forgotten the beginnings, lost over the generations. and don't know why we are doing what we are doing. In many ways we are following blindly and can't be sure we are doing anything effectively, especially since most any "modern" activity we consider turns out to be very inefficient upon truthful consideration.<br />
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The more we can get people to begin questioning their lives, to question their basic assumptions without worrying about whether they've been living right or wrong their whole lives, without degrading/congratulating themselves about being a bad/good person for realizing something about themselves, the more likely we can begin actual open dialogs for new ideas instead of debating old, worn-out ideas.<br />
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Of course, with that in mind, anything I've said is with the expectation it'd be questioned, not simply accepted. ;-)<br />
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With that said, in a unintended diatribe manner, here's what I'd like to think of instead of my first thoughts about what EVOKE might represent. Since I'm not very imaginative, and I also want to emphasize questioning, I've replaced the K with Q. It's also unique, so less likely to be used elsewhere.<br />
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While K is great for representing Knowledge, I believe knowledge comes from Questioning, particularly questioning assumptions. For certainly, we can never know anything other than what we think, unless we question our assumptions.<br />
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Aren't superiority complexes the downfall of villains, and so to be avoided by superheroes? Isn't it the villains that are assured of themselves of their knowledge while the superhero questions and wonders about the overall threat and potential reconciliation?<br />
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Anyways, with the unusual spelling as EVOQE:<br />
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Evoke (or Evoqe, for consistency)<br />
Viability<br />
Of<br />
Questioning<br />
Everything<br />
<br />
<br />
Or evocating:<br />
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Evoqating<br />
Viability<br />
Of<br />
Questioning<br />
Assumptions<br />
To<br />
Inspire<br />
New<br />
Guidelines<br />
<br />
And perhaps evocation:<br />
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Evoqation<br />
Viably<br />
Opens<br />
Questioning<br />
Assumptions<br />
To<br />
Inspire<br />
Other<br />
Notions<br />
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Hmm, well maybe not the last two, but I definitely like the first: Evoqe Viability Of Questioning Everything<br />
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Helpfully, Q is the familiar abbreviation for "Question", as in "Q and A" or like this:<br />
Q: How…?<br />
A: Like this….<br />
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Also, by being different, it's in itself an example of making changes when thinking differently, yet without it being too much of a stretch beyond what is acceptable and familiar. I'd like to think that in itself would be comforting for those times when we might be frightened of change, especially for those times it's really needed. That is, that a change could be interesting instead of threatening.<br />
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Of course, I don't expect this to be accepted since EVOKE has been used everywhere on the site already. If anything, that's fine because I can use it for myself instead, particularly since it now has so much meaning for me.<br />
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In a way, I think that's appropriate. What we come up individually is an expression of our individual motivations, in addition to any official meaning there may be. Anyways, those are my thoughts on the matter of an acronym with EVOKE.