You Decide Your Agenda, Empowerment Just Helps

an idea ( something you can think about and decide what you believe using Ideapedia ) by lxpk Mon, 2006-12-18 12:19

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	Title	Author	%	Category	Thoughts
	You Decide Your Agenda, Empowerment Just Helps	angiewoot		Criticism	Idea Group: You Decide Your Agenda, Empowerment Just Helps Idea Category: Criticism Would you support an agenda if it was racist or sexist? People have the right to free speech, but I don't think that you should have to host and welcome people whose agendas are in any way disrespectful to others or threatening.
	You Decide Your Agenda, Empowerment Just Helps	lxpk		Belief	Idea Group: You Decide Your Agenda, Empowerment Just Helps Idea Category: Belief I love talking to people about their interests and ideas because it sets my mind in motion thinking of ways to help empower them. Each person has their own unique point of view and set of priorities, and I want Empowerment to usefully enable everyone to be who they are and to do what they dream of doing.

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."

—Voltaire

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 a reality.

Questioning and Creating Your Own Ideas

Empowerment helps you ask questions like, "What do I believe in?" but ultimately the answers are up to you. When you find an idea, Empowerment helps you ask "Do I agree with this?" and "Do I have problems with this?". Once you decide you believe in an idea, it asks, "What do you believe about this idea?", prompting you express your opinion in your own words. And once you've believed in something, the question changes from "Do you believe in this" to "Have you changed your mind?", encouraging you to re-evaluate ideas you've already got and to see how your opinion has changed.

There are many ways to explore ideas and Empower Thyself provides a good starting point called Ideapedia. Ideapedia lets you explore a huge list of interesting ideas and choose the ones that you like or add your own new ideas.

Acting On Your Ideas

Once you figure out what you believe in and why, you can then take the next step which is to figure out what you want to do about it. Chances are your beliefs about the world will differ in some way with how the world really works, and your concept of the good life won't exactly match the life you have been leading so far. Empowerment is the bridging of this gap, it is making the ideal real. Empower Thyself isn't going to tell you what to do now, but offers suggestions and tools to help you start living the way you want to be living, to act on these ideas.

You may have action ideas of your own, but there are many sources of inspiration for suggested actions to take. Missionpedia is a good place to start. When you find ideas that you like, a list of suggested missions are there to help you get started, and you can suggest your own mission ideas for others to try.