The Groogle Alternative - The Enlightened Approach

[Mr Twenty Twenty]

How Groogle makes you feel a little more empty and hollow inside every day - and why the EnlightenedApproach.com forums are the solution.

On VisionQuestRadio recently, I mentioned how it is so easy to get answers, by going to Groogle, and how that is leaving us feeling hollow and empty inside.  Don't take my world for it, just notice it.  

Here is why this is happening and what you can do about it.  

So you have a question or a problem, you go to Groogle and get the answer, but if you pause, you'll notice something is missing.   What's missing is community, conversations and connections. That's why we feel so empty on the inside, so rushed the outside, and why some days, we actually notice that something vital to really living is missing.

The EnlightenedApproach.com Alternative.

I request that you stop by the EnlightenedApproach.com forums today, and start a conversation.  If you have a problem, ask a question.  If you have something to share, share it.   If you can help someone here, help them.  

"Hey Groogle, (Hey people) it's not about just getting answers, it's about connecting with people."

Back in the old days, if we had a question or a problem, we asked around.  We talked to our neighbors, our family and friends, we got ideas, we got opinions, AND we gave people around us the opportunity to give to us, to serve us , and to experience purpose.

Before we started feeling empty on the inside, and rushed on the outside, we took a few moments each day, we had conversations, we experienced community.   Let's do that again, let's get to know one another.  Let's build community here.  

Conversations build communities.  The EnlightenedApproach.com forums are part of our 10 year experiment in building community.  I request that if you chose to become part of our community, that you try to stop by for a bit every day.  Take just five or ten minutes, start reading and sharing, both you and your world.   Ask, answer, share.   And notice how your life changes, as we grow - as individuals and as a community.

Mr Twenty Twenty
2020@exhostage.com

[phdinfunk]

Wonder if we could start a community, with t-shirts and bumper stickers....  directed to a website...

and a caption like "I don't ask google, I ask people"

Could be a cool way to meet people in a bookstore, LOL...

"You seem cool, what are you reading?  What do you know about particle physics/cats/Daoism/Car Parts/Photography/Carpentry/Cooking/Calculus...?"

The revolution of human interaction.

--Jeannine
theloveoffreedom.wordpress.com

[Carol]

Hey Jeannine!

I like it!   

Just hope they folks you ask don't get freaked out....But if they do, well, we don't want them in
our community anyway!

[Mr Twenty Twenty]

Agreed!

Opening up, really sharing, really talking, really admitting we are humans - growing - evolving - seeking to do better.

Whooo yah!

Mr Twenty Twenty

[dob]

This is some heady stuff 20. Real conversation. Just how far are you going to take these cutting edge philosophies you espouse?

I just came to Enlightened Approach a couple of days ago. I have a lot to read and respond to. I notice a lot of posts are fairly old but I am going to respond anyway and hope there are lurkers out there who will come out of the shadows.
Its funny 20, I know too well that empty feeling you are talking about. I have become less and less interested in the web. I lost interest in TV years ago. I watch movies these days and 99 out of 100 times when they are through I feel like I have seen it before. The only thing that feels right is good conversation and it is a bit difficult to come by these days.

Damnit I want to talk to someone! I want to hear what you have to say when you are sharing instead of impressing. Most of the time when I try to engage people in that way they run or completely miss the point. It has become a bit of a game to me actually. I am beyond thankful that I have been blessed with a sense of humor because I laugh a great deal in the course of the day. I laugh at the insanity I have allowed my life to become and I laugh because mine is simple compared to most of the people around me. Boy did we get off track somewhere along the way. Isn't it great that we don't have to stay off track.

OK folks, somebody talk to me. I double dog dare you!!!

[Mr Twenty Twenty]

I'm talking with you.

Here, and on http://www.thescienceofexcellence.com

Touching. 

It's the only reason I go online.    I was blessed to be touched in person, and to learn how to touch and be touched.  (There is nothing to learn, and tons of stuff to unlearn.  We need others on the path to help us unlearn it seems.)

So, I'm here, with you, touching.

Grateful for a live human here.

Hugs

[dob]

Funny 20,
I find myself looking over this forum and http://www.thescienceofexcellence.com in kind of a hungry fashion. It is so exciting when I see responses. As I do this I feel excitement at the prospect of finding something interesting mixed with a sort of sadness that this type of connection has become so rare in our society. I actually have to stop myself from responding as much as I want because I have to take care of my physical responsibilities as well as my mental ones.

Oh well, it's always great to connect with you and it's also always exciting when a lurker decides to step up, step out, and join in!
As always 20,
Thanks for You!
dobdavid