Proequilibrium Philosophy

Equilibrium of Beings

Chapter 1. Introduction

Beings defined
Equilibrium defined

Chapter 2. Origin of beings

Existence of a creator
Complexity of existence
Too busy for the creator
Force of equilibrium

Chapter 3. Grouping

Gathering together
Co-operation
Individual purposes
Source of benefits

Chapter 4. Land

A shelter
Land claimed
Land means everything

Chapter 5. Water

Flexibility
No complaints
Strength
An analogy

Chapter 6. Viruses

A Being
The right to survive
Small is beauty
Fairness is beauty

Chapter 7. Force of nature

An equilibrium agent


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Chapter 1. Introduction

Beings defined

A woman or a man is a human being. An ant is an ant being. A tiger is a tiger being.

No doubt a grasshopper is a grasshopper being.

What about the grass on which the grasshopper hops? It is a grass being.

What about the soil in which the grass grows? It is a soil being.

Of course the grass does not survive if only soil presents. Water contributes to its survival too. The water is a water being.

Equilibrium defined

When an entity is in equilibrium, members concerned are happy about the state in which they are situated. They are willing to fulfill their obligations and have no hesitation to exercise their rights. The obligations and rights are done in such a way that no hindrance is to be encountered.


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Chapter 2. Origin of beings

Existence of a creator

A creator is one who creats beings and perhaps is able to perform controlling duties in the process of their existence.

No one has been able to prove that a creator has ever existed. On the other hand, no one has proved otherwise.

Then, in what form and in what way, has the creator existed, if one does exist?

Complexity of existence

What is the number of beings in existence at any one given time. All one can say is that it is beyond imagination.

A water being and a soil being may give an opportunity to a root being to take what it wants and consequently, together with the existenec of an air being and a sun being, help a tree being to grow.

The water being may come from a river being and the soil being from a rock being. The air being may be formed by elements involved in breathing done by numerous other beings. Needlessly to say, the sun being comes from a far distant land and it appears that this is the only comment one can make about it at this juncture of civilization.

The behaviour of the river being is affected by, for an example, a rain being. The disintegration of a mountain leads to the formation of rocks and eventually the soil being. Surprisingly enough, the reverse process also takes place, simultaneouly but perhaps in different spaces. The flexibility of air is well-known. It goes here and there, changing its constituents, either at will or subject to other constraints.

Too busy for the creator

It thus becomes clear that beings come and go and the processes involved are extremely complex.

How could a creator possibly handle them? Not even two. Not even three. Not even how abundant they are.

Force of equilibrium

Beings are created and destroyed by a state of disequilibrium.

Pouring water into a cup creates a disequilibrium and water spills over the edge of the cup if too much is poured.

In the absence of spilling, water evaporates.

In the absence of evaporation, water finds tiny holes in the body of the cup and escapes.

In the absence of tiny holes, water waits patiently and leisurely starts its journey as soon as the cup breaks.


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Chapter 3. Grouping

Gathering together

Many beings tend to live in groups, mostly for survival purposes, especially in primitive ages.

Take incidences of human history as an example. At one stage of their existence two men discovered that they could hunt more effectively than doing so individually. They therefore made partnership and earned their livings much easier than their neighbours.

People around soon learnt about it and the idea was further extended. Thus groups of more than two formed.

The extension was only hampered by its counter effects. Complexity resulted from increasing members of a group began to prevail. Leadership became a problem. Effectiveness of controlling became another.

The size of a group was therefore limited and became relatively static. In such a state the energy conserved from effectiveness of grouping had to find a way out. Coupled with the trait of selfishness members of the group began to develop other desires, apart from simply feeding themselves. They, for an example, wanted a better shelter.

Shelters with decorations thus emerged. The decorations must have come from resources and it was only natural that they would fight for those resources.

Co-operation

They further experimented and grasped another technique of making use of cooperation from other members of the group to which they belonged. They were in a better position to accumulate resources if they maintained good relationship with others.

Take religion as an example. There might be a human being who was able to think. One day he stood up and told others that there was a god and that they would have a better future if they listened to what the god said.

Gradually it became a campaign. A better future to many was soon materialized in one way of another. Some needed care and care came from other members of the group. Some needed food and food was given.

Those who started the campaign soon realized that it was particularly effective to go side by side with those with power. Government was the term given to the latter in later days.

They traded benefits with the government. They wanted a piece of land to build a church or temple or mosque or whatever. For easy reading purposes take a church as an example. In return they promised to spread the message that it was good and necessary to pay taxes in time and in a willing manner.

Thus a piece of land was obained, without making payments. They then opened up their palms and asked members of the group to make extra contributions to the construction of the church, in addition to usual ones.

A church building was erected. This signalled a very good achievement in the process of constructing a revenue-generating machine.

Individual purposes

With a church building it was much easier to further the campaign. A measure of success is the increasing number of people who went to the church and joined the group.

A poor gentleman went there for the purpose of getting a bag of flour and an insurance woman for widening her social contact in order to sell her insurance contracts. A lumber businessman went there because he believed it was good to maintain a good relationship with the church.

It therefore would not be extravagant to indicate that individual purposes of going the church were associated with benefits and in most cases they got what they wanted in a relatively easy way.

The success of the campaign resulted in a significant increase of revenue. The starters were able to hire people to do preaching. These people lived on the top floor of the church building, the space of which was usually considerably larger than that in which they used to situate. Of course, they did not have to pay rents. Furthermore, meals were free. Utinsils and daily necessities were free too.

Naturally they were more than happy to perform their duties, in the hope that there would be a bigger church building and things became proportionally luxurious.

Of course only a very small portion of the revenue was passed onto those being hired. A significant part was retained by those who started things at the very first beginning.

It was time to redesign their dresses to indicate their position within the organisation. With so much donations, everything, including hats and belts, should be taken into consideration.

More flour was given out as the act became an integral part of revenue generating. The insurance woman got more orders and sometimes willingly and sometimes unwillingly made more donations. The lumber man was able to slaughter a forest with less objections. He donated in a manner similar to that of the insurance woman.

The preachers continued to enjoy their livings, and even embraced a hope for an opportunity to be sent to a comfortable overseas land for training purposes, opening up a sky of brighter future.

No doubt the size of the hats for those at the top of the hierarchy became bigger. Their belts became more brighter and fashionable too.

It was highly likely that the government also gained as taxes were received effectively.

Source of benefits

But, pause for a moment.

Nothing came from nothing.

Where did the resources come from?

For a small part, they came from whose who had already donated and was unable to dig out benefits and eventally abandoned. But the majority must have come from depriving beings other than human.

There was a little pond on the piece of land where the church was built. Some frogs were there too. Some grasses too. When the site was cleared water beings, frog beings and grass beings paid their prices.

Lumber came from trees and it became clear that forest beings as well as tree beings suffered when each type of human beings got their share of benefits from lumber business.


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Chapter 4. Land

A shelter

It appears that a home is important to most beings. It is a shelter from adverse environments. Rain and wind are typical examples. Furthermore, it is a final spot to which one can retreat. There, in many occasions, one is able to rest and seize another opportunity to strike back.

A shelter settles directly or indirectly on a piece of land. Whilst the right to possess a shelter is quite obvious, the right to claim a piece of land is something different.

For an example, a bird built her nest by picking up grasses and small tree branches on the ground. She had to travel some distance and looked around for them. Then she flew back to the spot on which she had decided to build her nest. She unloaded her picking and started another journey. Eventually the job was done. The nest was owned by the bird.

Land claimed

The bird built her nest on a tree and the tree occupied a piece of land. The bird was in fact claimed a very small piece of land without paying for it. In other words, the bird did not worked for obtaining the land.

In a history of human civilization, a shelter was built on a piece of land which was bought. The seller of the land might have bought it from another seller. But who was the first seller of the land? In what way did she or he own it?

In most cases the first owner was someone with power. How? Simply by claiming or, to put in an even simpler sense, by doing nothing. But it should be realized that the work done before the claiming or doing nothing could be extremely difficult and dangerous.

Why extremely difficult and dangerous? Before power was in her or his hand, she or he had to fight for it, in most cases, through a process know as revolution in human civilization. Such revolution often led to blood shedding and chances of success did not appear to be certain.

The why revolt? Because of the land.

Land means everything

Owning a piece of land implies owning everything on top of and underneath it. There could be water beings, elephant beings, oil beings, copper beings and many others. Each of these beings could be traded for benefits.

It became obvious that the owner gets her or his benefits by sacrificing those of other beings. Does she or he have the right to do so?

Certainly not.

An oil being lives happily under the land in a big family. Why should she or he be separated from her or his family and subsequently be sold to benefit someone she or he does not known. Even if the oil is born to be burnt and the staying underneath a land is transitional, she or he should have the right to decide the way and the time of carrying out her or his responsibility, rather than being manipulated by the so-called owner of the land.

A similar picture applies to each of the other beings.

Sooner or later a price needs to be paid.

A land being is one of the basic elements for existence of all beings. It should be shared rather than owned.


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Chapter 5. Water

Flexibility

Water beings are very flexible. In their normal form they exist as liquid and appear to be clear and almost transparent. When subjecting to sufficient heat they evaporate and exist as vapour. On the other hand, they exist as solid if temperature becomes low enough.

They move freely from a high altitude to a low one and never retreats. They can be blocked but they never show fear or discouragement. If they cannot move forward they go sideways. If there are obstacles both ahead and sideways they go through the bottom. If the bottom is also blocked they accumulate and overflow through the top. If the top is also sealed they gather strength and try to break whatever contain them.

No complaints

Any beings can fool around with water. Many use water to do washing and cleaning. They are also used for forming useful solutions as well as for fun as in the case of water fountains. Furthermore, there are lots and lots of beings maintain their lives by drinking water.

Do not forget to mention that they are the media of survival for many other beings. Imagine the quantity and variety of beings living in the territories of oceans.

In whatever cases, water beings just do their duties and never complain, even in the case of being contaminated.

Strength

It thus appear that any beings can use water to suit their purposes. However, water beings never take orders.

A being can store water in a metal container for a long time but she or he cannot tell the water to stay there forever. Very slowly the water will work with air beings to rust the container and destroy it and gracefully walk away.

A city is established and developed to the satisfaction of a group of human beings, but at the sacrifice of many other beings. Many ponds disappear and subsequently many frogs are unable to find suitable shelters. Many rabbits are driven out of the boundary and starve because of insufficient food. A lot of flowers wither due to lack of water and soil. And similar stories apply to many other beings.

Water beings, not being an exception, suffer also. A long range of land originally occupied by them is stolen by human beings. They try hard to find other shelters but they can never work to the satisfaction of human beings. More and more of their shelters are taken away.

They cannot hide their angers anymore and decide to teach human beings a lesson.

Thus flooding occurs.

An analogy

The behaviour of water beings can very similarly be observed among human beings.

Those with power engage in an never-ending job of feeding themselves with luxurious life and spiritual satisfaction and other ways they can think of.

Should they like fresh and fine quality fruits, someone in tropical zones ship and place them on their dining tables. If the dining tables are not large enough another lot design and make larger ones. If their houses are not large enough for the dining tables, another group build better and bigger houses to accommod