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Declaration of a Human

This Declaration was born was January 1, 2010. It is living document and like all living things, it must be

 born. This Declaration was born as it was being written. It doesn’t matter which one of us wrote it; what

matters is that it lives by virtue of the human experience and therefore it is authored by all of us and

moves with us. We are all its parents. What is being declared is done so under the only authority possible

in order for it to be true; it was written by a Human Being. The common thread that binds these words to

all of us is our humanity, therefore this Declaration is not written in representation of any group,

organization, school of thought or any of the myriad of concepts, ideas, ideals, beliefs or other things that

 we created and are so fond of representing, in fact it represents no one; it is making a declaration that

stands for every single one us, but in the end this document is merely a collection of words grouped

together in single document. It is a human expression, not a representation of our humanity.

Nothing, not a document and especially no person can represent another person; that is absurd concept.

Humans can’t be represented by other humans; that violates the laws of physics, only the interests of 

one or some individuals can be represented by others, and we are all paying the price for being so

confused about something so simple. This Declaration is written because it needs to be written, so it can

 be read by others. It is written so it can be born.

This Declaration has a single purpose: to communicate with clear and inarguable understanding, some

 basic things that are common to us all, but which we forget. It’s easy to do when the rest of us forget as

 well; for example, we forget to think . Perhaps it’s because we gave life and validity to many concept and

ideas that we created and by doing so, we invalidate them and turn them into an aberrations, like what

 we did with the concept of representation. If a person can’t speak because they are mute, then another

person can be their voice, if they agree as much and the speaker becomes the representation of the

other’s will to speak. If a person can’t walk because they are injured or infirmed, than another person can

 be their legs and carry them, if they agree as much and the walker becomes the representation of the

other’s will to walk. No one can be the representation of another’s humanity and their ability to think  

however, and even if any one of us, or all of, agrees as much, one person’s humanity cannot be the

representation of another person’s humanity. That would be inhuman. A person can exist and be human

if they lose the ability to speak or to walk, for example but no one can exist without thinking, even

though it might appear that way today. So many of us want to believe that we actually don’t have to think  

if we agree to have a representative to whom we delegate our thinking. That is a severely flawed human

construct which has done an almost unbearable amount of damage to all of us. Believing that we do nothave to exercise our ability to think, the very thing which defines our humanity, beyond our own

individual desires is to resign our humanity. Even worse; if, out of ignorance or even by imposition, we

should ever believe that we can transfer our responsibility to think to any other one of us so that we are

free to think only of ourselves, then we would living in our world, today, because that’s what we all think 

 we believe. We are many because it is necessary, otherwise there would only be one of us. What each

one of us does contributes to that which is the human condition, which is defined by what all of us do.

 We forgot this, too. These are things that we already know, somewhere inside of each one of us; each and

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every one of us. These words are not for one of us or a few of us or about me, it’s about us, all of us. All

of us, by the way, includes the roughly 3.5 billion of us (that’s half of all of us) for which there isn’t

enough of whatever is required for a person to be civilized , so we ignore them. Half of us have no home,

no dreams, no jobs, no money, and no food and not even a cup of potable water, yet we ignore them. We

call them the poor or the unfortunate and lie to ourselves by thinking that poverty or homelessness or

fear is a disease or something. We appease the guilt by feeling sorry for them and occasionally donating

some of what the rest of us value above all else; money, as a gesture of solidarity and  philanthropy 

(because, after all, it’s money) and then we just forget about them and ignore them. It is what we do,

and each one of us knows this in our hearts. We may be able to act like we don’t, but if this were true,

then why can we look into our own eyes when we look into a mirror? We know this as well; not talking

about it doesn’t make it go away; just ask the person looking back at you from the mirror

  We are all we have. This Declaration is about us  because it’s all about us, it always has been; it’s just

hard to remember sometimes. What matters is that we read these words, so we may remember what we

already know; that being human comes naturally; if one of us forgets something important, we help

each other to remember. It’s not a matter of right or wrong, it’s simply what we DO, just like what we do(or at least what we know we should do) if the person walking in front of one of us trips and begins to fall:

  you help them. You reach out and steady them so they do not fall, or catch them if they are already 

falling or otherwise act to help them. It doesn’t require thinking, that’s just what you do. What requires

thinking is convincing oneself that it’s NOT what we do. Each one of us knows this. Afterward, we may 

continue walking, or stop and chat, or whatever else we decide, it’s entirely up to us. Everything that we

have ever done, we have done because we chose to and we made those choices because we can. We can

even choose to not do what we know we should do, even though we don’t know why we know we should.

Somehow, we just know. These words have the same purpose; they stand for what any one of us does

 when another needs help; we offer our humanity to them. If you have forgotten what it feels like, don’t

 worry, it will come back to you once you make the choice to remember.

 We find ourselves at a point in the human experience where we must make choices. When it comes to

making a choice, only the ability to choose is important. In the end, no single thing in our perception is

any more or less important than any other thing, we choose the importance that we give things, because

  we can. We all live together in the civilized world that we chose to create and from which we are all

running, before it kills us. If  I , as an individual who is also part of the Human race, choose to look beyond

 what  I have been taught and what I thought I believed; namely, -that  I am the center of my own universe

and as such that  I am the most important thing in the universe-, then  I might see something else besides

myself. Most of us only see ourselves individually and in our own mind; everyone else is just something

that has to be tolerated somehow. Waking up and looking beyond the tip of one’s own nose is a no

simple task. It is hard to leave the comfort of one’s own importance. It is hard because in order to do so,

it must be true and we know when it’s true. Some truths are very hard to accept and we may choose not

to accept a truth. That does not change the truth, however. We also know this. We all find ourselves

ending up in that place where “I” come first and there we stay, regardless of circumstances. I found

myself there as well and thought the same thing. I was wrong. This is simply the truth. It is my truth,

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 which also happens to be our truth, for we are all connected by our humanity. Truth is also free, it’s costs

nothing and cannot be sold or bought. There is never the need to create an incentive for truth; it is its

own incentive. When we forget this, what we are left with are the unpleasant illusions that are the result

of the lies we have chosen to tell ourselves since we realized we could choose what we tell ourselves and

others. Everyone feels the same exact way and we all know this, yet we actually believe that as long as

nobody knows what “I” think, then we are safe. We believe this very much. “Nobody knows what I’m

thinking. Nobody knows my intentions or what I really want. I can think only about myself and act

otherwise. No one will know.” We choose to believe that as well and the very second that we do, we lie to

ourselves and THAT is messy. Yet we still believe no one will know. Each one of us knows and yet we

hang on to those lies because it is all we know and we have made a mess because of it. We’ve been doing

this to ourselves for a long time now. So long that we seem to have forgotten that we chose this; we

choose, or transferred our right to choose, everything that exists today and which is killing us, inside and

out. We just forgot, so we believe that those choices are a separate and independent “reality” with life,

power and authority. This is why each one of us feels alone, even though we are many; we dare not share

the privacy of our true thoughts with anyone, it would be unbearable to see ourselves reflected in the eyes

of another person, yet they are actually reflected in the eyes of  every other person. There are almost 7 billion of us, and the vast majority feels utterly and completely alone and afraid, and those who don’t may 

 be completely lost. This is true and we all know it is so, until we remember that it is a choice. So then,

 why have we done this to ourselves? Why have we chosen to accept it and to perpetuate it? In the end,

it’s a choice: an individual choice. Nothing can change that; nothing can change the reality that we are a

collective made up of individuals. We simply don’t know how to reconcile the two: “I” and “us”. We can

choose to remember that we have a choice and then make some choices. We can choose to look at

ourselves in a mirror, with no one else there, and simply choose to stop lying to ourselves. This world

that we have created is not normal, it is a horrible and inhuman place and it is this way because that is

 what we chose to accept. It’s time to choose to give everything another try. It must be a true choice; we

know when it’s true. It’s a hard choice. To see any one of us is to see us all and we are all the same. The

price of one instant of the truth is hefty. Once we drop the self-deceit, what is usually there, waiting to

  burst forth is FEAR and ANGER. It is logical to be angry. For the vast majority of us, life is unfair,

unpleasant and painful, and it’s okay to feel anger but it’s never okay to give anger free reign, we all know 

this as well. If we look hard, we can see that it is there, in that tiny space between what is and what will

be, that we find ourselves now. We can no longer hide inside our own arrogance or guilt. Everything

that we have ever done has ruptured the sack that we hid it all in and it no longer requires deep

introspection or concentration to see and feel heavy burden of the sum total of all the individual lies we’ve told ourselves for thousands of years. We can’t hide all of the atrocities we’ve either committed or

allowed to be committed anymore; we can see it in each others eyes every time we look at each other. We

all know this. I repeat we all know this. The safety we felt by believing that “no one would know” what

 was in our minds and hearts is gone. We share the responsibility for what we’ve done to ourselves every 

time it beats us over the head. Our choices have put us in the position where we have no choice but to

see and feel what those choices have made of the human condition. We all know this and to some degree

 we’ve known this for a long time, we’ve just never talked about it. We’ve made it very hard to talk to each

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other, but over time, we have begun to talk to each other as “people” and not “one of us talking to one of 

them”: there is no “them”, remember? We have technology now, so it is possible to communicate with

many other people in many different places; at first through our televisions and now through our

computers, which have also allowed for us to talk, and we have used these things to talk to one another.

The very humanity we are sharing through our computer screens and cell phones have created a giant

room where we can all see each other, and it turns out that we all see the same thing. All of us do, except

for a small handful that can’t let go of their addictions. We’ve seen how our choices have made us suffer

and how they have become an obstacle to happiness and joy. We have made ourselves suffer by choice.

 We have forgotten that other than ourselves, we created everything that wasn’t already here and those

things make up our civilization. These things all have one thing in common: like the concept of 

representation, they create the illusion of authority and the acceptance that there is a requirement to

obey the results of their functions, which once again, we created. Things like wealth, and authority and

sovereignty and hierarchy, and debt, and value and social position and rules and science and art and

everything else that isn’t a part of the natural earth or us. We created all of these things. Most of the

things that we created were created by only a few of us and it was a very long time ago, but they were justchoices made with a little inspiration. Whenever a human adds a little inspiration to a choice, we create

something. Things like agriculture and money, music, greed, literature, selfishness, compassion,

carelessness, envy, government, religion, medicine, laughter and everything else we know. We are

capable of so much. That is why we get angry when we face our own truth; that we have made bad

choices and have done nothing about it, while all the time having the ability to choose something else. I

 was angry, very angry. I was angry at myself and at you and at everybody. I felt I had no choice but to be

angry until I realized that I have a choice. We all do, and through that choice I am no longer limited to

“me” living in the universe of “I”, I can see that “I” am one of “US”, and that WE are what is important. It

is by virtue of all of these facts that the following first DECLARATION is made:

I forgive myself. For waiting until now to make this choice and for anything I may have done or not done,

consciously or not, when I knew that I shouldn’t have. I forgive every one of us who did nothing or who

did everything that contributed to the sad and inhuman state of humanity today. I choose to do so freely 

and truly, with full knowledge that to lie to myself brings about only destruction. If I can do this, then we

all can. We can forgive ourselves and each other – for the past, and therefore create the possibility to

choose a different future. In the end, it’s only a choice; our choice. 

 We can do better. This DECLARATION stands as a living testament to this fact.

The rest is up to us, all of us.

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