Eua Euosmia Fund Raiser

Today, we heard that one of our planned recipient is experiencing symptoms of depression, such as self harm and feeling of fear and panic. So, we have to push forward with our fund raiser, hopefully able to catch enough support for us to make it work.

Target of raising RM 3,000:- To provide starter stock for 2 underprivileged people to sell to help them along an enterprising journey, or at least supplement their living expenses--> Person 1: systematically underpaid for 2 years, oppressed and deprived of learning and growth opportunities, experienced unfair treatment and salary deduction, and depression

--> Person 2: made a few wrong property investment decisions quite late in life, unable to earn liveable income, yet having a family to feed.

- To provide starter stock for Eua Euosmia to grow and fund Appreciating Value of Fair Treatment (AVOFT) through the implementing inclusive and supportive measures in businesses, such as this:https://www.facebook.com/avoft/posts/1696228240389659

- To help Eua Euosmia upgrade from screw cap bottles to pump bottles

- To help Eua Euosmia upgrade product to include extra antioxidants for extra health benefits and shelf life

Expected delivery: within 2 weeks of accumulating enough fund (hopefully by end of September)

Payment is by bank deposit / transfer to Fun Mun Wah, RHB, 1-12282-0029777-7
Contact: https://www.facebook.com/euaeuosmia/

Please do follow us to find out more stories about who are these recipients and how your contribution can be helpful to them. Thank you.

Fund Raiser Link: https://goo.gl/forms/JZ6wPTi6tsy8gXuF2

Reboot Post: Sales Commission Conundrum

Let's start with this:
Conventionally, commission systems work in this format:
X sales gives you P% commission
X+Y sales gives you P+Q% commission
X+Y+Z sales gives you P+Q+R% commission
The more sales you get, the more commission you get.
And if you can't hit the target, you get eliminated.

How about we put in a commission system that is more inclusive? One that supports growth and community mentality rather competition mentality?
X sales gives you G% commission
X+Y sales gives you G-H% commission (because you already earn a certain level of liveable income)
X+Y+Z sales gives you G-H-F% commission (and you are living a comfortable life)

Now, here are the parts that are really fun:
- G is a very high value, i.e. business earns significantly less to support the salespeople
- The difference of commission, H% and F% are to be channelled to give this kind of supportive benefits to newcomers.

We'll give numerical example (values are theoretical and may not reflect realistic industry standards):
If sales is RM 5,000, commission is 30% => commission is RM 1,500
If sales is RM 10,000, commission is 30% => commission is RM 3,000

Assuming RM 3,000 is our live-able standard, next tier of commission is 20%

If sales is RM 10,500, commission is fixed => commission is RM 3,000
If sales is RM 14,000, commission is fixed => commission is RM 3,000

If sales is RM 15,000, commission begins to start at 20% tier => commission is RM 3,000
If sales is RM 15,500, commission is 20% => commission is RM 3,100
If sales is RM 20,000, commission is 20% => commission is RM 4,000

There needs to be a fixed commission period, so that one does not get RM 14,000 sales but commission of RM 2,800 (which is less than original RM 3,000 at sales of RM 10,000)

Do you think this will work? Especially if we apply this to the underprivileged groups like single parents, urban poor, and so on, as a way to help them transit into a decent income level away from oppression?

If you think this is something worthy to pursue, please like our page, share this post. We're going to move into really trying to implement this. A fund raise will be done soon by us to start a business that runs on this supportive and inclusive model.

More stories explaining our values and perspectives will be posted over the next 2 weeks.

The Short Adventure of Timmy

There was this grand civilisation, made successful by a great gigantic dam upstream that powered the agriculture and industries in the civilisation. Technology was advanced and prosperity was abundant in this nation.

The community grew and flourished, as can be expected of any civilisation with advanced technology and agriculture. With this, the leaders began rallying for expansion of the dam for greater growth and the people supported the motion. Thus, the civilisation grew and grew.

Timmy was a special boy, born into the golden era of this civilisation. Timmy saw and perceived much more than what meets the eyes. However, it wasn't discovered by Timmy that he was special until one fine day, when a crack began to appear on the dam.

“This is a small problem. Let us just patch up the dam and strengthen it,” said the leaders. And the architects and engineers sprung into actions, instructing on the work to be done to repair and strengthen the dam.

Timmy the young boy braved himself and proposed, “Sir, how about we divert the water off the dam a bit, build a few small dams and reduce the pressure on this dam?”

Everyone roared into laughter, “Oh boy! How naïve of you. This ain't necessary. We'll solve the problem in no time.” And Timmy was soon forgotten from the minds of the townsmen.

Timmy was saddened by the public embarrassment and went up into hills to search for solace. Up in the hills, he decided that he should start digging streams to divert the dam water. This will save the whole city, he thought.

And so, day by day, Timmy will sneak up into the hills to do the digging by himself. However, at the same time, the dam began to show more and more cracks and leaks. So, the architects and engineers had to work harder and harder in repairing and strengthening the dam.

Timmy came to town again to persuade the townsmen to help divert the water off the dam.

“Timmy, don't be stupid. We can fix the dam. And some more, we need water in the dam. We can't divert water away from it.” And so, Timmy was left alone in his futile attempt of digging streams.

As much as the architects and engineers worked day and night on the dam, they failed to catch up with the appearances of cracks and leaks. And soon, they were drafting in more and more of the townsmen into working on the dam.

This caused a bad slowdown in the economy, as more and more people are taken away from their productive works into repairing the dam.

“Where is Timmy? We need more hands!” called out one of the engineers. Reluctantly, Timmy was drafted into the reparation work too.

As he worked on the dam, Timmy had this horrible silent scream in his head, “We're all going to die. Why can't you all see that diverting the water off will solve the problem? Why not?!?”

“Stop whining and get to work, this is how the world work. We have to save the dam and keep the dam running,” said the townsmen who heard of Timmy's idea.

As all can be expected of great civilisations, this civilisation was wiped clean when the dam finally broke apart. And Timmy the young boy left behind nothing but a breath of desparation and disappointment...

Just Imagine!

The society has grown so used to the monetary system, that if anyone dares to think of venturing out of this system, he/she is looked upon as a menace to the security and comfort of the rest of the society.

We all know that comfort zones are comfortable and feels secure but are they truly the safe haven that can give us the best we deserve?

Are we willing to leave our comfort zone of monetary system, to think of an alternative system that can eliminate the need for corruption, pollution, exploitation? Will this alternative system be better than our comfort zone?

Imagine.

The Picture, Big or Small?

It is commonly known that one aspect of human trait is that we tend to either process information in the big picture approach or the detailed approach. A person who approaches things from the big picture tend to prefer to know the overall relationships before moving on into the detailed parts. A person who takes the detailed approach goes the other way, by looking into the detailed information before putting them up into a full picture.

Let's take a concrete example of this. Say, if we are to design a car from scratch. A big picture approach will think about the general specifications of the car first like what are the features wanted in the car. After having considered the general specifications, then the person moves on to design the detailed specifications to match the general specifications.

A detailed approach will first design the engine, the gear system, the braking system and so on, each in detail. Having perfected each parts, then the person combines the parts into a whole car.

Now, both approaches have their own pros and cons. And usually, people tend to have the ability to approach things from both perspectives. Let us examine one cons from each approach.

For the big picture approach, there is the risk of lacking the links to make things happen. Say, if the person keeps on to the general specifications of the car, the person may well totally forgot that without a detailed design of the parts, the person cannot complete this car to the said specifications.

For the detailed approach, the risk is in considering one or some of the detailed parts the whole picture, becoming a small [incomplete] picture. It wouldn't be good if you design a super engine and forgot about having the gear box, seats, stirring wheel and so on. You'll have totally missed the point.

Now that we've covered the overall idea (big picture approach), please allow me to go into a detail that stood out to me.

I believe that we are having a small picture pandemic. We were told to focus on one subject area and become the master of the subject area. We were told that we have to focus on the details of things to be successful. We were told that having an ambition to "save, protect, preserve the world" is not clear enough; we have to define whether we want to do it as a medical doctor or a lawyer or an engineer and so on. When we start to think and consider options in decision making, people tell us not to think too much; just focus on what you want to do. And so, many people got stuck in this small picture syndrome.

Say, we want to tackle climate change by working on carbon emission. Sounds like a great thing, right? But what is actually happening? They tell you to buy green points, plant a tree or do something to offset your carbon foot print. And some people happily followed. Yay, we fought against carbon emission! Or did we not? "Why not?" Some may argue, "At least we've done something!", "Every small effort will add up!"

A big picture approach will respond, "I didn't say what you've done is wrong. I'm just saying, it is NOT ENOUGH." The major carbon emissions do not come from household activities! By seeing the details of household contribution as the whole picture, one basically ruled out the overall industrial contribution which is something more urgent that we need to work on!

Another example will be that of genetically modified organisms (GMO), pesticide & herbicide use, use of dangerous chemicals in food processing or as additives. Most small picture syndrome sufferers were misled to believe that if they choose and eat organic, all will be good. How far is this from the truth! GMO pollen do and have contaminated farms out of the GMO fields. As long as GMO is allowed to be out in the open, the threat will be continuous and often hidden from the users. Pesticides & herbicides are so commonly used that they are present in many places that we do not expect them to be.

It is good to eat organic, to support organic farmers to continue their great efforts. However, to say that it is enough, is not acceptable.

I have seen this small picture syndrome often enough to lead me to believe that it is a pandemic. I hope I am wrong. And I hope this article can alert those who have not suffered this syndrome to be aware of it, as well that this may awaken those who were suffering from this syndrome.

Let me repeat again, it is ok to go from details out to the big picture or from the big picture zooming into the details. However, it is a problem when one thinks a detail is the whole picture.

Have a good week ahead, switching back and forth between the big picture and detailed approach.

A Call for Action

"Why this rush to apply this science before testing it? The simple answer is, those promoting it stand to profit enormously from it." - http://www.realfarmacy.com/ge-trees-may-be-even-more-damaging-to-the-environment-than-ge-foods/

This is happening because of the flaw of the socio-economic system, whereby people perceive much benefits from earning from the whole world's loss. Monsanto stands to earn the profit of GE plants, while the whole world has to share the cost in the future.

With every passing moment, many problems from many different fields are threatening our well being. From this threat of GE plants, to loss of arable lands, to great pollution, to more dangerous/questionable additives in our food and so on.

There will be people tackling these issues from various levels and directions. AVOFT looks at all these problems on a meta level and decided that a change in our socio-economical system can wipe out many of these problems. You can join any of these various groups going in with different levels and directions, but your participation is imperative.

If you keep on sitting there, doing nothing, we will only continue down the projected path to destruction. So, please consider joining in AVOFT or any other organisations. One of these ought to relate well with you and allow for your full expression of talents and capabilities to make the world a better place.

You can also like us on Facebook, start your own group, connect & network with us or share our articles with friends.

Another Version of Familiar Truth

An Interview Video on the Problems and Solutions

This is an interview with Jacque Fresco, who came out with the Venus Project. He is very intelligent and has a lot of great ideas. Listen to him and learn more about the current system and how it is impeding the progress that we can all enjoy.


This is another video, demonstrating the difference between a world with trade and without trade.

A Story of 6 People

Say, we have Fred, Larry, Mike, Dave, Joe and Wesley.

Fred is a farmer and he was able to grow 50 kg of various produce. However, due to lack of network and marketing skill, he could not sell his 50 kg of produce off. And the food ended up on his own dining table.

Did Fred create any value? Did Fred earn a profit? Are those 50 kg of produce taxable? Is Fred doing good to the society?

Larry is an artist and he was able to draw many great arts. Similar to Fred, he was not able to sell his work. They ended up lying around his gallery.

Did Larry create any value? Did Larry earn a profit? Are the paintings taxable? Is Larry doing good to the society?

Mike is also an artist. However, Mike has very good people skill and was able to sell off many of his paintings at high price.

Did Mike create any value? Did Mike earn a profit? Are the paintings taxable? Is Mike doing good to the society?

Dave is another farmer and he was able to grow 50 kg of various produce. He was good at selling, being able to sell off his produce at premium prices.

Did Dave create any value? Did Dave earn a profit? Are those 50 kg of produce taxable? Is Dave doing good to the society?

Joe is a real estate broker. He earns his living by matching buyers with sellers.

Did Joe create any value? Did Joe earn a profit? Are Joe's earnings taxable? Is Joe doing good to the society?

Wesley speculates the stock market, buying various shares at lower prices and selling them at higher prices. He earns a decent living this way.

Did Wesley create any value? Did Wesley earn a profit? Are Wesley's earnings taxable? Is Wesley doing good to the society?

This is something to think about over the week...

Short Update on the Problems - Practicality vs Profitability

At first, we thought it was about being practical in technology (referring to the many applied science cases, such as that of DC/AC battle between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and applications pesticides and herbicides in agriculture).

However, after so many of these cases with so many points of suspicion, we've come to consider the possibility of money being the culprit. People want to be right because they have a monetary stake in it.

The latest news on GMO seem to prove the case. Being truly right about practicality and safety doesn't seem to be the prime concern but profit...

PS: Edison strongly defended DC because he patented his designs and wanted to cash in on these "assets", while Tesla gave out his AC design to public domain, basically destroying Edison's profitability. And it is sad that people remember Edison much more than Tesla.

We Deserve Paradise!

Since I was a little kid, I kept telling myself, "this isn't the way the world is supposed to be!" I've always believed that this version of reality I am living in is an inferior one. It was like I have seen or been to paradise before, and hence I have a comparison.

I could never understand how people accept the inferior reality as it is. In fact, some found ways to exploit the inferiority to their own advantages! I still cannot understand.

People tell me that it was my lack of ability to cope, to adapt to the surrounding. I can't help it but to see the adaptation as the assassination of empathy, sense of guilt and morality.

Why do we need to perpetuate a situation whereby one or the other has to suffer? Why can't we create a situation without suffering?

I refuse all the advice given to me. I refuse to listen to the "experienced", "learned" or "wise". All of them stemmed from the acceptance of status quo, the inferior reality.

We deserve Paradise! I will not settle for anything less. Until all suffering is gone, until we have brought Paradise down to Earth, I cannot rest.

I will not bow down to the selfish or ignorant humans who have no idea what greatness we are all missing out on!

I don't want to wait for my death to find out if there is a Paradise, if there is a world to come. I want to change this world into the world to come!

Look around you, if you say to yourself, "this isn't the way the world is supposed to be!", then come and let us join hands. Together, we can create Paradise and make Paradise exist here on Earth.

To the people who say it is impossible, I will ask, "Have you tried? Have you tried all the available methods?"

We deserve Paradise! Let us create Paradise!

-- by Fun, Initiator of AVOFT

Intelligence - by Nature or by Nurture?

It does seem like the general perception is that intelligence is by nature, i.e. one is either born with the "intelligent genes" or not. However, things can hardly be further from the truth. This perception is actually quite a self-fulfilling prophecy. People who believe they have the "intelligent genes" will go on learning more, expanding their brains and become better while those who don't, will tend to stay stagnated, unwilling to make a move since nothing seem to be able to change their predicament.

Apart from that, education has gotten quite formalised in many places, whereby students rarely read topics outside of the syllabus given in school. Adults also do not read as much as they should to expand their horizon. This general lack of reading means that the brain lacks stimulation to continue growing and hence limit the development of intelligence.

At this point, it should be obvious that we believe nurture plays a greater role in deciding people's intelligence. There are scientific evidences suggesting that children growing up in a more stimulating environments develop better mental ability. These children can do better in tests and are more creative in finding solutions.

In addition to that, the mind is very much malleable. So, by feeding the mind with information and questions to process, the mind will then develop accordingly to cope with the work load. This is like how we build our muscles in gyms. When we exercise our brain cells, they develop further, allowing for more complicated thinking and information storage.

These are some of the activities that we can adopt to increase our intelligence:

• Reading, especially read from different fields
• Exercise, allowing for better blood circulation, bringing oxygen, water and nutrient up to your brain
• Engage in enriching discussions, stimulating your brain cells
• Get enough and proper sleep to allow your brain to repair the "damages" done during waking hours
• Avoid brain cell killing activities such as smoking and binge drinking

As a conclusion, intelligence is strongly influenced by nurture and hence one should maintain a healthy lifestyle to avoid becoming less gifted.

Energy in Change and Progress

Whenever change or improvement is mentioned, some people seem to have a default expectation. To make it easy, let us take a look at this graph:

This expectation is that change is direct and easy. If it is not easy, it is not a progress. However, this cannot be further from the truth. If you have studied chemistry before, the following graph may be very familiar:

Change and progress will always come with an increase in energy exertion, before a "chemical reaction" can happen and change the fundamental structure necessary for true progress to happen.

We believe it will be the same of AVOFT System. There will be various challenges and problems along the way. People may not believe that AVOFT System is a solution to the world's problems, which is a good thing to us if they are thinking of other alternatives. Whether AVOFT System is a solution or not, we need to change our course before the damage is too deep and too bad for any reparation.

A Hypothesis on the Origin of Modern Civilisation

This is a hypothesis contributed by a friend.

There are several ways early humans obtain food, in no particular order, they are:

• gather
• hunt
• nomadic
• agriculture

Based on agricultural model, does it make sense to build permanent buildings, create sustainable cycles in various aspects? It doesn't make much sense for a agricultural society to keep moving around, so usually agricultural societies tend to focus on making good use of local resources and settling down on a specific location. Now, let us change our focus to the nomads.

How do nomads generally sustain their lives?

1. Herd and control livestock, bring them to places with grass to graze.
2. When grazing land ran out of grass and filled with manure, move on to a new pasture.
3. Repeat step 2.

It is an acceptable theory that civilisation correlates with agriculture. However, if we take a careful look at the above two paragraphs and compare with our modern day civilisation, there is an anomaly.

Look at how we are utilising the world and her resources and you can see that we are basically running the nomad model instead of the agricultural model. We are stripping mother earth of natural resources, using them wantonly and leaving behind them wastelands!

And this talk about finding another habitable planet out there, isn't this like the nomad who has stripped the land of grass and is looking for another pasture?

Well, sadly, as of now, we only have this planet. Do we want to keep stripping this planet of all the natural resources? Or do we want to slow down and turn into a more agricultural model, building something more sustainable?

We need to start making the change now, before it is too late to halt the downward spiral to destruction of the habitability of this planet.

Life is unfair, just accept it?

There seem to be an obsession to look at the world as being unfair.

Men don't get to suffer the pain of birth, that's unfair.

Larry has a pretty girlfriend, I am still alone, life's unfair.

Fred is born in a rich family, life's unfair.

Michael is successful in his business, life's unfair.

"Life is unfair, just accept it" is one common advice given to people. However, this advice is a trap. This statement causes myopia, commonly known as shortsightedness. By saying life is unfair, one focuses on a particular event and judge the rest based on it.

Yes, men don't get to suffer the pain of birth. Neither do men enjoy the close bonds with babies. Neither do men get several months of pampering love from all members of family during the months of pregnancy. It is only unfair when you focus solely on the pain of birth. Once you pull yourself away and look at the whole picture, the truth is we don't know if it is fair or unfair. There are too many factors and things to consider.

Instead of focusing on fairness of life, why not focus on how to make life happier and better? Women can focus on the plus points of birth to make the pain worth it. The men can acknowledge the pain women went through and refrain from commenting negatively if the women refuse to have more babies.

The same sort of analysis can be used for all cases of "life is unfair". The focus will always be focused on a minor part and the whole picture is lost. By looking at the whole picture, one can easily acknowledge that one doesn't know for sure and deal with it as such.

Blaming life or the other party on unfairness is just not helpful. But we can find ways to deal with these feelings and balance out the challenges that nature or chance throws at us.

The Solutions - An Illustration on Food

In order for AVOFT system to be implemented, abundance is a very important aspect. So, this is an illustration of how we can create abundance and bring forth the transition into the AVOFT system.

We will want to see leaderships in the opening of the floodgates of knowledge. There are many farming and gardening methods, suitable for different situation and temperaments of the growers. So, there will be groups working on creating wiki pages on these techniques, outlining their details as well as their pros and cons. This will allow for the general public to easily gain access to this pool of knowledge and making their farm/garden productive.

There will also be pages on the uses of the plants, common and less known ones. By listing out these plants, we will be able to popularise some less popular plants and hence creating more options to grow and eat.

Alongside with these, there will be people working on the hands on of growing food. We have people who are truly into farming to get a plot of land in the country and do larger scale farming. People can then, either travel to the farm to obtain the produce, or to have the farmers ship out to distribution centres in town.

Then there will be a category of people who loves to grow things but are unwilling to travel too far out of the urban setting. These people can work with urban farming, growing larger scale production in the city. Aeroponic, hydroponic and various techniques can be used to make use of space, especially vertical space of high rise buildings.

In addition to that, individuals who are not interested in large scale farming can have their own private home gardens, growing food they like and want, at their own pace and rate. These are more like hobby growers.

Then there will also be people who are more people oriented, working into community farming, bringing people together, doing various farming tasks together. There can be various activities like weed blitzing, whereby the people congregate at an agreed time and day to do weeding in a particular plot. This will make weeding fun and social, instead of mundane and hard.

Before the implementation of AVOFT system in a full sense, most likely these groups will have to operate commercially, as social enterprise or as vehicles for charity bodies. All these groups will be totally autonomy groups, operating with their own leaderships. They can, of course, be affiliate with AVOFT System by holding our values and goals in mind. But AVOFT will not dictate how they choose to operate.

With the springing up of more food growers around us, we will get more reassurance that we don't really have food crisis and we don't have to put a price tag to our food anymore.

Imagine if the same effort is done in various areas. This is a possibility. There will be areas we have overlooked here but we are sure if we all keep on working on it, we will realise the flaws and work our way to solve them.

We hope this provide a clearer illustration of how AVOFT system is a possibility. Remember that AVOFT system is not a utopian system. People are still expected to "work", albeit in their passion and based to a certain degree on necessity.