One man’s difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan
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Pronoia for the Poor
Posted in Books, Web Sites, tagged afghanistan, education on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pronoia Means You Don’t Have to Stay Where You Are
Posted in Books, Web Sites, tagged legal highs on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Get High Now
Intelligent Optimism Is Reaching Pandemic Proportions
Posted in Web Sites, tagged leaders, optimism on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nominate your favorite intelligent optimist — and see others’ nominations
Rob’s Good News Challenge
Posted in Articles & Essays, Web Sites, tagged good news, positive news on October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Rob says: “Sources of good news are proliferating. In fact, their increasing abundance is proof that there’s no longer any excuse for steeping yourself in the perverse life-hating obsession that infects the mainstream media.
“Here’s my challenge to you: For the period of one week, I dare you to refrain from sucking in the nihilism that [...]
Tell Your Own Future
Posted in Web Sites, tagged jonathan zap, oracle on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rob says: “My friend Jonathan Zap has created the Zap Oracle, a source you can use to do divinations for yourself. Because he has such a cagey, interesting, and holy mind, I trust the spirit behind his oracles.
“You can cast your own divination by going here and clicking on ‘Try the Zap Oracle.’”
Do You Dare Believe the Universe Loves You?
Posted in Articles & Essays, Web Sites, tagged jonathan zap, oracle on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Catch the Cosmos Doing Something Right
Jonathan Zap’s pronoia-oriented oracle card
Are You Ready to Change Yourself?
Posted in Web Sites, tagged dreams, life coaching on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are you pregnant with a dream?
Benevolent Tweaks
Posted in Movies, Web Sites, tagged hoaxes, pranks on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Constructive Pranks
What Will They Think of Next?
Posted in Videos, Web Sites, tagged happiness, television on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A TV show about happiness? How could that be?
Radical, Practical Optimism
Posted in Web Sites, tagged extropy, humanity on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The opposite of entropy is extropy.
Seeking more intelligence, wisdom, and effectiveness, an indefinite lifespan, and the removal of political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to self-actualization and self-realization. Perpetually overcoming constraints on our progress and possibilities. Expanding into the universe and advancing without end.
Controversial, Cutting-Edge Optimism
Posted in Web Sites, tagged optimism, transhumanism on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beyond the humanists are the transhumanists.
Humanity will be radically changed by technology in the future. We foresee the feasibility of redesigning the human condition, including such parameters as the inevitability of aging, limitations on human and artificial intellects, unchosen psychology, suffering, and our confinement to the planet earth.
Outrageous, Outlandish Optimism
Posted in Web Sites, tagged dna, hedonism, paradise on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.paradise-engineering.com/heaven.htm
Within a few generations, lifelong bliss that exceeds any fantasized Christian afterlife can become the genetically-coded basis of our existence…Post-Darwinian superminds will go on to rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign our whole global ecosystem, and abolish suffering and cruelty throughout the living world.
Documenting the Flood of Blessings
Posted in Web Sites, tagged good news, news on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good News Network
NPR story about Good News Network
Good News Network
Good News Daily
How About Organizing a Master Plan?
Posted in Web Sites, tagged happiness on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Happiness Project
Read about her Happiness Project, then create your own version.
I Dare You Not to Let Yourself Get Brainwashed by the Propagators of Doom and Gloom
Posted in Web Sites, tagged good news on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve got to admit that at least 30 percent of what happens is good news
Be Brave Enough to Question the Authority of the Fear-Mongers
Posted in Web Sites, tagged economy, good news on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When all the economic news you read is gloomy, you’re getting a distorted picture of reality. Try these to supplement your fact-finding mission.
http://goodnewseconomist.com/
http://positiveeconomicnews.com/
If You Don’t Like the News, Go out and Make Some of Your Own
Posted in Web Sites, tagged change the world, innovation, news on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Change the World News
CThings is the work of a community of people who contribute news stories about the amazing things people are doing to change the world. Our community aggregates stories of real innovation, breakthrough, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Contemplative Ecstacy
Posted in Web Sites, tagged buddhism, ecstasy on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Support Group for Ecstatic Buddhists and Other Bliss-Seeking Contemplatives
A Template for the Power and the Glory
Posted in Articles & Essays, Web Sites, tagged human rights, united nations on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
