DIR NL

Today I attended the DIR NL day. It was very nice, lot’s of dive, GUE, DIR passionate people in Hollandica. I had an introduction dive. It was very funny of course because I still have to get used to diving in a dry suit and having big gloves on sure doesn’t make the basic five skills easy. So coming months lot’s of practicing. And finally for all my lovely non diving friends and colleagues this is what I look like in the weekend.

FINALLY I’m all set to start dive in NL!

A poem I do not want to forget

I first came across this poem when watched the movie “Into the Wild” last year. This poem describes my inner song perfectly:

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more

-- Lord Byron

PS: The music of the movie is also fantastic
PS2: True happiness is shared!

Finally diving again in Hollandica

Today I took a day off to spend a day with the guy I bought my drysuit from to do a drysuit course. In the morning we spend time learning how to repair leaks in the suit, clean and maintain it. It was a long day, I got up at 06:00 and came back at 20:00. And yup diving in NL is a logistical nightmare and living on the second floor in the city center of The Hague with a small bathroom to clean all your stuff sure doesn’t help. However it was a great day, much to learn because diving in a drysuit is completely different. We had a excellent dived in the Anna Jacoba polder in the province of Zeeland. Still a bit awkward to see and hear those big ships. But what a beautiful underwater life I did not expect to see that. I saw a lot of beautiful animals and plants. Don’t know the names yet but that will come in due time. Now everything is drying and Saturday we go again….

And here some pictures

Great weather, lazy dog

Finding a leak

What’s that man doing in my shower

Zeitgeist

*updated: I watched the movie now as well. Very interesting stuff however alwas hard to determine what is true or not. One thing is clear “it stinks” Part I and II are more about the Jesus myth and 911 myth which are of course controversial topics to say the least. Part III is very interesting as it puts the monetary system into perspective especially the concept of having a centralized bank which is a private institution and valuates currency, currency which in essence is debt.

I have to say I like the movement introduction more because it presents a clear systematic overview of the problems in our world, poverty, war, environment. Things which doesn’t have to be this way. Money cyclic consumption, the economic system and the concept of “property” are the things holding back the development of human race.

The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are false, outdated distinctions which are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and potential. Their basis is in power division and stratification, not unity and equality, which is our goal. While it is important to understand that everything in life is a natural progression, we must also acknowledge the reality that the human species has the ability to drastically slow and paralyze progress, through social structures which are out of date, dogmatic, and hence out of line with nature itself. The world you see today, full of war, corruption, elitism, pollution, poverty, epidemic disease, human rights abuses, inequality and crime is the result of this paralysis.

This movement is about awareness, in avocation of a fluid evolutionary progress, both personal, social, technological and spiritual. It recognizes that the human species is on a natural path for unification, derived from a communal acknowledgment of fundamental and near empirical understandings of how nature works and how we as humans fit into/are a part of this universal unfolding we call life. While this path does exist, it is unfortunately hindered and not recognized by the great majority of humans, who continue to perpetuate outdated and hence degenerative modes of conduct and association. It is this intellectual irrelevancy which the Zeitgeist Movement hopes to overcome through education and social action.

The goal is to revise our world society in accord with present day knowledge on all levels, not only creating awareness of social and technological possibilities many have been conditioned to think impossible or against “human nature”, but also to provide a means to overcome those elements in society which perpetuate these outdated systems.

An important association, upon which many of the ideas of this movement are derived come from an organization called ” The Venus Project” directed by social engineer and industrial designer, Jacque Fresco. He has worked nearly his entire life to create the tools needed to assist a design of the world which could eventually eradicate war, poverty, crime, social stratification and corruption. His notions are not radical or complex. They do not impose a subjective interpretation in their formation. In this model, society is created as a mirror of nature, with the variables predefined, inherently.

The movement itself is not a centralized construct.
We are not here to lead, but to organize and educate.

Check the fantastic movie Zeitgeist here. You can download the movie for free on http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

More about the movement on http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com. Below is a video with a very interesting introduction in the philosophy behind zeitgeist.

Zeitgeist is not your “average” movement read more about it.

Cycling

I just recently rediscovered cycling. A superb way to stay fit. No expensive fitness clubs or complicated team sports. This is something you can do whenever you want and you don’t need anything for it, except a bike of course. I have my iPhone in my bag back recording the trips, I use Trails for this. It’s an excellent tracker tool and also allows you do download part of a map so u can use maps offline, saves a lot of battery. The tool also allows you to send the trip to every trail. See my small tour below Excellent!

Rondje duinen (Den Haag-Leiden-Katwijk-Wassenaar-Den Haag)

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