ZetaTalk: Aftertime Living

supplies, and

perhaps without a place to stay.

Example 2

A family has no opportunity to plan, or gather supplies, but is prepared to escape to a safe area, leave the city.

The family finds themselves afterwards with no more than a few bottles of water and canned goods, a sweater,

and a few hand tools in a backpack. They wander into the country side, find a friendly farm family, and all begin

working on mutual goals and tasks. They are joined by others, also on foot or stranded, and those not compatible

leave, those compatible fit in, and the community grows. The farm is isolated, by nature, so not that many arrive, and the sorting out process proceeds without being overwhelmed.

Example 3

A mid-sized community, seeing the earth changes and hearing predictions, decides to hold community meetings,

town hall, and lay plans. The mayor is respected and doing his best, the community has many community

minded groups and citizens, and serious discussions are held concerning problems. They bottle water,

commandeer food and supplies from local stores, assess individual and family needs, and try their best to

function as a governed community. The shift comes, and houses are blown off foundations, injured everywhere

beyond what the trained medical personnel can deal with, and many heart attacks and strokes occur, a medical

nightmare. Those who were to be responsible are in the main simply not found, are off wandering or sitting in

the shadows, overwhelmed, gone mad, or failing to deliver on their promises, a frequent human situation. Food

in storage holds is found missing, looted by those who knew about it and panicked, thinking of themselves.

Those trying to meet the needs of the community and follow through on the plans laid become exhausted,

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ZetaTalk: Survival Groups

stumble about in fatigue, and finally simply sleep or get sick from the effort. Fights break out among the

demanding, who may have had a role to play, forgotten this, and reverted to their true personalities when

pleasant life in the town disappeared and distress arrived. Some new heroes emerge, but like the few trying to

carry out the plan, they too become exhausted, as the majority are not these, but the childish, the selfish, and the demanding. Service-to-Other folk are in the minority, worldwide, and this expresses when stressful times arrive.

In time, families headed by Service-to-Other individuals remove themselves from this scene, taking themselves

and their dependents elsewhere, into smaller groups. In time, those who have not died, looted and then starved,

or left, will be the immature in good health and strength, who will eventually go wandering in search of better

times.

Thus, the best laid plans most often do not work out, and spontaneous meetings, often guided, work out best.

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ZetaTalk: Group Policy

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ZetaTalk: Group Policy

Note: added during the Jan 25, 2003 Live ZetaTalk IRC Session.

Service-to-Other communities, and their interactions are something we have described in an attempt to give humans an

understanding. We have described how we operate 'without money' the title of the piece, for instance, replacing concern and communication for financial transactions. Humans, confused about who and what is Service-to-Other, assume many people and actions to be thus when it is not. An example might be a vain person, who spends time on their appearance and is distressed by being dirty or unkempt. Is this Service-to-Other or Service-to-Self? Depends.

Given a choice of completing an obligation, putting the self in distress to help others who need that help, the Service-to-Other vain person would show their colors. If leaning toward Service-to-Self, or undecided, this person might turn

their back on others in need to keep themselves prim, or vacillate. Thus, vanity, or laziness, or argumentativeness, or combativeness, or intellectual flights, or a tendency to hoard, or a tendency to check out when matters get tense, none of these are in and of themselves exempt from being part of an Service-to-Other entities behavior.

One must see the Service-to-Other person in a situation where they must chose, or change their behavior, to assist others, or not. We have stated that actions are more important than words, that words do not indicate orientation, but what the person does when a conflict occurs. These conflict situations must be where the person will potentially lose for themselves, lose their life, their possession, their stature, their health, whatever. It is then that you see the nature of the person, when put to this test.

Someone may be considered lazy, but this in effect a difference of opinion on what needs to be done. Must the house be all that clean, the ground trimmed, the car washed, or can life go on just as well with these tasks undone? Someone

may be considered unsociable, preferring to isolate themselves rather than interact in endless chatter, but is this a sign that they are not Service-to-Other? Should the situation be that communication and interaction is needed, in order to save the group from distress, the unsociable and uncommunicative one is suddenly a chatterbox! Thus, is it not

possible to give humans, who in the main are undecided, guidelines to determine who is Service-to-Other and who is not, nor to advise thus on social structure for a survival groups whom one hopes will be essentially Service-to-Other.

These matters will sort out quickly when the shift occurs, with the true colors of humans on display, often a shock to those who assumed otherwise. Wait and see, and be prepared to make changes if need be, at that time.

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