Labyrinth
Find your own way!
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In pursuit of the uncommon
Labyrinth Find your own way! |
Labyrinth is home to a couple working class stiffs who are just trying to be the best they can be. This is just a place to hang our pages. We feel its better than some lame web-hosting site that makes you throw their annoying banners up on your pages, or charges you for no tech-support, slow access, and space on a dusty old server in the corner of their computer shop.
We do not espouse any sort of religious or philosophical views. You won't find guides to puzzles, mazes or labyrinths here. You won't find any peace, enlightenment or harmony perusing these pages. You might find a link or two worth checking out, or learn something about some of us.
If you are looking for something along these lines, I recommend trying out LabyrinthS.org instead.
Why not? If you look at the InterNIC registry, you will note that this domain was registered in 1995. We thought the name was cool and decided it would fit with who we were at the time. Since we all worked in the Industry at the time, it would have been easy to come up with any name and register it... after all, the Internet back then was a shadow of what it is today. I guess if we were going to blame someone, it would be my buddy Mike... he came up with the name, and it was his site originally.
Do you ever get the feeling that something's got to give? I get that feeling a lot when I watch the news... I was listening to some people complain about diversity training they were forced to take at work. They were complaining that there was an agenda that was being force-fed to them but I don't think they saw the real problem with this whole idea about celebrating diversity.
As human beings, we natually gravitate towards other people who have
things in common with us... peer-groups form because of these
commonalities among us. When we interact with people at work, we
attempt to find these commonalities in order to identify with those
people and form work-relationships. This activity helps us work
better in groups because when we cannot find things in common with
people, we feel like outsiders, which makes us all less productive, and
less motivated. When we are forced to identify people by things
that we have nothing in common with, it causes disunity and disharmony
since we can't seem to "fit in".
Most intelligent people today don't view others in terms of the
color of their skin, or their gender; rather, we tend to look towards
words and actions to differentiate people into common categories of
people we like and dislike. This is a hallmark of a mature adult
living in western society. Unfortunately, we tend to put
ourselves into groups that isolate us from the experiences of
others. This tends to polarize us and also tends to make us
believe that by celebrating this polarization (i.e. diversity) we can
make others respect us. This is a lie promulgated by populare
culture; the idea that we can come together by living in our
differences has done nothing short of cause fractures and
factionalization in our society.
When actions are chosen as the differentiator between groups of
people, and actions, such as sexual activity, are used to define
lifestyle and values which are then termed diversity, we discover that
people are less likely to be sympathetic towards those expecting
benefits normally associated with traditional diversity. This is
mainly due to the fact that actions are derived directly from choices,
not from anything we're born with. While many might say that they
are born with a propensity towards particular action, such as drug or
alchohol dependency, the truth in the end is, we are all responsible
for our own actions. Given this truth, we must not succumb to the
temptation that allows us to believe that diversity derives from
behavior.
This is not the main point of this dissertation. The real
point here is that diversity should be respected but should not be the
focus of our society, our lives, and our careers. Respecting
differences between people, whether those differences are in beliefs,
traditions, or values, is important; this respect is what forms the
basis of our society. It is important to realize, however, that
these differences will not form everlasting relationships and it is not
the differences in themselves that are the basis of society in western
civilization, but rather our respect of individualism. Given
this; I say, let us celebrate what we have in common, what brings us
together as a people. In this celebration we can solve real
issues and learn real tolerance and respect for what makes us unique.
