What is TRUE Security?
se·cu·ri·ty [si-kyoor-i-tee] 1. Freedom from risk or danger; safety. 2. Freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear; confidence. 3. Something deposited or given as assurance of the fulfillment of an obligation; a pledge Many companies are comfortable with providing the illusion of security. Security is more than a warm and fuzzy feeling. Security today has become the domain of “basic packages” and “introductory offers”, one size fits all burglar alarms with no attention paid to individual needs, type construction, and methods of use, redundancy, or custom design. Cookie cutter systems providing the illusion of security that is in depth as the sign at the mailbox, with the determining factor being the recurring revenue or the number of units sold. Quickly trained technicians schooled in speed. Sales people who tell you what you want to hear. sys·tem [sis-tuhm] 1. A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole. 2. A functionally related group of element
It is not piles of money or guaranteed employment, but the inner strength to face, cope with, and adapt to any challenge that arises. True security is the understanding that life is insecure and the willingness to deal with whatever happens. Security depends less on how much we have and more on how much we can do without. Anthony Robbins describes it this way, “Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.” How do we develop a sense of security? Begin by accepting the nature of life, which is constant change and uncertainty. Next, don t take shelter, but rejoice in the bombardment of chaos. Life is like white water rafting, c
Rosemary Radford Ruether May 24, 2006, Ramallah, Occupied Palestine Both Israel and the United States have become states obsessed with security. Every form of oppression of those seen as potentially dangerous is justified by this need for security. In the U.S., especially since 9/11, extensive spying on the civilian population, wiretapping without warrants and collecting of data on such daily activities as books people buy and library circulation is being justified as necessary for security. Israel has long justified the most extensive repression of Palestinians as necessary for its security. Most recently the building of a wall encircling the Palestinian areas of the West Bank, actually cutting deeply into Palestinian land and water aquifers, is claimed to be necessary to security, even though such a wall can certainly not prevent a suicide bomber from getting into Israel, but has the most dire consequences for restricting the access of Palestinians to their own land and water resourc
