We resume after a 48 hour blackout to honor of the oldest ally of the United States of America, the brave people of France following what was a 3 day long terrorist assault on Parisians and the world. Our first agenda item is to make a global call to all peoples of all faiths (even those without any religious belief). We ask each of you - as an individual member of the human reace - to join us in this call. We call for a global ecumenical conference inclusive of every established world religious and cultural representatives to convene. The purpose of such a convocation will be to establish an overarching framework to actively search out common ground - beliefs commonly shared and central to all religions - an immediate active search for higher, common ground. The purpose of ongoing identification, reiteration, and clarification of what it is we all have in common - versus the continued belligerent intransigence and bickering over our differences - is to be to actively focus on those areas in order to design strategy to mutually reinforce all relgious beliefs and cultures and, in so doing, for all of humanity to leverage one otgher and raise us to a much higher moral and much more adaptive world. In so doing, we believe humanity, whose present condition is indeed very fragile, can lift one another all up simultaneously. We realize this task is monumental and will most certainly require continuous reiterative refinement - which is why we propose that such a convocation be a continuing and empowered body to not only identify areas of commonality and strategies that we might focus on positive common ground with the net impact of leveraging each and every one of us, but that its overarching framework and design empower actions that propigagte, incubate, accelerate, and ultimately empower and free each and every individual to actively pursue global peace. We believe that the most recent beheadings and murders by ISIL, the ongoing hostitilities between Palestine and Israel complicated by Syria and the other UN Security Council nations involvement, along with the horrifying attacks against school children in Peshawar, and the most recent acts in Paris all are adequate proof that focusing on the things that make us different only begets an endless self-perpetuating cycle of hate and misunderstanding. We do not see an ecumenical convocation identifhying common ground as the end-all solution. We do however believe that the current approach has failed time and time again - and that the underlying strategy of the approach is one which dooms it to failure. It has the net result of pouring gasoline on a fire. It is therefore imperative that we change the approach. We will never ahcieve true global peace - let alone the Utopian dream world where every individual truly acts as a change maker and truly takes care of all of his and her own brothers and sisters (humanity) - without focusing on common ground. When you focus on common ground, differences tend to fall by the wayside. We therefore begin with a recap of a recent global ecumenical conference - which obviously is not ecumenical enough (the absence of many of the major religions is woefully apparent). We open this agenda item up for global discussion now. https://youtube/watch?v=7_8NZYm1LPY&list=PL597FB480CC47C6E0&index=1
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:21:15 +0000
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