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Dan Welke
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Transcending the divisions among people
I believe that world peace is possible. I believe that a constructive approach to transcend the divisions among people is by uniting all people in a common cause to better our world. I believe the Beyond War Guiding Principles are a perfect set of basic principles to accomplish that goal. If a majority of people would commit to these principles, we could be united in a common cause and could work further to eliminate disputes and exploitation.
I also embrace these three ideas as core values to… Continue
Posted on March 16, 2009 at 9:52pm — 1 Comment
Love in our world
In the book "An Open Heart", the Dalai Lama teaches us that: Compassion is the wish that others be free of suffering. In the first step toward a compassionate heart, we must develop our empathy or closeness to others. We must also recognize the gravity of their misery. The closer we are to a person, the more unbearable we find that person's suffering. This closeness is not a physical proximity, nor need it be an emotional one. It is a feeling of responsibility, of concern for a person.
I think… Continue
Posted on March 16, 2009 at 9:21pm — 1 Comment
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Jenny and I have been working on getting the Beyond War Library Display project into the libraries in Ventura. We have reserved the display cases at H.P. Wright Library for the month of April and E.P. Foster Library for the month of May for the Beyond War Library Display.
There are five films in the Core Collection for Building a World Beyond War, and we thought that, in connection with the display, we would screen one of those films at each library.
We would also like to donate to the library copies of those books and films in the core curriculum which are not already in their collection.
All this will be discussed in greater detail at the meeting.
Mary Olson (cell phone: 805-223-1187)
Welcome to the Library Display Project! I left a message for you on the Library Display Project page and look forward to hearing from you. The principles you describe in your comments are what we would like to see reflected in the books we choose for our bibliography.
Anne
Nonviolence
Violence is never an acceptable solution to disputes. Achievement of goals and objectives must always be accomplished by nonviolent means.
Freedom and Justice
All people are unique and different. We recognize and support the right of each person to develop in intellectual, artistic and spiritual endeavors to the fullest extent of their skills and abilities, free from threats and intimidation, provided it harms no one else. We embrace diversity and support equal rights for all people. We assert that distinctions between people based on race, color, sex or sexual orientation are irrational and destructive. Only when all people are empowered to develop to the fullest extent of their abilities will we truly understand and benefit from the full power and potential of humanity.
To empower all people, we seek a world order that produces the instrumental goods to maintain the life and health of all human beings by the most efficient, just and environmentally responsible means possible. The achievement of wealth is not a just end in and of itself. The accumulation wealth to benefit a few at the expense of many is immoral. It is the moral responsibility of those who control the factors of production to do so with enlightened commitment to socially and environmentally responsible practices, including the best practices of fair trade and stewardship of resources.
Environmental Responsibility
We must stop the destruction of our planet. Business as usual in our present time is no more rational than standing in the path of an onrushing train and not moving out of the way. In our present state of affairs, mankind is to the planet earth as cancer is to the human body. It is a moral imperative that we do everything in our power to slow and stop pollution, hasten environmentally sustainable society and environmental remediation. It is never acceptable to enrich a person, corporation or nation by destroying the environment. We commit to observe environmentally responsible principles to the fullest extent possible, and work for better alternatives wherever possible. We believe that a strategic commitment to wind, wave, geothermal and solar energy can make fossil fuels unnecessary.