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Comment on: Re: What is your outlook?

Bigthink — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:19:06 +0100

I blame the media!!!

THEY LIE AND MANIPULATE THE TRUTH.

With all this deception a feel good attitude will act as an opiate for a moment in time. To fix it we must return to the Constitution and the rule of law.

Trust is a huge issue in America today. It is not only at home but a global truth.

900 LIES .... and you suggest, just smile?

Comment on: Re: What is your outlook?

Bigthink — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:08:18 +0100

When interfaith groups can work together using their common values as a guide - we will make the society a better place.

Comment on: Re: What is your outlook?

Bigthink — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:02:19 +0100

i think the same thing only the world is getting destroyed but not only the goverment is destyoing it but so is society

Comment on: Re: What is your outlook?

Bigthink — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:15:04 +0100

I must agree.

Comment on: Re: What is your outlook?

Bigthink — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:22:27 +0100

Focus. There are so many side issues, we must obtain consensus and tackle the root issues. Yes, realism rather than pessimism but also rather than optimism. Pete Petersen addresses one of these key issues in his contribution in "Business & Economics": it is the "here and now" syndrome with little regard for the future. We are not investing in the future, we are investing in our non-future. Big Think as a contemporary Club of Rome. Here and now for the future.

Comment on: Re: What is your outlook?

Bigthink — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:48:53 +0100

As an addendum and perhaps to further the 'reality check' of the 'realist' in us all, I ask this question: Just HOW "open-minded" (or bent on "bridging the gap") are the various "ecumenical" types "out there;" whereby, they really seek to actually create common ground that will build to a new day in human peace & goodwill(?)...
There is so much canonized cultural entrenchment to overcome... so much individual bias that must be, at very least, suspended, if people are to "come together" in a spirit of peacemaking. I can't help but question the sincerity of these people who wish to break bread with those whom they'd otherwise deem as "infidels," "heretics," "heathens," or "apostate unbelievers bound for Hell's gates." And just how fervent are the numbers who want to create these bridges? One thing is for sure, religious extremists are getting more press and "airtime" in the news. 'Conflict' seems to sell more newspapers. Do ya catch my drift here? Sorry, I'm just being realistic.

My biggest fear is the the larger percentage are "grand standers," and simply love the attention. How many are truly willing to "walk the walk???" Perhaps I've met too many "born-agains," who cry out loudly to their Lord during Sunday's/ Saturday's Prayer Meeting, but come Monday, we can see them willing to put all sorts of unethical business practices into motion. We may always hope though... as that alone is the last bastion before the final blows. I hope we don't get side-tracked by the "well-meaning" Unitarians... anesthetized by the high-minded evangelicals.>> Let's just keep it down to the brass tacks of Maslow's hierarchy, an incontrovertible list of inalienable human rights (standards & measures), and a generalized moral backdrop gleaned from the common ground SHARED by the world's major religions. By the time the world religions come to a consensus, all could go to hell in a handbasket!