Communities - - Page 2

LIVING FOR COMMUNITY

Humans live in groups, communities, villages, tribes. According to a study quoted in Peter Block’s book The Abundant Community, the greatest provider of safe and successful living for humans is not a powerful government or an intimidating military, but connection to a strong community. Sadly, we have a global institution that weakens and severs our […]

COMMUNITIES AND OVER-POPULATION

The definition of peace is not the absence of war or conflict. Instead, peace is living according to our design. Humans are designed to live in groups like our nearest neighbors (apes, dolphins, elephants, etc.). Therefore peace requires living in and for our community. Communities can take on many forms – they don’t need to […]

Did “Ancient History” start 5,000 or 3 million years ago?

The history we teach our children (and which we were taught) is not our history at all. Our real history dates back over 2.3 million years ago, when Lucy (Australopithecus) and others like her walked on Earth on 2 feet (bipedal, with erect skeletons just like ours). It is that 2.3 million years of living […]

Why Do We Need Religion?

Certainly, the Creation that is Earth and life on it, is one of beauty and awesomeness. As to who or what created it, or whether some higher power exists, or which of the world’s religions is the “true” religion, we’ll leave to others to never-endingly debate. However, the conscious need for religion, the need for some greater […]

A World at Peace

With all the turmoil in the world, would you like to see the world at peace? Do you believe it is possible? I can assure you that it is. We humans have the knowledge and power to choose peace. Or we can continue to be addicted to greed, national power, and material wealth, which requires […]

LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES – POLES APART?

One day I looked up the definitions of liberal and conservative, to see what each believes. Amazingly, the definitions were identical – you could have switched them because they both said the same thing. So why has the USA (United States of America) become the DSA (Divided States of America)? After all, we are all […]

PEACE: LIFE IN A PERFECT WORLD

Fascinating how our human brains work. We put ourselves down with phrases like “In a perfect world…” (implying that all the rest of Creation is perfect, but we are somehow defective). I’ve got great news for you – we DO live in a perfect world; we CAN live in peace; and we are NOT defective. […]

A LIFE OF SELF-IMPOSED BONDAGE

What is the one thing that is worse than caging an animal that wants to be free? The one thing is… if that animal caged itself! You may think you live freely, but you don’t (by a huge margin – 30% at best, when the rest of life lives 100% as designed). “It is no […]

LIVING FREE: ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH, MATURE ENOUGH, PASSIONATE ENOUGH?

Society wants to keep us in fear. Businesses keep us buying their products using fear and greed. I want to break out, to live free, and I know that many of you do too. But how? Admit that our present course is unsustainable. It isn’t working Dig down and uncover the root cause of our […]

A MARK OF IMMATURITY

“Republican and democrat,” “liberal and conservative,” “Christian and Muslim,” “male and female,” “young and old,” “white, yellow, black,” “democracy vs socialism,” “rich and poor.” These immature, self-centered judgments divide us. They are negative, based on the premise that we are “different.” Instead of seeing that humans are 99% the same, and seeking to find all […]