<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Suggest the reading of Meg Wheatley's latest book So Far From Home. Great statement of the hope beyond hope, in the sense in which Kaz spoke of hope as the greatest temptation. </div><div>Randy</div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:52 PM, "William Salmon" <<a href="mailto:wsalmon@cox.net">wsalmon@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Well, Del--you got that off your chest. . . .
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">. . . . and you did it for a lot others of us. So,
we thank you. I'd even promote your list of legislative actions just
because they are rational things to address the indicative situation.
</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> I suspect that 5th City
would not have experienced the "change of culture" by legislation alone. As
someone of us has suggested, the question to solve is what
mind-changing/mind-challenging imaginal activities and events that need to take
place to begin changing the mind-set, something to off-set the culture of
violence in which we now live. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> At least a part of the
problem--and it could be a major part--is the death of our modern worldview and
the birth of postmodernism. This is an activity that has been 100 years in the
making. At last, the Social Process has not only collapsed--it's GONE!
</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> As we learned in the God
Lecture, this societal change has been very rapid considering historical time.
Each of the other major changes took place over several hundred years. The
Modern Era is only 600 years old and it died in 1917 with E=mc2. The
death was lingering, but finally committed to its resting place in
1985--the birth date of those who manage the early stages of a brand new
invention in history: global society. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> In particular, those of us born
prior to 1985 experience that there is nothing on which to stand that is
the least bit familiar and it is scaring people shit-less. All of these
experiences, nationally and internationally, are the death-throws of the "end of
the age;" this is not a theological position, rather it is an ontological
condition: we live in sociological End Times. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> If the truth-be-known, the
solution to our present experience no longer is in our hands. Rather, the
generation born on the cusp of 1985 is the vanguard of globality that is
replacing nationalism. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Those of us who are awake can
share the tools necessary for the next generation to build a global society.
Isn't this what the ICA is doing along with the support of ToP training?
</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> First, some of us old dogs can
continue to tell the truth about this huge change of life; the by-word here is
"relax, the world is in the hands of the future." Second, we can continue
to stir the waters by working on our little bit of the triangle knowing that
when we punch our little part of the societal micro-chip, we are stirring the
whole Social Process. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Now is the time for gentleness
with a firm message that the future is in good hands, until then global
society lives in a wounded existence. Later, may be the time for
ruthlessness and tough love. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Remember when Joseph's message
shifted from gentleness to awakenment. About the time we joined the
Order in 1972, the mood was shifting back because the American society was
wounded--they didn't need to be kicked around like they did in 1960's; the hippy
generation lived in a time of the great escape, and Joseph would have none of
it. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Ah, dear Del! It is good to have
you back in the harness again. Take good care of yourself so that you can take
good care of the turf that is given to you. </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Inner Peace, </font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Bill Salmon</font></div>
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<a title="delhmor@wamail.net" href="mailto:delhmor@wamail.net">Del Morril</a>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">Order Ecumenical </a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:40
PM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [Oe List ...] Musings by
Del</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
news is rotting my brain!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">January 8, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Musings by
Del<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">A
six-year old child is sent home for pointing his finger at other kids in his
class and saying “bang”. A columnist pushes this stupidity to extremes
in her spoof on dangerous 6-year –olds. Are we getting so crazy that
6-year-olds are that scary? And speaking of scary, three days after the
Sandy Hook massacre of 6-year-olds and their teachers, in her own school, a
teacher found the journal of a 17-year old boy, in which he plans his own
massacre – six of his targets being Black schoolmates. Also, it was discovered
that he was building bombs for this event, in his basement.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><br>We are a country (and maybe a whole world) gone
mad! Yet the rhetoric continues, and people will soon forget Sandy Hook
and all the rest that came before, probably without anything changed.
Many people think that if we would just kinder to each other, get more
psychological help, or if people are checked better when getting hand guns, or
if we put a guard in each school, the carnage will stop. As far as I’m
concerned, you’ll never get all the crazies before they commit their monstrous
acts. How about this thing we used to discuss called “structure is the
key to change!” And what are the structures that need to come at
the SOURCE of things, not at the various responses. How about some major
changes in law that can begin to solve the problem of a nation that owns 100
guns to every 120 people! I would like to see Congress do three
things:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">1)<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></font></span></span></font><!--[endif]--><font size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Enact a law that no manufacturer can sell an automatic
weapon to <u>any</u> individual, including any military person. They can
only be sold to the military as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">2)<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></font></span></span></font><!--[endif]--><font size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Ban all violent games; heavy fines and even jail time
to any manufacturer of same. Laws make it more difficult to have child
pornography get to children; why not the violence which is just as offensive
and dangerous to young minds?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">3)<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></font></span></span></font><!--[endif]--><font size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Put in place a stricter censorship of the movie and TV
cable industries that limits showing gratuitous violence on the
screen.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Now, we already know these are bound to be impossible,
don’t we? This country is so driven by “individual rights” and the NRA lobby
so strong, and our leadership so conservative, timid or hung-up on making sure
Obama never gets anything he wants, that it neglects to do anything to protect
society at large. Parents CHOOSE to not inoculate their children, so
that later on their children can spread diseases that once went out of
existence due to inoculation therapies. People who have AIDS don’t have
to have bloods tests or take meds, or even let anyone know they have it, so
that they can spread the disease even further. Our quarantine system is
a joke, practically non-existent, letting people walk around spreading
whatever they have and choosing to do so by their own <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">individual rights</span></i>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Those whose pockets wouldn’t be getting as full will
have the final word, as usual, by insisting that our rights are being violated
should Congress try to do anything to curb the spread of terror and
disease. They’ll insist that violence on the screen, whether in the home
or in the theatre, doesn’t do anything to children’s brains and ideas.
They’ll insist on the right to have assault weapons (how many bullets does it
take to bring down a deer anyway?). There seems to be little questioning
as to why any individual needs anything more than a single-shot
weapon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We
continue to create laws that, so far, seem to protect the doer and not the
“done-to” victim. The best and freest treatment, including surgeries, seems to
be in the prisons. No wonder convicts keep going back in once they get
out. Suddenly they have to pay for their lodging and food and TV and
weight room and sports equipment, and pay for their own hospital care, instead
of everyone else’s taxes. Perhaps we should all find a way to retire in the
prisons!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We
are a culture gone mad with our so-called individual rights. I am convinced
that our forbearers did NOT have this kind of world in mind when it created
our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Maybe it is time that those
masterful documents be updated to the realities of the world we have been and
still are creating. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It
is truly appalling to me that our own nation should be at the top of the list
of nations in violent deaths – <u>above</u> the worst of nations who
systematically kill off anyone who the leader disagrees with. No, we are
a nation PROUD of the fact that we don’t have such dictators – we just let
anyone run amok, killing whomever displeases them. Do we believe that
our killing rate is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the horrible things
like various holocausts caused by other nations in the world. Do we
really? Let’s start adding up all of the victims and see whose total is
higher, shall we? What do you want to bet that we would
WIN!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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