How are people stopped from "burning" houses down? What is required?
I suppose enough people in leadership positions with personal integrity, honesty, and humility. Right now, in one political party, I think we are falling short on all three.
(Humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself less.)
Ralph, thank you for pointing out the big picture, and calmly indicating that perhaps a sane person in authority, assisted by similarly sane, principled supporters, can smother the flames. Certainly, the current thug controllers think of nothing but themselves, and that has brought us to our current near-calamity. We really need the Georgia Senate win to keep this country from going off a cliff.
But this dependence on тАЬpeople in leadership positionsтАЭ is part of what ails us at the moment. We just canтАЩt continue to count on тАФ lean on тАФ these тАЬleadersтАЭ by themselves. We need to pull ourselves together тАФ figuratively and literally тАФ and start picking up our own тАЬtoysтАЭ and not waiting for тАЬmommyтАЭ or тАЬdaddyтАЭ to do it for us.
A peoples organization, founded on and led by principled morality, could have the power to move the immovable and lead the leaders in serving our society. Going back to the тАЬgood olтАЩ daysтАЭ just ainтАЩt gonna cut it in this new century.
This forum is an excellent place to start. In the responses to yesterdayтАЩs letter, Cathy Learoyd and R Dooley and I had a thread going prompted by CathyтАЩs question along the lines of: тАЬWhy canтАЩt we start a movement of Prof. RichardsonтАЩs readers?тАЭ
IтАЩd been thinking about that possibility for awhile now, and was energized by her question. Given the levels of corruption and immorality within our systems and institutions, we canтАЩt count on anyone but ourselves...us!
If we put our minds тАФ and hearts тАФ and talents and commitment together we can redesign the machinery of our civilization to actually do what we want it to do...and what тАЬleadersтАЭ keep promising it will do...eventually.
First we need a story to tell......what would the new world look like. Then we need a practical path to get there. With that we form the kernel from which we can all "spread the gospel" and grow the group. BUT the key to making it believable is the need for little victories on the road to the goal...this keeps the group together without backsliding, motivates the troups and "confirms" the riteousness of the cause, goal and methos.
Ralph - I love your definition of humility! Thank you for that. Okay - so the "stopping the burning" requires decent, intelligent (in mind and emotion) leaders possessing integrity. Right on. Given the imminence of "burning down" --it hasn't happened yet or perhaps, actually, the match is heading toward the house this very moment -- given the "givens" in the Leadership Department, and "imagine" you are the one the rest of us has been waiting for to blow out the match or otherwise halt the momentum -- what are you going to do? how are you going to do that? What do you need to do that - inwardly and outwardly?
Assume inside you, is the answer to that question. And, also decide if you are willing to choose to do whatever it takes - including moving out of your comfort zone into your "vital zone" which means moving into the "unfamiliar" "not of the family" (tradition, habit, custom, how we always see ourselves) so it feels risky - a little, more, a lot risky. We each and altogether are being asked to seize this moment to enter into new ways of viewing self and other/country/enemy/ etc. and expanding our consciousness. The very fact that you are asking an important question indicates you are open and you've hit the path. The "answer" lives in the unknown and I will do whatever it requires to hear - see - feel - touch - come to it - know it. Be on the lookout for synchronistic events. A friend asks you to go with her to a political/spiritual meeting.....and usually, you'd say no ---- for example. Do the opposite to your habitual responses.
Personally, IтАЩm going to fly an American flag on the front of my house with a Biden Harris sign right below while sitting in a lawn chair wearing a red ball cap.
How are people stopped from "burning" houses down? What is required?
How are people stopped from "burning" houses down? What is required?
I suppose enough people in leadership positions with personal integrity, honesty, and humility. Right now, in one political party, I think we are falling short on all three.
(Humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself less.)
Ralph, thank you for pointing out the big picture, and calmly indicating that perhaps a sane person in authority, assisted by similarly sane, principled supporters, can smother the flames. Certainly, the current thug controllers think of nothing but themselves, and that has brought us to our current near-calamity. We really need the Georgia Senate win to keep this country from going off a cliff.
But this dependence on тАЬpeople in leadership positionsтАЭ is part of what ails us at the moment. We just canтАЩt continue to count on тАФ lean on тАФ these тАЬleadersтАЭ by themselves. We need to pull ourselves together тАФ figuratively and literally тАФ and start picking up our own тАЬtoysтАЭ and not waiting for тАЬmommyтАЭ or тАЬdaddyтАЭ to do it for us.
A peoples organization, founded on and led by principled morality, could have the power to move the immovable and lead the leaders in serving our society. Going back to the тАЬgood olтАЩ daysтАЭ just ainтАЩt gonna cut it in this new century.
This forum is an excellent place to start. In the responses to yesterdayтАЩs letter, Cathy Learoyd and R Dooley and I had a thread going prompted by CathyтАЩs question along the lines of: тАЬWhy canтАЩt we start a movement of Prof. RichardsonтАЩs readers?тАЭ
IтАЩd been thinking about that possibility for awhile now, and was energized by her question. Given the levels of corruption and immorality within our systems and institutions, we canтАЩt count on anyone but ourselves...us!
If we put our minds тАФ and hearts тАФ and talents and commitment together we can redesign the machinery of our civilization to actually do what we want it to do...and what тАЬleadersтАЭ keep promising it will do...eventually.
First we need a story to tell......what would the new world look like. Then we need a practical path to get there. With that we form the kernel from which we can all "spread the gospel" and grow the group. BUT the key to making it believable is the need for little victories on the road to the goal...this keeps the group together without backsliding, motivates the troups and "confirms" the riteousness of the cause, goal and methos.
Hmm... I'm thinking...
Ralph - I love your definition of humility! Thank you for that. Okay - so the "stopping the burning" requires decent, intelligent (in mind and emotion) leaders possessing integrity. Right on. Given the imminence of "burning down" --it hasn't happened yet or perhaps, actually, the match is heading toward the house this very moment -- given the "givens" in the Leadership Department, and "imagine" you are the one the rest of us has been waiting for to blow out the match or otherwise halt the momentum -- what are you going to do? how are you going to do that? What do you need to do that - inwardly and outwardly?
My question because IтАЩm stymied. WHAT can I do?
Assume inside you, is the answer to that question. And, also decide if you are willing to choose to do whatever it takes - including moving out of your comfort zone into your "vital zone" which means moving into the "unfamiliar" "not of the family" (tradition, habit, custom, how we always see ourselves) so it feels risky - a little, more, a lot risky. We each and altogether are being asked to seize this moment to enter into new ways of viewing self and other/country/enemy/ etc. and expanding our consciousness. The very fact that you are asking an important question indicates you are open and you've hit the path. The "answer" lives in the unknown and I will do whatever it requires to hear - see - feel - touch - come to it - know it. Be on the lookout for synchronistic events. A friend asks you to go with her to a political/spiritual meeting.....and usually, you'd say no ---- for example. Do the opposite to your habitual responses.
Personally, IтАЩm going to fly an American flag on the front of my house with a Biden Harris sign right below while sitting in a lawn chair wearing a red ball cap.
Yes!?!
love it!