This story yesterday on Here and Now about the Stanford study of 31000 people testing what works best to mend division in our country speaks to this method by Beth. Thank you Beth!
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/09/06/strengthening-democracy-study
This story yesterday on Here and Now about the Stanford study of 31000 people testing what works best to mend division in our country speaks to this method by Beth. Thank you Beth!
Guess what!!! I called Professor Willer, thinking I would get a voice mail, and he answered!!! He didn't know about Heather and so far no contact with the Biden administration. But they are trying to make this happen. So I'm going email him and Heather to introduce them and see what she can do as she already is connect with the President. Thank you so much for this!!!!
Thank you Ashley! I love your "keeping the hope and faith," I'm very excited about this connection- at the very least they will know of one another. Here's the email I sent. I'm also creating a tweet to introduce the study. <3
Dear Heather,
I'm writing to introduce you to Professor Robb Willer of Stanford University, co-author of a study that was mentioned by Sandra in the comments to your newsletter 9/6. It is a mega study of interventions "designed to reduce anti-democratic attitudes and reduce partisan animosity." The study found that the interventions work!! (see links below to article and study )
So I called Professor Willer to ask if President Biden knew of this study and he answered the phone! He said, no, but they wanted him to, and asked if there's anything I can do to help with that. So I immediately thought of you!
I told Professor Willer about your newsletter and why it is so important to all of your readers, as well as about your interview with President Biden, and he was very interested in both. (see links below)
I know you are both so busy, but this study inspired a vision of a national program of community gatherings, bringing us together to recognize that the goodness of heart that we have in common is stronger than the factors that divide us. I believe that this is our best way to defeat the current wave of violent fascism invading our country, primarily stirred by the cynical money/power grabbers who know how to feed on fear.
This will require people of your stature to make it happen. I'll do whatever I can to help.
You are so welcome! So your mother spells her name with a "y." I'd love to ask her if she gets "junk" mail addressed to Mr. Terry (Nicholetti) I don't know why people assume your name has to end in "i" if you are a girl! I actually have friends who have seen my name as Terry and still will sometimes write Terri!!! Please tell her hello for me!
Thank you Sandra! I want to know more about this statement in the article: " he finds that many aspects of social life that are often seen as antisocial or malicious - such as gossip, moral judgments, and status hierarchies - are fundamental to social order." That certainly is an eye opener for me - and a nudge to re think my automatic judgements.
"Gossip," aka the grapevine, is an essential news source and probably always has been, especially for those marginalized by the supposedly legitimate media -- which is most of us. It puts the burden on each of us to be a reliable source, to recognize the reliability of sources, and to corroborate information before passing it on. Needless to say, plenty of people don't do this, or don't do it all the time, but in general those who consistently spread info that's malicious or just plain wrong eventually lose credibility. (I wish that would happen to Fox News and the GOP, among others. Maybe it is happening. We'll see.)
"...moral judgments...are fundamental to social order..."
An unpopular thought to ponder:
Is not such fundamentalism supported by Americans' exposure to the copiousness of our contemporary wisdoms of convention?
Can you imagine our social order, instead, being inspired by the wisdom of our FATHER in Heaven as taught throughout the many stories our Holy Bible, e. g. Matthew 7:1 & Luke 6:37, Etc., Etc., Etc.
Such love would surely better homogenize Americans into a safer more peaceful United States of America, Eh!?
I can barely wrap my mind around what you seem to be saying here. Willl keep trying, but I'm curious about why you think a homogenized populace is a desirarable outcome. The MAGA Republicans are homogenized behind their leader. The Evangelicals are supposedly homogenized behind their FATHER in heaven, though I suspect the real unifying factor is whiteness . USians from the late 1940s onward were homogenized by the anti-communistm of Joe McCarthy and others. And of course we have the examples of Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia . . .
Perhaps the concept of homogenously should have been defined as, тАЬLove thy neighbor as thyself, which is the desirable outcome needed to reunite the United States of America.
Remember now the comment you are referencing cautioned that it would be unpopular. This response is given for a better understanding hopefully.
(1). The Maggot republicans and all those complicit in their silent support of white supremacyтАЩs bigotry not only hate color but also those who support love of neighbor of all colors.
(2). The clan of evangelicals are NOT Christians and do not know about our FATHER in Heaven. Christians are about love not the hate that spews from the frothing quivering lips of evangelicals against their neighbors of every color.
(3). USians, (quaint elocution!) of the 1940тАЩs rallied around the pride of patriotism spurred on by the shared commonality due to anxiety of, тАЬThe WarsтАЭ and the тАЬFox-Hole-EffectтАЭ affecting AmericanтАЩs during daily preoccupation of the haltered of distant neighborsтАж
(4). MaoтАЩs China, for just one example, authorization of executing female babies supported by the parents of those female babies certainly was not love of neighbor nor was hitlerтАЩs minions of extermination of over eight million jews an expression of neighborly love nor was the Stalinist labor camp referred to as Cannibal Island due to the depravity of cannibalismтАЩs most extreme example hating neighbors.
Hopefully your mind will become calmed by understanding the ONLY WAY America can survive the republicanтАЩs slavery to their deceitfulnessтАЩ destruction of American Democracy is love of neighbor as oneselfтАж oneтАЩs self.
This story yesterday on Here and Now about the Stanford study of 31000 people testing what works best to mend division in our country speaks to this method by Beth. Thank you Beth!
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/09/06/strengthening-democracy-study
Guess what!!! I called Professor Willer, thinking I would get a voice mail, and he answered!!! He didn't know about Heather and so far no contact with the Biden administration. But they are trying to make this happen. So I'm going email him and Heather to introduce them and see what she can do as she already is connect with the President. Thank you so much for this!!!!
Chaplain!
Thank you for doing and sharing this тАФ how wonderful.
Keeping the hope and faith, -Ashley
Thank you Ashley! I love your "keeping the hope and faith," I'm very excited about this connection- at the very least they will know of one another. Here's the email I sent. I'm also creating a tweet to introduce the study. <3
Dear Heather,
I'm writing to introduce you to Professor Robb Willer of Stanford University, co-author of a study that was mentioned by Sandra in the comments to your newsletter 9/6. It is a mega study of interventions "designed to reduce anti-democratic attitudes and reduce partisan animosity." The study found that the interventions work!! (see links below to article and study )
So I called Professor Willer to ask if President Biden knew of this study and he answered the phone! He said, no, but they wanted him to, and asked if there's anything I can do to help with that. So I immediately thought of you!
I told Professor Willer about your newsletter and why it is so important to all of your readers, as well as about your interview with President Biden, and he was very interested in both. (see links below)
I know you are both so busy, but this study inspired a vision of a national program of community gatherings, bringing us together to recognize that the goodness of heart that we have in common is stronger than the factors that divide us. I believe that this is our best way to defeat the current wave of violent fascism invading our country, primarily stirred by the cynical money/power grabbers who know how to feed on fear.
This will require people of your stature to make it happen. I'll do whatever I can to help.
Blessings,
Terry Nicholetti
Chaplain at Large
https://bit.ly/2XxMECC
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/09/06/strengthening-democracy-study
https://www.strengtheningdemocracychallenge.org/paper
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-6-2022?r=eznl2&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
https://youtu.be/PRyaDw8B9qI
Thank you, once again, Terry, for sharing your energizing efforts. Your email has my head and heart humming in harmony! ЁЯТЩЁЯдНтЭдя╕П
PS: You and my mother share a name (same spelling, even!).
You are so welcome! So your mother spells her name with a "y." I'd love to ask her if she gets "junk" mail addressed to Mr. Terry (Nicholetti) I don't know why people assume your name has to end in "i" if you are a girl! I actually have friends who have seen my name as Terry and still will sometimes write Terri!!! Please tell her hello for me!
Thank you Sandra! I want to know more about this statement in the article: " he finds that many aspects of social life that are often seen as antisocial or malicious - such as gossip, moral judgments, and status hierarchies - are fundamental to social order." That certainly is an eye opener for me - and a nudge to re think my automatic judgements.
"Gossip," aka the grapevine, is an essential news source and probably always has been, especially for those marginalized by the supposedly legitimate media -- which is most of us. It puts the burden on each of us to be a reliable source, to recognize the reliability of sources, and to corroborate information before passing it on. Needless to say, plenty of people don't do this, or don't do it all the time, but in general those who consistently spread info that's malicious or just plain wrong eventually lose credibility. (I wish that would happen to Fox News and the GOP, among others. Maybe it is happening. We'll see.)
Chaplain Terry Nicholetti
"...moral judgments...are fundamental to social order..."
An unpopular thought to ponder:
Is not such fundamentalism supported by Americans' exposure to the copiousness of our contemporary wisdoms of convention?
Can you imagine our social order, instead, being inspired by the wisdom of our FATHER in Heaven as taught throughout the many stories our Holy Bible, e. g. Matthew 7:1 & Luke 6:37, Etc., Etc., Etc.
Such love would surely better homogenize Americans into a safer more peaceful United States of America, Eh!?
I can barely wrap my mind around what you seem to be saying here. Willl keep trying, but I'm curious about why you think a homogenized populace is a desirarable outcome. The MAGA Republicans are homogenized behind their leader. The Evangelicals are supposedly homogenized behind their FATHER in heaven, though I suspect the real unifying factor is whiteness . USians from the late 1940s onward were homogenized by the anti-communistm of Joe McCarthy and others. And of course we have the examples of Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia . . .
Hello Susanna J. Sturgis:
Perhaps the concept of homogenously should have been defined as, тАЬLove thy neighbor as thyself, which is the desirable outcome needed to reunite the United States of America.
Remember now the comment you are referencing cautioned that it would be unpopular. This response is given for a better understanding hopefully.
(1). The Maggot republicans and all those complicit in their silent support of white supremacyтАЩs bigotry not only hate color but also those who support love of neighbor of all colors.
(2). The clan of evangelicals are NOT Christians and do not know about our FATHER in Heaven. Christians are about love not the hate that spews from the frothing quivering lips of evangelicals against their neighbors of every color.
(3). USians, (quaint elocution!) of the 1940тАЩs rallied around the pride of patriotism spurred on by the shared commonality due to anxiety of, тАЬThe WarsтАЭ and the тАЬFox-Hole-EffectтАЭ affecting AmericanтАЩs during daily preoccupation of the haltered of distant neighborsтАж
(4). MaoтАЩs China, for just one example, authorization of executing female babies supported by the parents of those female babies certainly was not love of neighbor nor was hitlerтАЩs minions of extermination of over eight million jews an expression of neighborly love nor was the Stalinist labor camp referred to as Cannibal Island due to the depravity of cannibalismтАЩs most extreme example hating neighbors.
Hopefully your mind will become calmed by understanding the ONLY WAY America can survive the republicanтАЩs slavery to their deceitfulnessтАЩ destruction of American Democracy is love of neighbor as oneselfтАж oneтАЩs self.
Thank you! I am going to write to the team and ask if the administration has seen this study. What a national project this could be!
thank you, Liz!!
Many thx Liz