Re: [pf] Re:Christianity/ black and white

by Nan Hildreth

08 December 2000 20:18 UTC

Dear Bill, 

Let's applaud all who, in diverse ways, revere something more than money.  If 
united, we would be about half of America. 
http://www.demographics.com/publications/ad/97_AD/9702_AD/9702A29.HTM  Soul of 
a Citizen says if your allies don't make you nervous, then you aren't reaching 
out far enough. 

Quinn teaches there is no One Right Way.  That's dominator paradigm, Taker 
mentality, conqueror/abuser arrogance. 

Nan

At 11:43 AM 12/7/00 -0400, Bill Ellis wrote:
>Nan,
>IMHO, the laws of nature are the laws by which we must live.
>For humanity the most basic need is to "belong", to care and be cared for.
>that is to love (agape). That even overrides the need for physical
>sustainance.
>For humans there is no force more powerful that love.
>Human love is not powerful enough to overcome the law of gravity and other
>laws of nature.  So we must also love "the grand and mysterious cosmos" and
>Gaia (the Earth and all its living beings).
>
>----------
>>From: Nan Hildreth <nan.hildreth@pdq.net>
>> I like your credo.   Do you think there's a force more powerful than our
>> love for each other and for the "grand and mysterious cosmos"?
>>
>> Nan
>>
>> At 03:30 PM 12/6/00 -0800, Bill Ellis wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>IMHO like Einstein I accept no personal god or formal religion.  I believe
>>>in God the Cosmos and the Reveleation of Science.  The grand and mysterious
>>>Cosmos fills oben minds with awe and wonder.  The more deeply one searches
>>>for the truth the more wonderous in appears.  All of God's creations are
>>>wonderous and worthy of our highest respect, honor and love.  "Belonging" to
>>>respecting, caring for and being cared for by God's creations gives each of
>>>us the responsibility to advance our own well being by advancing the well
>>>being of all.  That moral code, some thime called the Golden Rule, "love thy
>>>neighbor as thyself," is revealed to us by God the Cosmos by the science it
>>>lets us discover.
>>>
>>>There is no black and white only a beautiful, mysterious, awe inspiring,
>>>rainbow.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nan Hildreth, Houston  713-864-7108
>> Nan.Hildreth@pdq.net
>>
>> Fundamentally, we have an institutional problem. Until we understand and
>> deal with it, all of our societal problems will get progressively worse.
>> Above all else, we will never deal with it until we realize it is not a
>> problem at all but an unbelievable opportunity.
>>
>> Dee Hock  quoted on http://www.chaordic.org/
>> CEO Emeritus of VISA International
>> Laureate of the Business Hall of Fame
>> author of Birth of the Chaordic Age
>>
>>
>> 

Nan Hildreth, Houston 713-864-7108

"Only dead fish go with the flow."