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What is the most important goal for humanity to pursue?
Regina asks each person to take action in pursuit of an important goal. If you had to pick one important goal on which to focus your efforts above all other goals, which goal would you pick? Would you choose to solve world hunger, poverty, end war, cure cancer, develop fusion, interstellar flight, something else entirely? Why?
Yasmina Mata
Don Wesley 50+
"Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven"
Thanks for asking
Don Wesley
l aresu
Don Wesley 50+
"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead
Adriaan Braam 20+
To learn that we have to accept a learning process that we see as useful and good, with guiding information we see as applicable and truthful.
The process should teach and coach us toward loving God and loving the good in anyone we meet.
Personally I believe we should find the best description of God we can possibly find and then determine how well we fit in with that description (since we were created in His image and likeness (but in potential)).
Fitting in with that description cannot be done by sitting around and doing nothing. The only way to fit in is to (sometimes force ourselves) to express our love toward the neighbour in actions and deeds.
The result will be a better world.
Nothing from us will make God more omniscient, omnipresent or more infinite. However, the more people there are who decide to become an angel, the more angels He can love and make happy in heaven.
So, get to work :)
BTW if you want more details
http://sites.google.com/site/liveitupspiritually/home/writings/DLW_DP.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
Peter Prue
Don Wesley 50+
Aware and caring about you
Don
Adriaan Braam 20+
We often have to try out a sport before we can know how we would react. Then we have to learn more about the sport to find out what position we'd like to play.
The point of knowing God first is to see what we have to do to fit into His world, according to His advice and guidance.
Don Wesley 50+
let the sound of flowing spring water be heard in the silence of the early evening horizon.
1. Let the bells ring loud and vibrantly for a minute of melody
2. Let the town crier declare that a happy earth is near; next year.
3. Get busy and ponder the question “To Be or Not to Be."
4. Intend to be the person you are meant To Be.
5. Turn, find and take care of those suffering and tell them the good news.
6. Rejoice with your neighbours as they go on with their new chores.
7. Get ready for the work of harvesting what the world was designed to provide.
8. Celebrate in quiet meditation to regenerate your creative abilities.
9. Pull the strings of your family together and sleep under the starlight.
10. Enjoy your favourite breakfast and leave for the courts to ensure that justice is quick and merciful.
11. Volunteer to be a town crier of good truthful news to ensure the gossips will wither away.
12. Put your Egos in a box and bury them, ensuring your talk will be simple.
13. You will have found the virtue of contentment.
14. The world will be filled with wells of wisdom and wealth.
Don, from the silent generation – April 2012 - From my heart and soul.
Don Wesley 50+
Collaborating to solve problems of surviving.
It is an old problem, but we do have new technologies to incorporate.
We need new knowledge of how to collaborate and that is the story of history itself.
Speeding up means of faster and more effective sharing of science in progress
The seventeenth century witnessed the race for navigational knowledge to rule the seas. It was the domain of kings.
Get busy studying so we have something new to share.Evidence will grow hope.
Chris Kelly 20+
Random Chance 30+
Humans are not yet civilized and we haven't created a civilization yet.
We kill, ruin, invade, acquire, destroy, enslave, impoverish, create inequality and keep it alive, war, profit on death, disease and destruction, eliminate species, and all the "good things" we have done still don't qualify as civilization.
If you think they do, you're lying to yourself.
"Knowing God" does nothing. It's behavior.
The only moral nature in life is how we treat each other, not what we know.
Why oh why do we still fear things like "human rights"?
Because we are not civilized.
Dan F 50+
Eugene Rosenfeld
Dan F 50+
Quality of life covers a variety of different aspects of our lives from lifestyle to products we buy at the market. It includes self sufficiency to satisfy meeting these basic needs and wants along with the choices we enjoy from shopping to expressing our views. These things can be and are in jeopardy by what is happening around us. We are in the middle of an expanding world population that affects so many things from supply and demand to growing nationalism. Nationalism is being expressed in our defense budget and increasingly esoteric activities. That in turn is justified by protecting our self interests on the world stage. This all makes sense which makes it all the more disconcerting.
The reason quality of life was my pick is because I see the stresses from current population numbers and the ballooning growth of these numbers as problematic in maintaing the quality of life so many of us have come to expect, what ever that may include.
You might say, I see quanity consuming the quality in our lives. That's why pursuing quality of life is a noble goal for humanity.
Ady Los Zonga
Jaime Amsel
Dirk Gielen
Gerald O'brian 50+
Ayan Ghoshal
Derek Young 30+
E G 10+
natasha nikulina 50+
To know thyself .
Awareness
Truth in all forms
To learn to love
Survival
So, as I see it, we are in full agreement with all posts here ; bellow and above :)
E G 10+
natasha nikulina 50+
Could you tell, what it is, the main point ?
natasha nikulina 50+
What could it possibly be , the main missing point ?
And now i have it : to know God one must practice knowing God .
Is that what you meant ?
E G 10+
I don't know the main point , sometimes I feel it , but if to know God means to be in agreement with this all rant said (by the way every enough experienced kid would say the same thing : learn to love, truth....) then God do not exist . It must be something more out there .
natasha nikulina 50+
No need to apologize, it's a millennium's question, so i can wait for 4 days . :)
I think I understand what you mean... or maybe I only think , that I do.
Anyway, thank you for responding !
Ayan Ghoshal
Roberto Garcia
Nigel Bamber
Dirk Gielen
(1) A, meaningfully wise, clean financial compensation solution to solve the 'humanitarian' problems
(1.1) needs / best solutions . .
(1.2) Solutions to material bounderies . .
(1.3) Etc
R H 20+
Zdenek Smith 100+
Scientifically and ethically based education with subjects from history, arts, social studies etc. will allow human kind to solve all issues that you list and much more.
Eugene Rosenfeld
Zdenek Smith 100+
While there are many complex ethical issues that border on being philosophical, many basic ethical principles are part of United Nations declaration of human rights that seem to be universally agreed on (not necessary in use in all countries) such as equality, freedom of speech etc.
In developed society, it is typically either politicians or more likely judicial system that determines and continuously improves laws that governs human rights.
Education then feeds from these laws and laws are improved by continuous increase of education of people (judges) based on our better understanding of what and why some things are morally right or wrong without any political, religious or cultural context.
In terms of unethical teachings, it depends what exactly is being taught but generally it would be private matter like certain religious teachings unless someone is seriously affected?
Peter Prue
pat gilbert 50+
Scott Armstrong 50+
Francesco Amati
Once we are finally aware of that, we will be a civilization with less thought and more action based on less thinking and more knowing. When we remember what it truly means to live, life will be fulfilled. We can probably start by eliminating money. This would start a social-economic revolution, but, like the ever-changing weather - it, too, will pass, and Earth will also be at peace.
The ultimate goal is progression of intelligence and survival on a universal scale.
Dirk Gielen
Eugene Rosenfeld
Edwin Nazarian 10+
Individually we are not that powerful to solve collective's problems, but collectively we will be able to solve not only individual's problem but humanities' as well.
I think I wouldn't go for an end-war goal... I will tell you why.
there is a negative energy in that goal. plus, one man can't stop a war.
Remember what Mother Theresa said: "I will never attend an anti-war rally, but if you have a peace rally, invite me"
hungry people are capable of doing anything. first they might think of food.
Poverty is a created condition. we are responsible for this.
Not to go into details, I think I will go for a better education.
because it is the mirror of our society.
think about this:
everyone wants to leave a better world to our children,
but hardly anyone wants to leave better children for the world.
Eugene Rosenfeld