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Our New World Order
I propose that our world has reached the point of being able to transcend the capitalist verses the communist, the entrepreneurial verses the socialist debate. I say we can do this if we seize upon one of the most central insights about our nature as human beings--that we are creative and noble creatures, in essence.
What if our paradigm for "success" is transformed from material accumulation for the individual or private interest to creative contribution to all humanity? Is this possible? Are we there yet?
You may respond to this idea generally, considering only its proposition in these three short paragraphs, or you may check out its more nuanced presentation at my Facebook pager here:
http://www.facebook.com/roger.farinha.1/posts/4270172907339
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Gail . 50+
There is a spontaneously developing movement towards awareness that we noble creatures are the creators of our own realities. Many of us use specific methods to manifest our desires into our realities. This makes us invulnerable to the machinations of others. I don't know when we will reach the tipping point, but there are already enough to keep the ideal alive no matter what happens to the bulk of the human population.
Part of the worldview that empowers us is the awareness that we are one being and that the separation that you see between us is an illusion. It is a view that is supported by quantum mechanics and even more recent studies into the nauture of "mind". The people who have discovered how POWERFUL they are individually are a gentle people who do not fear lack, thus they do not need to rape and pillage the earth or others through mindless consumption or otherwise.
As an aside, you misuse the word "capitalism" in your essay. The USA is not capitalist because government subsidizes businesses in so many ways.
Roger Farinha
To understand how we are images of our Creator, we must understand His Trinitarian nature. God is Father, Son, and Spirit--three persons in one inseparable and single Nature. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One (Deuteronomy 6:4). Then God said, Let us make man in Our own image (Genesis 1:26). So how can many persons yet be one?
This is the great destiny of our human race. To be, like God, a multitude of persons in one nature. God has for us such a seamless and wonderful unity forged in Love, that we are indeed to be as immutable as He.