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What are you willing to do to make the world a better place?
I have my own answer, http://www.wesolver.org/ and I am giving everything I can to it. What is your answer?
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Armistral .
Colleen Steen 500+
It IS indeed "awesome" because it is how I learn, grow and evolve in the earth school. I cannot even imagine spending time here (earth) being complacent! I cannot imagine NOT being fully engaged with the human life experience, and exploring everything that is possible. While we are making a difference in our world (hopefully), we are making a difference in ourselves....win/win situation, don't you think?
Colleen Steen 500+
I have been, and continue to be, willing to be fully present, and mindfully aware in each and every moment of the life adventure:>)
Different stages of my life, have embraced volunteering in woman/children's shelter/family center, co-facilitating "cognitive self change" sessions with incarcerated men, volunteering in a terminal care facility, guest-lecturing at the univ. on the topic of violence and abuse in relationships, challenging a toxic business, serving on local and regional planning and development boards....etc.
I have been involved with people, and social services, as well as involvement with land use organizations. I am an avid gardener, with hundreds of perrenials, herbs, fruits, water gardens, etc. Actually, my mother was in her gardens when she went into labor for me... we went to the hosp....did our thing, and we went back home to the garden. I have been in a garden my whole life:>)
I think it is important to be aware of our environment, which sustains all of us.....or not.....as well as the people who inhabit our environment. I encourage working together toward a goal of health and peace, and that goal has to start with each and every one of us as individuals.
I KNOW I can be a good steward in the one tiny space I occupy in this earth school, and if we could ALL do our little part, what a wonderful world it would be?
Armistral .
I have pondered that point but regardless choose to call everything and all that is "god" that way unless reality/existence/life is nothing but an illusion "god" still exists and I still get to enjoy that thought!
edward long 100+
Armistral .
If god exists we must all be part of god and so of course all the things that are possible for god are possible for us, unfortunately that means ALL things, not just the good ones so your expressions and acts of goodness is god in the world being good. Thanks for that!
edward long 100+
By the way, may I suggest a much more important point to ponder is: "if God does NOT exist". Be well sir!
greg dahlen 20+
If you're asking about the big ones, oh, that might take a while. I like to walk, in fact I don't have a car and rarely go anywhere on the bus, so I'm very local. I think walking more makes the world a better place.
When I'm walking, if I see a big piece of trash in the street, I'll usually pick it up and put it in the nearest trashcan. Or if I see problems in the community, such as a broken streetlight or fire hydrant, I'll find the right person to report it to and get it fixed.
For five years I've followed an unusual diet, which is living only on milk. Every day I drink between one and two gallons of milk a day, and I don't eat or drink anything else. I've seen many benefits from this diet, and I keep telling people about it so they'll at least know it's a possibility, even if they don't use it. Possibilities, options, make the world a better place.
I like to think and ask questions. I believe sharing my thoughts and questions, such as on the TED site, makes the world a better place. Often I'll call in to talk radio shows from the audience at home and share my ideas and questions on the air. I believe exchange of ideas and new questions makes the world a better place.
Armistral .
If you ever get the desire to exchange those ideas and questions in another format, please consider http://www.wesolver.org as a place to do that, we need everything you have to offer.
Armistral .
Glad to know you are out there, a good friend of mine would sum it up in a very similar way.
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
I also love the slogan used by my former school, Damelin College, which says: "Live, love, learn, leave a legacy"
greg dahlen 20+
By the way, where or what is Damelin College?
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
I'm involved in media advocacy; I've shot PSAs that speaks against 'Rape', 'Teenage Pregnancy', and 'Human Traffikking'
More importantly, those who know me will tell you that I exude love and goodness.
I did my Grade 12 at Damelin College, a school in Bramley, a Northern Johannesburg suburb, before my Bachelor of Arts degree at AFDA film school in Johannesburg.
Armistral .
If you have anything to share on these problems (and their solutions) please do we can use all the help we can get!
http://www.wesolver.org/wiki/Rape
http://www.wesolver.org/wiki/Teenage_Pregnancy
http://www.wesolver.org/wiki/Human_Trafficking