Paradise on earth. Discussions - iPeace.us2024-03-29T02:29:54Zhttps://ipeace.us/group/paradiseonearth/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noMembers of Paradise on earth.tag:ipeace.us,2008-12-15:2217368:Topic:7085402008-12-15T08:31:57.647ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
Sorry for not putting this discussion up when I started the group....<br />
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Sorry for not putting this discussion up when I started the group....<br />
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<center><b>Just post about yourself. Get to know each other a little bit. :)</b></center> Related iPeace Groups (and offsite links)tag:ipeace.us,2008-12-01:2217368:Topic:5848682008-12-01T09:10:19.126ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
If other groups on this site specialize in some of the areas we need to help create Paradise, please contribute them here and I will place iPeace links here at the top (and then remove the post for more room below)<br />
And off-site links are welcome too but will remain below as comments, please give a text description of the off-site links, with how they relate to and help us to create Paradise on earth.<br />
Love peace and joy,<br />
<br />
Tree<br />
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Related groups on the iPeace website, as in tools, for creating…
If other groups on this site specialize in some of the areas we need to help create Paradise, please contribute them here and I will place iPeace links here at the top (and then remove the post for more room below)<br />
And off-site links are welcome too but will remain below as comments, please give a text description of the off-site links, with how they relate to and help us to create Paradise on earth.<br />
Love peace and joy,<br />
<br />
Tree<br />
<br />
Related groups on the iPeace website, as in tools, for creating Paradise on earth, by a direct result of how we live here.<br />
<a href="http://www.ipeace.me/group/alternativeenergysolutions">Alternitive energy solutions.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ipeace.me/group/savetheearth">Help save the earth</a> Equal rights of wealth, to end poverty.tag:ipeace.us,2008-11-28:2217368:Topic:5604012008-11-28T07:23:40.659ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
As stated in iGovern, if I govern myself, then there is no need for others to do so for me/to me.<br />
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If I take the total of the steal, aluminum, copper, rubber, and other materials on the surface of this planet (including in land fills) and divide it by the total world population. Then that, is my birth right. This includes habitable land.<br />
<b>NOW</b> what then will determine my wealth, is not so much what I have, but what I <b>do with it</b>.<br />
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Technology is the art of doing more with less, so if…
As stated in iGovern, if I govern myself, then there is no need for others to do so for me/to me.<br />
<br />
If I take the total of the steal, aluminum, copper, rubber, and other materials on the surface of this planet (including in land fills) and divide it by the total world population. Then that, is my birth right. This includes habitable land.<br />
<b>NOW</b> what then will determine my wealth, is not so much what I have, but what I <b>do with it</b>.<br />
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Technology is the art of doing more with less, so if I live within my means, as outlined above, then if I use LESS materials than is that amount, it makes more of those materials easily available to others.<br />
If I set my laws I live by to not exceed this amount, I do my part, of ending poverty on this earth.<br />
Technology then is not the problem, but the solution.<br />
Technology, is the art, of doing more, with less.<br />
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Imagine, each of us, with computer operated green houses growing our food 365 days a year?<br />
And helping others once we have done this for our selves, to do the same?<br />
We end world hunger.<br />
No reason to fight over food. No stress worrying if I loose my job, I will starve.<br />
If we can do this with food, transportation, electricity, and all of our BASIC HUMAN NEEDS,<br />
what cause do we have then, for war? For poverty? For hunger?<br />
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This is also in keeping with <a href="http://www.ipeace.me/group/paradiseonearth/forum/topics/my-prayer-for-peace-on-earth">My prayer for peace on earth, for Paradise this day.</a> Because if I can live in peace, HOW I live, then I can look into the mirror every day, and smile from the inside. Knowing I am doing something to change, to a path of non-destruction, but to help, all life on earth, with how I live here.<br />
PEACE! Its worth fighting for, fighting to change myself, into a more beautiful human being.<br />
For real.<br />
Feedback welcome! My prayer for peace on earth, for Paradise this day.tag:ipeace.us,2008-11-20:2217368:Topic:5141422008-11-20T20:43:29.143ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
May I this day, do my part to creating a Paradise on this earth, with my life.<br />
May I carry peace within my heart, soul, and mind, that these may naturally shine in my smile and my eyes.<br />
May I add to the strengths of those I share this journey of life with.<br />
May I remind them of the beauty of their souls,<br />
May I be a good friend to all and all life on earth,<br />
May I be a good member of this giant crew,<br />
May I this day change my life in some way, that the creator and the earth, may find more cause to…
May I this day, do my part to creating a Paradise on this earth, with my life.<br />
May I carry peace within my heart, soul, and mind, that these may naturally shine in my smile and my eyes.<br />
May I add to the strengths of those I share this journey of life with.<br />
May I remind them of the beauty of their souls,<br />
May I be a good friend to all and all life on earth,<br />
May I be a good member of this giant crew,<br />
May I this day change my life in some way, that the creator and the earth, may find more cause to smile for creating me.<br />
May I by living here, be an asset to all life on earth, strengthen it help it to grow.<br />
May I this day be like a Tree in the garden of Paradise, and be fruitful and multiply the seeds of peace.<br />
May I be grateful, for this gift of life this day, and do something right, to return this gift and be deserving of it.<br />
May I become a Man this day.<br />
May I, as part of this earth, and nature and this universe, add to its beauty, by how I live, and how I smile.<br />
May I change my life more this day to live in Paradise, without shame for how I leave it, but walk the path gently,<br />
May I this day have more cause through my changing, to be at peace with my self for my own existence.<br />
May I not destroy this garden by living here, but leave it more beautiful and prosperous for all life on this earth.<br />
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In this I pray this day as I begin my day, that I may walk the path, and be at peace,<br />
and in this way bear fruit in who I am in this garden I did not create, but am only a visitor passing through.<br />
I dont seek to pick the flowers, but to plant seeds, for those who follow, to brighten their way.<br />
That I may leave a smile I shall never see, but a smile no less that will be here, long after I am gone.<br />
May I plant the seeds of peace.<br />
Tree Part of the motivation (status of earth)tag:ipeace.us,2008-11-20:2217368:Topic:5090502008-11-20T04:48:02.996ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
Again, it is my wish this groups focus is upon our destination,<br />
and that I do hold should be our primary motivation.<br />
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As such it is two different things,<br />
One is to say, NO MORE WAR,<br />
The other is to say LET THERE BE PEACE.<br />
<br />
The focus of this group, the intention, is on the destination,<br />
I do not desire to distract from that with this, yet it is relevant.<br />
as an additional motive aside from the one humans should have<br />
to do it right in the first place.<br />
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Again, it is my wish this groups focus is upon our destination,<br />
and that I do hold should be our primary motivation.<br />
<br />
As such it is two different things,<br />
One is to say, NO MORE WAR,<br />
The other is to say LET THERE BE PEACE.<br />
<br />
The focus of this group, the intention, is on the destination,<br />
I do not desire to distract from that with this, yet it is relevant.<br />
as an additional motive aside from the one humans should have<br />
to do it right in the first place.<br />
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Please also view,<br />
by placing your mouse next to this chart,<br />
where, the <b>current</b> CO<sup>2</sup> concentrations are.<br />
You may have to go up a few lines above this text.<br />
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I've studied climatology for 35 yrs. This is the chart Al Gore used in "Inconvenient Truth".<br />
I had it long before he did, my neighbor in Minnesota USA where I lived, was among those who went by dog sled to the South Pole to retrieve the ice core samples.<br />
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This one is to help with the perspective of the current temperature.<br />
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I said I remember before I was born.<br />
The reason is simple,<br />
so I would not forget,<br />
the reason I was sent here.<br />
I have lived in the wild places this is true,<br />
but never forgotten the reason I came.<br />
What you see above, is the tip of an ice burg<br />
of the reason<br />
I am.<br />
<br />
We have a choice, to keep going,<br />
or change.<br />
how much time do you think we have left?<br />
I did not wait for a government, to do what as a human being,<br />
is my responsibility. To change.<br />
And to this precise, the things on the clock above<br />
are moving a little slower.<br />
I can not do this alone.<br />
Let us please,<br />
Build Paradise, now........<br />
if we wait until later or tomorrow...........<br />
To live in Peace on earth.....................<br />
I hear voices all over claiming "the end is near"<br />
I'm not needing to say that here, nor is this the intention.<br />
<br />
One is to say, NO MORE WAR,<br />
The other is to say LET THERE BE PEACE.<br />
<br />
One is to say "we are in trouble"<br />
THIS ONE is to say "Let us be the solution"<br />
Paradise, we have but 2 choices I can see.<br />
The question is, which will it be?<br />
<br />
One is to cry over the state of this world,<br />
the other is to rejoice and celebrate what we are building.<br />
<br />
Not wait until some another day.<br />
I choose Paradise NOW.<br />
That to me, is worth smiling about.<br />
Peace. Is worth fighting with my self,<br />
to create on earth with my life.<br />
Because it is more important, than just my one life. iGovern in Paradise.tag:ipeace.us,2008-11-19:2217368:Topic:5075712008-11-19T23:06:16.543ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
We all have our governments we are all from many nations.<br />
What we have in common still is "I".<br />
So with this, I would like to add to the discussion,<br />
of governing our selves.<br />
<br />
If we as a people around the world yet in our own lands,<br />
govern our selves, what need have we then of larger governments?<br />
<br />
My child once talked of revolution,<br />
over throw the government...<br />
I told him that a revolution is like a circle,<br />
you end up back where you started.<br />
But rather than revolve,<br />
to Evolve.<br />
The best way to put…
We all have our governments we are all from many nations.<br />
What we have in common still is "I".<br />
So with this, I would like to add to the discussion,<br />
of governing our selves.<br />
<br />
If we as a people around the world yet in our own lands,<br />
govern our selves, what need have we then of larger governments?<br />
<br />
My child once talked of revolution,<br />
over throw the government...<br />
I told him that a revolution is like a circle,<br />
you end up back where you started.<br />
But rather than revolve,<br />
to Evolve.<br />
The best way to put an end to government,<br />
is to remove the need for it.<br />
And to govern our selves.<br />
This way he only needed to walk the path of peace,<br />
to work on his part, of what he wanted.<br />
<br />
There is a story I told him, though not my own nor am I sure I remember it correctly that I told him.<br />
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I was going to the top of the mountain.<br />
On the way I saw several other people coming from the other direction.<br />
So I asked them what the trail to the top was like.<br />
"We dont know, we are on the way to the top of the mountain" replied one of them.<br />
"No" I said "The mountain is THIS way" I said.<br />
"No" they said "We are going to this way to the top",<br />
"Fools! Your going the WRONG WAY" I said to them....<br />
I could see the mountain right in front of me... they REFUSED to listen!<br />
<br />
So they went their way and I went mine.<br />
Sure that I would see them there at the top after they learned their lesson.<br />
<br />
Several weeks later I made it to the top and,<br />
there, were the fools,<br />
already waiting for me to show up......<br />
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Had they listened to me,<br />
they would have been behind me not ahead of me.<br />
Each has our own path we must follow,<br />
no matter my good intentions if someone asks for advice,<br />
consider it carefully before taking it and seek also the advice of others,<br />
then take the best path for you and your situation.<br />
Issues are seldom black and white,<br />
but full color, you, being in your situation, know more about it than someone outside of it.<br />
So if someone comes for help or guidance, I will try to assist, but that may only be by providing a different point of view. It is your life, be you to the best you can,<br />
you then offer something unique to this world, no one else can.<br />
Our paths may be different,<br />
And that needs to be okay.<br />
For each of us, to reach the top of the mountain,<br />
and learn what we need to learn, along the way.<br />
<br />
So while I do feel it right, to outline ways we can live together,<br />
together is the union of many individuals.<br />
It starts with "i"<br />
<br />
Society here most of my life,<br />
said it was okay to burn gasoline.<br />
I took the total world population, divided by the total estimated petroleum<br />
further divided that by 100 (guessing at 100 generations require for the planet to produce this resource)<br />
and came up with 1.8 barrels of oil.<br />
And if I burned more than that, I was stealing.<br />
Not by the laws of my government,<br />
but by the laws "I" live by.<br />
<br />
If I make my laws<br />
for how I live, more strict than any government<br />
they have little left to do!<br />
<br />
If I want to put an end to welfare,<br />
I watch out for the welfare of my neighbors.<br />
<br />
The world of humanity, is made up of individual members,<br />
It is US who needs to change,<br />
But with my life, I hold I only have the right to tell myself how to live,<br />
not others.<br />
<br />
An example of a rule I hold,<br />
in this iGovern,<br />
Is that I have the right to do what ever I wish to do with my own life,<br />
so long as that does not interfere with the rights of others to live as they seek to live with their lives.<br />
<br />
Feedback welcome! Warmth (and cooling) Peaceful beautiful ways of meeting this human needtag:ipeace.us,2008-11-19:2217368:Topic:5064722008-11-19T21:00:10.497ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
As we live on this earth we have basic needs,<br />
Food, warmth and shelter.<br />
This is a place to once again post images.<br />
Of beautiful ways of doing this.<br />
<br />
Drawing from my own personal experiences,<br />
much like a garden, full of biodiversity,<br />
The more different ways I have of heating and cooling,<br />
the better my chance I can harvest in different types of weather that year.<br />
<br />
Right now I'm in Alaska USA, and it is winter,<br />
and the winds are cold and strong.<br />
I have wind generators, and my power storage is…
As we live on this earth we have basic needs,<br />
Food, warmth and shelter.<br />
This is a place to once again post images.<br />
Of beautiful ways of doing this.<br />
<br />
Drawing from my own personal experiences,<br />
much like a garden, full of biodiversity,<br />
The more different ways I have of heating and cooling,<br />
the better my chance I can harvest in different types of weather that year.<br />
<br />
Right now I'm in Alaska USA, and it is winter,<br />
and the winds are cold and strong.<br />
I have wind generators, and my power storage is full,<br />
so to use this extra power, I have electric heaters running,<br />
so the harder the bitter winds of winter blow, the warmer my dwelling becomes.<br />
<br />
This is just one example of keeping warm turned into an art.<br />
But to finish doing so, I need to redesign (a work in progress),<br />
the bodies of my wind generators so they too, become ART.<br />
Something that someone looking at them, would see as beauty,<br />
not as a distraction from the beauty of nature (life on earth)<br />
but an accent to it. to bring beauty to it, not take away from it.<br />
That looking upon the wind generators and solar panels and other means,<br />
is turned into something of beauty,<br />
Something that would look nice, in Paradise.<br />
Not just turning keeping warm into an art, but to do so artistically.<br />
So it reflects peace on earth, rather than distracts from it.<br />
<br />
A warm fire could be seen as something of beauty and peace,<br />
And pictures of those are welcome also,<br />
However, we seem to be doing a lot of burning on this earth,<br />
since we learned about fire, we seemed to have gotten a little carried away with it,<br />
like a child given a power tool.<br />
<br />
I try to use electricity, even though I have a wood stove in Alaska and an abundant local supply,<br />
I seek to learn to do things better an not burn up the world I live in, to stay warm.<br />
<br />
If I am descendant of cave man,<br />
I think my ancestors could look upon me and smile,<br />
with my turning the bitter winter winds, into heat for my home,<br />
without burning anything, without work, the winds do this for me,<br />
as I use what this earth freely gives, wisely,<br />
rather than force from the earth more than it freely gives,<br />
and burn up what belongs to the next generations, more than to this one,<br />
that has already used up far more than its share.<br />
I am among those who have done so,<br />
and need to stop, so I can live in peace,<br />
for existing on this earth.<br />
<br />
Please post ideas and pictures of ways we can keep warm or cool,<br />
that do not destroy this paradise, but accent it, using what is freely given.<br />
The more beautiful they are, the more others will want to do the same from these examples.<br />
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Sorry these are not pretty (yet) I'm living on around $200 USD a month income so the heater came out of a dumpster and I'm putting function before fashion, until I can put more of myself into re-creating Paradise.<br />
It is a work, in progress. Food, our gardens in Paradise.tag:ipeace.us,2008-11-19:2217368:Topic:5062102008-11-19T20:21:00.275ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
This too is a place pictures are welcome.<br />
Pictures of peaceful places that we grow our food.<br />
To garden, as more than just to produce food but to garden for art.<br />
<br />
As we change the world around us in order to exist.<br />
If we do so in a way that is like a peaceful painting,<br />
Our world around us then is dominated by peace,<br />
it reflects the part within us and reminds us of that part we know in ourselves, as Peace.<br />
<br />
If we must eat, then instead of a garden that is sterile other than one kind of food grown…
This too is a place pictures are welcome.<br />
Pictures of peaceful places that we grow our food.<br />
To garden, as more than just to produce food but to garden for art.<br />
<br />
As we change the world around us in order to exist.<br />
If we do so in a way that is like a peaceful painting,<br />
Our world around us then is dominated by peace,<br />
it reflects the part within us and reminds us of that part we know in ourselves, as Peace.<br />
<br />
If we must eat, then instead of a garden that is sterile other than one kind of food grown in mass...<br />
The gift of this planet from what we are learning of other planets is that it has LIFE.<br />
As a rare gem, it holds value in how rare it is.<br />
To add value to it, is to encourage as much life in a given area as we can.<br />
Diversity adds to the amount of live in a given area,<br />
so the more different types of life in our gardens the more wealth we hold on earth.<br />
<br />
Please post ideas, pictures, gardening methods that promote peaceful gardens.<br />
Much of all this has to do with iPeace.<br />
In taking care of our selves, we hold greater peace and independence through self reliance.<br />
If I grow wheat instead of grass for my lawn, well, for one thing it takes less work :D<br />
But for another, I reduce my fear, of what happens if all the stores close or run out of food?<br />
Taking care of ones self, thus decreases cause for fear, cause to "fit in" with the way things have been done,<br />
or we could loose our jobs and thus our way to stay alive.<br />
We also reduce fuel emissions from transporting food from the other side of our countries.<br />
<br />
The more I "take care of myself" the greater my peace becomes.<br />
The more I turn doing so into an ART,<br />
the greater still my peace becomes.<br />
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Gardening has a lot to do with self reliance and self reliance as an art form will be a common theme,<br />
in the recreation of Paradise.<br />
Often I may grow more of one thing than another, and then trade with my neighbor who grew more of something else.<br />
So taking care of our selves, does not weaken the fabric of society, but actually adds to it as will be explained more clearly in other discussions.<br />
Please post your pretty pictures of how to grow our own food.<br />
How to take care of ourselves, and in the process of doing so,<br />
re-create Paradise ourselves in our lives and for all who may view our homes and gardens.<br />
Help others to see what can be done, share your visions, you pictures of beauty and life that keeps us alive.<br />
Gardens of Paradise. Shelters of Paradise. Our homes (other homes welcome too)tag:ipeace.us,2008-11-19:2217368:Topic:5060762008-11-19T20:02:20.074ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
This is a place were pictures are welcome and encouraged.<br />
In seeking the intrinsic nature of peace in the world, much of what I have learned I see reflected in those in this group and elsewhere in the iPeace site.<br />
I will try to put this into words, and may refine them over time to bring them to be more simple.<br />
<br />
As an visual artist, I sought to do paintings that would reflect peace.<br />
Those who would buy them from me, would then have those as their environment.<br />
We tend to be effected by our…
This is a place were pictures are welcome and encouraged.<br />
In seeking the intrinsic nature of peace in the world, much of what I have learned I see reflected in those in this group and elsewhere in the iPeace site.<br />
I will try to put this into words, and may refine them over time to bring them to be more simple.<br />
<br />
As an visual artist, I sought to do paintings that would reflect peace.<br />
Those who would buy them from me, would then have those as their environment.<br />
We tend to be effected by our environment, without much thought, like most life is.<br />
So to bring others closer to peace I sought to create peaceful environments with my paintings.<br />
The paintings then became as power objects radiating peace in the persons home, thus to that extent,<br />
Peace within themselves.<br />
To the extent we control our environment, it then effects us.<br />
<br />
Consider a beautiful valley.<br />
Many on seeing it find it would be a beautiful place to live.<br />
So in come bulldozers and heavy machinery and put in a road, and many driveways,<br />
and many square buildings almost identical to the generic average of most human shaped homes.<br />
<br />
Now let us step back, and gaze upon the valley.<br />
Is it still beautiful?<br />
Does it still reflect back to us, the power of peace?<br />
<br />
I sold the land those who came, called Paradise.<br />
When I did so I told the buyer these words,<br />
"You cannot buy Paradise<br />
it is something you must surrender your self to"<br />
<br />
Each place on this earth is different.<br />
Desert or forest or mountains or flat lands.<br />
If we first, sit down in the places we seek to have our homes, or already do,<br />
and seek out the individual personality of the location where we live,<br />
Does our dwelling REFLECT that personality?<br />
Is it an asset to it or a distraction from it?<br />
<br />
If we take the above example of the valley filled with square houses,<br />
and instead fill it with just as many tipi's or lodges,<br />
would then not someone coming to the valley see something beautiful?<br />
<br />
This is not to say we should all live in tipi's<br />
But to build our homes in ways that add to, not take away from,<br />
the beauty of paradise.<br />
<br />
This then becomes like our painting in the home,<br />
I reflects BACK peace, and Paradise,<br />
rather than takes away from it.<br />
<br />
Please post pictures of homes for humans that do this.<br />
That reflect back, the art of the land they are built in.<br />
Or even concepts for them, that those who come here can gain ideas<br />
into different ways to re-create Paradise.<br />
This is again, to turn living on earth as humans,<br />
into an ART of Peace. iParadise (general basics)tag:ipeace.us,2008-11-19:2217368:Topic:5015552008-11-19T02:59:49.610ZTree Thunderchildhttps://ipeace.us/profile/TreeThunderchild
I wish this group to add to the intention of iPeace.<br />
In that it is about i and Peace. And through this, change the world.<br />
Not so much telling the world to change, but the power of peace within ourselves to change the world.<br />
When a child learns to walk,<br />
often they fall and it hurts.<br />
Once the child learns to walk,<br />
they don't fall very often nor get hurt as often.<br />
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If pain is there to teach us something,<br />
it seems that the sooner we learn what it is there to teach us,<br />
the sooner the pain goes…
I wish this group to add to the intention of iPeace.<br />
In that it is about i and Peace. And through this, change the world.<br />
Not so much telling the world to change, but the power of peace within ourselves to change the world.<br />
When a child learns to walk,<br />
often they fall and it hurts.<br />
Once the child learns to walk,<br />
they don't fall very often nor get hurt as often.<br />
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If pain is there to teach us something,<br />
it seems that the sooner we learn what it is there to teach us,<br />
the sooner the pain goes away.<br />
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If I feel the pain of this world,<br />
rather than focus on the pain,<br />
I seek to learn what it is trying to teach us.<br />
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That in doing things the right way,<br />
the reason for the pain will naturally go away.<br />
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I view humans, as children,<br />
we are only just in our beginnings,<br />
if we were wise, we would have no war,<br />
no poverty, no crimes, no hatreds, cause no pains to each other or this earth.<br />
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So I hold those truths as self evident,<br />
that we are young, and not really very good at walking yet.<br />
we have a lot to learn.<br />
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I have faith that we will learn,<br />
and this is an ongoing thing,<br />
such as coming here to this site,<br />
to learn and to share the art of the acts,<br />
of peace.<br />
Can this world change?<br />
It is changing.<br />
If we come here to learn the art of peace,<br />
then the truth of that is self evident.<br />
This world desires and is,<br />
growing towards peace.<br />
Those of us here,<br />
make that truth self evident.<br />
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Humans are like children,<br />
who have power tools.<br />
Now, its a matter of growing up,<br />
that we may create something beautiful<br />
with them,<br />
by starting with the holders of those tools.<br />
Us.<br />
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If I feel the pain of this world,<br />
rather than focus on the pain,<br />
I seek to learn what it is trying to teach,<br />
that I may help the world learn to walk,<br />
that we may then learn to fly.<br />
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If you know of good ideas for re-creating Paradise, please share them!<br />
That others may come, and find ways, and learn how they too can make changes to shift the course of all humanity in the direction of the re-creation of Paradise.<br />
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While "I" did create this group, I want it to be OUR group, not just mine.<br />
What power I do have, I want to use to aid in it being a free place for all to speak equally.<br />
To share visions of Paradise,<br />
That my self, as well as other may come to learn from what is shared,<br />
How to do things perhaps a bit differently than we have, to live in a way that creates Paradise.<br />
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I would also like it if people could post on this page,<br />
Ideas for the image for this group, rather than mine, I'd like something that would be "ours".<br />
And if you see one posted here you like, add your voice to that design, and after a while,<br />
let us see what evolves :)<br />
Peace to all the world, and all life on earth.<br />
Your friend<br />
Tree