This one gets it right.
http://www.solomonstarnews.com/viewpoint/letters-to-the-editor/9989-rethinking-society-and-the-human-spirit
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Solomon Star News
Rethinking society and the human spirit
Published: 24 March 2016
Dear Editor - Science thinking and religious thinking has changed over the
centuries concerning origins of the universe, evolution of human and other
species, the solar systems size and other profound matters.
Just think! Women and men were created by an all loving God to engage in
bringing forward an ever advancing civilization.
If one were asked to define a woman and a man one would probably first
reach for the dictionary to see what is written.
However, what we should understand about all dictionaries is they are
history books; they define or teach us how to understand what we see,
think, and as we walk through our world, the manner in which something may
be experienced.
Current, rather, advanced 21st Century definitions of humans is more along
the following lines of thought. Women and men are complex thinking,
feeling, self-moving, electro-chemical organisms, existing in an ever
evolving space-time environment, having a historical past, and a
projected-future; both are endowed with a divinely ordained everlasting
soul, currently experiencing a material existence as a development
enhancing process for spiritual existence in the other worlds of God.
Also, however, the world of action has taught us a thought system of
judgement, defensiveness, attack, and condemnation. And it is that way of
thinking and acting which needs to change.
Women and men are like two wings of a bird, both wings must function
together in order to serve its purpose for being from the beginning of
recorded history men have and are still making the same mistake of
advocating the inferiority of women and all that pertains thereto.
The dawn for enlightenment has emerged out of the shadow of darkness where
both women and men are like a mirror that is capable of reflecting the
suns brilliance in equal proportions.
Spiritual growth is about learning and unlearning. As we meditate we
unlearn a destructive point of view.
We have been given a Centre where it has been continually stated, over the
ions of human existence, that there is more than we think there is to our
being. In other words we are spiritual beings.
There are millions of people in the western, eastern and pacific island
world who wish to discover through common sense the underlying mystical
unity that is the love of God but to achieve that end they have to unlearn
religion as it currently is taught.
Our supreme, greatest challenge is to move toward practicing the religion
of our FOUNDERS instead of the religion about the Founders.
Some people are brought up to define faith as adherence to a set of
beliefs; some now see faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn
out to be but, I would dare say, under all circumstances, it excludes
killing our fellow girls, women, boys and men with bombs, bullets, blades,
or, as in some cultures, by any other so called necessary means to regain
a mans honour. The moment comes when one is obliged to jettison old
beliefs.
Someone once made a snide remark in the case of most belief systems they
are very material because you cant even get them going without eating,
drinking and swimming.
Yesteryear worshiping the faith of ones ancestors, people were instructed
to pray, pay and obey and if you acted contrarily to that pattern of
thinking you may have signed your death warrant, as in past politically
inspired religious inquisitions.
Today, it should be clear that knowledge is as wings to womens and mens
life, and a ladder for their ascent. Its organisation is incumbent upon
everyone; Im disturbed when I see primary school-age children not in
school when I know that it is the time of the day when they should be.
In truth, formal education is a veritable treasure for all people,
whether in the bush, or an island or continent, and a source of glory, of
bounty, of joy, of exaltation, of cheer and gladness to people; Happy are
they who have it and to ones consternation who doesnt through covetousness
shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you 11 Peter 2:3.
Every school, especially primary, should have a library overflowing with
useful books and *magazines to name a few categories such as music,
*National Geographic, *Scientific American, *Mechanics Illustrated,
science, geography, photography, *Popular Science, art, architecture,
philosophy, sociology, world and local history, and sculpture to
successfully expose children to creative and analytic thinking as
described by Piaget, Montessori and Steiner as opposed to being
excessively engaged in sports and the use of games media as an agent for
social development.
One observer of the way children in kindergarten and lower grades are
being educated in current government religious, and private sponsored
institutions, and, unfortunately with parental consent, noted I fear (due
to the excessive use of social IT gadgets) we soon will have a world of
dysfunctional idiots, incapable of maintaining logical conversation or
writing comprehensible presentations of information.
For instance, the international language for finance is English, the
worlds business community is moving towards English as the international
auxiliary language to ones mother tongue, at one time in England the
system for measuring items was based on the physiognomy of the monarchs
and kings and eventually Western Europe adopted the inch and pound
system, but now although the United States of America slowly is making the
change over the adopted universal system of weights and measures will be
the metric system.
Given all of the changes over the past centuries, no person should leave
home without having experienced formal education at least through form 7
to be able to functionally cope with economic conditions in todays world,
the writer is open for discussions on this matter.
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