Timothy Wilken I will posting lighter here for the next few days, I am working on my description of a Gift Tensegrity. Tensegrity is the most powerful organizational pattern in known […]
Continue readingThe Morgenthau Proposal
a thread from the Alas Babylon Yahoo Group Paul starts the thread: Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, was a modern prophet. He came out with an idea […]
Continue readingHow Vulnerable are the Saudi’s Oil Fields?
Seymour M. Hersh THE NEW YORKER “The American military response has triggered alarm in the international oil community and among intelligence officials who have been briefed on a still secret […]
Continue readingMy Thoughts on Gift Economy
Arthur Noll There has been a lot written about gift economies, but I haven’t been able to find many details about how it would work to overcome our problems. It […]
Continue readingTo My Fellow American Muslims
M. A. Muqtedar Khan What happened on September 11th in New York and Washington DC will forever remain a horrible scar on the history of Islam and humanity. No matter […]
Continue readingThe Answer is Working Together
Johnius Ecstaticus Related to this idea is another idea gaining in popularity: the Golden Thread. The idea is that all religions have at their core, a center of love, joy […]
Continue readingA Religious View of Giving and Receiving
World Scripture Anthology When we give to one another, freely and without conditions, sharing our blessings with others and bearing each other’s burdens, the giving multiplies and we receive far more […]
Continue readingGiving Is Receiving
Marrinel Harriman I learned about giving in the slow human way. Because my mother was a skilled seamstress, I was a well dressed child. It may have been guilt or […]
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a book review by Bill Ellis “THE FABLE OF L’HOMO ECONOMICUS is destroyed by Dominique Temple and Mireille Chabal in: La RÈciprocitÈ et La Naissance des Valeurs Humaines (…ditions L’Harmattan, […]
Continue readingTime to Move On…
The following was posted at the Alas Babylon Yahoo Group… Adam Whaley from Wales wrote: It really got to me today, not the anthrax; not the bombing; not the political lies and […]
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