We hear it all the time.... about peace...invoking visions of beautiful colors, puffy clouds, spa music and happy faces everywhere.
Working toward peace doesn't mean we must have perfect harmony... just looking for the smallest improvements here. If we can reduce the violence in this country by 1% - thinK of all the lives that could be changed - not to mention the money we could save !! Besides we have to at least try !!
There really is allot we can do to reduce the violence in this country!!!!…
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Added by Carole Spence on November 21, 2009 at 8:30am —
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The ancient Greeks had a shorthand for the mental anguish of war, for post-traumatic stress disorder and even for outbursts of fratricidal bloodshed like last week’s shootings at Fort Hood. They would invoke the names of mythological military heroes who battled inner demons: Achilles, consumed by the deaths of his men; Philoctetes, hollowed out from betrayals by fellow officers; Ajax, warped with so much rage that he wanted to kill his comrades.
Now officials at the Defense Department are turnin…
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Added by Dr. Sergius Burnes on November 17, 2009 at 5:35pm —
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Peace is a better friend
written by Susan Corso on 1/ 6/2008 8:21 pm
Tama J. Kieves, writing in the September 2007 Science of Mind magazine, completes her quote, “Peace is a better friend than excitement.”
As a younger person than I currently am, I lived for excitement. Life was either absolutely stupendous or absolutely the pits. In a way, I lived in fear of the grays. It was black or white for me all the way. The seasoning of time has grown different values in me, and I’m grateful for it.
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 17, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Wouldn't peace be nice?
written by Dr. Susan Corso on 12/25/2007 2:47 pm
I’ve formed a book policy for my life. Basically, I wait till a book is recommended to me three times before I check it out. Ask And It Is Given was recommended to me three times in one day! I visited the Amazonians and bought it. In it, Esther Hicks channels a group of nonphysical energies known as Abraham. Wisdom is wisdom say I.
The first half of the book is about who we are, why we’re here, and the laws that govern ou…
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 16, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Acts of Peace
written by Dr. Susan Corso on 12/17/2007 11:59 am
Sometimes just thinking about world peace is enough to make me want to take a nap. It’s such a big job and, I know this is an illusion, but sometimes I feel like I’m carrying the ball all by myself. Anyone else feel that way?
Enter Blog Catalog on my Sunday morning email telling me that there’s a movement in the blogosphere called Bloggers Unite: blogging for hope.
http://unite.blogcatalog.c…
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 15, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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The Light of Peace
written by Dr. Susan Corso on 12/10/2007 12:11 pm
The Season of Light is upon us. Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Solstice. This is the time of year when the light returns to earth. This year its official return is marked on December 22nd at 1:08 AM (EST), 6:08 (UT).
In the Christian calendar, these next few weeks are called Advent. Christians welcome the advent of the light each week by lighting candles. One of the precious memories of my childhood is my grandparents’ many-win…
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 14, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Toto for Peace
written by Dr. Susan Corso on 12/ 3/2007 5:34 pm
Is it me or does anyone else feel like they’re standing in a cornfield in Kansas eying The Scarecrow from Oz? “He went that-a-way.”
The lead article in the Week in Review in Sunday’s New York Times flabbergasted me. It was called “Peace? Sure. I’ll See What I Can Do,” and it detailed President George W. Bush’s non-engaged engagement in the peace process in the Middle East.
Aaron David Miller, a longtime peace negotiator, and auth…
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 13, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Health for Peace
written by Dr. Susan Corso on 11/26/2007 11:19 am
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “The first wealth is health.”
In this week’s Huffington Post, I read a blog entry by former Assistant Surgeon General Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D. and Elise Schlissel called “Health Diplomacy: A Prescription for Peace.” Her words struck me upside the head with their practicality and their wisdom.
So often the statecraft of diplomacy revolves around disputes, borders, finances and issues which focus mor…
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 12, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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An essay can have a lot of intentions, but the basic structure of all type of essays will be same. You may be writing an argumentative essay to argue for a particular point of view or to may be doing a persuasive essay to explain the steps necessary to complete a task. Either way, your essay will have the same basic format and structure.
An essay consists of three major parts,
1.Introduction
2.Supporting Paragraphs
3.Summary Paragraph
In this article we will provide…
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Added by Janet Wilkins on November 11, 2009 at 11:44pm —
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Peace Allowance
written by Dr. Susan Corso on 11/19/2007 12:31 pm
Why don’t we have peace on our planet? I believe we don’t have peace because we don’t allow ourselves to have it.
Who schedules your life? Who makes your commitments? Who says yes and no for you? Who allows everything that happens in your life?
What if peace needed only that we allow it to be?
I checked the Oxford English Dictionary for an etymology of the verb allow, and it surprised me. It comes from Latin roots meaning all…
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 11, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Veterans' Day began as "Armistice" Day, to celebrate November 11, 1918 when the guns of World War One finally stopped - and what cause for celebration there was!
From August 1914 until November 1918, 30 million soldiers were killed or wounded and another 7 million were taken captive. Never before had people witnessed such industrialized slaughter. A hint of the wreckage can be glimpsed by visiting a Great War memorial in any European town and invariably seeing a list of names long enough to inc…
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Added by Dr. Sergius Burnes on November 11, 2009 at 12:29pm —
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As you read this article, your brain is sending out electrical impulses through its network of neurons and synapses. These electrical impulses can be measured by a device called an electroencephalograph (EEG), and seen on a monitor as brain wave patterns.
The speed of the electrical impulses moving through your brain cells is called frequency, and is measured in hertz or cycles per second. The frequency of your brain waves determines your state of mind and how you react to the situation around…
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Added by Dr. Sergius Burnes on November 11, 2009 at 10:01am —
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The Draft Is Our Only Out.
On Veterans Day it is compelling to consider the outlook for our troops.. After the tragic incident at Fort Hood this past week, it is clear that our military is stretched too thin, multiple deployments, and stop gap policies have taken their toll. As the wife of a disabled Vietnam veteran I know first hand the trauma of even one deployment in a war zone. Our soldiers today are being asked to go time and time again, shortening their stateside leave and being required…
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Added by Judy addicott Kimmel on November 10, 2009 at 6:13pm —
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Healing for Peace
written by Dr. Susan Corso on 11/12/2007 11:33 am
My spiritual life has a rhythm all its own. There are times when it’s all I can think about; there are times when I don’t think about it at all. Lately, my spiritual life has been rich in imagery and even richer in healing.
I’ve been fifty for less than a month, and in that time wild pieces of my past have surfaced in dreams, in meditations, in prayer. Pieces of the past are queuing up for healing. For those who are astrologic…
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 10, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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The corporate media labeled President Obama the "peace candidate" based on a
speech he gave prior to being in the senate.
Many in the peace community hoped they were right -- regardless of what Obama actually promised during the campaign (more war, more military spending). Well now Obama is about to break Bush's record for the most emergency war spending since the so-called
"war on terror" began. He will beat Bush by $10 billion if the plans just announced come to fruition.
Obama promised he…
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Added by Dr. Sergius Burnes on November 10, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Hey! I Want My Faith Values Recognized Too!
By Jim Ramelis
My Congressman, Bart Stupak of Michigan, recently introduced the anti-abortion amendment in the House of Representatives version of the proposed Health Care bill. It seems the only time the values of faith based voters are taken into consideration is in matters of abortion and Gay Rights.
I am a person of faith too. I have values that never seem to get addressed by my elected representatives. My God, like the God of most major faiths i…
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Added by Jim Ramelis on November 9, 2009 at 1:38pm —
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(by Jill Lepore, "Rap Sheet," The New Yorker, November 9, 2009, pp. 79-81)
"The United States has the highest homicide rate of any affluent democracy, nearly four times that of France and the United Kingdom, and six times that of Germany. Why? Historians haven't often asked this question. Even historians who like to try to solve cold cases usually cede to sociologists and other social scientists the study of what makes murder rates rise and fall, or what might account for why one country…
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Added by Dr. Sergius Burnes on November 9, 2009 at 12:01pm —
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Pixels for Peace
written by Dr. Susan Corso on 10/22/2007 11:05 am
I got a lovely email this week from a man who is a Peace Tax Resister. In it, he suggested I spearhead a new website called Peace On. His idea is that our various and sundry War(s) on various and sundry themes—terrorism, drugs, obesity—aren’t working and he wondered about the notion of throwing a little peace on these matters to see if that might work better.
Not so coincidentally, I’d been thinking about ways to use the world…
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 7, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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UN: 50 peacekeepers punished for sex abuses
By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER
GENEVA — At least 50 peacekeepers have received punishments ranging from reduction in military rank to eight months imprisonment for committing sexual abuses on United Nations missions since 2007, the U.N. said Thursday.
The data were released after media organizations asked what measures countries were taking against peacekeepers accused of rape and other abuses in conflict areas such as Congo. The U.N. can investigate allegati…
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Added by Dr. Sergius Burnes on November 7, 2009 at 9:17am —
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Peace begins at home
written by Dr. Susan Corso on 10/15/2007 11:08 am
Is there room in your home for peace? I’m really asking.
How can we expect to create peace on this blessed orb if we don’t or won’t work to create peace in our own homes?
Peace in our environment is a worthy objective. The way to allow it to come forth is for each homeowner to look with a curious, peace-discerning eye at his or her own home. Each corner, each room, each porch, sofa, chair, book, lamp, table, balcony, deck…
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Added by Dr. Susan Corso on November 6, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Reducing Violence Through Practicing Peace
The Anguish of War for Today’s Soldiers, Explored by Sophocles
Peace is a better friend
Essay Writing Structure!
The draft is our only out.......
Hey ! I Want My Faith Values Recognized Too !
