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The Founder Of This Site Wants To Tell You Something
My name is Roy Hughes. I have, through my short, tumoltous life, been accused of many
things, chief among them that I am an Idealist, a "dreamer"; that my ideas and thoughts,
however altruistic, are just too Pollyanish for this world. That humankind is somehow
too dark, depraved, evil, too whatever, for there to be any kind of hope for a better
world. I disagree wholeheartedly!
You can call me what you will, but I do not wish to change my opinion in this
one particular area. I still have a high esteem for what the potential of
mankind can be. In my own experience I have witnessed myself and others directly around
me go through huge transformative shifts in consciousness, and the results were
encouraging. If we, as individuals and small groups, can go through radical
transformations and hopefully become more Loving and tolerant human beings, than
others can too, if they so desire.
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So How Will This Work?
So my initial idea is that I will jot down a few ideas I have about what my concept of
World Peace is... what it means to have it or aspire towards it. I may include references
or quotes from other humans or even higher beings that have had a few words to say about
the subject. I may try to tie these ideas together, or summarize them, or something along
those lines.
I will not just use my own brain or ideas, of course. I am but one tiny human in a vast sea
of really smart and creative other humans. So I will invite input from all of you, the readers
or visitors to this site; I will be setting a bidirectional blog and note-collecting system
to that end in the near future. I will invite you to become members of this community, and
those that wish to have more of a voice into how this website and underlying organization
operates can become regular contributors to this site. We can have real, physical, in-the-flesh
meetings. We can do things as a group; build real communities. Test our theories. Keep the
ideas that work, toss the ones that don't. This whole idea is just a work in progress, after
all. There will much to do, and who knows how long this will take? Years? Lifetimes? Mellinia?
I have no idea. I just want to start somewhere. This site is that somewhere. I hope there
will be much more to come.
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Past Ideologies That Sort Of Worked
Humankind has been around for a while now. There have been times of great wars, but
luckily, there have also been some times of relative peace. I am interested in
studying those times; of being a student to history as it demonstrates ideals or
philisophical undertakings that seemed to have contributed to periods of times where
there was not a whole lot of killing going on. We can start there, and take what
seems to have worked and see if it can be put into a context appropriate to now.
What sorts of political structures have worked? Which ones have not? What were the
issues that led to the collapse or failure of each of the failing systems? Was
there anything that could be learned that might be useful or good to apply in our
quest to do better now? Or, should some of these systems just be trashed summarily
because they were too aggressive, or totalitarian, or had some other gaping flaws?
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The Big Picture
There are a lot of things that work on a small scale that don't work so well
when they are applied to larger scales. And conversely, there may be things that
work on a macrocosmic level that don't scale down to smallness so well. There
may be some elemental truths about bigness or smallness that cannot be ignored.
It should, however, be noted, that nature herself seems to scale nicely. The
insides of Atoms actually have a very striking resemblance in both form
and behavior to what we think of as Galaxies. Indeed, recently science has been
revealing that the entire Universe seems to have some sort of order to it. And what
appears to be chaos, is simply some kind of complex, yet simple, logic.
So the answer to how to make a scaleable peaceful society is probably surrounding
us and staring us in the face, even as I write this; Nature is just waiting for us
to discover her secrets and apply them in a direct sense to our lives.
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