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I Googled "intergenerational conversation" and found 474 links http://tinyurl.com/4m3qv such as
http://www.generationsinc.org/min%20resources.htm. This is obviously a rich area of activity, resources and expertise, along with interracial conversation, multicultural conversation, cross-sector dialogue, inter-group dialogue, stakeholder dialogues, commons cafes and all the other remarkable efforts to leap the divides and weave the fabric of our societies together -- not only for healing but for learning, discovery and renewal.

Such a remarkable, meaning-full journey. So much to find out along the way...

Coheartedly,

Tom Atlee

Top scientist asks: is life all just a dream?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1358588,00.html

Morality Without Religion: A Brief Critique of Archbishops Chaput's Kaput Philosophy

by Chuck Richardson

A reading of an op-ed column by Catholic Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, of Denver, that appeared in the October 22 New York Times entitled (sic) “Faith and Patriotism,” as well as two previous columns and a speech of his from which it was generated, provokes this rebuttal: After writing some things I agree with, Chaput dropped this bomb: “Exiling religion from civic debate separates government from morality and citizens from their consciences. That road leads to politics without character, now a national epidemic.” I agree that we’re experiencing a contagion of political depravity, but why do so many people link decency to religious faith, failing to observe the sophisticated efficacy of principled skepticism or the life-enhancing possibilities of iconoclasm, apostasy and dissent?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/Richardson1026.htm

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/SUPORGLI.html


Informant: Daniel VanArsdale

To survive and thrive, transhumanism must become an inclusive social movement

by Russell Blackford

10/15/2004 12:36 PM

http://www.betterhumans.com/Features/Columns/Eye_of_the_Storm/column.aspx?articleID=2004-10-15-1


Informant: mojo_j_2000

Selfishness, the right way

by Tibor R. Machan

Yuma Sun

10/09/04

The most prestigious of contemporary moral philosophers favor the morality of fairness and impartiality. By this they tend to mean we all ought to think first of everyone's welfare across the globe as we decide how we are going to conduct ourselves. Although they often implore us to fashion public policies by this standard, in fact they intend this to be something we ought to do in our most private decisions as well. ... This is quite a preposterous demand, comparable to the Christian ethics that demand we imitate Christ as we live our lives. But at least the Christians tend to be willing to allow for our imperfections -- Roman Catholics didn't invent confession for nothing. What Unger & Co. -- and in his ethics Unger is joined by many others, including the famous Princeton philosopher and animal liberation advocate Peter Singer -- want from us is total altruism, living entirely for others...

http://yumasun.com/artman/publish/articles/story_13632.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041004/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_dalai_lama_1


Informant: retired153

by Ivan Eland

Independent Institute

08/23/04

As the 21st century dawns, Americans have come to define patriotism as uncritical support of war and the military. In this year's presidential campaign, John Kerry touts his war exploits in Vietnam, and those with connections to George W. Bush try to rewrite this history decades later. The president dresses up in military garb and lands on an aircraft carrier, pretending to be a war hero to make people forget that he avoided the danger of conflict years earlier. ... The profligate use of the war metaphor in unrelated matters demonstrates that the glorification of war runs deep in contemporary America...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1346


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp