Comments on: What humanity can be — a don’t miss 9/11 story https://theconversation.org/what-humanity-can-be-a-dont-miss-911-story/ Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:15:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.12 By: admin https://theconversation.org/what-humanity-can-be-a-dont-miss-911-story/comment-page-1/#comment-11848 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:40:38 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=3149#comment-11848 In reply to Maurice vandeput.

Nothing like pulling together to give us the best chance. Jim Morrison piece is quite brilliant but hard to watch — for what you see and what you know that you don’t see. Something profoundly sad about that being a reflection of reality.

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By: Maurice vandeput https://theconversation.org/what-humanity-can-be-a-dont-miss-911-story/comment-page-1/#comment-11846 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:08:39 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=3149#comment-11846 Shall love be able to cope with the actual unfolding planetarian disaster? A lot of love shall be needed to feed the 9 billion mouths that’ll trample its surface in 2050. Will love be able to convince the fishing industries to stop their ongoing ravaging of the oceans? Every second of every day 1.5 acres of rainforest are destroyed forever although we love to live in a green area surrounded by forests. Where is all the melting arctic ice going to? Will love be able to save the polar bears from extinction? And so on and on. Is this intelligent and noble human race facing oblivion due to a lack of love for itself and its home planet? These are the times of the great dilemma and love will be the key to get us through this difficult period. Without love it’ll be the end as Jim Morrison sang it in 1967 –> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digyaFmmn3Q
Remember those days ….

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By: Jack Stephens https://theconversation.org/what-humanity-can-be-a-dont-miss-911-story/comment-page-1/#comment-11803 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:15:11 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=3149#comment-11803 Thanks Suzanne! Wonderful story and to echo the others, thanks for posting the entire story in your email and encouraging to click through and comment. I will be sharing this.

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By: admin https://theconversation.org/what-humanity-can-be-a-dont-miss-911-story/comment-page-1/#comment-11793 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:15:04 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=3149#comment-11793 In reply to Elizaeth Earnest.

Something seems very powerful to me about this story — confirmed by responses here. Perhaps we have the dormant default position of love that gets ignited by seeing how real the manifestation can be. Models are invaluable for showing us possibility. Without believing in possibility you don’t go in that direction. It’s somewhat analogous to what I’m preaching now, where if people were tuned into the quantum perspective we’d expect ourselves to be interdependent and interrelate. We’d look for it. As long as we think the order of the universe is rugged individualism, a cooperative world seems beyond our reach and not worth striving for.

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By: Elizabeth Earnest https://theconversation.org/what-humanity-can-be-a-dont-miss-911-story/comment-page-1/#comment-11792 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:53:35 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=3149#comment-11792 In reply to Elizaeth Earnest.

What a blessing to read of the love we are all capable of. I simply want to add, when we are confronted with the all too frequent fear and animosity in our lives, remember what we all learned from the Canadians at Gander. Act like they did – NO MATTER WHAT ! It doesn’t take a large tragedy to ring that love forth in each one of us. Each day I shall practice coming up with the love and concern shown those days in Gander.

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By: Elizaeth Earnest https://theconversation.org/what-humanity-can-be-a-dont-miss-911-story/comment-page-1/#comment-11791 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:48:05 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=3149#comment-11791 What a real blessing to read of the love we are capable of. I simply want to add, when we are confronted with the all too frequent fear and animosity in our lives, remember what we all learned from the Canadians at Gander. Act like they did – NO MATTER WHAT.

We all can let our little light shine. It doesn’t take a large tragedy to bring that love forth in each one of us. Perhaps each day it would be good to practice finding where we can, each day, how to come up with the love and concern shown those days in Gander. Love, always.

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By: admin https://theconversation.org/what-humanity-can-be-a-dont-miss-911-story/comment-page-1/#comment-11787 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:20:43 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=3149#comment-11787 In reply to Soul Connection.

I love finding good things to pass along. If I didn’t have other things I need to do, I’d spend my whole time on this blog!

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By: admin https://theconversation.org/what-humanity-can-be-a-dont-miss-911-story/comment-page-1/#comment-11786 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:09:04 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=3149#comment-11786 In reply to Libbie.

I wondered, too, why it got me so dissolved. I think you’ve shared some wise words.

How to turn the gears of a world that runs on rugged individualism even though we have these tender hearts? This sort of story quickens what’s at our core, and energizes me for the work ahead.

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