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Survival of the Kindest: The Key to Our Future

Survival of the Kindest: The Key to Our Futureby Tim Ryan. Darwin suggested that togetherness and cooperation, like the kind we saw initially on 9/11, is positively adaptive for human beings. According to Dacher Keltner — a professor at the University of California at Berkeley — “Survival of the kindest” is as important a principle as “survival of the fittest.” “We have been designed to care about...”

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Our Future is Golden: World Peace & Cooperation

Our Future is Golden: World Peace & Cooperationby Diana Cooper. We will have world peace and co-operation. We will live in a world without bound­aries, where all are abundant. Our future is golden. During the transition, you and the entire world will be catching glimps­es of the glorious future, a time when...

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Let There Be Peace on Earth: Grassroot Movement?

Let There Be Peace on Earth, and Let It Begin with Meby Marie T. Russell.

The song "Let There Be Peace on Earth" has been sung around the world since 1955. It is popular in churches and numerous other groups. The story behind this song is very interesting as it was not "officially published" but just spread by word of mouth throughout the world...

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Destroying a Planet or Learning to Live Together?

Destroying A Planet? article by Rev. Daniel Chesbroby Rev. Daniel Chesbro.

Not long ago, nuclear war was possible between Pakistan and India. Yet interviews with both societies indicated they did not fear nuclear war. First of all, many of them don’t even know what a nuclear device is. Many don’t remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

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World May Face New Nuclear Arms Race

nuclear armsReport:World May Face New Nuclear Arms Race. Fear of new American military capabilities is spurring nuclear powers like Russia and China to modernize their atomic arsenals and evade disarmament, according to a new report from a US-British think tank.

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An Intention of Peace

Pythia PeayFor others, as for myself, the yearning for just a drop of miraculous balm to quiet the troubled waters of daily life is universal. Loved ones hope to heal the bitter quarrels that sunder them from one another. Busy people maneuver to snatch a moment of calm. Those who are poor long for the peace of a full stomach and physical security.

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Balancing Peace

Pythia PeayMany women have wrestled within themselves about peace and war. Joining a chain of women stretching far back in time, they have asked, as they have asked for centuries, why humankind endlessly repeats the tragic cycle of violence and retribution. Once again, they have mourned lives needlessly sacrificed to bitter political and religious rivalries

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Let There Be Peace

As a former US serviceman serving in NATO forces in 1968-1969 and a concerned citizen of the US and the World, I consider a call for NATO ground troops as socially irresponsible. I call your attention to "Time Magazine" page 62 of the May 3rd, 1999 edition and the editorial by Charles Krauthammer where he labels the Clinton Administration incompetent to wage a ground war

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Attaining Peace - Alcanzar la Paz

When I was 4 years old, my grandfather died. The preacher said "por fin el a alcanzado la paz" which means (in Spanish) that he has finally reached peace. So I asked my mom what it meant "to have peace". She told me that it meant grandfather was with people that respected and loved him...

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Moving Into Planetary Brotherhood

Mary-Margaret Moore (Bartholomew) Find five minutes a day to focus on peace and visualize this planet absolutely radiant, bathed totally in Light, Power, Love, and Harmony. When you do this, you are moving away from limited beliefs into expanded possibilities. Yet it can be very difficult if you have one foot rooted in the past, "my country right or wrong"...

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A Culture of Peace

Mahnaz Afkhamiby Mahnaz Afkhami. The promotion of a culture of peace requires more than an absence of war. Clearly, any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without...

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