My World of “Ought to Be”
by Timothy Wilken, MD










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Tuesday, October 29, 2002
 

Synergic Guardians

Timothy Wilken, MD writes: Within synergic community, it is understood that actions that injure the EARTH and environment—the natural resources, fertile soils, waters, minerals, ores, metals, and the very air we breathe—also injures humanity. It is understood that actions that injures LIFE—the plants and animals and the biodiversity of all non-human Life—also injures humanity. It is understood that actions than injures the wealth produced by human action—whether in the form of Time-binding Trust or Property of living humans—also injures humanity. Therefore, synergic community desires the protection of  all Synergic Wealth. ... The Synergic Trustegrities will seek to attract the best of the best as candidates for Trustegrity Guardianship. Once selected these Trustegrity Guardians would have greater trusteeship privileges with concomitant authority and responsibilities for and to the Synergic Trustegrities. Once selected Trustegrity Guardians can serve in one of the three branches of the Synergic Trustegrities — the Earth Trust, the Life Trust, or the Time-binding Trust. Trustegrity Guardian Candidates should have repeatedly demonstrated both personal and public honesty, and should have a history demonstrating synergic morality and behavior. In the future, Universities will offer degrees in Trustegrity and Guardian Science to prepare those young humans to desire to serve Humanity as Community. A careful selection process will be developed to select the very best which could include Trustegrity Guardian Academies. (10/29/02)


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Waking Up In Time!

Peter Russell writes: Sustainability must be understood in terms of the larger system of ecology, economy and society. I would like to take things a step further and expand our discussions to include another critical part of the total system -- one that is usually ignored or forgotten -- the human mind. It is not hard to see that most of the problems facing us today are partly caused by the actions of human beings. These actions are the result of human thinking and decisions, which in turn are based on human attitudes, needs and values. In many cases these are guided by greed, the love of money, the desire for power, self-centredness or other such qualities of human character. Thus the roots of our various environmental crises lie in the human mind as much as in technology, or economy. Yet we seldom, if ever, explore this critical aspect of the system. Part of the reason is that we still know very little about the human mind. We understand much more about the material world around us than we do of what goes on inside our own heads. As a result we tend to deal mainly with the external aspects of the system and do not concern ourselves with the human psychological aspects. If we fail to take into account the human roots of our crises it is unlikely we will ever find any lasting solutions. If you had a stomach ache and went to a doctor for treatment, you would not only want the doctor to give you something to ease the pain, you would expect him to look for the cause. Perhaps it is something you have eaten, or a viral infection, or possibly just stress. But if all the doctor did was to treat the symptom and not the root cause, the same problem is likely to recur. In a similar way, our efforts to halt deforestation, reduce carbon emissions, conserve resources, and take care of other aspects of the global system are all very important, but if that is all we do we are only treating the symptoms of a deeper problem. So long as the root cause is not attended to problems of one form or another will keep emerging. (10/29/02)


  b-CommUnity:

Suprise! Suprise! Murders up in USA !

Yahoo! News -- Murder, rape and every other violent criminal act except aggravated assault rose last year, the FBI said Monday in reporting the first year-to-year increase in overall crime in a decade. The 15,980 murders represented a 2.5 percent increase over 2000, while forcible rapes were up less than 1 percent and robberies rose 3.7 percent. The FBI did not include the Sept. 11 deaths at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania. These deaths, the FBI said, "are different from the day-to-day crimes committed in this country." The report listed the total number of Sept. 11 murder victims reported by law enforcement agencies as 3,047. Of those, 2,823 occurred at the World Trade Center, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 in Somerset County, Pa., the FBI reported. ... Firearms accounted for 8,719 slayings, or about two-thirds, followed by knives, "personal" weapons such as fists and feet, blunt objects and such methods as drugs, strangulation and drowning. There were 10 murders-by-poison in the United States last year, according to the FBI. Police were unable to make arrests in about 80 percent of all cases. They did better with violent crimes, solving 46 percent, including two-thirds of all murders. Burglaries remain the toughest cases to crack, with just 13 percent of offenses resulting in arrests. (10/29/02)


  b-CommUnity:

Insanity in Western Canada

We are running out of fossil fuels. Within a few decades we will need to reduce our use of petroleum to less than 50% of present levels. Now as reported in the New York Times: Alberta's economy is based on energy production, and the likelihood that the Kyoto protocol will be adopted by Canada has already had a local impact. TrueNorth Energy LP announced last month that it would delay and possibly kill a $2 billion project to develop oil sands in the province, citing the uncertain future of hydrocarbons. ... Under the Kyoto accord, which was negotiated by 150 countries in 1997, Canada joins other industrialized nations in committing itself to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming to around 6 percent below 1990 levels over the next decade. With smoggy cities, remote farm areas and long commutes, Canada is one of the world's largest per capita producers of the heat-trapping emissions. ... Automakers would be expected to produce vehicles 25 percent more efficient than now produced, a proposal that Ontario officials fear could harm an important industry. (10/29/02)


  b-theInternet:

Angry Gulf War Vet Granted Concealed Gun Permit

New York Times -- A student flunking out of nursing school opened fire in a class at the University of Arizona on Monday, killing two professors and a third person before apparently taking his own life, officials said. ... Robert S. Flores, a Gulf War veteran, worked at the Southern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System as a licensed practical nurse, and was studying to become a registered nurse, officials said. Lori Schenkel, who was in the building during the shootings, said two students banged on her classroom door and told everyone to get out. ``We ran out of the building and there were police telling us to run away,'' Schenkel said. She said she had several classes with Flores and he told classmates about a year ago that he had gotten a concealed weapon permit. ``He was just a very aggravated student, a rude, obnoxious type of person,'' she said. ``He came across as very aggressive and mean, and seemed to have a lot of issues with being angry.'' ...  Senior Julie Raymond said she was taking an exam when the gunman came in. ``We just thought that he was late for the test,'' Raymond said. ``Then he started talking to instructors and fired shots. All of us ducked under the tables and then ran out of the room. At first, I thought it was a joke and realized it wasn't when I heard the shots.''  (10/29/02)


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