From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 22:24:05 BST
Dear Platt,
What a beautiful prayer, Platt! Especially the part about protecting
yourself with corn pollen, an eagle feather and prayers (instead of with the
world's largest army)... You Americans can be proud of your Indian heritage!
(It's a pity that a lot of latter-day Indians seem more interested in making
money with organizing gambling. Which is at least a creative use of the poor
reservations your ancestors left them with.)
For me, like you, the divine is 'something' that connects everyone and
everything and 'shines like unto light through the bodily world as through a
window' framed by our experiences of diversity and conflict. Divine guidance
leads me too, to value my freedom and that of others, balanced with my
responsibility for 'everyone and everything' and my duty to remind others
with whom I share it of that responsibility. It is especially this
responsibility for others and this duty towards each other that is latched
in social patterns of value, so yes, for the most part we need to conserve
them. Where they become too oppressive, yes, we need government laws to
safeguard individual rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. With
increasing globalization, global scale social patterns of value, we need
some system of global governance to help safeguard these rights, in the
first place against the strongest players on the global scene: multinational
enterprises (near-)monopolizing markets, governments that don't recognize
international law and organized crime & terrorism backed by fundamentalist
ideology & claims of universal, ahistorical truths. Laws that protect the
individual rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness need the backing
of cumulative codification of moral sentiments like justice, peace and
integrity of creation. The ideas that back these laws shouldn't stay a soup
of sentiments; they shouldn't become an ideology claiming absolute truth;
they should balance sq and DQ at the intellectual level.
We not only share underlying beliefs, as you suggested 6 Dec 2002
11:05:32 -0500. Contrary to what you suppose 27 Apr 2003 09:46:32 -0400,
even our basic positions regarding politics within an MOQ framework may have
a lot in common!
With friendly greetings,
Wim
----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
Aan: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Verzonden: donderdag 15 mei 2003 14:02
Onderwerp: MD MOQ Prayer
> Hi All:
>
> While roaming around the Web the other day I stumbled across the
> following Indian prayer:
>
> SUNRISE PRAYER
> In Beauty This Begins
> In Beauty This Day Arrives
> I Will Protect Myself With This Corn Pollen
> I Will Protect Myself With This Eagle Feather
> I Will Protect Myself With My Prayers
> I Will Live A Beautiful Life
> May My Children Be Raised In Beauty
> May My Children Be Protected In Beauty
> May My Thoughts Be Beautiful
> May I Speak In Beauty
> Beauty Before Me
> Beauty Behind Me
> Beauty Above Me
> Beauty Beneath Me
> Beauty All Around Me
> I Am Beauty
> I Walk In Beauty
> It Is Finished In Beauty
> It Is Finished In Beauty
> It Is Finished In Beauty
>
> For me a wonderful summary of the MoQ's universal, ahistorical truth.
>
> Platt
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