![]() First and foremost, individual conscience that depends on the Universal Center is sacred - not family. This is a mish-mash of culturally-conditioned assumptions. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.” But using what methods? The Quantum Paradigm approach, “Be aware of what you are doing and why,” is an excellent start.Ĥ. “I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.”įine. Though they see things differently, atheists also thirst after truth and have been known to return full circle.ģ. They’re often decent human beings doing their best as they understand it. Agnostics who say they have no experience upon which to base religious beliefs can still be truth seekers. Further, the nucleus of our lives remains the same, whether we acknowledge it or not. Not all assign either a name or gender to the Creator. Sincere truth seekers everywhere hold a variety of beliefs. “I believe in God and He is the Center of my life.” It’s a disservice to the immediate cause of human survival.Ģ. Beck’s sentimental attachment to America’s past is unwise. Everyone everywhere is sometimes and in some ways “good,” in others not. We can love our homeland without having illusions about its unqualified “goodness.” Beck’s tacit premise, that he can single out one (superior) country to the exclusion of others alienates other nations. America is not a static or uniform entity. ![]() This generalization is full of assumptions. I’ve limited myself here to answering the first five of his Nine Principles: We do have universal causes that unite us, but not the ones Beck lists. Especially because he’s become the spokesman for America’s ideals and best hopes, it’s important that I clarify my position. ![]() I’ve used the Common Sense concept in my own work for more than thirty years. It’s important to clarify the points of agreement and difference here. His openly emotional biases are a disservice to his undeniably good intentions. But this requires expanding the array of tools in our repair kit for achieving positive ends.Ĭorrectly, Beck recommends that we “declare the causes that unite us.” But while I look to the Quantum Paradigm for that foundation, he outlines Nine Principles which only add to the mess. He challenges Americans to stretch outside their comfort level. And he needs a functional paradigm to put us (not just the U.S.) right-side up again. ![]() However he lacks an in-depth understanding of the dynamic laws of nature. īeck gets the basic Law of Karma: Actions have consequences. It is now a government by the government, of the government, and for the government, the people be damned. The government by, of, and for the people has been turned on its head. I humbly suggest that our government is once again out of step with the Laws of Nature. Making the same point I made much earlier, Beck holds: Through legitimate “emergencies” involving war, terror, and economic crises, politicians on both sides have gathered illegitimate new powers - playing on our fears and desire for security and economic stability - at the expense of our freedoms. Marginally impressed, he predicted that I’d end up like the closet poet Emily Dickinson.Įchoing the sentiment that the country is in deep trouble, in Common Sense, Glenn Beck details the mess we’re in:Īmerica has been slowly pulled off the course charted for us in Philadelphia more than two centuries ago. During high school years, I shared the following lines written for Miss Elson’s senior year English class with my younger brother, David.
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