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Late messages of topic 1 (1/2)
Monday, November 25, 2002 4:12 AM
To recognize the differences, to repair the inequalities, to promote the participation of all the cultures and nations (Spanish)
María Antonia MUÑOZ
November 18, 2002
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ººº I Prefer to talk about principles, as action mechanisms, more than of
values, as substantial contents of the action. I believe that the principle
that should prevail in a WP is to recognize the irreducible difference of
the others, and through this to accept them as able to produce their own
truth. If the governments of the first world wants democracy in the non
democratic countries, on the other hand they maintain world non democratic
institutions as the IMF and the World Bank, that blocks the self-managed
development of our cultures. To go beyond of just the force of desires and
utopias, a WP should give voice to those that don't have it, to look for
mechanisms that include majorities don't participating, to have
representatives of more different cultures and nations, to be a space
against the economic, social and cultural inequalities, interferences of
sovereignty from north to south, and for the care of the natural resources.
Finally a dialogue exist between law and behaviour: laws are agreements of
moral commitment, product of a collective consent. Law should be obligatory,
but it should not be imposed by force. Rather than this, it is reflected in
behaviour. ººº
Defining and protecting money as a global public good (French)
Marie MARTIN-PECHEUX
November 18, 2002
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°°° In complement of the proposition 17 page 33 of the document "refunding
governance to answer the challenge of the 21st century", we propose that
money is defined and protected as a global public good. As water, air, sun,
nature... are indispensable to all and constitute global public goods, money
is the fluid that permits to exchange salaries against goods in the human
community. However this fluid lacks dramatically in some regions and inside
every society. The use of a variable value money, fluctuating to the will of
the speculation in the bourse or following the power of a country, gives an
absolutely pathological state to the local and global economies. Money is
produced therefore more and more by private banks and monetary organisms.
Our proposition: a kind of money defined and protected as a global public
good, created and managed solely by the central banks according to a
calculation of the capacity of work of the individuals, with a value
determined on a valid basis for all, and whose states would lend it without
interests to those useful projects or without a negative impact. Author of
this message is adding below a formula for these income.°°°
Re: Re : Global intercultural dialogue (3) (English) [response to this message]
Bonnie MANDELL-RICE
November 19, 2002
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ºººI do not think we can avoid or exclude religion or spirituality. For me,
the whole peace movement is a spiritual statement. I think that we must be
inclusive - with rules. We must ask not "am I right?" or "is my way right?"
but: "what is it we are working to achieve?" "are we getting the results we
want and intend?" If not, then we need to look for another way. We must ask
ourselves these questions even about our religious beliefs - are our beliefs
leading us to peace within ourselves and our world? are they leading us to
be the Christ, the Buddha, a Mohammed? Or are they leading us further into
separation and hate? If the latter, are we willing to reexamine our beliefs,
our rules We must ask ourselves these questions about our national beliefs.
I love so much about the U.S. - our constitution, our declaration of
independence, our freedom, our ingenuity. There are things that need
improvement - if not the words, but their interpretation and implementation
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Re: Re: Global intercultural dialogue (3) (French) [response to this message]
Marie-Christine BERNARD
November 19, 2002
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ºººIn order to face the innumerable obstacles that is reserved to the
sensitive beings (human as animals), just by being in this world, it is
necessary to train their mind to clear themselves of the ascendancy of the
negative emotions and the harmful acts. This is what the Buddhist tradition
recommends, referring to our own potential of awakening. I've been long time
resisting the idea that it exist "one" being who have achieved the non
duality (subject / object) and the absolute knowledge of the mechanisms of
apparition of phenomena, it is very disturbing, especially when we have
hardly gone out of the Judeo-Christian beliefs. I think with you that this
forum could admit this simple and not necessarily religious idea, of a
dimension of wisdom and compassion, hardly emerged in the culture of men of
3rd millennium.ººº
Re : Mechanisms to implement some values and principles (French) [response to this message]
Marie-Christine BERNARD
November 19, 2002
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ºººWhy to begin with another global governance tool, as it exists already
one (cf. www.tgde.org). The forthcoming creation of thousands of global
sites where each citizen of the world will be able to exercise their right
to express themselves, to vote, to choose... can submerge us at a very short
term in an unmanageable ocean. An unified tool with an integrated working,
it appear suddenly as the major utopia of the 21st century! ººº
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