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What are you doing to make a positive change in the world?
Posted by TheMonkIMarried • 9 days ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: changing the world, peace, positive change, world
I believe positive change happens when we understand each other and truly wish for the best for every living thing on the planet regardless of race, religion, country, background, etc. Our differences make us unique, but understanding and celebrating those differences is important. I am changing the world with my blog:lessonsfromthemonkimarried.blogspot.com
Come visit the blog and see what's happening, it's amazing!!!
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Smiling, singing, being friendly to people and enjoying life. -
organic farming, including my animals, less waste, recycle, use less -
I often hear people speaking of how they want to be able to reach their “full” potential, as if they were currently operating at some lesser capacity. How I see it is, we are always operating at our full capacity because we only have one potential. Given the nature of causality, the engine of our deterministic environment, ones actions are determined by the conditions of the environment. There are no choices or options, only illusions of choices. There is only one path, one potential. Out of all the seemingly alternative paths or choices we think we see, we are determined by the conditions to only go down one. The other seemingly alternative paths or choices that we did not go down were not really options at all, only further conditions that contributed to determining the path we did take. To speak of “full” potential is to suggest there could have been alternate paths, and choices. But there are not. So, we are always operating at our full potential. -
I'm being a responsable human being. I'm a consious consumer, I buy local produce, I don't own a car, I pay taxes and I'm studying to be a teacher.-
I cant live with out a car. I would die. It is hurting that it is tore up right now with out brakes. I am going to have to spend money on it that I dont want to but I have to have it back
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I'm trying to make negative changes. Corrupting minors, telling people morals are overrated, ect.-
Morals ARE over-rated. It's a fact.
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I enjoy hunting baby seals to identify with my Canadian roots. Other than that, plant a tree. Or marijuana plants where no one can find them. -
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I'll have to browse through your blog a bit. Positive change is one of my biggest passions!
Right now, I'm mentoring teens, working in a homeless shelter and a food pantry, recycling and composting, and writing about ways we can help the world. I am also working with an organization called "Invisible Children", that protects orphans in Uganda from slavery and from being forced into the army (www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php). Next month, I'm taking my teen group to make nutrition packets for "Feed My Starving Children." (www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=380) We are hoping to make 1 million food packets in one weekend!
In the past I've helped in halfway houses, helped build homes through Habitat for Humanity, worked with Red Cross and Greenpeace, gone on humanitarian aid trips to South Dakota and West Virginia, and helped send farm animals to the poor across the world through Heifer Project International. There are a lot of great service ideas on my blog, angelawd.com/, in the category "Ways to help the world".
I've also been sponsoring a girl from Zambia for seven years. Someday I'd love to meet her and her family in person. My parents have also sponsored several girls from Ghana who came to the US for an education. They have now become like sisters to me and my sisters.-
Angela-you sound like a truly wonderful person.
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What a nice thing to say! Thank you.
I really do love to help other people. I wish I could do more, like go to another country and work alongside the poor and write about it. Someday, maybe... -
Funny thing, in Egypt we are all forced into the army.
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amrhima, are you forced into the army when you're five or six years old? Do they kill a certain number of new captive children in front of the others to scare them into obedience? Do the AIDS orphans hide in sewers to avoid being captured and raped or killed by soldiers? If that's happening in Egypt, too, there are ways for us to publicize this and organize aid, like what is being done for the orphans in Uganda.
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