Matthew Kelly, Rediscover catholictism, [2010]
Rediscover catholictism: a spiritual guide to living with passion & purpose, 2010
pp.130─131
To whom does the future belong? What will our society be like 20, 50, or 100 years from today?
The most powerful and influential position in any society is that of the story teller. Story tellers are not just the mythical cultural icon who dress up on Thursday afternoons and read stories to your children in local libraries and bookstores. Musicians are story tellers. Teachers, preachers, nurses, lawyers, priests, scientists, salespeople, artists, mothers, fathers, poets, philosophers, brothers, sisters, babysitters, grandparents ... we are all storytellers.
The future belongs to the storytellers and it belongs to us. What will it be like? Well, that depends very much on the stories we tell, the stories we listen to, and the stories we live.
Stories have a remarkable ability to cut through the clutter and confusion and bring clarity to our hearts and minds. Stories remind us of our hopes, values, and dreams. They sneak beyond the barriers of our prejudices to soften our hearts to receive the truth. Great periods in history emerge when great stories are told and lived. Stories are history that form the future; they are prophecies set in the past.
Never underestimate the importance of stories. They play a crucial role in the life of a person and in the life of a society. They are as essential as the air we breathe and the water we drink. Stories captivate our imaginations, enchant our minds, and empower our spirits. They introduce us to whom we are and who are capable of beings. Stories change our lives.
If you wish to poison a nation, poison the stories that nation listens to. If you wish to win people over to your team or to your point of view, do not go to war or argue with them ── tell them a story.
All great leaders understand the persuasive and inspirational power of stories. When did you last hear a great speech that didn't contain a story?
A story can do anything: win a war, lose a war, heal the sick, encourage the discouraged, comfort the oppressed, inspire a revolution, transform an enemy into a friend, elevate the consciousness of the people, build empires, inspire love, even reshape the spiritual temperament of a whole age.
65 per cent of the Gospels are stories, or parables. 100 per cent of the Gospels is the story of Jesus Christ ── and it is the most influenctial story over told.
The future belongs to the story tellers, and we are the story tellers. What type of stories are we telling? Because I can promise you with absolute certitude that the stories we tell today are forming the future.
‘’•─“”
____________________________________
•─ The gods put us on Earth, and they told us how to behave.
Edward O. Wilson; Genesis : the deep origin of societies, written by Edward O. Wilson; illustrated by Debby Cotter Kaspari., [2019]
p.9
All questions of philosophy that address the human condition come down to three:
what are we,
what created us, and
what do we wish ultimately to become.
The all-important answer to the third question, the destiny we seek, requires an accurate answer to the first two. By and large, philosophers have lacked confirmable answers to the first two questions, which concern the deep prehuman and human past, thereby remaining unable to answer the third question, which addresses the human future.
As I now approach the end of a long career studying the biology of social behavior in animals and humans, I've come better to understand why these existential questions defy introspection by even the wisest of thinkers, and, more importantly, why they have been so easily enslaved by religious and political dogma.
p.10
For most of history, organized religions have claimed sovereignty over the meaning of human existence. For their founders and leaders the enigma has been relatively easy to solve. The gods put us on Earth, and they told us how to behave.
Why should people around the world continue to believe one fantasy over another out of the more than four thousand that exist on Earth? The answer is tribalism, and, as I will show, tribalism is one consequence of the way humanity originated. Each of the organized or otherwise public religions as well as scores of religion-like ideologies defines a tribe, a tightly knit group of people joined by a particular story. The history and moral lessons it contains, often colorful, even bizarre in content, are accepted as basically unalterable and, more importantly, superior to all competing stories. The members of the tribe are inspired by the special status the story gives them, not just on this planet but on all other of the multitude of planets in each of the trillion galaxies estimated to compose the known universe.
And best of all, cosmic faith is the bargain price asked for guaranteed personal immortality.
pp.10─11
In The Descent of Man (1871), Charles Darwin brought the whole subject into the purview of science by suggesting that humanity descended from African apes. Shocking as that was at the time, and still unacceptable to many, the hypothesis has none-the-less proved correct. An understanding of how the great transition from ape to human occurred has been steadily improved since, chiefly by a consortium of researchers in five modern disciplines: paleontology, anthropolgy, psychology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience. As a result of the combined labors of scholars in these disciplines we have today an increasingly clear picture of the real creation story. We know a good deal about how humanity was born, and when, and how.
p.11
This factual story of the creation has turned out to be vastly different from that first believed not just by theologians but also by most scientists and philosophers. It fits the evolutionary histories of other, nonhuman lines, of which seventeen (17) have so far been found to possess advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. These are the subjects of the sections immediately to follow.
(Wilson, Edward O., author.
Kaspari, Debby Cotter, illustrator.
Genesis : the deep origin of societies / Edward O. Wilson; illustrated by Debby Cotter Kaspari.
other titles: Deep origin of societies
[2019]
subjects: animal behavior. | behavior evolution. | behavior genetics.
LCC QL751 .W55 2019
DDC 591.5──dc23
https://lccn.loc.gov/2018050101
)
____________________________________
Children of her people
By Anne Cameron
For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect. A story properly told will contain an old story, a new story, a message, and an example from the past for those who will come in the future.
This does not mean a properly told story will contain what the European dominant ideology would refer to as a moral!
The history of this continent has not been told properly, and what has been told improperly has been told without respect, and without truth. The history of this continent, improperly and untruthfully told, has become a lie, and on that lie a society has been based which yearns for something most of us have never known in our lifetimes.
We like to convince ourselves our society is peaceful, built of principles of liberty and justice and kindhearted liberal concern for our neighbours. We like to convince ourselves and our children we are a peace-loving people who have never oppressed or invaded any other nation--and yet how else did we get here if not by invading, oppressing, and exterminating our indigenous cousins?
"Oh," we say, "why bring up all those mistakes of the past? What's done is done and can't be undone, so let us move forward and put behind us all the sorrow." Easy to say when it isn't your sorrow. Easy to say when it wasn't your great grandmother who became the last of what had once been a numerous, healthy, and happy family! A society which does not remember and learn from the mistakes of the past is a society which takes no responsibility and thus will repeat those mistakes of the past.
History, as it has been taught to us, is the lie the conquerors force down the throats of the children of the disposessed. So if lies must be told, let them at least be told with love, let them at least contain some magic. After all, what is a story but a magic lie?
copyright © 1987 Anne Cameron
____________________________________
·‘’•─“”
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____________________________________
*2 “This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.”
──From a Declaration of Principles jointly adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations
(Ackoff's best : his classic writings on management, Russell L. Ackoff., © 1999, hardcover, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., p.139)
“This [copy & paste reference note] is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is [archive] with the understanding that the [researcher, investigator] is not engaged in rendering professional services. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.”
──From a Declaration of Principles jointly adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations
--
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher.
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The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowlege. All recommendations are made without guarantee on the part of the author or Storey publishing. The author and publisher disclaim any liability in connection with the use of this information.
NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C., section 107, some material is provided without permission from the copyright owner, only for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of federal copyright laws. These materials may not be distributed further, except for "fair use," without permission of the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
notice: Do not purchase this book with the hopes of curing cancer or any other chronic disease
We offer it for informative purposes to help cope with health situations and do not claim this book furnishes information as to an effective treatment or cure of the disease discussed ─ according to currently accepted medical opinion.
Although it is your right to adopt your own dietary and treating pattern, never the less suggestions offered in this book should not be applied to a specific individual except by his or her doctor who would be familiar with individual requirements and any possible complication. Never attempt a lengthy fast without competent professional supervision.
Rediscover catholictism: a spiritual guide to living with passion & purpose, 2010
pp.130─131
To whom does the future belong? What will our society be like 20, 50, or 100 years from today?
The most powerful and influential position in any society is that of the story teller. Story tellers are not just the mythical cultural icon who dress up on Thursday afternoons and read stories to your children in local libraries and bookstores. Musicians are story tellers. Teachers, preachers, nurses, lawyers, priests, scientists, salespeople, artists, mothers, fathers, poets, philosophers, brothers, sisters, babysitters, grandparents ... we are all storytellers.
The future belongs to the storytellers and it belongs to us. What will it be like? Well, that depends very much on the stories we tell, the stories we listen to, and the stories we live.
Stories have a remarkable ability to cut through the clutter and confusion and bring clarity to our hearts and minds. Stories remind us of our hopes, values, and dreams. They sneak beyond the barriers of our prejudices to soften our hearts to receive the truth. Great periods in history emerge when great stories are told and lived. Stories are history that form the future; they are prophecies set in the past.
Never underestimate the importance of stories. They play a crucial role in the life of a person and in the life of a society. They are as essential as the air we breathe and the water we drink. Stories captivate our imaginations, enchant our minds, and empower our spirits. They introduce us to whom we are and who are capable of beings. Stories change our lives.
If you wish to poison a nation, poison the stories that nation listens to. If you wish to win people over to your team or to your point of view, do not go to war or argue with them ── tell them a story.
All great leaders understand the persuasive and inspirational power of stories. When did you last hear a great speech that didn't contain a story?
A story can do anything: win a war, lose a war, heal the sick, encourage the discouraged, comfort the oppressed, inspire a revolution, transform an enemy into a friend, elevate the consciousness of the people, build empires, inspire love, even reshape the spiritual temperament of a whole age.
65 per cent of the Gospels are stories, or parables. 100 per cent of the Gospels is the story of Jesus Christ ── and it is the most influenctial story over told.
The future belongs to the story tellers, and we are the story tellers. What type of stories are we telling? Because I can promise you with absolute certitude that the stories we tell today are forming the future.
‘’•─“”
____________________________________
•─ The gods put us on Earth, and they told us how to behave.
Edward O. Wilson; Genesis : the deep origin of societies, written by Edward O. Wilson; illustrated by Debby Cotter Kaspari., [2019]
p.9
All questions of philosophy that address the human condition come down to three:
what are we,
what created us, and
what do we wish ultimately to become.
The all-important answer to the third question, the destiny we seek, requires an accurate answer to the first two. By and large, philosophers have lacked confirmable answers to the first two questions, which concern the deep prehuman and human past, thereby remaining unable to answer the third question, which addresses the human future.
As I now approach the end of a long career studying the biology of social behavior in animals and humans, I've come better to understand why these existential questions defy introspection by even the wisest of thinkers, and, more importantly, why they have been so easily enslaved by religious and political dogma.
p.10
For most of history, organized religions have claimed sovereignty over the meaning of human existence. For their founders and leaders the enigma has been relatively easy to solve. The gods put us on Earth, and they told us how to behave.
Why should people around the world continue to believe one fantasy over another out of the more than four thousand that exist on Earth? The answer is tribalism, and, as I will show, tribalism is one consequence of the way humanity originated. Each of the organized or otherwise public religions as well as scores of religion-like ideologies defines a tribe, a tightly knit group of people joined by a particular story. The history and moral lessons it contains, often colorful, even bizarre in content, are accepted as basically unalterable and, more importantly, superior to all competing stories. The members of the tribe are inspired by the special status the story gives them, not just on this planet but on all other of the multitude of planets in each of the trillion galaxies estimated to compose the known universe.
And best of all, cosmic faith is the bargain price asked for guaranteed personal immortality.
pp.10─11
In The Descent of Man (1871), Charles Darwin brought the whole subject into the purview of science by suggesting that humanity descended from African apes. Shocking as that was at the time, and still unacceptable to many, the hypothesis has none-the-less proved correct. An understanding of how the great transition from ape to human occurred has been steadily improved since, chiefly by a consortium of researchers in five modern disciplines: paleontology, anthropolgy, psychology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience. As a result of the combined labors of scholars in these disciplines we have today an increasingly clear picture of the real creation story. We know a good deal about how humanity was born, and when, and how.
p.11
This factual story of the creation has turned out to be vastly different from that first believed not just by theologians but also by most scientists and philosophers. It fits the evolutionary histories of other, nonhuman lines, of which seventeen (17) have so far been found to possess advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. These are the subjects of the sections immediately to follow.
(Wilson, Edward O., author.
Kaspari, Debby Cotter, illustrator.
Genesis : the deep origin of societies / Edward O. Wilson; illustrated by Debby Cotter Kaspari.
other titles: Deep origin of societies
[2019]
subjects: animal behavior. | behavior evolution. | behavior genetics.
LCC QL751 .W55 2019
DDC 591.5──dc23
https://lccn.loc.gov/2018050101
)
____________________________________
Children of her people
By Anne Cameron
For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect. A story properly told will contain an old story, a new story, a message, and an example from the past for those who will come in the future.
This does not mean a properly told story will contain what the European dominant ideology would refer to as a moral!
The history of this continent has not been told properly, and what has been told improperly has been told without respect, and without truth. The history of this continent, improperly and untruthfully told, has become a lie, and on that lie a society has been based which yearns for something most of us have never known in our lifetimes.
We like to convince ourselves our society is peaceful, built of principles of liberty and justice and kindhearted liberal concern for our neighbours. We like to convince ourselves and our children we are a peace-loving people who have never oppressed or invaded any other nation--and yet how else did we get here if not by invading, oppressing, and exterminating our indigenous cousins?
"Oh," we say, "why bring up all those mistakes of the past? What's done is done and can't be undone, so let us move forward and put behind us all the sorrow." Easy to say when it isn't your sorrow. Easy to say when it wasn't your great grandmother who became the last of what had once been a numerous, healthy, and happy family! A society which does not remember and learn from the mistakes of the past is a society which takes no responsibility and thus will repeat those mistakes of the past.
History, as it has been taught to us, is the lie the conquerors force down the throats of the children of the disposessed. So if lies must be told, let them at least be told with love, let them at least contain some magic. After all, what is a story but a magic lie?
copyright © 1987 Anne Cameron
____________________________________
·‘’•─“”
<------------------------------------------------------------------------>
____________________________________
*2 “This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.”
──From a Declaration of Principles jointly adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations
(Ackoff's best : his classic writings on management, Russell L. Ackoff., © 1999, hardcover, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., p.139)
“This [copy & paste reference note] is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is [archive] with the understanding that the [researcher, investigator] is not engaged in rendering professional services. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.”
──From a Declaration of Principles jointly adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations
--
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher.
The W. Edwards Deming Institute. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States copyright act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
All right reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages or reproduce illustrations in a review with appropriate credits nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means ── electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other ── without written permission from the publisher.
The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowlege. All recommendations are made without guarantee on the part of the author or Storey publishing. The author and publisher disclaim any liability in connection with the use of this information.
NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C., section 107, some material is provided without permission from the copyright owner, only for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of federal copyright laws. These materials may not be distributed further, except for "fair use," without permission of the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
notice: Do not purchase this book with the hopes of curing cancer or any other chronic disease
We offer it for informative purposes to help cope with health situations and do not claim this book furnishes information as to an effective treatment or cure of the disease discussed ─ according to currently accepted medical opinion.
Although it is your right to adopt your own dietary and treating pattern, never the less suggestions offered in this book should not be applied to a specific individual except by his or her doctor who would be familiar with individual requirements and any possible complication. Never attempt a lengthy fast without competent professional supervision.
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