I know for a long time I have had a cultist type of lifestlye and mindset. Yet there seems to be no cult in which I could be apart of.

I desire a cult where all live in peace and love for each other and in harmony with the world and its environment. Where we do no think of what is good for ourselves but what is good for the community. That there is no leader, but rather servants who seek out what is best and according to the needs of the community.

It is a place where all are welcome and accepted and each see himself not as one apart from others, but one as a part of the whole. A place where we encourage each other, support each other, and beleive in each other and in the promise that the world can hold.

A place where we no only respect and accept each other's differences but see them as an expansion of our own understanding and knowledge. That our difference are like the colors in a beautice painting, alive and vibrant. Each lives by the liberty and faith which is in him to be who he desires to be for the glory of God or for the the well being of himself and others.

Is there such a place, if not we we try to make such a place such a world. Try and try again until we can get it right and live according to love, peace and respect and good will to all.

Whats so funny about peace love and understanding..

The idea of selflessness does seem philosophically admirable, but does it really make pragmatic sense?

What is the purpose of doing good for the ‘community’ if not to make the ‘individuals’ of that community happy?

After all, what is a community but a collection of individuals?

Well, if the goal of is to make the community happy then the goal is to make the individuals of the community happy and since everyone is an individual of the community then they should have just as much responsibility to make themselves happy as they have for making anyone else happy.,

In other words, doing what is good for the community should automatically equate to doing what is good for ourselves.

If that doesn’t hold true then wouldn’t we be living in the wrong community????

I think that doing what is good for ourselves must be in harmony with what is good for the community.

If that’s not the case then there are some major problems with the whole ideology to begin with.

That’s my thoughts on that.

That is beautiful, James. Sometimes when doing my job I try to rise above my station as a servant and cop an attitude. It is like I wipe their butts, get them dressed and then they ask for coffee. It is like I am a CNA and I ain't a waitress. But where I work the elderly really like their coffee and it makes them happy. So it is like okay I am a waitress how would you like your coffee? I was copping an attitude with this one female resident who it seems I couldn't do enough for and she kept saying hurry up and come on. After doing all she asked I asked her is she freaking happy now. She said she was happy and I told her to stay happy I have other things to do.

sounds like you want to join the cult of those locked up on Death Row

I beleive that we all can benefit mutually together. That we expand our vision of ourselves to include others as well. It is not that I want to have this or that but that I what I would want would be good for all others also. Do we have a vision of what mankind could become, and head in that direction, according to clean technology, health, spirituality, and mentally and emotionally sound.

Can we find solutions to the direction mankind is going in, or maybe an alternate course away from competition and strife toward peace and the well-being of all. I beleive that it is more than sound. One everyone is working together progress is acheive fasting than working sperately independently.

This may be a dream but we could dream together about how to attain a better world. I think it is worth the effort.

I am not sure what you mean. I am serious about this, I was not attempting to think of those qualities as funny but worth pursuing.

I think It's beautiful.

I sure hope there is no "Kool-Aid" involved.

Well in theory it should be wonderful. Utopia. But in the reality of man, it would never work. In a group of humans no matter what group you put together there are leaders and followers. The leaders would eventually become what they are. Maybe the leaders would not "outplay" each other for the power but I doubt it. So then you would have a cult lead by someone. When someone leads their doctrines, morals, ethics, etc.... become everyones. So that would be the end to a group unified thought and action. So on and so forth.

For example look at our democracy. A government for the people by the people and still we have problems. Power is the most addictive drug imaginable.

But bless you for the thought. It was a nice dream for a moment there.

You know I am a believer in the light of each and every human as a potential for love and positivity but I am also a realist when it comes to human kind.

I believe that this cult type setting would be considered Christianity, but our souls tend to recollect exactly why we have a Savior in the first place, therefore we tend to insult eachother with our faulty past.

I haven't figure out a way to not hurt others, by reminding them of there faults, even when its accidentally.

God Bless, it would be nice to live --- you might what to add complete forgiveness.. of past and future mistakes.

TAB

I beleive that we can do these things, are we just daring enough to try. I beleive that we can live according to love and peace, toward acceptance and honoring of all men, that there does not have to be a them.

I think man was create to live as one, ta one time men lived as one and they could have done anything, yet they were all living in one area and God wanted man to live throughout the earth, but I still beleive that men when they work together for a good purpose can achieve incredible things. Why can we not see the potential of man rather than to look at our past. Shall we let the past imprison us. I will not beleive this. I know that this is not exactly Chrisitain yet this message would also apply to the church for those who have a different understanding of it in a non twentieth century concept of it.

We can be connected, we can live in harmony and peace, we see examples of it. If we can find a common goal. We reach the moon with technology that now is in the dark ages. Look at what athletes most become mentally in order to become a team. Man does not have to let his selfish nature, his ego, and pride rule his life. It is that we ought to love others as much as we love ourselves.

Is there no dream, no daringness, no excitement, no faith in a world that could be one of peace and harmony with each other and nature. Are we not the only ones holding ouselves back. We will not even try, then try again, and never give up till we see the promise of what the world could be, what we could be together.

Thank you feralcatlady, for your kind comment.

Sounds great. Sign me up.

I wish more people thought the same way.

I'll set it up.

Give me a week or so and I'll let you all know where to send me your money.

It already exsist and I am living it.....May I say you might want to visit the Christian Coffeehouse sometime......It's full of love and everything you speak of. Also I might add that I am going on #11 of my Matchmaking thread......there is not only major diversity such as hetrosexuals, transvestites, gays, lesbians and many many people with diverse religious and spiritual beliefs....and I have had only one little argument in over 11,000 posts.......so also filled with budding friends, budding romance and just a happy happy place to be.

So I say this to the naysayers God is alive and well and living in many many people, who can share love, friendship and diversity and most important respect each individual for just being them.


Debbie