By Jim Selman | Bio
I was playing a trivia game and had to answer
what the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are. I got three out of four,
but had to go to go to Wikipedia to get them all: War, Famine, Conquest
and Death. These traditional Biblical symbols mark the ‘end of time’,
when all things are put right and presumably all karma is erased and
this journey will be complete. In researching each of them, I learned
that ‘conquest’ is best translated in today’s language as ‘corruption’.
The ancient notion of ‘famine’ can also be understood to encompass
epidemics and plagues. ‘War’ represents violence in all forms and Death
is pretty self-evident. These seem to me to be a good list of the dark
side of “The Force” which threatens our way of life and our collective
future.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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By Jim Selman | Bio
I am no fan of the far right, but can respect
an honest difference of opinion. When the difference of opinion turns
into crass and cynical lies and propaganda designed to frighten and
deepen the already fragmented population, then it is time to cry
“STOP!”. During one of the darker moments of the prior administration,
I proposed (with tongue in cheek) the idea of creating a new
organization called the “ National Organization of Pissed-Off Elders”
(N.O.P.E.). Its mission: to step up to the plate and declare that
enough is enough whenever and wherever necessary. There is an old maxim
that the only thing that has to happen for evil to prevail is for good
people to do (and say) nothing.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Leadership
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By Jim Selman | Bio
Last week was not a good week for the planet
and I've been taking it personally. Aside from the Iran Crisis and
North Korea, we had the usual games being played in Europe, South
America and Southeast Asia. At some moment, I realized that I had once
again drifted into a spectator role. I was trying to sort out the good
insurgents from the bad insurgents, the real terrorists from the
"revolutionaries", and I was finding that the conservative/liberal
divide seems to be a universal constant everywhere we look. As President Obama is declaring[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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Since I starting blogging a couple of months ago, I find myself
waking up in the middle of the night with something inside me screaming
to be said. Tonight it is cynical ambition. What I mean by that is the
kind of “Do anything for power — or money, or sex, or fame”. You can
fill in the ‘it’ that people will do anything to have.[ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Leadership
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