I Declare World Peace

http://www.ideclareworldpeace.com/

 

I Declare World Peace is the world's largest ever art / science project / experiment. We describe it in the next few paragraphs. It is not a group. There is nothing to join. There is no cost. There are no members, and it requires no registration. While I Declare World Peace supports and embraces the activities of every other well-intentioned peace promoting endeavor, our experiment is based on the principle of "do less and accomplish more." So, I Declare World Peace engages in no activities of any kind, except for encouraging everyone to periodically think the affirmation "I Declare World Peace" and from time to time write it on the wall of your favorite social media. 

 

World peace can be achieved in our lifetime. In the meantime, and to help the process (since peace is up to us), please post "I Declare World Peace" on the walls of your social media sites. Thank you.

 

The ART

In 2005, the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude brought "The Gates" to Central Park in New York City. A giant installation of 7,500 orange fabric gates, 16 feet high (4.87 m) of varying widths, lined 23 miles (36.8 km) of footpaths in the park. While each individual gate was beautiful alone, the effect of the whole was far more than the sum of its parts. It created an amazing dynamic involving the observer, the thing being observed and the process of observation itself.

We have been inspired by this achievement, the manifestation of an idea hatched in 1979. In 2010, we hatched an idea to create an art installation unlike anything ever before seen or heard of on this planet, made possible for the first time in history by modern technology and the prevalent existence of social media.

Our idea is to create the largest art installation ever, to be installed not in some physical location, or even in cyberspace but rather within the consciousness of every person on the planet, a sort of "Gates of the Mind". Each person will hold a "flag" in his or her mind, which collectively will change the history of the world. The "flag" is I Declare World Peace, expressed in the language of the thinker.

Over the coming weeks, months and years, people will be gently encouraged to type the affirmation "I Declare World Peace" on the "walls" of their various and favorite social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so forth.

The SCIENCE

One of the intriguing premises of quantum theory, which seems to blend physics with metaphysics, states that by the very act of watching, the observer, through the process of observation, affects the object observed being observed. In a study reported in Nature (Vol. 391, pp. 871-874), researchers demonstrated how a beam of electrons is affected by the act of being observed. The experiment showed that the more "watching," the greater the observer's influence on what happens.

This indicates to us that consciousness, or the conscious mind, can affect phenomenal reality. In other words, thoughts can affect the physical world. Now, we understand we may be oversimplifying, but philosophers, mystics and wise folks through the centuries have claimed the same thing.

SO HERE'S THE STORY

In general, goals are reached by taking action. All action proceeds from thought. The completion of a skyscraper results from the action of construction, which in turn results from the thoughts of the architects and builders.

In the same way, the ability to achieve peace in our lifetime is simply a direct function of the conscious thinking of people. Just as a war is commenced by declaration based on the thinking of certain people, peace requires a declaration based on the thinking of certain people. All group thinking is based on the thinking of the individuals in the group.

There are approximately 195 countries in the world. Assume there are 200 major "violent" separatist or opposition groups. If the top 5 ranking people in government and those separatist groups all declared peace, just 2,000 people, there would be peace. And those 2,000 would have no choice but to declare peace if substantial numbers of their "constituents" declared peace.

In short, world peace is entirely dependent on what you, yes you personally, think.

HOW YOU CAN EFFORTLESSLY PARTICIPATE

Please post and tweet the affirmation "I Declare World Peace" on your favorite social media site from time to time. Every time you see the tweet I Declare World Peace, please follow the person who tweeted it and then re tweet (RT) it. It will soon become like popcorn popping all over the world.

Go to www.facebook.com/declarepeace click "Like" and participate or come back to visit. Tell your friends. If you would like to sponsor this web site, it is free to do so and requires no fee or registration. We will put a link to any appropriate lawful business or entity on the Wall of Support page of this site. It requires no reciprocity. Just emaillr@ideclareworldpeace.com and provide your URL and a very brief description of the site.

Come help us create the largest art installation in the history of the world, installed, for the first time ever, on the consciousness of mankind.

This site is growing. Please come back from time to time. The official I Declare World Peace hashtag is #IDWP

Copyright © 2011 I Declare World Peace, Inc.

unrespect hostility

put on some grooving music, and fall into dance

 

 

 

success is no prophylactic against despair

 

the "Tea Party" as we tend to think of it was not the outpouring of actual "on the ground" concerns, but a creature of the media

 

We laud our diversity, our innovative spirit, our American know-how based on freedom -- yet, many so ignorantly persist in decrying what we all know is the basis of what has made us great. No wonder the US seems to be devolving into a second-rate country.

 

 

 

Dysfunction is not the price that the species pays. It is the price the individual is made to pay by social convention against the exceptional.

 

 

 

We don't pay and respect cops to bash/tase/torture/frame the nonviolent, noncriminal among us.   Why do the police think disrespect of the protesters is expected of them? If police are meant to be public servants, perhaps the public needs to better oversee their service.

 

Why are our service folk not better trained in individual integrity?

 

 

 

People have children for a variety of reasons from simple failure of birth control to having a desire to mold a creature to their specifications, to having a legacy, to enjoying the company of the young and the new wonder they can bring, to ... The mere act of procreation is not parenthood. There are a great many children who need better role models than their parents can offer. What can you offer them?

 

Republicans do it. Democrats do it. Independents do it. Let's take all the outrage and send it where it belongs -- your right to freely swing your dong or hands ends where my personal space begins.

 

 

 

The problem with President Obama is that he is too much of a centrist in extreme times, thus appearing less bold and innovative than we thought we were led to expect from his campaign. However, he does present as a calm, thoughtful, intelligent leader, which extreme times certainly can use.

 

As it becomes more widely obvious that the lot of the returning vet is not honor but disrespect and lack of opportunity, how many will volunteer to keep the military going forward?

 

It is in the nature of humanity that when people aggregate there are disputes,
leading to a perceived need of systems to adjudicate disputes,
which is the essence of law, which is the basis of government.

 

Ideally, government is the mechanism by which solutions are negotiated for widespread concerns not adequately addressed by the private sector

 

We don't go bankrupt from having debt.  We go bankrupt from not having the wherewithal to pay it.  Right now, in the sense of "buy low/sell high" is a great time to invest in our country, take on the necessary additional debt, so that we can build back up into a thriving economy -- at which point it will be much easier to pay off said debt.

 

The problem with capitalism is Wall Street.  When private business goes public and the primary responsibility becomes to the shareholders, the consumer in the private market loses standing and power.  The locus of value devolves from the business product to the game of trade in valuation of the business.  The map overwhelms the territory.  The symbol destroys the real.

 

If what I do annoys you, don't follow me.  I have no need to lead.  I have no need of people who tear me down rather than turn their energy to what they perceive as better.

 

 

 

Kids are not encouraged to run and play energetically, to dance and prance and skip and jump, but rather to sit in front of a screen or teacher.  We need to get back into our bodies, to feel the grace and joy of movement.  We need to not only acquiesce, but take delight in being physical beings, rather than letting our bodies seem separate from ourselves.

 

Though most of us may not conceptualize it, the most universal desire of our kind is to feel comfortable within ourselves.  If we love who we are, we can more truly be happy, and more truly love each other.

 

trauma, tragedy -- the stuff nightmares are made of

 

strength through diversity, individual responsibility, technological and system innovation -- the future is now

 

 

 

Thank you for traversing my world without hostility
Go, fare you well, in peace

deep '11 (raos)

Why channel the people's energies into combative divisions rather than promote effective response to common concerns?

 

 

It would be better for all concerned if we could develop an attitude of all humans in this project together, rather than seething over unspoken/unmet expectations or divisive labeling.

 

 

What do the Occupiers want? It's no mystery. We of good will want peace and prosperity available for all.

 

 

We obviously need the labor the lower wage workers, yet insist on keeping them down through classist stereotyping.  A much healthier attitude for a well-functioning society would be blatant honoring of work, of good citizenship, of civil interaction, and of the people who exemplify these.

 

 

1) Every time someone gets upset about something they think there ought to be a law, rather than deal with interpersonal communication and negotiation -- and they often can drum up support

 

2) Most laws don't come with expiration dates

 

 

 

With the budgetary need to lower law enforcement resources, destroy jobs of law enforcement personnel, and the higher crime associated with greater pervasive poverty, how can using so many police-hours in quelling peaceful First Amendment speech and assembly be justified?

 

 

In keeping with the aesthetics of the movement, rather than set up an either/or combative paradigm, wouldn't it be more effective to bring the police in -- through individual dialogs, broadcast of group ethic, and other strategies?

 

 

 

I am wondering if the government workers conspiring against the protesters' First Amendment speech and assembly could be convicted of criminal conspiracy?

 

 

If the bottom line is job creation, why not tax for not creating jobs -- or rather, generously allow the cost of job creation to offset taxation?

 

 

 

The dream isn't lost -- it's just morphed into a nightmare

 

 

 

We seem to be vying for the bottom, city under the garbage heap, rather than “shining city upon a hill”

 

Considering that the Christmas Tree was taken from pagan traditions, not Christian (see any pines in Jerusalem?), it ought to be the Solstice Tree; so, Holiday Tree ought to be good enough of a compromise.

 

Perhaps the not so hidden truth all along has been that people create religions to permit violence against other people?

 

 

 

The fundamentalist view of Judgment and reward in the afterlife preclude the kind of urgency that would promote better use of our time and resources in this life.

 

 

"Bad" things don't happen as punishment. Things happen. We interpret them as "bad".

 

 

 

Evil is a concept of moral failure, not brain anomalies. The human brain continues to grow for some time after birth. The way in which it grows is to a large extent based, not on predetermined genetic disposition, on early experience. Teach a brain-damaged "psychopath" to behave appropriately; forget about labeling them "evil".

 

The death penalty is barbaric -- it encourages the worst in us
The death penalty is unfair -- executions are based on rigid attitudes about issues other than justice
The death penalty is dangerous -- it has been proven that innocent people have been killed due to faulty evidence or even outright manipulation of evidence
The death penalty encourages an attitude of justifiable murder, that a solution to social problems is to eliminate those involved rather than look at real solutions
The death penalty is too easy for those we truly want to punish -- in fact it punishes any surviving people who cared about the state-murdered, while the condemned criminal is no longer suffering from their conscience or the attitudes of others toward them or imprisonment
The death penalty denies the possibility of redemption or actual payment for crimes
and so forth

 

 

 

 

 If you kill yourself, the bullies win. If you are so desperate as to contemplate acting as their jury and executioner, you might better turn that emotion to self-defense.

 

 

 

People often say they would do or would want to act or speak out about issues or values that they are afraid would open them to violent reactions from others with greater power or influence or uncontrollable violent tendencies. Could we have more honest interchange, more meaningful expression, better communication, with a service to provide back-up as necessary against bullies or other such adversaries?
-- unrespect hostility

 

 

 

 

Perhaps instead of cutting back on Medicare we might better promote useful health education for all.

 

 

 

In many ways our culture divorces us from our bodies, from our feelings and sensations, from being active in our own well-being.

 

 

 

Healthy egos would be ablaze in magnificent conversation.  These are wounded.  Warning:  These are dangerous -- angry and scared, pain to panic dismissing reason, always, only, needing to strike at any who come near. 

 

Arrogantly ignorant, aggressively entitled to expectations that they be served.

 

 

 

Puritanical morays
striking with venomous rage
out of the cold, murky water
of the American collective unconscious

 

The problem is that though many human beings are reasonable and decent, there are always many who see life as a game in which only a few can win, and they aim to be on the top by kicking everyone else down.

 

 

 

Words of value are bound in well thought-out phrases, titled and presented for review.

 

just another theory -- not some devil's brew or destructive bomb

 

Dishonor can be worn as a badge.  But of what use are badges?  Better, perhaps, a bag of clear water, a charm against danger, a salve for irritation, a text of inspiration, baubles and beads valued by the local tribe.

 

Is it a gift if unwelcome, different from what is sought?

 

It's an art project!
Thanks for performing
your roles so well
(applause)
(bows)
Carry on.  Enjoy your evening.
Now, don't we all feel better?

 

 

 

 

The movement is the message. Spread the movement: spread the message

 

 

 

Model the behavior you want to see.

 

 

Blue skies
No mourning
No tethers or lines,
valence or gravity
Opening key dangles
Skein untangles

free * * *

rallyiing!

http://huffingtonpostunionofbloggers.org/2011/11/13/the-american-people-are-waking-up-occupy-occupy/

 

The American People Are Waking Up! Occupy! Occupy!

 

http://www.ustream.tv/theother99

 

a webcast, from the street, of the protesters' perspective.

 

http://www.newser.com/article/d9r2mfr00/bands-of-occupy-protesters-march-in-several-cities-as-movement-enters-3rd-month.html

 

Thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators took to the streets around the U.S. on Thursday to mark two months since the movement's birth and signal they aren't ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police

 

http://www.loyolamaroon.com/editorial-and-opinions/column-occupy-wall-street-changes-national-debate-1.2673089

 

Column: Occupy Wall Street changes national debate

 

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111117/NEWS04/111117021/Occupy-protesters-march-nationwide

 

Occupy protesters march nationwide

 

Rallying

 

The Secret to Happiness ~ We Are Happening!

Find what brings you alive; and do it.

(not what "I should" to prove that "I'm good," or good

at being bad)

Maybe meet people enjoying it too;

layer texture to our view,

expand our field of play.

Lather, rinse, repeat

as necessary.

Take it out to the street when necessary.

Do what you need to be

what you want to see.

Do what only you can.

Make this happening grand!

Do it today.

 

 

September 17, 2011

Threshold Revelations ~ EV21 ~ has emerged

Take in trance lucence:

 

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

 

Threshold Revelations

 

Emerging Visions visionary art 'zine #21

 

 

 

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reflected revelations (raos)

Everyone wants to co-opt the movement. Must be successful if they all want a piece. The problem for they is, it's not about them. It's about moving together to get to a better social concept.

 

What is wanted is exactly what is happening -- a new dialog that takes the issues of the people seriously.

 

Think of all the energy produced by minds connecting all over the world.

 

This could be just what the failing economy needs.  The big investors, those we bailed out because we so badly needed their financial services, have not been doing their job, only squeezing what they can from the rest of us doing the actual work.  Credit unions and community banks traditionally do business by investing in the actual communities.  We can take back our own economic resources for our own small and local businesses, for our own benefits.

 

 

 

what these ideologue neo-cons think will happen when the citizens get desperate is hard to understand.

 

Canaries in the coal mine, dolphins in the gulf, children in the streets -- the warnings are loud; but we're too caught up in the din to listen.

 

 community centers, where disputes can be aired and peacefully worked out might be a good start

 

People often say they would do or would want to act or speak out about issues or values that they are afraid would open them to violent reactions from others with greater power or influence or uncontrollable violent tendencies. Could we have more honest interchange, more meaningful expression, better communication, with a service to provide back-up as necessary against bullies or other such adversaries?

 

What is this intense beef the police have with the protesters? Does it make sense for them to be putting themselves on the line as the enemy?

 

When it is so hard to get by, why would we torture each other rather than doing the best job we can?

 

It's lonely and stressful at the top, at the bottom, so stupidly sad -- we could be lifting each other rather than tearing down.

 

 

No actual goods, services, technological devices or practical ideas were ever created by "Wall Street". The function of financial markets is not creativity (except in the sense of "creative" financing -- which was the underlying cause of this collapse, not people trying to invest in housing); it is manipulating trade for profit. It is a gaming industry, and ought to be taxed as such.

 

Back in the halcyon conservative heydays we had these limits on income without social responsibility. Yeah, there were plenty of social issues; but the economics made more sense.

 

 

Actually we all get poorer when too much of our resources get held instead of flowing through

 

 

In a lot of ways, capitalism is a good idea for a previous episode in economic development. We would best take the lessons provided, and understand that there is no need to be stuck in ideology. Technological advances are providing opportunities impossible to imagine in the day when capitalism was the innovative engine.

 

 

Real job creators?  Oh, you mean the people who trade our skilled time for societal credit -- whether we hire out to a business or project, or figure out the marketing/accounting on our own.

 

The thing is private corporations are private enterprises created for their individual purposes.  They are not controlled by the "market," but rather, if they are on top of the game, to a large extent control it.

 

People who say "government" is THE problem don't really understand that government is a social organization, essentially controlled by the market of the electorate.  If we have bad government, it is not because government in itself is bad, but because we are not (or have not sufficiently been) doing our due diligence, taking our individual responsibility for the overall outcome.

 

Those who insist government is THE problem are ignoring the ways in which government is the solution, and the basic responsibilities of citizens.

 

 

If the states were well enough to provide the infrastructure and services we really do expect and want, we could leave it to the states individually to take care of business "on the ground".  If we are not ready, willing and able, we still need those services and constructions.  Perhaps we would do better giving up on the idea of government being the problem and do better at making it a useful solution.

 

rooftop gardening could be promoted to provide better nutrition options and better control of CO2

 

there is no need for monolithic ideological dichotomies in actual practice

 

Since when is sanity a necessity for political rule?  Though, yes, it would be an interesting, novel, and possibly quite effective attribute.

 

 

One area in which government is spending far too much is for generous compensation to "representatives" for acting like idiots when there are so many people doing so for free.

 

 

So-called Communism was Doublespeak for totalitarian aristocracy -- an aristocracy not based on heredity being twisted into a definition of rule by the people.  This is not Marxism, nor communism.

 

We were sold a lie that war improves the economy. It is hard to understand how such a lie could be so convincingly and widely sold.

 

Chemical treatment for cognitive disorders requires cognitive association to be effective. More direct treatment without chemical side effects would obviously result from cognitive therapies.

 

People change their behavior all the time, and not necessarily in economically practical ways. Much more of an influence is ambiance, peer pressure, the general impression that this new way is what is in, what one does to fit in.

 

"Do as Thou Wilt" is all of the law -- natural law. There is no "just" retribution nor reward. The punishment/reward is within us to administer as we will, or as we have been conditioned. In the realm of reality, we do, we create consequences, hopefully we learn.

 

 

 

Learning is a pleasure.  There is nothing more exuberantly exciting than those "aha!" moments when it all clicks together.  Children are born with growing brains eager to learn.  Then we go to schools which mostly stifle us.

 

 

Art is a creature evolving with its time.  The ideas in the air of any given era are the ideas, the air, that inform the artist.  When other historical eras are incorporated into artistic expression, they are reinterpreted through the lens of the artist's time, the paradigm through which experience is framed.

 

 

 

 

apparently we need some long, hard discussions about exactly what a person is, why we choose the criteria we do, and what it means to be a person

 

As medical science progresses, it is quite possible that it will not be too far in the future when we have developed out of womb gestational technology. Perhaps it is better that we start thinking about what exactly human rights are, what exactly we want them to be, and at what developmental stage what rights might be most appropriate. What we really need to remember is that rights imply and require responsibilities on the part of the rights holder, and on the part of the rest of the social system. We throw around this concept of rights without due consideration of the true implications.

 

the complexities of unraveling the most intimate of human relationships is not rationally within the purview of government