[Oe List ...] Salmon: More on contradictions

[Bill Salmon]

Colleagues on the Journey--
    You know what I'm missing in the conversations about global social contradictions is Niebuhr's prologue statement concerning, "The transgressions of the Divine Commandment." 
    Using Gut Trip Analysis, my transliteration of this statement is, "Those experiences that prevent our living the humane and gracious life." How is it possible to not take care of all the earth, and all the people, and all the gifts of humanness, and still live the humane life?
    Wasn't the Ecumenical Institute a demonstration of what the humane life looked like (5th City, the Local Church Experience--God forgive us--and the Global Demonstration, and all that), and wasn't the Order Ecumenical the intensification of the demonstration of how people can live, work, support each other, and keep the whole thing glued together? 
    Isn't Niebuhr's question still fundamental to this conversation? Today, where do we see the transgression of the Divine Commandment? If we see it don't we have the responsibility to "stand in the tension" and DO SOMETHING about it? (Thank you, Mr. Bonhoeffer.)
    A main concern after naming all of the transgressions, is to gestalt them in order to name the underlying reality. Isn't that one of the jobs in Junaluska? 
    Whoever of us that asked everyone get their three, or five, or eight, or whatever, transgressions into the pot is right. The many reports of the many blind people who have a hold of a piece of the global/social elephant then the more comprehensive the description. In the last analysis, the list is fodder for the gestalt. This will be where the consensus is named.
    Dare I mention, again, the Whistle Point research? Is there the potential for this research to provide a screen to point us in new directions?
    So, I'll put my money where my mouth is, and here are my three societal transgressions of humane-ness:
1) Unrealized potential for global communications, or a laptop in every pot; 2) Those affected by decision making that are not a part of the conversation, or what's a union for?; 3) Unrecognized symbols for which people are dieing, or what flags are people following and why? 
    Bill Salmon
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