Robert Muller

[GMW #2400] World Association of Long-term Scientists and Thinkers

2012-02-14T13:03:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2400] World Association of Long-term Scientists and Thinkers

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1278 ~
9 January 1998

I hope that a World Association of Long-term Scientists and Thinkers will soon be created. The preparatory work has been done by Erika Erdmann and Professor Jean-Claude Leonide in their world survey of possible interested scientists (see idea 526). The world needs urgently such an association.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
I often think of Sir John Templeton and Peter Stewart, the founders of World Thanksgiving Square in Dallas. How right they are: there should be a World Thanksgiving Day. Perhaps the International Day of the Family, proclaimed by the United Nations and celebrated on the 15th of May could become that day. I obtained to have the year 2000 declared World Thanksgiving Year by the UN General Assembly.

Photo by Alice Cahill. Location: Morro Bay, CA.

Daily Good

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein 

Good News of the Day:
When Arunachalam Muruganantham hit a wall in his research on creating a sanitary napkin for poor women, he decided to do what most men typically wouldn't dream of. He wore one himself -- for a whole week. Fashioning his own menstruating uterus by filling a bladder with goat's blood, Muruganantham went about his life while wearing women's underwear, occasionally squeezing the contraption to test out his latest iteration. It resulted in endless derision and almost destroyed his family. But no one is laughing at him anymore, as the sanitary napkin-making machine he went on to create is transforming the lives of rural women across India. Right now, 88% of women in India resort to using dirty rags, newspapers, dried leaves, and even ashes during their period. Perhaps most amazing of all? Muruganantham is a high school dropout. [More]

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[GMW #2399] Eminent Personalities for Love of Humanity and Love for Earth

2012-02-14T12:46:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2399] Eminent Personalities for Love of Humanity and Love for Earth

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1277 ~
8 January 1998

As a preparation of our entry into the 21st century and third millennium I recommend the creation of three World Commissions of Eminent Personalities:

- a World Commission on Philanthropy (love for humanity)

- a World Commission on Gaiaphily (love for the Earth)

- a World Commission on World Prizes

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Each person and nation should count its blessings and not mostly complain, be dissatisfied and always want more. No wonder that God punishes us for our lack of gratitude. Perhaps nuclear arms are the effects of our insatiability.

WORD FOR THE DAY

Love is...like a spring coming up
out of the ground
of our own depths.

"I am gift."
All that I am is something that's given, and
given freely.

Being doesn't cost anything.
There's no price tag,
no strings attached.

-- Thomas Merton,
The Springs of Contemplation:
A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani

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Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
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[GMW #2398] Name Global Saints Who Work for Peace & Cooperation of all Humanity, of all Religions for Global Spirituality

2012-02-14T12:39:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2398] Name Global Saints Who Work for Peace & Cooperation of all Humanity, of all Religions for Global Spirituality

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1276 ~
7 January 1998

The United Religions Organization, once established, should proclaim its own saints and holy persons, namely global saints who worked for the peace and cooperation of all humanity, of all religions, for the birth of a global spirituality, for the promotion of the high spiritual values shared by all religions, and for the advent of a spiritual third Millennium.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
If I were the President of a prosperous country, I would issue a yearly report of gratitude to God and celebrate a thanksgiving day. A few countries do it already. The United Nations should proclaim a world-wide one.

Photo by Mark Ludwig. Location: Grafton, WI.

Colors are the smiles of nature. -- Leigh Hunt

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Robert's Harmonic & Talk
Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
Decide To Index
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[GMW #2397] Global Environmental Security

2012-02-14T12:28:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2397] Global Environmental Security

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1275 ~
6 January 1998

In the reform plans of the UN, attention should be given to the proposals of Russia to create an Environmental Security Council or to replace the UN Trusteeship Council which has completed its work by a UN Environmental Council as a main UN organ.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
What an immense need there is in the rich countries for deep gratitude to God! But it is mostly the poor who adore, pray and thank God. It is mostly in Latin America and in India that one hears the people thank God many times a day.

United Nations Declares 2012 the international year of co-operatives.

Co-operative business is not business as usual

Co-operative business models offer more to the communities they operate in, and they're scalable says Pauline Green

Watch this video on the idea and practice of co-operative business here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/video/pauline-green

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Robert's Harmonic & Talk
Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
Decide To Index
Decide To Poems

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The Miracle, Joy &
Art of Living
Robert's Golden Sayings
Mt. Rasur Legend
Our Dream 3000

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World Peace Plan 2005
Earth Peace Plan 2010

[GMW #2396] Education for a World of Peace using Creative Nonviolent Actions to End War and Other Forms of Violence

2012-02-14T11:58:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2396] Education for a World of Peace using Creative Nonviolent Actions to End War and Other Forms of Violence

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1273 ~
4 January 1998

At the beginning of my first 500 ideas, in idea number 5, I recommended the early holding of a world conference on non-violence. I believe that it would be worthwhile to hold also soonest a world conference on education of peace and non-violence.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Our heart can be as big as the world. I can embrace all humanity, the heavens and the Earth, even God. That is the miraculous capacity of human nature. We are a very lucky, most advanced species among all the living ones on this planet and perhaps in the universe. We must be worthy of it, endlessly grateful, peaceful and make the Earth a true Paradise.

The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle by Gene Sharp

This film opens with a two minute trailer of an award winning film
about the application of the ideas that that Gene Sharp talks about.
Well worth watching.

The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle by Gene Sharp
http://youtu.be/QQV_4-rXXrE

Gene Sharp, Senior Scholar of the Albert Einstein Institution, shares insights from his life study of how nonviolent struggle can work. For many years Gene and the Albert Einstein Institution have been mentors and catalysts for nonviolent struggle throughout the world.

In this film Gene shows with example after compelling example what it takes to nurture successful nonviolent struggle. Military people trained in violence as the only way and people fighting against military violence can change their minds, hearts and ways as they learn how nonviolent struggle can work. Thoughtful strategy, discipline to carry it out, a willingness to learn and understand what people of a place want and will support are essential aspects of nonviolent struggle.

Political power is not intrinsic to rulers nor is it monolithic. Political power is derived from the people of a place and will disintegrate when people withdraw their obedience and support.

The film opens with a trailer of the award winning film - How To Start A Revolution.

Gene gave this talk, in 1990 at the National Conference on Nonviolent Sanctions and Defense in Boston. Since then he continues his work, ever more research, and writing that is translated into numerous languages where ever nonviolent struggle challenges non democratic ways.

Gene Sharp's books are available for order or free download from The Albert Einstein Institution, www.AEinstein.org
Including: From Dictatorship to Democracy, Self-Liberation, There Are Realistic Alternatives

This film is also available for broadcast on public access TV to download from PEGMedia.org. Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film so your local community can meet Gene Sharp and understand nonviolent struggle is a better alternative than war and other forms of violence.

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Robert's Harmonic & Talk
Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
Decide To Index
Decide To Poems

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The Miracle, Joy &
Art of Living
Robert's Golden Sayings
Mt. Rasur Legend
Our Dream 3000

Documents
World Peace Plan 2005
Earth Peace Plan 2010

[GMW #2395] Active Volcanoes of Ideas for a Better World for Everyone

2012-02-14T11:52:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2395] Active Volcanoes of Ideas for a Better World for Everyone

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

3 January 1998

~ Idea 1272 ~

Sent anonymously to Robert Muller:

"In the central valley of Costa Rica not far from San Jose, there are three volcanoes: two are on the North-eastern range of hills, the Poas and the Irazu volcanoes. On the other side, on Mount Rasur above the University for Peace, there is a third volcano of ideas: Robert Muller. The first two are inactive, the third one, Robert Muller is in full eruption."

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
O God, I give You all my strength, all my heart, all my mind and all my soul in return for your tremendous gift of life.

Charlie Chaplin: Let Us Free the World

Some call it the greatest speech ever made. This remix puts Charlie Chaplin's climactic address from "The Great Dictator" (1940) into present-day context, showing how the spirit of liberty, brotherhood, and equality that defeated fascism seven decades ago must be urgently reclaimed.

Watch and listen to this film here:
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2739

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The first 4000 Ideas & Dreams
For A Better World
The Idea Dreams
With An Index
Idea Dreams by Volumes of 500
Idea Dreams Select Topic Index
Idea Dreams listed by Topic

Robert's Harmonic & Talk
Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
Decide To Index
Decide To Poems

Writing
The Miracle, Joy &
Art of Living
Robert's Golden Sayings
Mt. Rasur Legend
Our Dream 3000

Documents
World Peace Plan 2005
Earth Peace Plan 2010