Entries in 1998 and 1999
December 5, 1999
Name:
Dianna Whyte
City:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Age:
14
Other:
Comments: Your
site really helped with my project about peacekeeping!
thanx ~*/Di/*~
November 21, 1999
Name:
Carole Berry
City:
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Age:
55
Other:
Comments: Peace
begins with awareness. Raising the coming year as the first of the decade for the
Culture of Peace will take all of us to add a little.
As a Rotarian, I will bring this to my own club - and also to youth leaders through RYLA.
Building awareness in those who can make a difference.
Carole Berry
November 9, 1999
Name:
Guy
City:
Ashe-Vegas, NC
Age:
30
Other:
Comments: Bravo on
your work.I am an ex-S.H.A.R.P.(skinheads against racial prejudice)member that got tired
of throwing fuel on the fire by hating & fighting with hate groups-literally.Iv'e come
to the conclusion that compassion is the way to push the feelings of hate from inside us
all.I was really no better than any Klan member or W.A.R.member at all,I felt the same way
they do-except my hate was directed towards them-other humans-not just to the ideals they
carry.I think that if we teach our children what compassion really is,then hatred and
intolerance can't get through that.Tip:next time the klan(or another group)decide to march
near or in your home town-leave the rocks on the ground,as well as your fists in your
pockets.When you feel that pain of hatred for these people/groups in you -then THEY
WIN.Don't "fuel the fire" with them,once youv'e crossed that line into those
feelings-your intelligence has been raped by the propaganda they bring along.Our kids ca!
rry the answers with them,find out how they feel now,keep the dream alive!May you
all be well. Peace
Date: October 18, 1999
Name:
Sandi Butler
City:
Tweed Heads
Province: N.S.W.
Country:
Australia
Age:
50
Comments: I'm a
high school teacher who is developing a Webquest for our Year 12 English students who have
to do work on the issue of "War and Peace". I will include your site.I'm getting
them to research Nobel Peace Prize winners etc. One point I will be making is how few
Kings, Presidents and Prime Ministers have won it! Peace and People Power go together May
the force be with you !
Date: October 13, 1999
Name:
Leah Potter
City:
Republic, WA
Age:
16
Comments: I think
that what you guys are doing is awesome. Our world needs to get back on track. Our
world should not be about violence and anger, but of love and security. I know that God is
smiling down on your work. Keep it up, and whatever you do, make sure it glorifies God.
In Jesus,
a child of God
Hello my name is Micheal Teal. I am a psychic/metaphysical practitioner in Southern Ontario Canada. My compliments on your efforts. In a world filled with violence it is heartwarming to see somebody making a concerted effort to provide people with the resources necessary to bring peace to their communities. The world begins in our own backyard. Congratulations and good fortune in all future endeavours. FOREVER IN PEACE, MICHEAL www.bardic.on.ca/ancient
Date: September 7, 1999
Name:
Cecily L.S. Nicholson
URL:
http://www.nd.edu/~krocinst/
City:
South Bend, Indiana, USA
Age:
25
Other:
Comments: I am a
Canadian, doing my masters in International Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute here at
the University of Notre Dame. I am very encouraged to learn about the
existence of the Canadian Cenre for Teaching Peace, and in particular, of iniaitives
involving the teaching of peace studies to children.
As for my chosen definition of peace: I am inclined towards Galtung's holistic
approach to defining both violence and peace, that is that peace occurs with the
fulfillment of basic needs. Further, peace needs also to occur between the human
species and our environment. What concerns me most is widespread impoverishment and
the relationship between economic and social well-being and peace.
Actually, my interests are a lot more specific, but in the interest of
berivity...
"if you want peace, work for justice"
Nyawen,
suerte,
best,
Cecily
Date: August 9, 1999
Name:
David Gunther
URL:
http://dev99.advanced.org/25909
City:
Yorktown, NY, USA
Age:
17
Comments: Check
out War & Conflict - Past :: Present :: Future, a highly interactive and informational
site which promotes a peaceful end to conflicts. Please visit it at http://dev99.advanced.org/25909 .
Winner of numerous awards
Date: July 26, 1999
Name: Sabina Krupic
City: Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Age: 24
Comments:
First of all, I live in a country where war is normal -every 30 or 40 years another
war. And I'm asking you, what is peace? Peace is not only absence of violence.
People need psychological, spiritual, mental and physical peace.
I'm part of a group of people that are founding a peace institute here in Sarajevo for all
of Bosnia -including a center for peace research, center for peace studies and center for
peace action. If you're interested in helping us, let me know.
I have one wish: Neka vlada mir. (Let peace rule!)
Date: July 16, 1999
Name: Allison
City: Shoreline, Washington, USA
Age: 12
Comments:
I hope that in the near future people will help everyone they can, and cooperate
with others everywhere. I also hope that there will be no more wars, civil or not. I will
do everything I can to spread world peace.
Date: July 12, 1999
Name: Dragana Gloginic
City: Belgrade, Serbia, Yougoslavia
Age: 43
Comments:
Dear peacemakers from Canada,
I am exalted with your program . But can you explain to me the conection betwen
bombing at one side and peace and non violence at other side.
Your beautifull country has many movement for peace , but forgive me , I thing that is
only " verba volens".
One simply sentence is most important for teaching peace:
DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY .......
This first postulate of Cants ethics I understand as Gods will.
Many respect from Serbia.
P.S We try to forget your bombs and 4,000 death people God forgive them, they don't
know what they done.
Date: July 4, 1999
Name:
Claudette Letendre
URL:
http://members.tripod.com/~petitchoux/index.html
City: Me, Maine, USE
Comments:
Your quest for world peace is simply wonderful and on behalf of The World Harmony And
Hug Movement, I would like to bestow upon your site The World
Harmony Silver Angel Award. Keep up your wonderful efforts on peace issues!
Date: June 19, 1999
Name: Patrick trotter
City: Cave creek, Arizona, USA
Comments: Heres a proposal: 2001 World's
Fair - "The True Millennium". Theme: World Peace.
Contributers: people of the world place. On Line ?
Date: June 9, 1999
Name: Kristen Hogan
City: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Comments: Peace is possible for all. The sooner
we realize this, this sooner we all can and will make change.
Date: June 7, 1999
Name: Ulrich L. (Len) McKenzie
City: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Comments: I wish you, and your project every success.
Date: May 22, 1999
Name: Maripat MonahanMaripat Monahan
Subject: Problem
Comments:
Peace Action
Hurray! I was so excited to find your Web site. I agree with everything you
have said. I have reached that 2nd part of my life when I'm ready to make a
difference. I have just begin a peace project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA)and am
very busy recruiting volunteers and getting connected with folks like you! What a
great resource you have provided...thank you thank you thank you!!! I will be visiting
your site often and plan to
connect with you via Email. I wonder if you would be able to put me in touch with
Karen Spang of Hamtramck, Michigan. It sounds like she has launched a campaign very
similar to the ones I am planning. Way to go Karen! As you can probably tell
from my message I am elated and ecstatic and have much more to say since I too am quite
passionate about this topic. Look forward to a long and prosperous relationship!!!
Date: May 15, 1999
Name: Robert Carlson
Subject: Sorry
Comments:
Question for NATO
When I was being prepared to go to Viet Nam, which I spent 2 ½ years in, they gathered a
few hundred of us into an auditorium and told us to look around at the other people
because a certain number would not be coming back. But not to worry because we were
involved in "doing good." I always appreciated that warning. It was honest and
it was a honoring to those who were still alive
but would be killed before they were killed.
Since NATO has already admitted that innocent people would be killed and they have to keep
apologizing after they have killed these innocent people I thought it would be nice if
NATO would apologized to these people while they were still alive. This way the people who
really need to hear "sorry" would get to hear it.
You could say something like. We are sorry to all of you people who are alive now but will
be killed by us. Just remember that you lost your life for all the good that NATO is
doing. Find comfort in the fact that you gave your life so NATO could live.
This would save a lot of apologizing later. One big apology and you would be done. From
then on you would not have to say that you were sorry for anything.
Sincerely
Robert Carlson
Date:
April 18, 1999
Name:
Ananda
K. Voos
City:
North Brunswick
State:
New
Jersey
Country: USA
Age:
51
Other:
unconditional pacifist
Comments: I have
been a "closet pacifist" for years and finally came out because of the current
conflict in the Balkans. The madness of trying to "solve" a centuries old
problem with more violence was so obvious to me that it just focussed a lifetime of moving
in the direction of total knowing that violence NEVER takes care of a problem, only makes
it worse.
One group that is doing a wonderful job of living the culture of peace is the Bahai Faith.
This new dispensation from God understands at a deep, deep level that "the
human race is a single family of which all people are members." The first
revelations of this dispensation occured in the 1860's in the Middle East, and taught the
equality of all "races," and of woman and men, the necessity of building a world
of justice and peace, the need for spiritual solutions to economic problems, the essential
sychronicity of all religions,love and care for the earth, and many other wise and
compassionate teachings which the world very much needs today.
There are about 6 millions Bahais around the world (including myself). That's a
large "peace group"! Please consider finding the Bahai Faith on the net or
in your local yellow pages and seeing for yourself how fulfulling it is to be living the
peace that you yearn for.
Posted for the benefit of all beings.
May Peace Prevail on Earth.
Truly inspirational for any individual.
Date:
6/7/98
6/7/98
Time:
8:37 PM
Name:
Lisa & Tim Weedn
Comments:
We believe this type of communication is essential to establishing a true and lasting peace. But it is only the first step. In order to create such a thing we, as a species, must first form a consensus of purpose. This is a rather simple thing to do.
JFK said " Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet...
we all breath the same air... we all cherish our children's future... and we are all
mortal...". This is not only a consensus of being but a simple fact. Once this
mentality becomes second nature in everyone's mind then the consensus of purpose follows
suit. What do we do with ourselves?...
Were are we going?... Simply put, our most basic purpose should be to better ourselves.
Not in monetary forms or social stature but as a species whose intelligence allows us to
do whatever we can imagine is possible.
History shows us that whenever we are confronted with adversity it only serves to strengthen our resolve. We are now faced with a series of challenges that may well decide whether we, as a species, will reach our potential or go the way of the dodo. We must learn to share this planet with not only ourselves, but every other life form that currently inhabits it. We must willingly lay down our arms in favor of cooperation. We must form a consensus of purpose, extinguish the fires of hate, and strive to reach common goals, whatever they may be, together. This is perhaps the greatest challenge our species has ever faced. But it is a challenge we can overcome if we simply decide to do it. Do it we can... Do it we must... For if we decide to destroy ourselves then all we have accomplished will mean nothing. What a waste.
Anyway Mr. Stewart greetings from Lisa & Tim Weedn. We are independent film makers doing research for our upcoming production "IMAGINE NATION". Our last film "EDGE OF UTOPIA" is currently airing on PBS here in the states and is now being distributed overseas by Film Option International ( a Canadian firm ).
It is our hope and desire to use these forms of mass communication ( ie the internet and television ) to bring a message of peace and understanding to the world. But we cannot do it alone. We hope to establish a dialogue with people such as yourself so that we may create the right message and impact that will change minds. We could go on and on but think that you already have some concept of what we are trying to do. If you are interested please e-mail us at lweedn@aol.com. or call us at (817) 237-2348. This project is in the early stages. Any input you could offer is sincerely appreciated.
Always,
Lisa & Tim Weedn
Pie in the Sky Productions
THIS MESSAGE WAS E-MAILED TO ROBERT STEWART, AND WE THOUGHT IT APPROPRIATE TO PLACE WITHIN THE GUESTBOOK COMMENTS...
From: "Cynthia (Sunni) Freyer" <cfna@pullman.com>
Subject: A Moment To Simply Pause
As someone who's workday is happily filled with online activity, I find that it is rare
for something to happen during work hours that will cause me to be distracted from my
Internet professional activities. Today, though, the Springfield, Oregon, school shooting
has become that rare mental disruption.
I realize my post here is very off-topic, particularly from someone who is not a lurker
and who considers herself an active member of this discussion group's community. Perhaps
that is the very reason that I'm posting. Or perhaps, it is because as a resident of
Washington state, proximity to the shooting increases my disturbance, particularly given
that this is the 5th such incident in nine months in the U.S. Or, is it the discussion
that I had with my smarter-than-me 8-year-old this morning about the incident and his
questions about adults and the internet, adults and TV?
I asked my son this morning, as we drove down quiet roads to his private rural-based
school, many questions about the incident, but for the sake of this list, the most
interesting were focused on his thoughts on how the internet and TV influenced children.
I have pondered his words off-and-on this morning. After assuring me that the
thought of shooting another human repulsed him, he said, "But, Mom, I don't
understand something. If it's not ok to shoot somebody, why do grownups even make computer
games where people are shooting other people? You know what, they're everywhere, even on
the internet." So I asked him if he thought seeing those internet games would cause a
child to shoot someone. "No. Not really. But what they do do is make it look easy.
And, you know what, no one ever gets sad in those games when someone dies. Never. Have you
ever seen one tear in a computer game? Ever? " Later on he asked me why grownups
hadn't made a program that just would automatically bleep every bad word on the Internet
anytime it was seen by some type of kid-dreamed-up program monitoring the net. His hands
went wild in the air, explaining how this would be done.
My son, even at his young age, is net- and computer-comfortable (something Gary learned
when he found an email in his box from Sean, unbeknownst to me, telling him that news
tickers were interesting for kids too and that he shouldn't avoid putting them on kid
sites.) What he drove home to me, with his youthful words, is a reminder that as an
e-marketer that our youth are watching us, the adults, and not only are they watching, but
these short people are thinking thoughts and drawing conclusions from our actions and
words. And those thoughts aren't always things I would have thought of (tears in a
computer game? I, for one, never noticed!) I realized today that my job online is not only
to be of assist to others and to, hopefully, generate revenue, but I also must be mindful
of the fact that somewhere out there a short person might be watching, a short person in
the process of forming his value system and set of principles. And what is most
frightening, is a short person who's brain is spinning in thought faster than we give most
of them credit for.
Perhaps today, all of us on this list might stop just for a moment and ponder how as
adults, whether parents or not, what we sell online, how we sell it, what we allow in
chatrooms, how we speak to each other in email... influences, even in small incremental
doses, the small people. My apologies for the interruption. I simply thought it was
appropriate today to pause a moment and think, really think, about our youth.
Sunni Freyer
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Date:
8/17/98
8/17/98
Time:
12.54 PM
Name:
H.L. Ratan
Comments:
A wonderful site.
Thank you so much from all of us in the World. I will be visiting this site often to get ideas for my club's projects.
Thanks again and hope we can work together on this wonderful project.
Hari Ratan
Date:
9/1/98
9/1/98
Time:
12.28 PM
Name:
Jeff Mabe
Comments:
I am member of Rotary in Reidsville, NC and strongly believe in one mankind, one God in teamwork for world peace. Our hearts and souls will burn brightly with Love from reaching out attempting to alleviate the pain and suffering here and thoughout our entire world.
