Category Archives: Religious Conflict

Some of the most difficult conflicts are compounded by the strongly held religious beliefs on either side

The Guest House

Posted on June 25, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

The Guest House Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273 CE) Translated by Coleman Barks “This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.Welcome and entertain them all! Even … Continue reading →

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Oh We Did It: Tao Te Ching

Posted on June 25, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

“True leaders are hardly known to their followersNext after them are the leaders the people know and admire;after them those they fearafter them those they despiseTo give no trust is to get no trustWhen the work is done right, with … Continue reading →

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White Supremacy

Posted on February 12, 2021 by creativeconflictwisdom

I always wonder about a person or a group that has to assert its supremacy. Always smacks to me of inferiority. I mean why would you have to say you are superior, except out of a massive sense of you … Continue reading →

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Amazing Prescience from Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Posted on February 7, 2020 by creativeconflictwisdom
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s (1906-1945) Prescient Comments

Posted on January 27, 2020 by creativeconflictwisdom

While awaiting execution in April 1945,  member of the German Resistance to Hitler and religious thinker and Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer recorded a number of his thoughts in a work we now know as Letters and Papers from Prison. One of … Continue reading →

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The Pale Blue Dot: Carl Sagan

Posted on February 15, 2018 by creativeconflictwisdom
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Questions for the New Year 2018

Posted on December 30, 2017 by creativeconflictwisdom

One of the things I did when I retired in 2003 was to list some questions I thought interesting that I might explore in my researches or in how I lived post retirement. I changed them a little bit in … Continue reading →

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Strategy by Any Other Name Would Sound as Unacceptable

Posted on September 25, 2017 by creativeconflictwisdom

Someone asked me for some strategic thoughts on the current US political situation:  I don’t think the Dems/progressives can do strategy. Not seen any sign of it these recent decades. My strategic views are not very popular, don’t get many … Continue reading →

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Building on Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind

Posted on September 22, 2017 by creativeconflictwisdom

I was knocked out by the approach Jon Haidt developed in this book “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion”. Among other things it provided me with some really important and prescient insights into the … Continue reading →

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Zen Koan for the Real Populists not the Plutocracy’s Puppet Populists

Posted on January 22, 2017 by creativeconflictwisdom
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