New Moon cycle
Starting today, each new moon, the highest rated posts are sent out to all VoH users. Please click in and post your thoughts. Help get VoH off the ground. Our suggested topic for the next month is “Nonviolent Action for Human Unity”. Feel free to post on a topic of your own choosing.
The next new moon is July 23, 2017. If you post early in the lunar cycle, your messages will be seen by more people and have a better chance of being chosen to represent humanity. That is the core idea we are working on here - to elect messages to represent humanity. Those messages will create a global consciousness that will undergird our nonviolent efforts to build human unity.
Full Moon cycle - nonviolent action oriented
Beginning with the full moon of August 7, 2017 we will also have a full moon cycle focusing on coordinated nonviolent action for human unity. The two cycles, full and new moon, are meant to complement each other. In the new moon cycle discussion will be wide ranging. The full moon cycle will be about nonviolent action to implement our new moon ideas.
URI Voices of Humanity Cooperation Circle
The other big news is that we are starting up a Voices of Humanity Cooperation Circle (vohcc) with the United Religions Initiative (URI). The purpose of the new CC is the same as that of URI: “to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.” We have fifteen charter members signed up and are about to send in our formal application to URI. The idea is to use VoH technology to catalyze a movement for human unity. Please join the new VoH CC online here: https://voh.intermix.org/dialogs/7/slider?comtag=vohcc. Use the “join” button at the top. Members of all faiths, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions are welcome and that includes humanists and atheists. Please participate as the interfaith community investigates the possibilities of building positive global consensus with this new online tool.
Upcoming VoH features:
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Nonviolent Action button - Before August 7, we will implement a Nonviolent Action button in the VoH interface. When you click that button, the forum list will contain only the messages eligible for election at the full moon. Sounds crazy, I suppose, but it can work -- with your active participation.
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Communities button - A Communities button will give access to all the communities, each with a link to an info page and a list of members.
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My Networks button - This will allow us to define networks for ourselves on our individual “My Networks” pages. For instance, I might have a network of the @vohcc and @nuclear_disarm communities. When I go to this network, I see posts that are hashtagged as of interest to both communities. A list of all individually created networks will be available with the ability to add others’ networks to our own list. The networks will enable a bottom-up “across the silos” capability.
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Profile based communities will be supported. For instance under “political affiliation” on the profile, someone might say “progressive” and thus be added to a community of political progressives.
Thank you much,
--Roger Eaton
rogereaton@intermix.org
#voh #vohcc #interfaith #nonviolence
