Stage One Discussion

Hello Everyone,

I'd like to encourage anyone to respond to the following quote and to offer additions to the brief list that follows the quote and discussion.

"In a multicivilization world the constructive course is to renounce universalism (by which he actually means imperialism), accept diversity (which is pluralism) and seek commonalities."

Samuel Huntington, the Clash of Civilizations

Hi Everyone, Tamar, I feel that your examples of the taxi driver and stock broker provide a potentially excellent example of consciousness and the ability to take perspectives. I wanted to make some extended comments and engender discussion, but wanted to respect your request of a 175 word limit to the main thread. I encourage participants and others to post to Tamar's original thread to resolve the questions posed. If you have specific comments or criticisms on the viewpoints in this thread I encourage those! Therefore, I offer the following in the context of a related thread.

Hi everyone,

Please comment on the following two short stories. The purpose of my request is to allow you to tell everyone else about your-selves by offering your opinions on specific situations. That brings people of the same opinion together and might help us create a trusting community through the Internet. Please limit your responses to not more 175 words.

Our mission is to create, on the Internet, a trusted and trusting community. Many may question the feasibility of this mission, but we are going to try it anyway!

Definition. Let us define trust for the purpose of our discussion. Trust as "believing that others tell the truth and keep their promises." Trust can be risky if our belief is wrong; if trusted persons do not tell the truth and do not meet their promises. We exclude from the definition "gullibility"-- unreasonable trusting and "faith"-- believing unconditionally, usually as a matter of religion.