I placed this blog on an actual domain so typing in the whole "dot-blogspot" thang is not needed. New address: 2ndjourney.com.
How is your 2nd journey going? Have you started yet? How far along are you?
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
12 steps to Recovery in Iraq
After watching a special on Shia and Sunni cival war in Iraq and ruminating over MacArthurs establishement of democracy* in Japan after WW2 it occured to me what needed to be done:
12 steps to Recovery in Iraq
1. We admitted we were powerless over OUR COUNTRY—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore IRAQ to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Allah as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, and our country.
5. Admitted to Allah, to ourselves, and to other nations the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have Allah remove all these defects of national character.
7. Humbly asked Allah to remove these national shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Allah as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for our people and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual national awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other former dictatorships and terrorist strongholds, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
*"Having decided to keep the Japanese national legislature (the Diet), the cabinet and the bureaucracy in place, MacArthur next faced the question of Emperor Hirohito. The Russians and British wanted Hirohito tried and hanged as a war criminal. MacArthur advised Washington against needlessly angering the Japanese by destroying the sacred symbol of their emperor. MacArthur later wrote in his autobiography: "...I would need at least one million reinforcements should such an action be taken ... Military government would have to be instituted throughout all Japan, and guerrilla warfare would probably break out."
12 steps to Recovery in Iraq
1. We admitted we were powerless over OUR COUNTRY—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore IRAQ to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Allah as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, and our country.
5. Admitted to Allah, to ourselves, and to other nations the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have Allah remove all these defects of national character.
7. Humbly asked Allah to remove these national shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Allah as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for our people and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual national awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other former dictatorships and terrorist strongholds, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
*"Having decided to keep the Japanese national legislature (the Diet), the cabinet and the bureaucracy in place, MacArthur next faced the question of Emperor Hirohito. The Russians and British wanted Hirohito tried and hanged as a war criminal. MacArthur advised Washington against needlessly angering the Japanese by destroying the sacred symbol of their emperor. MacArthur later wrote in his autobiography: "...I would need at least one million reinforcements should such an action be taken ... Military government would have to be instituted throughout all Japan, and guerrilla warfare would probably break out."
To the Pacific basin has come the vista of a new emancipated world. Today, freedom is on the offensive, democracy is on the march.
--Gen. Douglas MacArthur September 2, 1945
Friday, April 13, 2007
Home Box Office Recovery
HBO has a recovery resource page and has been airing a series of 30 minute programs on addiction recovery.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
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