on suhla

a friend recently introduced me to sulha, an organization focused on ending religious wars in the middle east, by transcending the religious and political, by resolving to make this a solution of the people, not of the rulers.

the human lobby connection is obvious: sulha endeavors towards dialogue across ideological bounds - and the strongest of contemporary ideologies: judaism, islam, and christianity.

i'm sure there are many differences between their prerogative and our own, but the congruency is the material, determining factor: we each desire peace so that we may live as we will and not as mere descendants in a decades, centuries-long struggle, but rather facing our inheritance as human beings, as the recipients and actors in a millenia-long struggle towards freedom. and we mean true freedom, real autonomy and empowerment. real opportunities.

i'm probably inscribing my own views somewhere along the way here, but the fundamental intersection exists: the desire/need to take that power that has been and can be left in the stars ( or to our relative kings and gods), and fill our cups - and the cups of our neighbors, community-wide - moving passed dogma, ultimately reaching autonomy and the possibility for real Human flourishing