Millersville University is preparing for a possible Monday morning visit from Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-gay Kansas church group known for protesting military funerals.

Last weekend, Westboro added MU to its online picketing schedule, saying it will picket the screening of an anti-hate film to be shown Sunday night at the campus.

“After today’s screening, you will know that God hates people and sends people to hell,” the church said on its Web site.

This week, MU students were preparing to stand alongside the Westboro group as “peacekeepers.” Campus police planned to have extra officers on hand.

But no one knows if the Westboro group actually will show up, or where the group will assemble on campus.

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The Anatomy of Hate – In the Middle East
April 7, 2010 by owujew

Tonight, at 7PM, many of us at Ohio Wesleyan will learn more about the sociological origins of hatred as we watch the “The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope.” Following the film, we’ll have an opportunity to speak with the director, Mike Ramsdell. I expect a large audience for the event which is co-sponsored by Student Union on Black Awareness; LGBTIQ Resource Center; President’s Commission on Racial and Cultural Diversity; Office of Multicultural Student Affairs; Office of the Chaplain; Women’s Resource Center; House of Peace and Justice; Amnesty International; B’nai B’rith Hillel; Tauheed; STAND; PRIDE and the Sociology/Anthropology Department.

The film has received a lot of advanced publicity on campus due to the potential visit of members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an anti-homosexual hate group featured in the film. Whether or not representatives of this organization visit Delaware tonight, they seem to have gotten students talking about the rights of homosexuals and those that do not recognize those rights. Michael Moore’s response to the WBC (1999), like his other films, is an interesting piece of activist filmmaking, but leaves one wondering whether the minds of these fanatics can ever be changed.

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In short, I wasn’t naive enough to think that the world would “solve” all it’s differences, but I did think that conflict in general would be more peripheral….and I was happy about that.  However, the unfortunate news is that the topics and subjects in this film are only more relevant then they were when I filmed them – and the concept of fear, which the film so strongly emphasizes, is only more palpable.

But, true though this may be, HOPE, the final chapter in my film – is still as available as it ever was.  And the one good thing that we can all take from this, is the awareness that Hope does not come and go with a Presidential candidate’s promise.  It is an option we all have – and if we choose to back up our hope, with a strong understanding – and diligent action – then there is nothing to stop that hope from becoming a reality.  It always has been and always will be OUR choice.

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Your Excellency:

You are already well aware of the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza consequent on Israel’s devastating military attacks and its siege. As recently as December 27of 2009, you called the blockade of
Gaza “unacceptable.” While this statement is certainly valid, it constitutes a gross understatement of the actual situation which amounts to slow genocide. Such understatement suggests that you are trimming your language to accommodate US pro-Israeli policy. We live an ongoing, illegal, crippling Israeli siege that has shattered all spheres of life, prompting the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights, Richard Falk, to describe it as “a prelude to genocide”. Your own UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, headed by the highly respected South African judge, Richard Goldstone, found Israel guilty of “war crimes and possible crimes against humanity,” as did major international human rights organizations, such as Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch. The Goldstone report concludes that Israel’s war on Gaza was “designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic
capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.”

Mr. Ban,

The 1948 Genocide Convention clearly says that one instance of genocide is “the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a people in whole or in part.” That is what has been done to Gaza since the imposition of the blockade by a UN member state, namely Israel, and
the massacre of 1434 Palestinians, 90 per cent of whom were civilians, including 434 children.

On your second short visit to Gaza since the end of the Israeli onslaught in 2008-09, you will find what Professor Sara Roy, an expert on Gaza, describes as “a land ripped apart and scarred, the lives of its people blighted. Gaza is decaying under the weight of continued devastation, unable to function normally…” Professor Roy concludes that “[T]he decline and disablement of Gaza’s economy and society have been deliberate, the result of state policy–consciously planned, implemented and enforced… And just as Gaza’s demise has been consciously orchestrated, so have the obstacles preventing its recovery.” Israel is intent on destroying Gaza because World official bodies and leaders choose to say and do nothing.

As civil society organizations based in Gaza, we call on you to use your position as Secretary General of the UN, the world body responsible for holding all governments accountable for the safeguarding of the human rights of all peoples under International Law to bring to bear on Israel the full force of your mandate to open the borders of Gaza to allow the import of building materials as well as all the other requirements for decent living conditions for us, the besieged Palestinians of Gaza.

We understand you are coming to Khan Younis to inspect an UNRWA housing project designed to provide housing for Palestinians whose homes were demolished by Israel’s war machine and who have been
waiting for over five years for replacement. Of course the building project will not have been completed because of the blockade, even though it is an UNRWA project. The brazen refusal of Israel to cooperate with the decision of the International Community to re-construct Gaza, for which several billions of Euros were pledged, should not be tolerated. Israel’s attacks have damaged or completely destroyed many public buildings and have according to the UN’s own OCHA report as of April 30, 2009, severely damaged or completely destroyed some 21,000 family dwellings. Many other Palestinians who have spent the past several winters in flimsy tents have also been promised the means to rebuild homes and schools, though to date nothing has been done to alleviate their suffering.

In addition to the very visible lack of shelter, we, in Gaza, also suffer from the contamination of water, air and soil, since the sewage system is unable to function due to power cuts necessitated by lack of fuel to the main generators of the Gaza power grid. Medical conditions due to injuries from phosphorous bombs and other illegal Israeli weapons as well as from water contamination cannot be treated because of the siege. In addition to the ban on building materials, Israel also prevents many other necessities from being imported: lights bulbs, candles, matches, books, refrigerators, shoes, clothing, mattresses, sheets, blankets, tea, coffee, sausages, flour, cows, pasta, cigarettes, fuel, pencils, pens, paper… etc.

Mr. Secretary General,

When you visit Khan Younis, keep in mind that a huge UN storage depot was directly targeted by Israeli phosphorus bombs only last year destroying tons of badly needed food and other essentials. At that time your UNRWA chief John Ging spoke of massive obstacles preventing humanitarian aid from reaching the civilian population of Gaza: those obstacles must be removed. The Red Cross called the Israeli assault
“completely and utterly unacceptable based on every known standard of international humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles and values.”

We sincerely hope you will live up to your responsibility and speak for the suffering people of Gaza to those who hold the keys that could easily end the barbaric blockade, as the first step towards the
implementation of all UN resolutions in Palestine.

Gaza, 2010-03-21

Signed by:

University Teachers’ Association in Palestine
General Union for Health Services Workers
General Union for Public Services Workers
General Union for Petrochemical and Gas Workers
General Union for Agricultural Workers
Union of Women’s Work Committees
Union of Synergies—Women Unit
Union of Palestinian Women Committees
Women’s Studies Society
Working Woman’s Society
Arab Cultural Forum
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel
One Democratic State Group
Al-Quds Bank for Culture and Information Society

Dear Mike,

CHANGE. Not a word all of us like; not a word the country always likes. Change can be difficult, uncomfortable, and require self-examination. But change can be good.

Twenty-six years ago this coming June, I walked into a gay church in Kansas City, Missouri with a bomb, for the express purpose of “starting the 2nd American Revolution.” This hate act would have been the largest domestic terrorist act in US history up to that time, had I not regained my senses just seconds before setting the timer. The worshiping actions of those in the congregation of that Metropolitan Community Church, however, helped rescue me and save me from myself and the right-wing extremist deception I was entangled with.

Today — March 21, 2010 — I once again stepped into a church that caters mostly to the gay and lesbian community of Fort Worth: this time as a visitor looking for a home church. No, I’m not coming out of the closet! ) I found this church three weeks ago in a Google search for “an all-inclusive church.” Events since then blocked my desire to attend this church, but today my wife and I attended.

Why this church? Since coming home from prison, I’ve been unable to find a church I was comfortable in. We’ve tried Charismatic fellowships (loved the music, but too much end-time doctrine that I no longer adhere to, too much hypocrisy, and they didn’t welcome all believers); we tried Messianic churches (again, really loved the music, but most are into the Charismatic movement and end-time doctrines); and we tried Unity and other churches that simply did not emphasize Jesus enough. But I simply found most churches preach too much discrimination (especially against gays and lesbians), too much “signs of the times heralding in the return of Christ” mentality, and too much of a leaning toward right-wing theology or the Christian Right. So we simply quit trying to find a church.

An all-inclusive church believes in people more than doctrines, believes in truth more than dogmas, believes in healing and love more than division and hate, and believes in solutions more than rhetoric. An all-inclusive church seeks the best in people, seeks commonality over differences, and seeks hope and joy over fear and despair.

So why not attend an all-inclusive church sooner? Honestly, I feared they would not accept me, with the past I had (probably stemming from not fully accepting myself yet). It’s an unfounded fear, I know that, but isn’t that how all fear is anyway? I know I’ve changed since those days 26 years ago and I know others have accepted me for who I am now.

We plan to go to this church again next week, Palm Sunday. The female pastor introduced herself to us and we enjoyed her sermon. The people were friendly. And I am betting that their inclusiveness will include people like me, people that once opposed them and have since changed.

This church has ministries that I would like to participate in and I think I can learn a lot from the people there. Leaving Celebration Community Church today, I felt encouraged rather than discouraged about “the church experience;” I felt, actually, more at home. And isn’t that what a home church (or synagogue or mosque or other religious congregation) is supposed to be like?

Change. I’m actually enjoying this one.

Kerry Noble
The NOBLE Report
“Building Bridges, Not Walls”

Good morning Beata Mostafavi:

We do NOT oppose that documentary – we LOVE that documentary. We see it as
a preaching tool. We are most thankful for it. Anyone who sees that
documentary is going to come away with a few things:

1. God hates fags and their enablers and those are the ONLY
demographics left in all of ALL of Doomed america.
2. If you preach that glorious truth, someone is going to do what the
Lord Jesus Christ told us they would do: hate on you and speak all manner of
evil against you falsely!
3. If you preach that amazing truth, someone might juxtapose you with
some murderers and thugs and criminals!
4. When they do that, the silliness of that effort shines through and
unless you are a dark-hearted rebel, you will be ashamed of that effort.
When you see the cute little boys that are standing with their loved ones
and all of them are telling you the plain words of scripture and are being
most faithful about it, what can you do with that?
5. God does not change! Your duty and our duty is to fear and obey him
NO MATTER WHAT!!

You see Beata Mostafavi – our God said that the fear of man bringeth a
snare. That is to say, if these faithful servants of God that have stood
before this nation with our hat in our hand for 19 long years and suffered
all your vicious assaults of every kind were to begin to draw back at this
hour, our God would cast us off like he has the rest of this generation. So
we will NOT do that! We will stand flat-footed on your soil and tell you
plainly that you have enraged your God with all your idols, false gods,
murders, filthy manner of life (adultery is the policy of this nation -
Christ said if you divorce and remarry, you are living in adultery – this
nation I say has a policy of such) and worst of all, you teach your children
that God is a big fat liar and that HIS COMMANDMENTS are on the table for
disposal at their will. God said thou shalt NOT kill, but the hands of this
nation are DRIPPING with the blood of your babies and now, to add to your
crimes, your hands DRIP with the blood of your Iraqi neighbors and your
Afghan neighbors. At any point along this path of God’s wrath abiding upon
you, you could have REPENTED. But NOT THIS NATION – heck no, just go kill
some people. God would have kept this nation safe and sound, but you would
not have it! Your destruction is IMMINENT.

Trying to hook the obedient, faithful, peaceful, lawful servants of God up
with thugs and murders that are going to kill you in violation of the laws
of God and the laws of man will change NOTHING, except for the wrath that
God pours out upon you for what you have done to his little ones. Now,
knowing that our God is the avenger of all such, we will answer these
questions, but we will NOT turn aside to the left hand or the right hand
from delivering this final call.

The time is so very, very short now. The destruction of this nation is
IMMINENT. So we run to and fro to bring a final call. This documentary is
very timely to help get the words before all your faces. The words are
dropping all over the world by the hand of our God! Praise ye the Lord all
ye nations and ye that have forgotten God, the Lord is coming, america is
Doomed!!

Thanks for asking.

Shirley Phelps-Roper
1/28/10

I did not, nor do not claim that my film provides answers. Nor do I claim that it explores every facet of “Hate”. But what it does articulate clearly, is that if we are unable to make an empathetic connection – due to our fear, cultural experience, and stereotype thinking then we will perpetuate the cycle that created such pain in the first place.

So now the dialogue will continue. Maybe not between me and the audience, but no one present last night will stop playing the events in their head for a while to come. At the end, some will conclude that my film is a “zionist propoganda piece” as one man articulated. Others will conclude that the behavior displayed last night was exactly what my film was trying to address. Regardless of the conclusion – I do hope that the dialogues which follow, will not be focused around who was right and who was wrong – but “How do we bring peace.”

When the protesters didn’t show, as you’ll read, Phillip wasn’t sure what he’d write about – and sounds like he wasn’t to thrilled about having to sit and watch a film he wasn’t in the mood to see. Yet, out of those circumstances Phillip wrote an article for his paper that could be the best articulation of my film, and the experience I look to give audience members – that I’ve ever read.

His summary, “This film mustn’t be watched from a third person perspective. It needs to be seen with the full realization that we are all very much unmentioned participants in the acts we’re viewing.” is an astute and razor accurate articulation of exactly what I hoped audience members would feel.

Certainly not everyone will have the same experience Phillip did, but as a filmmaker I’m proud that I was able to achieve, at least in one person, the film experience I set out to create, and as a citizen of planet earth it makes me feel hopeful that people like Phillip are soon to jump feet first into this global juggernaut called the workforce and bring with him a great set of tools – the ability to think powerfully and articulate clearly.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Thanks Phillip.

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Further, the Craig Fahle show, featured on the Detroit NPR radio station – WDET 101.9, has asked me to come on the show and speak about the film and screening. Again, I’m honored. Please tune in on Wednesday, March 3rd at 10:20am.

For more about this screening, or if you’re interested in hosting one, please contact us at info@underthehoodproductions.com.

In spite of these apparent indicators- both of these screenings were emotionally engaging dialogues about how we as a species continue to turn our fear and insecurities onto each other causing pain, disconnect, and unnecessary evil.

People want to dialogue. They want to tell their stories and they want to hear others tell theirs. They want to connect at the level below the comfortable cultural conversations, of good guys and bad guys, and engage in the messy and confusing collective yarn that spins and tangles between all of us – but that somewhere along the way, it was decided we should deal with this quietly, privately, or better yet – not at all.

University screenings are tremendous for this, because 18-22 is an age when people have not yet completed the mental aikido necessary to wrestle this confusion to a dark corner of the mind where it is hidden behind snack chips and soccer mom schedules. They are open. They are raw. And they are curious as hell.

So to all of you out there who are still wresting with these issues – DON’T STOP. This is life. This is the journey. The powers of the universe do not waiver in their intent – and none of us will be free of this Samsara until we clean this shit up. No matter how busy, rich, powerful, beautiful, or significant you become.

And although the journey is singular, the destination is collective. Thank you for being awake on the journey. Life will offer many temptations of comfort – but as Frost said,
The woods are lovely dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.

Mike Ramsdell 09-09-09 Interview

Thanks to all those who made this festival happen!

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There is wonderful debate happening in the global conscience. I call it “wonderful” because it is evidence that we as a species continue to ask and struggle with how we can better live on this spinning rock.

The debate is centered on the speeches President Obama, and former Vice-President Cheney gave a few weeks ago. They have become the figureheads for this debate, but you’ll hear this same debate taking place in many variations, in many locations. From kitchen table- to war rooms, the question, at its heart is, “How do we best keep ourselves and those we love safe?”

It’s not a new question, but it is being asked under the most threatening global circumstances humans have ever faced/created. The two schools of thought are based on very different actions, both desirous of the same result. The first, as represented by VP Cheney, is the notion that if you destroy all that threatens you – you can assure your safety. This requires a primary commitment to a strong military and defense system. The second, as represented by President Obama – is that if you find and focus on the commonalities with others, including your “enemies”, you will create an environment of diminished threats. This requires a primary commitment to dialogue.

The key to resolving this debate is in properly identifying the enemy.

A story I was told by a SFC in the US Army is a good example of how we can make this identification. He told me of a day when he and his men fell under sniper fire outside of Baghdad. The sniper had the entire platoon pinned down; making them vulnerable not only to the sniper but also to any coordinated attacks. He pinpointed the snipers position as a window in the neighboring building. However, he also saw in the window a young girl of about 5. A body shield. The SFC didn’t have the ability to set up a counter sniper position, leaving him the only option to strike with significant, yet less accurate, force. Hence, this little girl and anyone else in the apartment would likely be killed.

This Sergeant is a father. And a good one, I presume based on the pictures and stories he shared. He is a man of great conscience, with as much of a moral compass as any of the rest of us – even more perhaps because of all he’s been through. However, he was also personally responsible for the 12 men with him. Some of them fathers, some of them young enough to be his son. It was certainly not a time for dialogue – however if he killed everyone in the apartment – he knew he would eliminate the sniper fire, but also significantly increase the hostility in the community. This in turn would further expose the platoon to future attacks. It was, as anyone would describe, a FUBAR situation.

In the end his loyalties were to his men, and that is whom he defended. He doesn’t know “for sure” that the little girl was killed – or anyone else for that matter. What he does know is that with his counter attack – he quelled the sniper fire, and got his men back safely. Mission accomplished. However, as suspected, neighborhood attacks rose there after and before the tour was over that platoon lost 2 men and 4 others suffered major injuries.

Mr. Cheney identifies the enemy as the sniper – and argues that there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of “snipers” running around the globe waiting for the next opportunity to kill Americans. And from a certain perspective he is right. At that moment – that sniper was the “enemy” if the SFC’s goal was the safety of him and his men. However, in killing this sniper, and those in the apartment –did we really make them safer?

This is the rub. How do we remove the individuals who mean us harm, without enflaming the ideologies that recruited them in the first place? And let me be very clear – the ideology I’m speaking about is not Islam, nor is it communism, nor any other notion that ever sent two men, or two nations to war. The lowest common denominator in all wars, hate, and violence is the notion that there is an US and a THEM. Once this division exists – its just two short steps of fear and righteousness to the spilling of blood.

Hence, we must all ask ourselves the very basic question – are we a unified collective living in the illusion of separation? – or are we separate entities who at their best find unification?

The answer is that we are unified. Once this is realized, suddenly ideas like “do unto others” and “love thy neighbor” are no longer great spiritual edicts to aspire to, but pragmatic advice on how to function in this world. The collective unity exists as a giant ocean of consciousness which we all participate with, and from. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that filling it with the poison of divisionary thinking affects all waters – the same way that any pollutant, no matter where it’s origins, contaminates the entire aquatic body. And it makes more sense, that if one “group” pollutes the water with poison, and another counters with their own more powerful poison – the water becomes dirty very quickly.

And that is exactly the situation we find ourselves in now, and that the Sergeant found himself in, in Baghdad. He was pinned down by a “poison” – and his only remedy was to use his stronger, more powerful poison to protect his men. The result was even more polluted waters.

The solution is to realize that the poison is not the enemy, nor their system of attack. The real poison is the idea that there IS AN ENEMY. As long we are focused on “Eliminating the enemy” we are simply increasing the poisonous idea of an Us and a Them – assuring only that there is an enemy and in turn that we are an enemy. Whether terrorist, communist, socialist- it is the living equation known as, “What you do unto others shall be done unto you.”

So the very simple, yet utterly complex solution to the question is – stop making a THEM. Individually, collectively, culturally, etc. We are one entity, and we must begin to live that way if the goal is a long, happy, and safe life. If the goal is war, genocide, and famine – then we should continue with the thought process of Us and Them, that has created such for all of existence.

This is not a solution based in religion, morality, or emotion. It is a solution of pragmatism. It is what works -Love your neighbor as yourself. Can we do this? Absolutely. Will we do this? I don’t know. But I’m very encouraged by the fact that we at least continue to debate and discuss such ideas.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pcQ37uGO8A&feature=related

‘We are Samah’s parents too’ by Meital Yas’ur-Beit Or
The parents of a Palestinian boy whose organs were donated to Israeli children after his death from injuries inflicted by IDF fire in Jenin, met with the children who received their sons organs.

Ahmed Ismail Khatib,13, was shot by IDF troops in the West Bank town of Jenin nearly two weeks ago when he walked out of his family
home carrying a toy gun that soldiers mistook for a real one. He was taken to Rambam Hospital in Haifa where he died. His father decided to donate his organs to Israeli children for peace.

The first meeting was with the parents of 12-year-old Samah, an Israeli Druze girl who received Ahmeds heart.

We are also her parents now, Ahmeds mother told Samahs mother Yousra, as she hugged her.

The joy is also shared by two fathers. We are one family. I hope you will accept me as your sister, Yousra said.

We feel as if we are looking at our son. If this girl asks you something and you cannot attend to it, come to us. We are her parents too, Ahmeds father said of Samah.

Mother: Samah received a new life

The meeting between Ahmeds parents and the parents of children whose lives were saved by transplant operations using Ahmeds organs was emotional. Men, women, doctors, nurses and visitors at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center sobbed.

Fairouz Gaboua, whose 5-year-old son Mohammad received one of Ahmeds kidneys, came to thank the Khatibs. Tovah Levinson of Jerusalem, the mother of 3-year-old Menouha who received Ahmeds second kidney, was also there to meet the family.

This amazing family gave Samah a new life, Yousra said. It is difficult to express in words whats in my heart. An Israeli soldier mistakenly killed Ahmed and they donated his organs to sick Israeli children, it is a bridge to peace.

Tovah Levinson said, We are really grateful to you for saving our daughters life. God will pay you back for that good deed.

We hope her wounds will heal soon. We hope that she will work to promote peace once she grows up, Ahmeds parents said.

Ahmeds father addressed the Israeli public through a letter in which called on both Israeli and Palestinians to instill a new culture in our childrens minds.

Ali Waked contributed to this report

If you know me, or have read anything I’ve ever written, or any film I’ve eve made, you’ll know that this quote has shaped the focus and direction of my life. It is utterly simple to understand – and incredibly complex to execute. It asks us to understand those with whom we don’t have peace, and also, perhaps more important, to understand our own contributions to any venomous environment. It’s an equation applicable at the individual level – I struggle with it deeply and frequently in my marriage, and at the global level – Choose any of the 36 wars being waged on the planet right now. Why is understanding so difficult to achieve?

The answer is the subject of my film and the focus of this website. As with the film, I will primarily explore this question through the social sciences. I choose them because they have 3 components which I find essential and absent in other paradigms – 1) They encompass individual and collective studies of man. 2) They offer case history, and intellectual arguments to support their findings. 3) They do not rule out the metaphysical or spiritual aspects of man and his motivations. Further, I have specifically NOT chosen the typical platforms of explanation – geographical, ideological, or political differences – as these at their very nature are subjective in analysis and divisionary in their explanation. I instead, believe conflict can most productively be understood through our commonalities. (However, if along the way you find a different paradigm which you believe offers productive insight, I hope you will share it.)

Also like in the film, this will be a meeting place for persons of tremendously different ideologies– from white supremacists, to Muslim extremists, and Christian fundamentalists, as well as experts and individuals with insightful personal experience. And here is the difficult, yet most important aspect – The one rule of this site has to be the same as the film – All dialogue, posts, or thoughts must be focused around the key intention of UNDERSTANDING. No name-calling, no dismissing ideologies as inferior, and no propaganda. The great challenge for each of us, is to move past the “Me Vs. You”, or “Us. Vs. Them” thinking which has created these problems in the first place.

Be compassionate. Be Productive. Seek understanding.

If we can agree on these 3 guidelines, then I do not believe Mr. Einstein’s quote is that far from our grasp. If you think you can’t agree – then you are in luck because there are 1000’s of other places where you will be greatly encouraged to espouse the superiority of your ideology, and others will happily retort with equally impassioned arguments for theirs. But not here. Here we believe that –

“Peace can only be achieved through understanding.”

With infinite gratitude,
-Mike Ramsdell