a new approach

I've been thinking more about what we could possibly do (for the lack of suggestions in the previous post...) and it really is hard -- so many activism sites I've been looking at don't empower the individual in any real sense. Information is great, spreading information is great, starting clubs about issues are great -- but in the end they should have some GOAL of what a person can precisely do to actually fix the matter at hand. Here at college, we have speakers and we have club meetings and have letter writing campaigns and I think most people are left with the idea of "wow there's a lot of problems in this world", but they have no idea how to do anything about that, and people keep evading that true issue at hand. I realize in many ways, in me asking you guys for suggestions merits skepticism bc why would I be the person to change that? I'm not saying I know exactly how we can fix this, but I want you guys to know I understand -- and I'm trying to figure it out.

However, I suggest you all to have your own philosophical debates with yourself to figure this out -- the point of this site is to remind people that it's not okay to sit around and forget about important things, it IS a hard matter to face the problems of the world and it SHOULD be thought about long and hard. And if you finally have an epiphany... you know what place to come to and share it.

In the meantime, I agree with a wise friend that partisan politics is not getting us anywhere, and that ultimately we should appeal to the positive in all value systems rather than trying to abolish them due to their sometimes negative outcomes -- this extends to Christianity and other religions... I myself am agnostic and personally do not like the division that religion creates, and its dogmatic approach in some cases -- but hey, if Christian extremists are bombing abortion clincs and violently acting upon homosexuals, isn't that the time where we remind them to "love thy brother" or w/e... and not be like "your Bible sucks" ? Maybe that's one way we can approach these kinds of matters, and see where it gets us.