Having Influence, Simple enuf for Kids even

September 20, 2005

Dear Group,

The following mail from one of our members is accepted, though it doesn't

strictly belong to the holistic-health topic. Having influence or lack of it

affects us mentally and thus indirectly physically too. If any one is interested

in that group, they are welcome. As for myself, I am too busy to join one more

group now.

With best wishes,

Swamy

Group owner

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Having Influence, Simple enuf for Kids even

..Many groups are concerned about minorities, lower classes,

religious groups, foreigners, kids et al being ignored, mistreated

and abused by various influential or privileged groups in mainstream

society. There are many potential remedies and tools available,

including networking, which forums like this help with a lot. The

most promising tool I've found lately is sociocracy, which means

unanimous rule, but with refinements that make it much more workable

than bare-bones consensus. One of these is dividing large groups

into small groups. It's hard to get unanimity in large groups, but

much easier in small ones. Judeo-Christianity is very compatible

with unanimous rule as per the biblical books about the Judges, Mat.

20:25-28 etc. Such a method of reaching decisions promises to reduce

abusiveness in society by those in power and others.

..I've just compiled a book, in cooperation with a dozen other

writers, which discusses this method briefly, but there's a new

forum I found at www.sociocracy, which is

having very interesting discussions on the subject that, I think,

many of you would benefit from and could share many of the ideas

with your local groups or families. You can also do net searches

on " sociocracy " to get more background info on the subject.

..If you think it makes sense or not to check out the sociocracy

forum above, I'd enjoy hearing from you at LKINDR

. By the way, I'm not an owner or moderator of the forum

and wasn't asked to promote it. It just makes sense to me as an aid

to effective networking. Aloha. Lloyd Kinder

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