What is “Being“, really? I have an idea that it is that part of us that takes no doing or having to exist. That little smile that crosses your face (your being) when we see a small puppy licking the ice cream off the face of an innocent little child. It is how your breath is taken for a moment when we see a beautiful rainbow. It is the way you felt the first time you fell in love. And I can cite many more examples and will as you explore the pages presented here.
One of the goals here is to bring people back to remembering “Who We Are”. Remembering that we are first beings and that we are all alike and here for the same reason, to be sharing the world and sharing in the world. Yes I know that we are not all ALIKE, we have differences and that is good. If we were all alike, what would be the purpose of us being here in the first place. Life is a game. A game that we all agreed to play. When did we agree to play this game? I am not sure, and no one is, and that is not what is important. What is important is that we all agreed to play together, with each other as partners and not as enemies in a fight or race to get somewhere first. Besides, where is it that we are trying to get to anyway. And if there is a place to get to, what will the first person that gets there have that the rest of us won’t get. What is it about being first that matters. Or about not being last that matters. In reality, the person that is last may have seen and done more than the person that was first and may have enjoyed the journey much more than the rest of us. Is it the journey or the end result that is more important?
You decide. You make each day what it is. You choose at every moment “Who You Are”. Choose Love! Choose to care. Choose to give of yourself. Choose whatever it is that “Turns You On”, that excites you, that keeps you going. Choose to put your energy behind what it is that you feel, not what you think, what you feel will make you and your world a better place for all of mankind. If it is not making things better, at some level, it is working to make things worse.
If you have ideas, writings, poetry, words of wisdom or anything to add to what is here, please contact me. Let me know how you want to contribute to this effort. How you want to make a difference in the world.
Being
Behavior
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Behavior
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Believe
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Believe
Believe.com is a new faith-based content destination serving the Christian community, dedicated to helping Christians deepen their walk with the Lord as well as fellowship with other believers. The website also exists as a resource for the Seeker looking for hope and answers.
“Based upon member feedback, it became clear there was a need for a content destination site where devoted Christians could obtain advice, insights and interaction with other community members,” said Garry Poole, Advisory Board Member of ChristianMingle.com, which is owned and operated by Spark Networks. “We are confident Believe.com fulfills that need.”
Within the Believe.com Worship Center is compelling faith-based content encouraging interactive discussion and feedback. Believe.com also features sermons and spiritual thoughts in written, audio and video formats from Christian leaders of congregations and organizations across the country. Topics include encouraging relationship advice, raising children God’s way, following biblical financial principles to successful stewardship and many more.
In addition to audio and video content, key elements include the Believe.com Prayer Requests, Searchable Bible, and Bible Verse of the Day, where readers can strengthen their religious faith and apply biblical passages to their everyday lives.
“We’re excited about the prospect of Believe.com inspiring Christians to foster meaningful relationships while strengthening their most important relationship — their relationship with Jesus Christ,” said James Green, General Manager of ChristianMingle.com.
Behind
If you have any questions regarding the content in this website, about the products that are mentioned, or just any questions at all don’t hesitate to contact me at the following address. I’d also love to hear any feedback on the site if you’ve found it helpful or have some ideas about how I can improve the site in some way.
Beginning
We are a group of parents who have decided to do what we can to inform and interconnect people like us — parents, expectant parents, and anyone interested in the wellbeing of children. Like parents everywhere, we care about our children and want what’s best for them. And since, in today’s world, wanting what’s best for them can mean a good amount of investigation into what “best” really is, we’ve decided to undertake some of the necessary investigation in a systematic way and share the results. We also want to do everything we can to bring together others who feel deeply about their children. It takes some encouragement from others to keep focused on children’s deeper interests at a time when the world is rushing along without paying them the kind of attention they deserve.
We are investigating the opportunities for helping children explore their potential. We are also probing the dangers standing in their way. And, whenever we can, we want to create opportunities for children and families as well as just talk about them.
Our first step in helping create opportunities has been getting together to create a Charter School for children from ages six to fifteen in our home town of Ukiah, California (which is located in a beautiful valley about 100 miles due north of San Francisco). Approved by our local school district and the State, our Tree of Life School opened on September 5th, 2000. It employs Dr. Maria Montessori’s wonderful and well-proven methods, which have succeeded in locales as different as the slums of Rome and the suburbs of Silicon Valley. And it has the added element of our intention to learn and grow as human beings along with our children — not getting so involved with passing on what we know that we miss what our kids’ fresh look at the world has to teach all of us.
Montessori education, including the pre-school years that are the real beginning of self-directed learning, is one of the things we’ll be describing in some detail as one of the major opportunities for helping our kids explore their potential. It is built on such understanding and respect for children’s innate desire to learn, and has been so successful at helping develop confident, capable, and compassionate adults that we think it deserves to be even more popular than it already is.
Dangers also preoccupy us. There are many health issues out there, especially environmental ones, that need better understanding and far better action, and, in the face of the imminent failure of many antibiotics, we are much preoccupied with positive things we all can do to bolster our children’s immune systems.
We hope you will bear with us while we put this all together and expand it. And we invite you to e-mail us […] and let us know your feelings and suggestions.
Bears
BEARS.NET MANIFESTO
- No censorship, ever. Write whatever you want, mention other bear websites in your messages or posts, I don’t care. Whatever helps you meet guys.
- No ego bullshit. You will never see a picture of your webmaster on the front page of our site nor any testimonials from our users. Once again, this is about you, not me.
- BEARS.NET will never make you pay for basic services or to remove website restrictions, i.e. if you can access a profile on an odd day, you can access it on an even day and I’ll let you look all the profile pics, not just the first one, nor just thumbnails, the actual photos, imagine!
- No advertising. I hate advertising, there won’t be any banner ads or pop under ads or anything like that ever!
- No limits on messages you can send or receive* (* Within reason, if you start spamming everyone else, I’m going to have to smack you around a bit.)
- BEARS.NET is our only website, we’re not part of a stable of cross promoted non bear related websites. You’re our only focus.
- Everyone gets to vote on not only what the website will become, but I want you guys to participate, suggesting features and fixes which everyone else will get to vote upon, too. This is your site as much as mine, I just happen to own it.
- BEARS.NET, Will not be just for bears or men, bears are on the cusp of mainstream, women are into bears and some bears are unto women. Heck even straight bears guys don’t mind being the objects of desire of other men, if you get them drunk enough. Although, if you guys aren’t comfortable with women and straight men using the website, tell me. If enough people are against it, I won’t do it.
- You will receive a response to any email you send. Honest, try me.
- BEARS.NET will not be a closed garden, you guys can exchange or post any contact info. You’re adults and we want to make it easy for you guys to contact each other.
- There will be no extended or unexplained outages.
- BEARS.NET will be a fast, useful and responsive website that you help design.
Bears
I have put this site together for many reasons, but chief among them is to help folks understand and learn about bears. To see them for what majestic animals they are, and to inspire others to be curious about them as well. If anyone is interested in sending material my way, or wishes to volunteer to create some content for the site… please click on the contact link and send me a message.
I’ve always been fascinated by bears. There is something about them that captures the raw purity of nature. All of them hold a fascination for me, although I must admit that the brown bear holds a special place in my heart though. I can’t describe it much better than that. There is a magic to bears that is hard to find elsewhere.
Look in the bedroom on nearly any child. What do you see? Teddy Bears, stuffed animal Bears, pictures of bears. Our society thrives on bears. Check out the cartoons… Baloo, Little Bear, Yogi, and Pooh. The influence of the bruin can be seen everywhere. It is inescapable.
I spent several months as an exhibit guide when BEARS: IMAGINATION AND REALITY was being presented at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA. And during that time, I saw how interested in bears people were. I also saw how little folks knew. Folklore and myth were more common than knowledge and facts.
They were thirsty, though… they wanted to know; I enjoyed showing them the pelts and telling them about the different bears. There is something really rewarding about helping people to understand things that they really want to learn.
Now, especially, folks need to know. Several species of bear in the world are dwindling, some teetering on the edge of extinction. We are not alone on the Earth. Thousands of other forms of life live here too. If we are to survive, we must do it together. Not just humans and bears, but humans and everything that lives. We’re in this together, let’s just hope it’s not too late to keep it that way.
All of the data on this site is for informational purposes. I cannot guarantee the accuracy of any of the information as it has been compiled from various sources at various times and has not always been updated in keeping with current science.
Bear
The mission of the non-profit North American Bear Center is to advance the long-term survival of bears worldwide by replacing misconceptions with scientific facts about bears, their role in ecosystems, and their relations with humans.
There is a huge need for accurate information about bears worldwide.
Bears have been unfairly demonized for centuries. Exaggerated perceptions of danger historically led to eradication campaigns using bounties, poison, trapping, and shooting. All eight bear species around the world are now listed as vulnerable, threatened or endangered in all or portions of their ranges. Remote habitats that once insured isolation and protection are now being occupied by people, and the attitudes of these people will determine the future of those populations.
The Bear Center is dedicated to replacing misconceptions with facts worldwide. It is also working to conserve bear habitat, stop poaching for bear body parts, rehabilitate injured and orphaned bears back to the wild, and implement methods to reduce conflict between humans and bears.