<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span> I don't see cash that much so I don't care what it says on it as long as I can buy groceries and pay rent with it. People put such an interest and importance on money, perhaps they should change it to read, "The God We Trust". Since it seems to be the only one that gets its way on this planet all the time.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan J. Arnold</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="hr" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@frontier.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 31, 2013 3:36 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Pat Condell -- Muslims must reject jihad<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv0819752183"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have a different view of the phrase "E Pluribus Unum", I guess. I see it as similar to the whole "melting pot" concept that used to be revered more in the past than it is today. Everyone is an individual, everyone has their own viewpoint and their own
unique perspective on the problem. The concept of "E Pluribus Unum", as I see it, is that our strength as a country comes from our diversity and our individualism, and in how we are able to convert that to sound policy in a system that recognizes where we can agree and protects the minority viewpoints. That hasn't been true lately, and might be more of a myth than reality, but it's something I strive for.<br><br>I think the new world of the Internet, social media, viral videos, and whatnot could be harnessed to work towards this spirit of unity from
diversity, if only people would actually concede that that is a concept worth developing. As it is, people are happier to demonize the opposition, not realizing that "the opposition" is something they've been led to believe must be defeated, and is something that wouldn't actually exist if we all didn't glob on to labels and political parties and cute sound bites from talking heads on both sides of the divide. Talking heads that owe their success to furthering the idea that there is a divide, by the way.<br><br>By giving ourselves over to one side or the other, we've effectively destroyed the "pluribus" part of the motto. If we had more of a multitude of viewpoints expressed, we would have more chance of finding common threads or overlap. We would just have to be cool with the idea that we might agree with someone on the "other side" about one thing, though, while disagreeing with them about other things. This simple
concept seems really hard for some people to comprehend.<br><br>Paul<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="hr" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@frontier.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Ted Moffett <starbliss@gmail.com>; vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 31, 2013 2:47 PM<br> <b><span
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<div class="yiv0819752183moz-cite-prefix">On 5/31/2013 2:17 PM, Paul Rumelhart
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By the way,
"In God We Trust" is the our national motto, as signed into law
by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. If people out there want "In
God We Trust" removed from their currency, they should lobby for
a change to our national motto. Personally, I like "E Pluribus
Unum" better (From Many Into One), because that supports actual
unity instead of the divisiveness that is tearing this country
apart.<br>
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E Pluribus Unum is more likely a part of the problem than it is part
of a solution. While it may be the case that cheering on team
efforts in a competition among other teams is useful or comforting,
the fact of our increasingly less hierarchical and and more
networked social organization is that peer-to-peer and
network-to-network relationships are now more common, and more
important, not just within this country but around the world, both
within and among countries and companies. We need adjustable,
dynamic organization charts that can be more readily modified to
meet the needs and exigencies of necessary problem-solving rather
than just historically inertial, traditional, fixed, relationships
among solution-generating and strategy-deciding workers and
officers.<br>
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Ken<br>
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