Every day, our fragile world seems smaller and more interconnected, and groups which might once have imagined they could live peacefully in ignorance of each other are thrust together.
We must learn how to understand each other in order to live in harmony and fellowship. This site was undertaken as one response to the need for reconciliation and understanding over violence, as the principle (and only sustainable) means of resolving our differences.
“What use is it, people, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.” –Jesus [James 2:14-17]
Another resource chock-full of holy texts, available free online:
For those scholars who are interested in looking something up in Holy Books… we’ve been alerted to a few helpful web resources, including:
Happy hunting!
no, we are not seeking funds…
UQ-media isn’t our full-time project, and we need partners whose entire attention is geared towards peace and social harmony, because we’ve built the resource and we want to make it the best it can be, for maximum effect but frankly we’re slammed for time.
If your compassion-raising, peace seeking, 501c.3 bearing nonprofit is interested in partnering with us on this site, please use our contact page to get in touch. A match made in heaven will recognize that all of the images and text on this site is harmonious and positive, and will likely be using same (rather than choosing images of war and hate to make a point) on their own.
Pace e bene,
Lauren Speeth, webmaster – UQ-media.com
Founding CEO, The Elfenworks Foundation
Our thanks to the webmasters and judges who have visited this site and found it worthy of web-awards. We are proud to have been notified in October 2009 that this site has been selected as the honored recipient of the following awards:
1. I honor virtue
2. I benefit with gratitude
3. I am peaceful
4. I respect the property of others
5. I affirm that all life is sacred
6. I give offerings that are genuine
7. I live in truth
8. I regard all altars with respect
9. I speak with sincerity
10. I consume only my fair share
11. I offer words of good intent
12. I relate in peace
13. I honor animals with reverence
14. I can be trusted
15. I care for the earth
16. I keep my own council
17. I speak positively of others
18. I remain in balance with my emotions
19. I am trustful in my relationships
20. I hold purity in high esteem
21. I spread joy
22. I do the best I can
23. I communicate with compassion
24. I listen to opposing opinions
25. I create harmony
26. I invoke laughter
27. I am open to love in various forms
28. I am forgiving
29. I am kind
30. I act respectfully of others
31. I am accepting
32. I follow my inner guidance
33. I converse with awareness
34. I do good
35. I give blessings
36. I keep the waters pure
37. I speak with good intent
38. I praise the Goddess and the God
39. I am humble
40. I achieve with integrity
41. I advance through my own abilities
42. I embrace the All
source: http://www.isisoasis.org
In the future, the mountain with the LORD’s temple will be the highest of all. It will reach above the hills, and every nation will rush to it.
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People of many nations will come and say, “Let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD God of Jacob and worship in God’s temple.” The LORD will teach us the Law from Jerusalem, and we will obey.
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God will settle arguments between distant and powerful nations. They will pound their swords and their spears into rakes and shovels*; they will never again make war or attack one another.
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Everyone will find rest beneath their own fig trees or grape vines, and they will live in peace. This is a solemn promise of the LORD All-Powerful.
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*swords into plowshares
1. wealth without work
2. pleasure without conscience
3. knowledge without character
4. commerce without morality
5. science without humanity
6. worship without sacrifice
7. politics without principle
The Rosicrucians value tolerance and peace and celebrate a Rosicrucian Day of Peace worldwide annually on the fourth Sunday of June. These ideas for contributing to peace are printed and given out free at their Egyptian Museum and Peace Garden in San Jose:
They can also be found at http://peaceconsciousness.blogspot.com/
According to an article in the NYTimes, ”more girls and women are now missing from the planet, precisely because they are female, than men were killed on the battlefield in all the wars of the 20th century.” Taking a stand against ‘routine gendercide’ (which outnumers all the genocides of the 20th century combined) and the other abuses and immoralities involves knowing some hard truths, and standing up as a witness. On this issue, a person of good conscience cannot remain neutral. Recall the words of Bishop Desmond Tutu “If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality” and we owe it to both oppressed and oppressor to do what we can to work for restoration, hope and understanding.
