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UNITY IN DIVERSITY Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by foy franklin, Cameroon Aug 21, 2006
Culture , Peace & Conflict   Opinions
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INTRODUCTION

The Society of Humankind can claim to be unique in the extent to which it actively seeks and enthusiastically encourages both unity and diversity among and between its memberships. Others have too often asserted that human communities and organizations cannot be both unified and diverse. Indeed, some commentators claim that the one must be the enemy of the other. How is it then, that the Society of Humankind is able to reconcile these two very different principles of human social life?
The answer begins with an understanding of the aim of the society and the effort to maintain and promote the social conditions that make an achievement of that Aim possible. The Dogma of the society sets out the social conditions required for the achievement of the Society's Aim. It asserts that if the human species can survive into the infinite future under conditions that allow continuous growth in human knowledge and skills, then humankind will discover a means to extend life beyond death. On that Dogmatic base the Aim of the Society of Humankind is then developed by the addition of a commitment by the Society to extend that new gained freedom from oblivion to all past and future generations of humanity.
Clearly, neither the objective of the Dogma nor the Aim of the Society has yet been achieved. Equally clearly, and importantly for the purposes of this Topic, neither the Society nor anyone else can say when or how either will be accomplished, which is the situation faced by the Society of Humankind now and for the foreseeable future. All the Society can do in those circumstances therefore, is work to maintain the two conditions necessary to the achievement of its Aim. These could include the following;

WHO WE ARE?

First and crucially, is a basic understanding of WHO WE ARE AS HUMAN BEINGS? That is a revisit of our origin/creation. Since we need to know where we are coming from in order to know how to go further. This is very important because, the main division in the world today is due to the different ways in which different people understand the Supreme Being (God). That is, the fight against Islam and Christianity. This is because we are paying more attention on things that do not matter or matter very least. We cannot even fool our self that we are worshiping the same God, for God’s people will not be fighting with each other.
I have my own believe of who we are. I see each and every human being as a god created out of God. We are unique with special task. Ones religion should be to do good, which is possible my listening to that inner voice called the mind. We should sport paying attention to things that does not matter such as, who really is the Son of God? What is important is to accept God as a supreme being.
2) EDUCATION

The second condition the Society seeks to maintain is that human knowledge and skills should grow continuously, remembering that neither the Society nor anyone else can predict what humanity will need to know, or be able to do, in order to discover a means for our species to extend life beyond death. That is so because the Society, in common with every individual member of the human species, has no attribute or ability enabling it to predict what knowledge it will have, or might develop in the future.
In addition, ensure the infinite survival of the human species. This is the primary condition for an achievement of the Aim of the Society for the simple reason that if we become extinct our knowledge and any plans we may have to make use of it die with us, whereas while we survive we can always have hope for the future. Unity among humanity is vital in seeking to ensure the infinite survival of the human species. The major, most immediate, and some say the only reliably foreseeable, threat to our continued existence as a species arises from the actions, decisions and behavior of our own kind. Any such threat that may arise from any other source is unlikely to discriminate, as we do, between differing types, cultures and communities in the human population, so it will probably unite us whether we will it or not. Hence any sensible or realistic program of action designed to ensure the infinite survival of our species must begin with the premise that we should do all we can to draw the whole of humanity cooperatively together into the effort.

3) TYPE OF GOVERNEMENT

The different ways in which people can be governed is due to the fact that humankind is very diverse. Therefore, the manner in which people are governed is a very important issue in installing unity weather national or international unity. Different groups of people have different cultures and tradition and hence should be governed in a unique way relative to their culture and tradition. For example, Cameroon regarded, as Africa in miniature, could be best govern as a Federal State rather than a Unitary State. Federalism is the best way of creating unity in a highly diverse society like the world. These show respect to the different groups and acknowledge their distinct nature. This is visible in the case of the U.S.A, Nigeria, that is, where the Universal laws are the one at its locality.





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omg! i totally agree!
Marino Harker-Smith | Sep 5th, 2006
heya! brilliant piece! i totally agree with the whole unity in diversity thing. i strongly believe in embracing our differences to accept each other and form a united global community. The meaning of the word COMMUNITY needs reinformed if we want to have a global society that respects each other and less conflict. I also agree with what u said about the supreme being and islam vs christianity stuff... why can we not all agree that we are all worshiping the same supreme being/creator?? -M



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