What message do you hope people will hear ? Do you expect different opinions? What makes Fast for Freedom different than all the other movements ? If you succeed in reaching the whole world 08/ 80 /08, What is the meaning behind the message? Heidi, how are you going to participate in the fast? Have you decided the time for the fast?  A Yahoo! friend of mine, Heidi Hog, recently posted a blog. It is based on an interview with Arun Ghandi, Mahatma Ghandi's grandson, on the BBC. The younger Ghandi proposed a one-day fast among Christians, Jews and Muslims as a show of unity against the extremists.           
Do you really think one voice will reach everyone ? Do you expect diversified opinions? What makes Fast for Freedom different than all other similar movements today ? If you succeed in reaching the whole world 08/ 08 /08, What meaning is behind the message? Heidi, how are you going to demonstrate your participation in the proposed fast? Have you scheduled a time August 8, 2008, to fast? I read it on Sunday morning before heading to church. A Yahoo! friend of mine, Heidi Hog, recently posted a blog. It is based on an interview with Arun Ghandi, Mahatma Ghandi's grandson, on the BBC. The younger Ghandi proposed a one-day fast among Christians, Jews and Muslims as a show of unity against the extremists. What were your thoughts about Gandhi response to 'fast'? So, after reading and hearing all this, I started to think. My first question was, "How do we get this started?" August 5, 2005 August 7, 2005 Mike, What are your thoughts on Fast for Freedom? So here's my vision: Do something different. For centuries, we've tried to beat each other into submission. We've tried the violence: physical, emotional, economic, political. Now, for just one day, let's try something different. Let's reach across the barriers that separate us and the institutions that oppress. What do hope people will be doing different on 08/08/08 to show involvment? Spend the day helping those who are less fortunate, who are down-and-out (even if it's their own damn fault...quit blaming). Spend the day talking with someone you would not ordinarily talk with or to whom you are opposed in some way: different religion, different orientation, different political affiliation... Better yet, spend the day listening to that person. Listening, that would be really different for a lot of us. That's it. One day of doing something different. Mike, you mention 'One day of doing something different', Dissarming peolpe from guns and violence wouldn't be different? It's not about disarming the world or banning armies and guns and weapons of mass destruction. It's not about "no nukes" or anything else. It's about one day on which we deny ourselves food, deny ourselves greed, deny ourselves arrogance, deny ourselves violence. And everyone is invited. Race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, orientation, age, language...none of it matters. You're all invited!
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So here's my vision: Do something different. For centuries, we've tried to beat each other into submission. We've tried the violence: physical, emotional, economic, political. Now, for just one day, let's try something different. Let's reach across the barriers that separate us and the institutions that oppress.
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What do hope people will be doing different on 08/08/08 to show involvment?
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Spend the day helping those who are less fortunate, who are down-and-out (even if it's their own damn fault...quit blaming). Spend the day talking with someone you would not ordinarily talk with or to whom you are opposed in some way: different religion, different orientation, different political affiliation... Better yet, spend the day listening to that person. Listening, that would be really different for a lot of us. That's it. One day of doing something different.
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Mike, you mention 'One day of doing something different', Dissarming peolpe from guns and violence wouldn't be different?
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It's not about disarming the world or banning armies and guns and weapons of mass destruction. It's not about "no nukes" or anything else. It's about one day on which we deny ourselves food, deny ourselves greed, deny ourselves arrogance, deny ourselves violence.
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And everyone is invited. Race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, orientation, age, language...none of it matters. You're all invited!