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WHAT IS THE 360° NETWORK ?

2009-12-07T06:11:00.000-08:00

WHAT IS THE 360° NETWORK ?
The 360° Network links people to interact and share info,knowledge & opportunity and to have fun!

The basic idea of the 360° Network is “to transform online social networks into a real People-2-People, life changing network for members to interact and share information, knowledge, skills, opportunities and improve their lifestyles”.

Specifically, the 360° Network is designed to leverage the powerful networking and communication synergies provided by online social networks like Facebook for the benefit of their membership and business entities alike.

We therefore intend to:
1. translate existing online Social Networks into Real Networking opportunities
2. provide a life changing opportunity for members to enhance their lifestyle, knowledge, skills and business opportunities
3. enhance members’ lifestyle by offering a rich recreation and entertainment experience

How it works:
1.Members of existing online Social Networks join the 360° Network on Facebook and at http://www.the360network.com . This alone is a unique and Real P-2-P social/business networking , continuous learning and personal development opportunity for members

2.Members attend Monthly and Quarterly 360° Forums® to network, learn and have fun in one place!

3. Members have continuous access to moderated online posts and interactive forums about life changing subjects.

What is unique about the concept and why would members want to join the 360° Degrees Network?

Our unique proposition is that by attending the 360° forums®, members have a unique and real life changing opportunity to:

1.Meet and create new and/or enhance their existing business and social networks and mutually share information and opportunities

2.Listen and learn from peers and experts on thematic life changing issue like Personal Finance, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Personal Development, Networking, Personal Branding, Continuing Professional Development, Family , Lifestyle and Spiritual issues etc

3.Are entertained and have fun

We shall build a network like no other!

The Equivalency Fiction

2007-09-15T23:07:00.000-07:00

No, Not All Cultures and Religions are Equal

SelwynDuke.com

If anything renders people sheep among wolves, it’s when they convince themselves that every creature is a sheep. We live in an age in which one of the few sins is giving offense, one of the only virtues is a tendentious tolerance and one of the top priorities is getting along. In light of this, it’s not surprising that a steadfast refusal to draw moral distinctions is all the rage.
Our divorcing of charity from morality takes many forms. Enter many American classrooms and you will find a multiculturalist curriculum that paints all cultures as morally equal. Take a course in comparative religion and you’ll often see disparate faiths cast merely as equally valid (or equally invalid) competing myths. Of course, the preponderance of this phenomenon extends well beyond the walls of the academy.

To lay claim to any kind of superiority on behalf of your culture or religion is considered very bad form in today’s polite society. Dare to do so and you’ll often be rebuked with the favored mantras of the day: “Those are your values, someone else’s may be different,” “Don’t impose your values on me,” or perhaps, “Don’t be so judgemental.” Yes, it’s not so much that deviancy has been defined downwards, it’s that it has been defined as just another perspective. Such are the fruits of the equivalency fiction.
On the surface, the outer nanometer of it anyway, this seems to make sense. We live in a pluralistic society, thus, it behooves us to avoid descending into a morass in which hegemonist factions vie for cultural supremacy. Chastened by a world history replete with examples of man’s inhumanity to man, with religious disputes, cultural clashes and ethnic cleansing, we fear a moral certainty that could have some strutting about, puffing up their chests and planting their flag firmly atop Mount Olympus. So we have embraced an unwritten contract. To wit:

I won’t say that my culture or faith is better than yours if you don’t say yours is better than mine. Deal?

Then, like two callow little lads in a schoolyard who have each renounced the claim that his daddy could beat up the other’s daddy, we shake on it and bury the hatchet . . . for a time.
So we live in an age in which, ostensibly, no culture or religion is elevated above any other. That’s how it works in theory, anyway. In practice, western culture and its formative religion, Christianity, are cynically sneered at and cast as the bane of civilization. But make no mistake about it, the equivalency fiction has corrupted judgement. And, despite its seemingly benign nature and supposedly palliative effect, it breeds an indifference more perilous than any religious zealotry.
One problem with the equivalency fiction is that it negates the good it was designed to promote. The reason for this is that it – and its manifestations, such as multiculturalism and the notion that all faiths are equal – is nothing but moral relativism gussied up in a seductive guise. (As many know, moral relativism is the idea that right and wrong are determined by man and are, therefore, relative to the time, place and people. It is the notion that morality is merely a function of consensus opinion.) The reason for this is that different cultures and faiths espouse different values, so they cannot all be morally equal unless all values are so. And if you claim that all values are morally equal, that’s moral relativism.
Now let’s close the loop. The more sincere purveyors of these ideas aim to engender tolerance and civilized behavior, noble ambitions both. But if all values are equal, how can tolerance be better than intolerance? How can civility be better than barbarity? How can peaceful resolution be morally superior to violent action? The truth is that moral relativism and all the various expressions of it (i.e., multiculturalism, religious equivalency) are mere philoso-babble. They are products of emotion and a desire to buttress agendas, not that of credible intellectual inquiry. They are philosophies that collapse upon themselves under their own very, very modest weight. In the name of the principle of tolerance, we embrace the notion that principles don’t matter.
Adoption of this lie has some very serious consequences. For one, when your eyes have been trained to see all that is black and white as gray, how can you cling to the good and shun the bad? How can you distinguish between the two when you’ve been taught to recognize no such distinctions? Let’s examine how this relates to our lives in a very practical sense.
We have been told that Islam is a religion of peace, as valid as any other. And in keeping with our unwritten contract, we’re enjoined to make this a knee-jerk assumption. We must believe all religions are equal even if exhaustive evidence to the contrary rises to the fore. In fact, so powerful is this suppression of intellectual inquiry that supposedly learned men would rather descend into worthless scholarship than run afoul of its Orwellian proscriptions.

A good example of such a bad example is contained in a piece titled Why is Turkey the Only Muslim Democracy?, which deals with the possible impediments to the success of democracy in the Muslim world. Written by former Princeton college professor Bernard Lewis, ostensibly it was a scholarly analysis of its subject matter. However, I was quickly disabused of this notion upon reading the following sentiment:

If I had been writing one hundred years ago, or perhaps even less, I might have begun by considering what characteristics the Turks as a nation might possess that others lack. In the intellectual climate of our times, such explanations are no longer acceptable. Even if we replace the word "nation" by the word "culture," the inquiry would still present some hazards. Fortunately, an inquiry along these lines is hardly necessary, since a wide range of alternative explanations is on offer.
Absolutely staggering. In other words, whether or not cultural phenomena are where the answer lies is irrelevant because such discussion is forbidden. In the “intellectual climate of our times,” he says? Why, it’s more like an anti-intellectual climate. I ask you, what is the purpose of engaging in intellectual inquiry? Is the purpose merely the dual one of mental self-gratification and the impressing of others with your erudition? Or, could the goal be that antiquated one of ferreting out Truth?

What the professor was guilty of is akin to a physician observing all the symptoms of a certain cancer and saying that he won’t test for such disease because it’s not fashionable to do so. And, “an inquiry along these lines is hardly necessary, since a wide range of alternative explanations is on offer”? This reminds me of an old joke about a man who was informed by his dentist: “I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that you need to have two teeth pulled. The good news is that you can choose any two you want.” Professor, you’re guilty of academic malpractice.
Now, I’m not going to present a comprehensive exposition of Islam and contrast and compare its tenets with those of other faiths, since such a venture would miss the point. For one thing, this relates to far more than just Islam. Secondly, our problem is not that we can’t find the answers, it’s that we can’t ask the questions. At least, not when they concern the sacred cows of foreign religions and cultures.
On the face of it, the equivalency fiction smacks of the most juvenile foolishness. Would we say that the ancient Aztec religion, which prescribed human sacrifice on a massive scale, could be equated with today’s dominant faiths? And one needn’t reach back to antiquity to find such jarring examples. Even today there are religions that allow similar savagery, although their darker elements are practiced most furtively. Why, just recently a Haitian woman was detained at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for possession of a human head, and not the one on her shoulders. She believed it would ward off evil spirits, in accordance with her Voodoo beliefs. But now let’s analyze this more deeply.
Religion and culture share something with ideology, in that all three of these things involve values. Islam labels polygamy morally licit, whereas Christianity deems it not so. Our culture places a premium on equality, while others respect the hierarchy of caste and station. Communism holds up “From each according to his means, to each according to his needs” as an ideal, but to free economy ideology adherents (I eschew the word “capitalism”) such a principle is anathema.
Another commonality among religion, culture and ideology is that their values are a good indication of their validity; the value set that attends a given religion, culture or ideology informs us as to how healthy an embrace of it would be on a personal or societal level. It follows then that a refusal to evaluate that value set would render us incapable of making such determinations. Is it pristine or polluted? You’ll never know if you won’t sniff the air.
Let’s now gain some perspective. What would happen if we embraced the equivalency fiction with respect to ideology? And if values truly are relative, how can we not? How can we condemn any ideology – be it communism, Naziism or something else – on the basis that it promotes that which is “wrong” if all values are equal? If it’s all a matter of perspective, how do we justify contradicting our relativistic standard by labeling certain ideologies inferior?
But then, ponder the implications of applying the equality fiction to ideology. If we blinded ourselves to the existence of dark ideologies, we couldn’t possibly know which ones would lead us toward destruction. How could we, on a personal or societal level, know to avoid communism if we credulously fancied it to occupy the same moral plane as ideologies responsible for much that is great and good? No mainstream religion or culture can constitute the kind of destructive force that some ideologies amount to, say some? Well, we’ll never know unless we’re willing to be a good doctor, conduct a thorough examination and render a proper diagnosis. And if something, anything espouses values and demands a place at the table, it also demands scrutiny.
Hearkening back to my third paragraph, we so desperately fear the re-emergence of old prejudices that we have flipped from one extreme to the other. We have gone from condemning both the sin and the sinner to being willing to condemn neither the sinner nor the sin. We want to engender good will toward our fellow man but have forgotten that one of the challenges for anyone seeking to walk with angels is to view people as they are, warts and all, with all their frailties, foibles, vices and ugliness, and love them anyway. Thus, blinding oneself to others’ ignobility doesn’t serve the end of achieving true charity toward all. For then we are not loving people for what they are, but rather, what we imagine them to be. We don’t love the person, but the mystique we have built around him.
But more significantly, dangerously and ominously, we have been trained to cast the discerning eye only inwards, never outwards. We have been cowed into believing that any recognition of unpleasant truths involving a culture or religion not our own is to descend into bigotry. Thus, like the three monkeys, we hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. That is, unless that evil can be ascribed to the one group where casting blame gratuitously harms our cause, and that group is us. Otherwise, we often walk where angels fear to tread, blind as we are to the differences between Hell and hallowed ground.
The United States in the third millennium stands at a precipice, with the constant accommodation of foreign cultures and faiths driving her culture steadily toward extinction. Should we allow Islam or other incongruous forces to make further inroads into our nation? We’ll never know if we remain the truly blind, namely, those who will not see. We’ll never know if we’re experiencing an age of enlightenment, or trading the Promised Land for peace in our time.

The Righteous Path!!!!

2007-08-01T08:35:00.001-07:00

You are divine. Are you? The righteous path is the greatest thing everybody wishes for in the whole world. I am still working the way to that.

The Major problem we facing right now and it is making the whole world to be confused is the idea of RELIGION. This is a diseases that is penetrating through the bones of innocent and newly born Sons and Daughters of GOD.

There is no real thing in defining which kind of church you are going too. This is a great issue and it really "sucks".

This has made me to think of something and here it is. Are you ready for it?

"RELIGION DIVIDES PEOPLE, SPIRITUALITY UNITES PEOPLE".

I hope you have understood the meaning of the above statement. I urge those close friends that we have got to take care of what is going on churches especially in this era where there are funny thing that are happening in churches.

Some few years back The Anglican Church presented themselves as GAY.

In Uganda recently too there occured an incidence that really shocked people, A visiting PASTOR was caught with electric gadget thought to be used during service to shock people so that THE MASS can applaude and talk how the pastor is really "STRONG". This is not a laughing matter.

One of the most adored churches, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. There are a lot of things that are 'biting' peoples' heads. The Rosary, The Haille Holy Mary's stature.

There are a lot of things that religion can lead and nowadays it affects some kinds of governments and this can be traced back in 1800 years where King Henry was pushing that everybody was to be of his religion. Can that really happen? Only God knows.

Therefore I urge you my brothers and sisters, what matters is your HEART'S submission and what it carries.

Pray hard for your heart and the hearts of the lost sheep

Hockey Bingo

2007-08-01T03:28:00.000-07:00

C'est une grande communauté et vous êtes y sont bienvenu. Je suis le Capitaine de Hockey et veux informer tous ce que ceux-là y ont intéressé peut me contacter sur swissam2010@yahoo.com ou m'appeler sur +256712266493/+254723913267

Friends

2007-06-05T11:20:00.000-07:00

Who are friends?Do you have friends?What do you like about your friends?
There are very many questions one can really ask about friends. Friends are the most important people in our lives.Friends are core to our living.
As a student things do happen that you sometimes can really find yourself in a desperate situation, If it was not for friends I would be one of the most desperate human beings in the world-I could not be even on this machine doing what Am doing. It was just a few miles away for me to drop out,give out and withdraw completely but it is because of my friends, our friends that I was able to live on hoping for the best.They used to save me alot in many different hardcore situations until it came to be that am part of them because they became emphathetic.
This a special dedication to all ma good friends who have been near me and they include:

Ogubi Nafula Julliet. Offering Master Institute of Muiner Mak University.
Shivachi Vugutsa Noeline. Graduand,Mass Communication Makerere University.
Martin Mulei A teacher by Profession
Valentine Mangwana Graduand,Mass Communication Mak University.
Ahindukha Calvin
Winnie Nantumbwe Sebuliba Special Persons
Keronga Sharon Good friend ever
Tibesigwa Veron
Taabitha Wangare Macharia
Rodrick My best friend from Tanzania
Noah Mwakalonge Ma good friend in Britain studying IT
Namande Harriet
The list is endless

My special thanks goes to ma parents Mr. and Mrs. Swinnerstone, My brothers:

Whenslaus Jumba Gilbert
Wycliffe Sambusa
Chrisanthus Ambole

My sisters:

Ursullah Mukhabali
Yvonne Ogolla
Doreen Khasandi
Jacinta Burache.

Never ever leave your friends,friends are more essential than some of your relatives.
Therefore endevour to make friends, and not only friends to be called friends but friends as special people. Avoid friends who may try to deviate you from the right path.
I wish u g00d as you are making your friends and the choices you want in life.

Therefore I will give you as a feed for your MIND about certain THINGS in life:

THINGS in life that, once gone, never come back -
Time
Words
Opportunity

Three THINGS in life that may never be lost -
Peace
Hope
Honesty

Three THINGS in life that are most valuable -
Love
Self-confidence
Friends

Three THINGS in life that are never certain -
Dreams
Success
Fortune

Three THINGS that make a man/woman -
Hard work
Sincerity
Commitment

Three THINGS in life that can destroy a man/woman -
Alcohol
Pride
Anger

One thing that is truly constant -God
I ask God to bless you, as I pray for you today;
to guide you and protect you, as you go along your way.
His love is always with you, His promises are true.
And when you give Him all your cares, you know He'll see you through.

See ya everytime and incase of any comments please send them to the web host on

marinestrongderavatk@yahoo.co.uk/
swissam2010@yahoo.com.

Mishap

2007-06-05T11:09:00.000-07:00

Sometimes u got let things the way they are without really pushing some buttons out of the abnormal.
It is time to have a changing world with no consideration to who is saying it in terms of colour,race,country,language,relation,talent,the skill,the ability and so on.Once a wise man stood up juz to appreciate the existance of the non -delivarables which were later put into a contour with no place to betroth the new born King of the worlds.

Am starting and I will let u know the importance of doing some things without really getting the green light.

Thank and keep in touch.In case of anythin pliz write back.

merci sender
je taime
Eugene Samson