The
TOV Standard is found in the first chapter
of Genesis. Its presence is reflected
in stories throughout Jewish and
Christian Scriptures. However, benefiting from the TOV Standard does not
require belief in any theology or relationship to any organized religion.
The TOV Standard transforms the ways
people make decisions, judge human behaviors,
create relationships and work with
others to change things. Continue reading at --
The TOV Center Project advocates Lives 1st as a primary core value and the TOV Standard as a guide for making all decisions. It was the Creator's Standard. Acts that measure Tov protect lives, preserve lives, make lives more functional, and increase the quality of life! It is a universal standard.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Hating with a Divine Standard
The
Bible opens with some radical new ideas for the ancient world:
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The god that created the Heaven and the
Earth “used a standard” to measure its work.
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“Human life” was the highest value on
that divine standard.
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That god also “created all humans in its
image.”
But
one of the most radical ideas of all was this – continue reading at --
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Core Values and Simple Sets of Rules for Dealing with Very Complex Problems
Today
we are immersed in a society that, since the late 1960s, has been changing its “core values.” America is transitioning
to a society with the following four core
values -- money, individualism, rights
and entertainment. This transition, however, comes at a very high price.
Read more at --
https://mailchi.mp/ae0d5ef29231/core-values-and-simple-sets-of-rules-for-dealing-with-very-complex-problems
Friday, October 25, 2019
Our Beliefscapes are Our Realities
Beliefscapes give us a new way to
talk about things that only exist in the neural networks of our brains. By exploring
together we learned when and how new belief
models came into being and old models
faded from memories and changed beliefscapes
– and doing this together changed our individual
beliefscapes and our realities.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Are You Me?
Before you can answer that
question, you have to be able this question – What am I? Find the answers to
that question in our latest email at --
https://mailchi.mp/d18829ca37f8/are-you-me
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Rediscovering the “sacred” through the Declaration of Independence.
The
Creator’s TOV Standard, the Tzedaqah Standard of the Jewish Jesus
and the Declaration of Independence
share something in common. Is the God invoked in the Declaration the Christian God or a deist god? Although Jefferson
used “God” just this once, he put the word “sacred” in the text three times. Read the complete email at -
The Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism
The
Israelites are Jacob’s descendants, the offspring of “the man that wrestled with a god and men, and prevailed.” For the
purposes of this discussion, the history of Judaism will be divided into three
periods – Pre-Temple Period, The Temple Period, and Post-Temple Period. What is now called “Judaism” was invented in
the matrix of Roman culture. Read the complete email at -
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