Happy birthday to Tammy, my daughter in law. The weather sets a celebratory mood for this occasion and I am fixing to stop by the store at around the noon hour, with a message. John is busy this aft and the coming weekend, so I’ll do some other things, such as some much needed house keeping.

Yesterday I visited the specialist regarding a possible operation on a lower stomach hernia, but we agreed that a ‘truss’ may be the best option at present. This hernia acts up intermittently and I can probably live with it for now, as I have done so for more than a year.

After this stop I drove to the far North East to locate the Future Shop that was to fix Juliet’s laptop. This they did and I bought some supplies for Juliet, while there. The district is at the edge of my old map and is at the north city edge as far as the north edge of the airport.

Later in the aft I dropped the computer off at Juliet’s, tested the printer and discussed her essay project. At around four thirty Juliet served dinner with mango for dessert, supplemented with a glass of wine not to forget. I returned home by about eight. Juliet and I enjoy each others company and we have similar interests, so we kind of let the computer be our mediator.

My ideas of tolerance are taking on form and are firming up, with respect to tolerance between religions and/ or ideologies. There are traces of this concept in some of the various traditions, but none of them are capable in meeting today’s need for mutual tolerance on our crowded planet. We need a new ‘dispensation’ as F.W. De Clerk, President of the Union of South Africa said, during the negotiations towards the end of Apartheid - an Afrikaner-Dutch word for segregation.

Accepting the traditions, cultures and religions that are present on our planet today, we need to formulate this new dispensation - a general state of ordering human affairs - to come to a global society that is able to function without losing too much energy and potential in political strive. We want to strive towards a society in which we respect each other’s differences and negotiate about our disagreements

Based on my studies, reading and experience over a life time, I have come to the following conclusion. We can come to such a new dispensation by accepting the present as given and adapting that to the modern global requirements.

This process of adaptation can start with a search for expressions and teaching of internal tolerance within the existing religions and value frame works. This is to be followed by a similar search for tolerance towards other frameworks, religions and cultures. In other words, we look for teachings towards tolerance within and without.

…we look for teachings towards tolerance within and without traditions.

This is where the first modification should be made, which can be done by using the findings of modern science. It shows that all traditions have a common human root in our place of origin as a species in North East Africa. Concurrent with this must be the acknowledgement of the validity that the origin of each tradition uniquely for itself, as revealed.

The common origins can be interpreted as a further revelation- for our world today - based on newly discovered knowledge. The earlier knowledge of the handed down traditions is now restructured. This way a new perspective opens for today‘s circumstance.

This inclusion of science as ‘rational revelation process’ fits within the concept that existence is not just existence by itself, but is Existence Divine, in which all that exists is included as a knowable mystery.
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