Title: A New Year I've just had Jewish day of atonement/ forgiveness contemplating myself, family, community and society I believe each person gives & takes to mediate these, each person has a complex web of living connectivity I now believe that values are the gods we worship, each person holds a conscience in this complexity and on one particular issue I'd like to initiate this I'm a surviving mid-east war zone refugee in Australia I hate both active and passive consent to violence & war I remorse my own passive consent to violence & war I now search to find the strength inside myself to harbour people that flee from violent conflict I am sad that i sense most people consent to violence I am distressed that our passive consent is the resource I am distressed that i have withheld my feelings til now please share your feelings and thoughts with me with hope and good wishes for a new year love Jason 19/Oct/2000