en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/354317 Comments by DargPSU http://theglennbeck912project.com/stand-up-and-lead/#IDComment17068499 The basics of leading start with ourselves, our families and our communities. Looks like we have gotten past ourselves and we are here. Next is our family, I know, I know...this could be tough. And then the bigger community and that is what this post is about. Have any of you started your own websites, forums, meetups that are made of your local neighborhood or neighbors? We need to reconnect with the people that are around us and in our local areas. If you already do, then great...expand it to include more people...share it with the rest of us. As for me, I am going to commit myself to do something that we used to do in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia. We used to work together as a neighborhood, watch out for each other, talk with each other, come out on the porch or stoop (we never called it that in my neighborhood of Juniata Park)...things that have been lost in the two suburban developments that I have lived in since then. Now I know we are busy but we seem to find time to connect electronically (email, im, etc)...why not build communities where we can interact through the interspace (as Jon Stewart calls it). So I am going to do that for my development of Charlton Farms...we are 53 homes in a rural to suburban area, we can do this and I will start it. How, you say, well...it has not been easy...I found i-neighbors.org which is a free service to host your neighborhood however I was concerned about the terms and conditions. I thought meetup.com would be good but it costs money and has limitations. I have even gone so far (did it tonight and purchased a website for our development (charltonfarms.com) and plan to populate it in the coming weeks. But what if this project, the912project, did something similar? Create subspaces for our neighborhoods to build on? Allow groups of people to build up real virtual neighborhoods...not like Second Life with weird characters and everyone hiding behind a mask...but real people grouped in a safe environment...I know it takes trust and I am a systems engineer and IT specialist so I know about security risks but just imagine what it would be like. So...thoughts? Ideas? (And, on a personal note, Glenn...I told you about my wife at a book signing in West Chester (Nov 2007)...the fact that she has not one but two different and extremely dangerous cancers...well, this St Patty's Day....she will have reached the FIVE year mark! Between God, prayer, tears, and you (and your words and tears), I am getting through this and I will not let my country down.) Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:49:25 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/stand-up-and-lead/#IDComment17068499 http://theglennbeck912project.com/9principles12values/#IDComment17068174 So Little Blue Rock...have no following over on your blog? Need to dredge up some controversy here and put it there. But alas, no comments to date on your blog but plenty of discussion here. Might you consider joining this project instead of tearing it down. Also my friend, please read what Glenn has written. Fact check yourself before posting to understand that what Principle #2 is stating is what Glenn posits for this group and you need not have to believe ALL 9, that could be one of the two you don't believe in. We would still welcome you if you can find 7 that are principles that you can say that you believe in. Principle #2 is based on what the founding fathers used in their construction of our government (which is so vastly different from what we currently have that it is hard to believe how great their vision was). The founding fathers based this government on Natural Law. Read some Cicero or John Locke amongst others. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:28:31 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/9principles12values/#IDComment17068174