(Updated 5 March 2025) The World Stage

"All the world's a stage." - William Shakespeare

Thorough and thoughtful snapshots of the global narrative provided by According to Time...

5 March 2025

by Ben Bussewitz

In the way in which we are all together, in the human family, together as one, bonded kinsman who share in who we are, each of us: we were all born on planet earth, and as such, our home is the Earth and our home of our birth is Mother Earth; sometimes countries and nations provide membership in nationality—citizenship— based on one being born in the national territorial boundaries in which the nation has a sovereignty-claim; but to look deeper into this, all people are born, we see, and this takes precedence to citizenship according to state, nation, country, township— what have you— all people are born on earth, and share in that.  So in a sense, we are all kinsman of the earth.  We share the—so-called— nationality of Mother Earth.  We are children of Mother Earth, and that connects us all together, all the people of the earth, far greater than a citizenship-claim to certain countries can pull us apart, or for that matter, bring us closer together.  All people are citizens of Mother Earth, as all people are born on the third planet from the sun.  This is an identification-claim that is constant in each person.

There is Biblical evidence that substantiates the claim that mankind is made of the earth.  According to Genesis 2, God made man out of the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life, and formed woman from one of man’s ribs.  From this we can see, according to The Holy Bible, our genealogy of species yields as far back as, ‘from the earth, man was formed.’

But we need not even look to Biblical evidence to see that, indeed, we are ‘people of the earth.’  We are rooted in the earth, attached to the earth, and part and part in parcel of the earth.  It goes without saying that we are even more derivative, as a people, of Mother Earth, than any given nationality or citizenship-claim.  We are created by a miracle, the miracle of life, and by extension, we are all, what I would like to coin as, Citizens of Mother Earth.

There is a lot one has to do to be considered a world citizen, or global citizen, including taking part in a Non-Governmental-Organization that is non-profit and helping people around the globe, but as far as being a Citizen of Mother Earth, it is in all peoples genes as those indicate they are homo sapiens, people who share in the lovely, beautiful complexion of the sun, moon, and Mother Earth.

20 July 2024

by Ben Bussewitz

Humankind is crafted by their Creator to fulfill the purposes of a salvific redemption of sin, to enter into and always extend into a deeper relationship with God, and to manifest in their truest essences love amongst one another.  According to Jesus, the two greatest commandments, which both find their inception in the Old Testament of The Holy Bible are to love the Lord your God with all of your mind, all of your heart, and all of your soul, and another similar to it-- to love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 36-40).  These are the central motivations of the global cosmopolitan mold.

All people are born with their home as Mother Earth and their family as the human family, along with a locality and a closer-in-kin family who they share their aspirations, hopes, and dreams with, along with their shortcomings, shortsightedness, and losses.  From the beginning of time, humankind has been brought into joyous, triumphant happiness when they themselves or others around them prevail over obstacles, whether it is capturing a rabbit with a hunting trap (as happened in lots of small communities throughout history) or conquering the world through controlling the news (no planes, guns, or bombs) (which is what is always going on here at According to Time).  When someone does well, the goodness pervades the entire global sphere, as God is all-pervasive and all-present, immanent and transcendent, and all events and essences are interconnected.

As we watch the world unfold as on a triumphant drama throughout the first quarter of the twenty-first century, we see people helping refugees by donating time, funds, food, property; we see people settling humanitarian crises from the outlooks of international legislative forums to war tribunals; we see people working together collectively to find even more effective ways to take on the early phases of widespread climate degradation and global warming; we see people volunteering their time and efforts to help the poor and needy; we see individuals filling up mosques, synagogues, and churches to engage in collective worship.  And with all this beneficial behavior, we come more fully to realize what our lives mean individually and collectively.