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An
Invitation to Participate
The Twilight Club is an invitation for an inspired moral action and
ethical practice in accord with an eternal moral vision and universal
ethical principles on the basis of a rational, thinking-based global discourse
and conversation on morality and ethics.
The Twilight Club is committed to the ideas that:
• Commitment to universal truth is the hallmark of morality,
wherefore the act of assuming the responsibility of thinking in pursuit
of universal truth is the foundational moral virtue
• Developing wisdom which consists in the capacity to sustain a
dialogue with people that hold different ethical or philosophical
points of view from one’s own is the essential moral virtue without
which no peace or balance is possible in the world.
• Morality is morality in action, and action is daily action. Ethics is
ethics in practice, and practice is daily practice. Therefore, no moral
discourse is of any moral value if we cannot transform it into moral
actions in our daily lives; nor is an ethical discourse of any ethical
value if we cannot transform it into ethical practices in our daily
lives.
• Human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract
reflection or when they are engaged in individual transformation for
its own sake but when they are engaged in the act of transforming the
corners of the world in which they live.
Our invitation for your participation in the Twilight Club is
ultimately a call for moral actions and ethical practices expressed in
your daily life. To participate in the work of the Twilight Club thus
means, first and foremost, to live a moral life and to follow an
ethical practice based on your own thinking and initiative in accord
with the eternal vision and the universal principles of the Twilight
Club. The Twilight Global Projects are designed only to bring forth an
environment—a global ecology of thinking and action, of morality and
ethics so that the individual can practice a simple deed of virtue on
his/her own on a daily basis.
In The Future of the Twilight Club there is a statement,
which says:
“The Twilight Club is a catalyst for the creation of a new global
civilization in which technology advances concomitantly and
harmoniously with moral consciousness to the benefit of humanity—in
which individual liberty, autonomy, and rights are respected, while
individual responsibility to communities is practiced, and thus world
balance is maintained—and in which metaphysical and physical sciences
not only harmoniously coexist, but also may develop into a new
synthesis or integration to reach further into the frontiers of
knowledge."
“The Twilight Club is not an organization to join, but an ongoing
project in which to participate based on the individual’s own
initiative…. Though we do not subscribe to moral relativism, we are
nevertheless committed to the idea that the locus of thinking is only
and always within the individual, that the provenance of action is in
the thinking of each individual, and that human action therefore is authentic
only when it is initiated by the individual based on his/her thinking,
understanding, and commitment."As our history tells you, the
original Twilight Club was instrumental in bringing into existence such
organizations or movements as Boy Scouts in England and America,
Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions Clubs, Better Business Bureaus, sweat shop
elimination, advertising censorship (honesty), child welfare, and IBM’s
Think campaign.
Human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract
reflection or when they are engaged in individual transformation for
its own sake but when they are engaged in the act of transforming the
corners of the world in which they live.
We welcome you to join us in the Twilight Club—in this inspired and
inspiring moral movement with a distinguished history of service,
spanning over 120 years, and with a commitment for the future to making
a significant impact upon the destiny of our civilization by
transforming its very character, morally and ethically.
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