*The below quote is a comment from a friend posted on Furtherleft Forum. I wanted to try my thinking at answering to it. (Thank you sonshine, and I hope you don't mind.)
"I dream of a wand and the power to make peace thats the LaLa land i live in where people are kind caring and giveing to thouse in need .Like if you need food something to do feed them if thay need work give them if that need love hug them if thay need clothes give them if thay need a home a simple shelter help them why cant we live in harmony and tolerance >?????? someone at least ancer me that ?"
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Answers, if there is questions there must be answers, it would seem. But one so much simpler than the other. And questions can have so many answers. But I tend to move toward the simple ones, like you, sonshine, suggest above. Take care of it, provide for it. What is around us is our responsibility. You seem to have the answer to that one. But what good answers if they don't become realities. It takes the many to believe to make that so. Now, the reality is, not caring. Each for their self is what is preached and pushed into the minds.
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For one thing Americans, as an example, are too what they think of as self sufficient. They probably have adopted this attitude to make up for the fact they are so dependant on the unpleasant ease their government provides for them to the point where they rarely need to think outside the bounds. I watch Americans sometimes down here in Mexico. They want to do as much work as they can to build their own house, to prove something to who or what ever. There goes the local labors jobs. They live here rich and mop their own floors. There goes a maids job. They give to red cross, and the man who delivers their water they give all their left overs too and a good tip too. Charity fulfilled, guilt need not be theirs. Building a high threshold to suffering.
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We don’t know how to take care of our own anymore. With the loss of the family structures strength in modernized people, we step further and further away from it. Our governments do not want us to take care of each other. They would rather provide, so the dependency is on them. People helping each other is a power they can't afford to let free. Modern mans main message seems to be, think of yourself, spend your life on searching for that, there is always more so go after it. And man puts on the blinders and tunes out all that he can that interferes with that pursuit and to hell he says with anyone that gets in the way of it.
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You ask, sonshine, why we can't live in harmony and tolerance, and my best answer, for today, is, there is no profit in it. No advantage for those who want the advantage. The power greedy.
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Take a handful more than your share and you have tipped the balance.
3 comments:
well my friend you can use my words anytime in there truth and i would hope you know it and yes you are right like my spirit cild is staying here and she helps me so much and we are all feed we all have our needs meet .The world is lucky i can wave a wand or i would change so many things not one human would be hungry not one human would have to live threw a major killing storm cause world would be in spirit and humanity harmony in respect in true health and no over greed would be cause we would all have our needs. Also the local leaders would colect up to have partys and dances for fun also to give to thouse who need and who have earned.
Thank you Zatikia.
1. For your powerful words
2. For helping me to understand littlebitofsonshine.
The world can be so heavy on the thoughts sometimes and this often causes us forget the beauty we still have.
One thig I would add to your post is that , yes, governments want to provide for us in order to make us dependant on the system, but they only provide so long as you are working. When you become too old or too infirm to work, then they stop providing for you, then you must make your own way.
Perhaps we must find ways of making our own way before we are too old or infirm to do so.
Not so "American" , Yaba. Rather universal, believe me. And, probably, too late to wake up - or maybe it was always too late, and it will be too late, always.
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