On 10 Feb, 02:14, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > Prescribed "Destiny" cannot be possible because I can choose tomorrow > to stay in bed everyday until my destiny is forced upon me. Choice is > not destiny. Please don't try to tell me that then my destiny will be > to remain in bed everyday 24/7 because that is not going to fly. >
All I'll say is "what ever you do is what is in the space-time continuum". And, as the space-time continuum contains all of space and time, those events have ALWAYS been there and will ALWAYS remain there. 'What you imagine your choices are' are just spatio-temporal events that exist in the continuum. > The real issue with world hunger/poverty is that it "IS" curable. > There are simple solutions to world hunger/poverty but humanity is > just not doing anything about it. There are simple solutions to > homelessness but humanity is not doing anything about it. > Yup. Agreed. Sad, though, isn't it? > What humanity "IS" doing is foreclosing on homes and farms, paying > farmers not to grow crops as a means of controlling stock figures and > numerous other blockage devices designed to encourage quagmires. > > What humanity "IS" doing is setting up systems of government and > financial institutions that create "Mega Wealth" and "Wars" to gain > wealth and it "IS" being accomplished without any problem. > Mega wealth>No Problem War>No Problem Hunger>Problem > Homelessness>Problem Poverty>Problem > > Then you have the sheep that are freezing in the cold while their wool > is constantly being fleeced. They don't understand why they are > always in the cold when they have so much wool. They look and see > the fleecers living warm and cozy with their wool and see piles of > wool not being used but sold to other fleecers. The sheep get tired > of being cold so they start to get back their wool but the prices are > really high and some sheep can't afford to buy any, so they must > remain cold, some are so cold that they freeze to death. Some of the > sheep protest but many of them are jailed, assassinated and turned > into mutton soup. > One of the sheep named Shep tells the other sheep that the reason they > are cold is because they were born as bad sheep and must pray to > BahBah the great sheep deity. Shep teaches the sheep how to pray and > tells the sheep they need to keep him warm so that he can keep > teaching them about BahBah. The sheep gather whatever wool they can > glean from the fields and barns and keep Shep warm. Thousands of > years go by and many sheep replace Shep and the sheep continue to > support the huge organization that Shep built, but the sheep are still > cold and giving all their wool to the fleecers and the Shep while > waiting for BahBah to deliver them to freedom. Nothing ever happens > but the sheep are told not to worry because as long as they keep > praying and giving wool to the Shep they will have everlasting life in > Sheep Heaven. > Then there is Wolfy, Shep's friend, he sees how Shep has created an > empire and so starts telling the wolves that the reason they are > hungry is because they were born as bad wolves and must pray to Wol > the wolf deity. The wolves did not have anything to give Wolfy so > besides praying they began to"Prey" on the sheep so they could keep > Wolfy well fed in order to keep teaching them how to pray. > Well the story goes on until hundreds of other Shep's and Wolfy's > began to spring up but.......The sheep are still Cold. > In other words, people aren't practicing their religions 'correctly'. Nothing new there either. > On Feb 9, 7:02 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 9 Feb, 08:31, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > But Pat, during the years a man is busy perusing through parts of > > > books looking for relevancy many people could starve to death. The > > > man's years might be better spent cultivating land for harvest and > > > tending to livestock to feed the hungry. > > > Every man has his destiny. I have mine and you have yours. If Jesus > > couldn't solve world hunger, why do you think I could? Bill Gates, > > perhaps, has that ability. I run on about 10 GBP per day. I can > > barely feed myself. I'd fare much better at that if I didn't have to > > pay 25% of my net to my ex for child support, but I will not forsake > > my children. That leaves me with very little money to help others. > > If I write the book and it gets published and sells well, THEN I might > > be in a position to help more people in a wider sense. And, if I can, > > I will. But, I can't finish the book until all the research is done. > > I'm still working towards an 'end of 2012' date for publication. > > First things first, you know. ;-) > > > > On Feb 8, 11:20 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 8 Feb, 17:15, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Or perhaps people spending time and energy on irrelevant texts about > > > > > tribal godlings rather than helping the starving people around them? > > > > > Well, yes. I've always said that if all we did was prostrate > > > > ourselves to God, we would be about as useful as rocks. But that > > > > isn't all we do. A balance is required. Plus, there's the time it > > > > takes to see which parts of which books are, truly, irrelevant and > > > > which are vitally relevant. That could keep a man busy for years. > > > > Trust me. ;-) > > > > > > On Feb 8, 5:49 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 3 Feb, 04:44, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > A starving man steals a purse, knocking the woman to the ground > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > breaking her leg. Evil? Might he have not stolen a purse without > > > > > > > physical action? Couldn't his frustration be the cause of > > > > > > > unnecessary > > > > > > > violence? and is frustration then evil? > > > > > > > As soon as I read the second word, the problem was revealed. The > > > > > > society that allowed the person to become starving is the truest > > > > > > evil > > > > > > in your example. All the rest could have been avoided by a society > > > > > > that cared. Perhaps, then, societal carelessness is the greatest > > > > > > evil > > > > > > we face in today's world. > > > > > > > > On Feb 2, 4:13 pm, MajorOz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Feb 2, 6:26 am, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What is the greatest evil? > > > > > > > > > > I wanted to use the word sin, but I want to get away from any > > > > > > > > > religiousness in this one. > > > > > > > > > > So what is the greatest evil, and why? > > > > > > > > > For me, there is only one evil: unnecessarily harming someone. > > > > > > > > I view > > > > > > > > all OTHER so-called evils simply as disturbance of someone's > > > > > > > > prejudice. > > > > > > > > > cheers > > > > > > > > > oz, newbie- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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