CS Enthusiasts, I remember well that when I was a child my father, a clergyman, told me that he would like to be around for the day of resurrection. Now he's 85 and I believe he and others of us may just get that wish. It's a horrific thing to see our planet going up in smoke, but after all, we're all going anyway.
I think that what a lot of folks in other, poorer countries love about the U.S., and hate about the U.S. at the same time, is the capacity to prosper while so many other places decay. But when we go we need to free up our hearts and minds and let it all go. Forget about the nice home, the environment, the hope that the future will be like the past. I believe it was Francis of Assisi, who when asked what he would do if he learned that he had only a few minutes or hours to live, said simply that he would continue working in the garden. I thought about this this morning when I gave my five year old a bath and read a book with him, and this simple experience meant so much more. I remember hearing about a guy who saw World War II coming a few years in advance and decided to move to a place he felt sure would be safe. He moved to Guadalcannal. It seems that that the consumerism of America is no less at fault than the hatred of the fanatic. Isn't it clear that a lot of dope pushers get the impetus to deal in this profession from the what they see and TV? It's possible round the clock to see how the other, richer half is leading the good life, with cars and houses, all the trapping of prosperity. Now the poor all over the world are seeing the same on cable TV. It's a serious pity that the most powerful and prosperous nation on earth is also the most miserly when it comes to development assistance abroad. Ten years ago I had a chance to consult in Nicaragua with a group of disabled war veterans there. They had recently gained a contract from their government to supply $500,000.00 a year in low tension, ceramic insulators, saving their country desperately needed hard currency. Then Violetta Chamorro came into power, and the U.S. entered with a big aid package. A small part of this aid included a provision that Nicaragua would buy American made insulators, and the disabled veterans were put right out of business. All this so that some U.S. congressman or senator could throw a bone to an insulator factory in his constituency, then Nicaragua would be paying with interest over time. This miserliness in aid has uniquely characterized the U.S. approach for many years, and I believe that now it is coming back to haunt us. I'm not the best at living the bible, but now I remember the words written in Proverbs: "Where there is no vision the people perish and the nation wanes." Reid -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
