tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094470180280975525.post1115455968136408362..comments2023-10-30T04:38:45.845-07:00Comments on WHEN THE SPIRIT MOVES ME....: ..... powers of creativity and joy.juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037465392747165349noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094470180280975525.post-67663073857486301582010-05-10T09:10:43.849-07:002010-05-10T09:10:43.849-07:00lyptis,
Thank you for your comment...A positive at...lyptis,<br />Thank you for your comment...A positive attitude can be hard when you add up all that is wrong with the world. I believe there is change in the air...it may take awhile and I don't know what form it will take but I think we are waking up to the truth. One of the things I see as holding back is lack of news coverage on all of us who are gathering to end corporate control and war. We don't realize how much strength we have since every effort is being made to keep us isolated from one another...Hold on to faith and stand in the light..you are making a difference..hug, hugjuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02037465392747165349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094470180280975525.post-63598172370584994912010-05-09T17:38:53.936-07:002010-05-09T17:38:53.936-07:00Its hard. This world is harsh. Not really the worl...Its hard. This world is harsh. Not really the world itself, but people. <br />Greed and power seem to be the driving force in this so called civilization.<br />Lots of people are just sheep, doing what they've been told.<br />I dunno, i try to keep up a postive attitude, its difficult at times.lyptishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12426035447552977566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094470180280975525.post-36706171211487867642010-05-07T20:03:51.847-07:002010-05-07T20:03:51.847-07:00Snow,
You do try to change things...most of your p...Snow,<br />You do try to change things...most of your posts really make us think...examine ourselves and society..and you know they do..you change us..isn't that your intent? <br />You know I agree that the world is a mess...in some ways it is an obscenity....maybe the miracle is that we can still love one another...maybe miracles are simply the way the sun and moon, and earth and the stars, all do this amazing dance that allows us to experience the show Mother Earth puts on...<br />hug, hugjuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02037465392747165349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094470180280975525.post-16788581246014111582010-05-07T19:00:00.057-07:002010-05-07T19:00:00.057-07:00"...if we don't stay open to the possibil..."...if we don't stay open to the possibility that we will wake up, we can't change anything."<br /><br />I'm not trying to change anything in the big picture. I try to be kind to people who I meet along the way, but I seldom go out and take part in a demonstration or a fund-raising drive, for example. And I figure I'll donate most of my money to charity after I'm dead since they'll surely need it then as much as they need it now. I'm frugal and would almost certainly kill myself before I would waste my life savings on nursing home care when I had no chance of living a quality life anymore anyway; so they might get a goodly amount.<br /><br />As for me believing in miracles, you surely jest. Of course, it depends upon how you define a miracle.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094470180280975525.post-24595183197620014112010-05-07T16:21:32.867-07:002010-05-07T16:21:32.867-07:00Hi dear Snow...I can sink deeply into doubt that w...Hi dear Snow...I can sink deeply into doubt that we will ever be any better than we are now. I think there is a heavy energy hanging over us and it is us. None of us can really reach our highest consciousness as long as we are aware of the many atrocities..child starvation for one...But I think if we don't stay open to the possibility that we will wake up, we can't change anything. I believe each person who works to come from a place of joy,hope,creativity and love passes it on...and that is a lot about choice...although not always. And if each of us did that what a change the world would see..I know you believe in miracles... :)<br />I found a little blip about children staving to death..but I didn't copy where it came from...I think 20,000 is probably low..really, any child who dies of starvation is one too many. It's just wrong...<br />Here's the blip..<br />Malnutrition is an underlying key factor for many of the diseases children die of. For example, if a malnutritioned child dies of tuberculosis, did it starve? Not literally --- however, it only got the tuberculosis because of the lack of food. <br />If we look at the question like that, then for 2000, then the answer is: 10 Million children died because of lack of food (as stated in the Lancet). <br />The 'pure' starvation numbers are lower, but hard to get, because many governments hide starvation numbers behind other diseases.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02037465392747165349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094470180280975525.post-15994152200478781982010-05-07T14:30:55.672-07:002010-05-07T14:30:55.672-07:00Julie, I appreciate the inspiration, although I do...Julie, I appreciate the inspiration, although I don't think human beings will ever be any better overall than they are now simply because they never have been. Every gain--as in women's rights, for example--is accompanied by a loss--as in greater environmental degradation (I don't mean to draw a connection between the two, but to say that progress is never altogether in a forward direction). My concern for my species isn't that we're better or worse than we ever were, but that we have a greater capacity for destruction because of our numbers and our technology.<br /><br />Could you give a source for the number of children who starve each day? I don't mean to doubt you; it's just that I've tried to look this up, and the numbers were all over the place depending upon the source, so I'm wondering if there is any really authoritative estimate.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.com