Tuesday, May 13, 2008
This is still an important issue... And still something to think about... Love this add or whatever you can call it...
My thoughts goes out to the people in Burma that is suffering double, just because their leaders are power-sick people... Let us hope that the world will not stand down because of "playing nice"... The people of Burma needs food and medicine and clean water now... It is not time for politics. And to the people of China that has been affected by the earthquake.
And I guess it is time we still take to honour our commitment in ending extreme poverty sooner rather than too late...
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Luthien, this is Ferrerix from Australia. I have had my computer on maintenace for three weeks. I hope I am still welcome to your blog, in spite of my age. Just in case you lost my address, mine is at-: http://wwwgensferreria.blogspot.com/
also another one at-:
http://www.gensferreria.bigblog.com.au/index.do
I somehow feel as if in a clasical scenario with its special atmosphere and ethos visiting you. Your american friend Sheri appear to be like you.
I hope I am not intruding.
I have been reading about your lack of energy. I have also always suffered from this. About ten years ago I was diagnosed with an enlarged heart ( hyperthrophic).
Since I am retired now, I can indulge in sleeping, but I know how hard it can be. I always seemed to get energy towards the evening and in the night. Perhaps you should get a job working in the night but it appears as if you are studying Arts.
It is not a desease just a defect. One can live with it a hundred years.
I am not sure but a pacemaker can perhaps solve the problem. I have not asked for one yet since lack of energy suits my contemplative and mystic nature. But it has been hell when young and have missed a lot from life. Talk to a specialist since energy is essential when young and ambitious as you appear to be. To prodce artistic work one needs energy. i paint A4 sized Coat of arms in oil and am proceeding very slowly, due to lack of energy. similarly in the writing of my book. At least it is good to find out the reason for lack of energy. I hope to have been of help and wish you to be well and strong.
Why don't you send me a line once in a while?
My e-mail is-: gensferreria@ bigpond.com
How was your trip to England?
Luthien, about your thoughts on Burma. You are a dear and sweet young lady and I understand your concerns for suffering. However, don't you think that these nations in which people do not appear to exercise moderation and responsibility about procreation, are actually asking for the dfficulties and aggravations resulting from natural catastrophes? China at least has had a policy of not more than two births per family. However they, similarly to India, are pushing far too hard to become a superpower and I am not sure what they might do if/when they became one. I find chinese girls very feminine and attractive though.
Politics are so discouraging. Look at how fast the U.S. is so "graciously" offering help and being bummed that it's refused. It's amazing to think about that and how poorly we responded to Katrina, let alone all the debt we're racking up fighting a war that seems never-ending and sadly absurd! Honestly, we don't have the money to help anyone else. And I don't mean that these people shouldn't get help. But you know it's a complete fake move on the U.S. part, not a move of genuine concern and empathy.
Those people need help. Pure and simple that if we don't do anything, they die. There are so many opinons on it and everyone can have their opinions. But the facts are. . . People ARE suffering. Everywhere. How does that affect me? And if I were there right now, would I want help? Of course. It's a matter of wanting to help people because of an understanding that we are all human.
If only these leaders would reflect on that, they might see for once that it's beyond power or pride or fear or anything of the sort. It's about feeling for one another, compassion, sincere hope that someone else will live.
I feel so helpless. People are suffering everywhere. What am I doing?
I'm not quite sure what I should be doing.
Dear Luthien, I ask permission to communicate with your friend Sheri on your sacred grecian temple's space ( the twin of one I placed at the hyperboreal parallel in my recent writing "Of Passioins and Actions" ). Also, I'd like to ask Sheri permission to perhaps also visit her blog as you both appear to give out similar ethical signals to my sensitivities. It goes without saying of course that you are both welcome to visit my blogs
(Google/blogspot and Telstra/bigpond/bigblog. May I safely assume I heard twice a gently breathed YES across the space and distance that separates us? Paradoxically enough I am as an old person, more impatient of delays than if I were a younger man. The feeling that I may be running short of time is strong.
I'd like to shortly say that the comments of you both in relation to foreign aid are thought-raising. As a Bachelor of Theology and a christian I should perhaps embrace the traditional belief that christian love for one's fellow human beings should be unconditional, the classical Agape', i.e., that ideal, divine, theoretical love that does not seek anything in return. Nothing we may do for God can measure up to what God has done for us. I do not think we can love with the quakity of Agape'. But apart from this there are practical considerations. Sheri has mentioned there may not be he money surpluses the USA used to afford in the past. I remember reading that in the USA there are millions of people of both genders without a roof over their heads. Yet the USA are still, whether we accept this or not, the barrier between barbarism and civilisation's survival, mainly in the West. No one can deny that tghe world population has been allowed to irresponsibly become too large. Asian, African, South American nations which should be paradises of nature are becoming ruined by overpopulation and the animal and vegetal world are being extinguished.
While continental China is doing something about birth limitation, no other nation is. While China is able to positively respond to help, Burma is not. O.K. we may send help to Burma or similar scenarios, for a year, to satisfy the essentials of life sustenance and then what? I do not think the West can indefinitely relieve all the poverty and needs of the deprived world. Most of these poor people have no jobs, no income, nothing. How many of the girls from these classes of people end up being sexually exploited or used for heavy work and long hours? How many of the men end up as terrorists, revolutionaries and rebels? There is no human dignity at all in their lives.
Aid should consist in education about te necessity of procreating responsibly and only when health and resources exist to support it. In india for example where religion itself accepts discriminations in relation to caste, large towns are built for the rich with isolating and defensive barriers to make sure the low castes ar excluded. This is possible to-day since dependence on human klabour and service has decreased as the result of domestic appliances, etc. So if these Indians are so callous about their own people while doing nothing to reform the nation, what are we supposed to do?
I believe that sensitivity must be somehow be curbed and reason encouraged. I do not like what I am saying, but I must consider my own people in the West who is moderate in procreation and far more responsible than these people in Asia, Africa, islam, South America.
Fornication and marriage are not human rights at all, apart from the truth that most human rights should be dependent on the poerformance of corresponding human duties. But it warms my heart to note your concerns, and I join with you. I am not wealthy and i can only pray as a solution. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Sheri, thank you for addressing me in your comment. I might visit youn on one of your blogs. Why do youn have three? I was not aware that one can split blogs.
Hey, Ferrerix)))
Sorry I haven't really responded to your comments)))
As you might have understood, me and Sheri are friends))) We kind of write to each other, but nice that you actually bother to read what I write:)
I think my lack of energy at least now has been a mix of a cold and allergies:) I am getting better by the minute))) Today I enjoy several hours outside in the sun))
I worry more about incompetent leaders on powertrips (not to mention that lots of politician actually use some form of drug). And they talk about democracy... The truth is that it is such a crazy world that if I start going there I feel like giving up:) I believe we need to change the way we think about everything, about God and ourselves and what we are here to be. We have tried out war for god knows how long, and I haven't seen on single example that it has brought any good with it... War is a waste of time and money and lives. No one wins a war, ever... That's why a war on terror is doomed, so is the war on drugs...
About Burma and China, or New Orleans for that matter... We have no power against Mother Nature:) We are rather safe here in Norway, and maybe that is why we are just about 5 million people here)) Hehe, think about it))) The whole population of Norway could live in London:)
So are you a real templar knight:) A mystic?
I love these words by Rajendra Pachauri: "The world has enough for everybody's need, not everybody's greed."
I think that's kind of at the root of everything... We have mentality that is wrapped around not having enough...
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