It is in our Nature!

To- day, a friend of mine said: “ The world is angry with us. Look at all the earth quakes, floods, hunger, wars and other earth shaking events!”

Is that the way “our” world works? “I am angry with you, and here is your punishment?”

Since when are we NOT a product of this world. In many ways it seems that we think that we are separate. This person said that we are responsible for all the pollution, and that is why the earth reacts this way.

Oh really?

I profoundly disagree. Here is the way I see it:

Yes, we pollute and yes, we are a part of this world, this universe. Everything is inseparable. We do these despicable things, and until the world, our universe changes we will do what we do. NOT because we choose to. We cannot do any differently.

The pollution will stop, when nature makes us stop. NOT the other way around. Believe me, we are a product of nature and therefore, we are an integral part of the process.

We’ll keep killing elephants, whales, deplete the oceans and eliminate species of birds and tigers, and we bemoan it when we watch a TV-program on the Discovery Channel. BUT we don’t stop until nature within us makes us halt. In a worst case scenario, we’ll stop when there is little or nothing left to pollute or eliminate, and nature has nothing in “her” arsenal to replace the necessary resources for us to continue.

Believe me, or at least I believe this, mankind too will vanish from the landscape, just as the dinosaurs did. It is preposterous for me to believe that we are somehow different from all the others that have one time enjoyed this space we call earth. So, while it lasts, be prudent, appreciate what has been given to us by nature, be nice to your environment and those you share this earth with, but remember, there are plenty who will NOT be able to resist and they’ll keep the depletion process going for whatever reason. It is in our Nature!

Institutions and the people in them.

This morning, I listened to the Diane Rehm show and the topic was the miserable state of affair in the Roman Catholic Church, and the following came to me:

It is not the church that can be blamed for the rapes and violations committed, it is not the bank per se that is fraudulent, it is not the government as an institution that is responsible for the corruption. No, ...
it is the people in them that need to be prosecuted, and that is the reason that we need to start to leave the names of the institutions off and out of the news media for a while. If the people in these places were pure, regulations would be unnecessary.

After all, default swaps are going on as we speak, as if nothing is wrong with that method of financial dealings. Let's take the Wall Street Journal and list all the folks alphabetically who have committed the financial fraud and mis-guided actions out of pure greed, and these people would be more reluctant to continue.
This action can be duplicated in church periodicals, regular newspapers, government watch dogs, educational magazines, etc.

During this interview, a person called in, and stated that what happened in the church happened in her household. Her father, brothers, uncles and aunts conspired in the personal violations she experienced. The human being is profoundly flawed, and blaming institutions for the calamities that we are currently experiencing all around us is a waste of my time.

Let's take their places of hiding away from them! Expose them!

Institutions and the people responsible!

This morning, I listened to the Diane Rehm show and the topic was the
miserable state of affair in the Roman Catholic Church, and the following came to me:

It is not the church that can be blamed for the rapes and violations committed from within,
it is not the bank per se that is fraudulent, it is not the government as an institution that is responsible for the corruption. No, ...
it is the people in them that need to be prosecuted, and that is the reason that we need to start to leave the names of the institutions off and out of the news media for a while. If the people in these places were pure, regulations would be unnecessary.

After all, default swaps are going on as we speak, as if nothing is wrong with that method of financial dealings. Let's take the Wall Street Journal and list all the folks alphabetically who have committed the financial fraud and mis-guided actions out of pure greed. Then these people just might be more reluctant to continue. This action can be duplicated in church periodicals, regular newspapers, government watch dogs, educational magazines, etc.

During this interview, a person called in, and stated that what happened in the church happened in her household. Her father, brothers, uncles and aunts conspired in the personal violations she experienced. The human being is profoundly flawed, and blaming institutions for the calamities that we are currently experiencing is a waste of my time.

Let's take their places of hiding away from them! Expose them!

BE!

I am looking for “style”, and I found a sample, a simple sample of it this morning at my favorite coffee place. A woman in a long dress, an unpretentious demeanor and a genuine smile. She stood out and not because she necessarily wanted or needed to.

She carried herself well and un-assumingly. Relaxed!

On this Sunday, many come in this place in church attire, their best, and carry underneath the forever present insecurity. This is manifested by the way these coffee- and tea drinkers stand and walk. Slightly bent, hands folded in a tight grip, a constantly wiggling foot, droopy expression with quickly shifting eyes, re-arranging dress and shirt.

And then, this person in simple elegance. Nice!