| Re: Nations Are Out of Date [message #225171] |
Fr, 14 Juli 2006 18:29 |
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dd wrote:
> NATIONS HAVE BECOME out of date -- but they go on existing and they are t=
he
> greatest problem. Looking at the world with a bird's eye view, a strange
> feeling arises that we have everything -- just we need one humanity.
>
> For example, in Ethiopia people were dying -- one thousand people p=
er
> day -- and in Europe they were drowning billions of dollars worth of food=
in
> the ocean.
>
> Anybody looking from the outside will think humanity is insane.
> Thousands of people are dying and mountains of butter and other foodstuff=
is
> being drowned in the ocean. But Ethiopia is not the concern of the Western
> world. Their concern is to save their economies and their status quo. And=
to
> protect their economic structures, they are willing to destroy food which
> could have saved the lives of thousands of people.
>
> Problems are worldwide -- solutions have also to be worldwide.
>
> And my understanding is absolutely clear, that there are things
> somewhere where they are not needed, and somewhere else the very life
> depends on them. A world government means looking at the whole situation =
of
> this globe and shifting things where they are needed.
>
> It is one humanity. And once we think of one world, then there is o=
nly
> one economy.
>
> The last time America drowned its foodstuff, just the expense of
> drowning it was millions of dollars. That is not the cost of the product,
> but just of carrying it to the ocean and drowning it. And America itself =
has
> thirty million people who can't afford enough to eat. It is not a question
> of giving to somebody else, it is a question of giving to its own people.
>
> But the problem becomes complicated, because if you start giving fr=
ee
> food to thirty million people, then others will start asking, "Why should=
we
> pay for our food?" Then the prices of things will go down. With the prices
> going down the farmers will not be interested in producing any more. What=
is
> the point? Afraid of disturbing the economy, they let thirty million peop=
le
> starve on the streets, and go on drowning the superfluous production in t=
he
> ocean.
>
> Not only that, thirty million people in America are suffering from
> overeating. Science is perfectly capable of helping them, it is very
> simple -- perhaps the overeater simply needs a small brain surgery and the
> overeating will disappear.
>
> Thirty million people are dying from diseases caused by overeating,
> thirty million people are dying with no food -- sixty million people can =
be
> immediately saved with a small understanding.
>
> But a bird's eye view is needed to look at the whole world as one
> unit.
>
> Our problems have brought us to a situation where we will have to
> transform man, his old traditions, his conditionings -- because those
> conditionings, and those educational systems and religions that man has
> followed up to now have contributed to this crisis.
>
> This global suicide is the ultimate outcome of all our cultures, all
> our philosophies, all our religions.
>
> They have all contributed to it in strange ways -- because nobody e=
ver
> thought of the whole. Everybody was looking at a small piece, not botheri=
ng
> about the whole.
>
> And the most dangerous thing is that this preparation for our suici=
de,
> by all the nations, is in the name of war and victory -- all childish and
> stupid. You can see it in the way nations respect a piece of cloth as the=
ir
> flag and if it is removed their whole glory and freedom is lost -- you
> cannot insult the national flag. This is the situation of human
> retardedness.
>
> It is a simple fact that the earth is undivided.
>
> What is the need of so many nations, except that it fulfills so many
> people's ego trips? There is no other need. Why should Germany be afraid =
of
> immigrants and give incentives to Germans to produce more children, when =
the
> earth is dying from overpopulation? If there was one world government the
> population could shift from one place to another place. Whenever the
> population starts decreasing it could be replaced by the increasing
> populations from other nations.
>
> If there is only one world government, no division of nations, and =
the
> freedom of movement without any need of passports and visas and all other
> kinds of idiotic conditions, then problems can easily be solved.
>
>
>
>
> Copyright =A9 2006 Osho International Foundation
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