I think you are in the wrong job, anyone who can use Christ Consciousness to justify war should be working for G.W. Bush, I suggest you check what they are putting in your coffee. David C
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 26 August 2002 8:32 AM Subject: water, war, present times, the future > I did my usual routine this morning, fed the cows and went to the coffee shop > at the edge of the farm [how convenient]. I got my cuppa and sat in my > ''spot" in the corner by the window. It was still early and the Sunday > papers were still being assembled. I don't like to read the paper, so I just > through over a casual glance and something on the most important slot on the > cover of the NY Times caught my eye. A color photo of some farm fields and > the headline "In the Race to Tap Euphrates, the Upper Hand is Upstream" got > my attention. As I read about the area that is the fertile crescent, the > birthplace of modern agriculture that occurred 5000 years ago, it struck me > as ironic that history is repeating itself in this way, in these times. It > was after all the embattlement over water that ended the incredible reign of > prosperity that this region enjoyed. So many millenia later the scenario > repeats, the names of the countries are different and the weapions will be > different but what is at stake is basically the same. Add technology with > greed and ambition and the three or four nations on this river want to pump > 50- 60 billion gallons of water from a river that flows about 35 billion > gallons. Doesn't add up. This is a crisis and a cenario playing out all > over the world. Right here on Long Island, a small island in the Peconic > Bay, Shelter Island, has run out of water. People have to go to the high > school and shower by water that is trucked onto the island, restaurants are > closed. Nobody seems upset by this, not yet. So, in my head I connect all > these events, water, war, pollution, Israel, Hussein, Bush. I still think > that people are going to die. Lots of people. I do not want them to, but > the reality is they will die. They are dying of starvation, they are dying > of thirst, dying of AIDS, and dying of cancer. We are dying at the hands of > fellow man. We will fight eachother for the last drop of water. It could be > the way the war of all against all is going to start. So my statement the > other day to bring on the other phase of the war still stands. I feel > strongly that we must move on. Of course innocent people will die, but they > suffer so that we may live a cushy life in the USA. Heck, I spend more on > gas for my truck than they spend on food for their family. It is too bad. > It is not right. Even in the way I consciously choose to live and make the > healing of the Earth and people my priority I cannot help but feel that the > lives that are going to be sacrificed in the near future will help clear the > ether and usher in a new age of peace and the Christed Consciousness and > prosperity, such that the Earth will shine like a bright star out into the > cosmos and the people of the earth will vibrate to a higher vibration in the > fourth dimension of planet Earth. Something is coming down the pike, I hope > we can handle what it is ''we'' have been called upon to do...SStorch > >
