About two BILLION people on Earth live on ONE dollar a day. If we could get those folks to TWO dollars a day, death of children dramatically subsides.
Do any of us here think we can enter the mindset of living in such poverty? I can't throw a stone at any of them for almost any of their sins -- as "un-human" as some of the third world practices are -- hell, on a day when I've gotten a paper cut I can be "over" stressed and find myself growling and grumping and snarky. Imagine the daily horrors of their lives and the effects on personality. Everyone here is a vastly rich potentate comparatively. All the gripes about each other that are bandied here are, to a third worlder, like kings pissing and moaning about losing a sequin on their gold embroidered gowns. We simply have no stance upon which to judge these folks. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gandalfaragorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore" > <steve.sundur@> wrote: > > > > there was this > > look on his face that was like "Mahesh Yogi can get these westerners > > > to do 40 years of meditation and how hard that is to accomplish here > > in India." > > > > Whatis the caloric intake of the average Indian? > > > Apparently the caloric intake is enough to, among other things, to > sustain, a) a tremendous interest in Astrology and provide a living > for a host of practitioners of this subject, b) a vast motion picture > industry, and c) shamefully I have to say, a massive predeliction on > the part of married Indian men towards visiting houses of prostitution. >
