Jesus' Message - by sabastious

by sabastious 27 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  sabastious

  We could solve that now, without Gene's replicators. It isn't technology that keeps us from doing it. It is lack of love.

  We have the technical means to feed all the hungry on this planet, but we don't have the technology. You really think it's possible to feed the hungry on this planet simply because the food exists? Do you have a plan that allows for the hungry to be given the food of the more fortunate? Because there are a lot of people trying to do it and there are still hungry people. In fact there are millions more people in our contemporary day that have solving world hunger on their "to do" lists and there are still hungry starving and dying people. Why?

  I'll tell you why. It's because we don't have the technology to do it because if we did there would be no world hunger issue. We are close to having the technology but there are a variety of other factors to consider. Such as economics, government, prejudice etc. Remember all this technology we have now is exeedly new. Our species has not had a whole lot of time to figure out issues like supplying the world with food because for the majority of our existence we never had to worry about such things. We are still in the past from the brain's evolutionary perspective and that means a survival based framework. I won't argue that that framework is fading away and rightly so.

  Not only is the "lack of love" answer insulting to the human race it's also a useless answer because we can't fix "lack of love." As you Chritian's so aptly agree with when you say "only Christ can save us." Your explanation encourages giving up.

  Technology is the answer. But preaching Jesus message of love is also the answer because once technology catches up we can hit the ground running driven by the power of the love we have already become accustomed to.

  -Sab
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  tec

  Put love first, and survival will follow - for all; and not just for the individual. But most people don't even think about that... they think about the survival of themselves and their own loved ones/people. Too many also put comfort and wants and things before the survival of others - those others who are just struggling to survive, but who are 'out of sight/out of mind'.

  The heart of the person has to change before the rest of the world can change to reflect that.

  Tammy
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  PSacramento

  You do realise that itis a vicious circle.

  You say that survival must be secured before love, but part of that survival is survival from those that "don't love" us and untill they do, survival wil never be secured.

  The other part of securing survival is securing it from those that want what we habe because they don't have it or need it, which again would n ot exist of we were driven by love to give and help those that need what we have.

  You say that we must secure our survival before we have love yet it is the very absence of love that threatens our survival.
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  tec

  You really think it's possible to feed the hungry on this planet simply because the food exists?

  The food could exist in all the places that people are starving as well. If we weren't taking up the plots of land to export cheap food, using cheap labor, and the money being made going to corrupt officials. That is a lack of love for neighbor on all accounts. I know that is an oversimplified explanation, but the root causes of the starvation for any given area is usually from something we have done to take away the independence of the people for the profit to the more powerful.

  The second point I'd like to make is that if we spent our resources concentrating on feeding the hungry, etc, rather than on an excess of entertainment, tv's, video games, movies, two or three vehicles, or on wars or greed or profit... all the waste we make and create and wallow in... then we might very well have these issues under control. Think of all the people who devote themselves to advertising and promoting a certain product and company (new tv, new upgrade for your mac, new video games, new sodas or candies, etc, etc), and put all those people times a hundred into seeing world hunger depleted.

  We do have the means, Sab. We (the human race in entirety) do not seem to have the will.

  Tammy
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  sabastious

  We do have the means, Sab. We (the human race in entirety) do not seem to have the will.

  We don't have the will because it's too hard for us. The boulder is too heavy Tammy, can't you see that? We need a few more "internet" type changes in our global culture before the boulder loses it's gusto and becomes actually manageable. They will come because we, as a species, are vigorously working on technology. Havn't you seen the IBM commercials?

  You keep telling me that "love will provide survival." That's provably false. Love is not an easy thing and no one can expect it from someone else. Some people are not loving. Why? Because they aren't loving. It doesn't go beyond that. These types I am referring to need more opportunity to explore love. They are bitter and they hold onto it because they choose to. We have no control over free will. Being loving will not incite love in all therefore love, by itself, cannot get the job done. Jesus only had the half the equation.

  -Sab
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  sabastious

  You do realise that itis a vicious circle.

  All too well.

  -Sab
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  tec

  Havn't you seen the IBM commercials?

  Brat.

  I think I have to finish for now, so I'll talk more with you later.

  Tammy
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  sabastious

  You say that we must secure our survival before we have love yet it is the very absence of love that threatens our survival.

  Absence of love is one of the things that threatens our survival, one of the many things. We cannot solve "mean people", but we can solve world hunger. Solving world hunger might have an effect on the mean people. We know love is powerful and we should continue to learn and apply it's intricacies, but it's not enough and fooling ourselves into thinking it is is counterproductive.

  -Sab