dont be foolish, dont just react. look for the organization that helps the poor children. act and plan when we see a need. even the beggars on the subway just don't give because you see. compassion is just the beginning. love is shown through compassion, and yes money. the block, hesitation, and idol I face.
In india the moms with skinny children walking around begging for money are connected to mobs. the money doesnt go to the kid, it goes to the master. a ton of those kids end up getting killed on the streets, give to the organization that cares for the kid, not the kid being enslaved to an evil syndicate.
I give to the poor, and sometimes I wonder if I'm giving for the right purposes or sowing in the right areas. I mean I look at some that are physically able to work if they would clean up a bit, yet they beg half heartedly (if you knew what that meant without it making me look like a jerk) with a cup of ramen noodles in the other hand. Is it there state of mind? what is it that keeps them in such poverty? I remember looking at the bums in san fran and I was wondering how they could have gone to schools and gotten a proper education, yet they are still bumming on the streets trying to keep the trend of being a hippy alive. get a job. if you only knew how much you had compared to the other 90 percent of the world. we take things, I take things for granted. I'm sure I only have a slight more understanding of the poor and broken than many of my fellow friends in the states, but our ignorance has led us to rally for meaningless pursuits. my pastor spoke of the north korea rally back in 2003 when Freedom Week was starting to be given awareness. He was expecting a multi thousand number gathering at capital hill, for there was a 10s of thousands gathering for some conference he attended earlier. To his disbelief when he arrived at capital hill to speak up for north korea, there was maybe 60 people. America, such a beautiful and comfortable and free land, with its creative innovations and great rock music, yet its full of the rich, the fat, the ignorant, the selfish, the proud, and the naive. (at this point I wish I could write an essay like ttracy) what are you living for?
good question.
keep in mind peter. you must be free in order to set others free. theres more slaves now than ever, in deeper bondage than ever. can you imagine that there is more wickedness going on now than the holocaust? sorry if thats a sore spot for you, but its true. the death of the soviet union gulag or concentration camp gave birth to an even more horrific story in north korea.
here the link if you would like to educate yourself a bit. http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/2/13/110824.shtml
I'm doing my research as I go, so take it or leave it, i'm not really a political genius, I should have t tracy write one of these, he can convince your mind with his wise words.
One former gulag inmate, Soon Ok Lee, spent seven years at a camp near Kaechon in Pyungbuk province. She told the network: “I was in prison from 1987 till January 1993. [The women] were forced to abort their children. They put salty water into the pregnant women’s womb with a large syringe, in order to kill the baby even when the woman was eight months or nine months pregnant.
“And then, from time to time there a living infant is delivered. And then if someone delivers a live infant, then the guards kick the bloody baby and kill it. And I saw an infant who was crying with pain. I have to express this in words, that I witnessed such an inhumane hell.”
Soon watched 50 fellow prisoners dying excruciatingly painful deaths when they were used as human guinea pigs in biological warfare research.
“I saw so many poor victims,” she recalled. “Hundreds of people became victims of biochemical testing. I was imprisoned in 1987 and during the years of 1988 through ’93, when I was released, I saw the research supervisors — they were enjoying the effect of biochemical weapons, effective beyond their expectations — they were saying they were successful.”
I too dont have the heart for the north korean people. I live less than a hundred miles from children being starved, where there is torture that compares and/or exceeds anything genocide to this day, and yet I can easily go days and weeks without a thought in the world about the wickedness of our generation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/433641.stm
I guess what i'm trying to say is, there is slavery today, there is child prostitution. my personal friends have gone to the prostitution capital of probably the world in pattaya and one ministry there. they talked to bar girls and prostitutes, and they say those girls and boys live in fear and conditions of abuse and torture and even fear of murder. they say its like hell. girls from 7-14 are easily seen on the streets. they go as young as infants, 2 or 3, man I heard stories, they get raped and stitched back up, so messed up.
and yet where is my heart and my cry... i hear and I'm close, we the educated have the ability to change this! this is the hour to get my mind set on path. I need to pick up a history book. do my research. I gotta blow this up. if only getting people to care was as easy as getting them to smoke pot for the first time. I guess i'm a little sad of how the decisions i've made, have effected the ones I loved, and proceeded to grieve my heart to this day. well like I said, do your own research, deeper than mine, i'd love to write a real essay, but I just googled things like north korea death toll, slavery today, child prostitution. or you can turn the blind eye and live in your ignorance. my friend maudie had a quote, it said leave your mark on the world not on the earth. (it was a thing for environmental issues) but its true, what are you going to leave for the world?
