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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (84072)	7/24/2000 6:47:22 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"If you perceive...etc. etc. etc..." A combination there of. The world is a perfect representation of what the messengers of God told us it would be. There are blessings a plenty. There is also pain and suffering and injustice. I marvel at the wonders presented to me on a daily basis. I am highly motivated to explore and create within my capacity to do so. I also, feel bound to confront injustice within my sphere of influence. It's an ozzie world if you narrow it to one perspective. It ain't Ozzie and Harriet and it ain't Ozzie Osborn...and "Oz never did give nothin' to the tin man that he didn't....didn't already have." Change the World...chaaa rieeet.

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (84072)	7/24/2000 9:06:35 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

This is cogent thinking and I agree you are correct here: I firmly believe that most of our problems are figments of our individual and collective imaginations. I call this the Wizard of Oz effect. We've bought the Wizard's story: smoke and fire and we're all too scared and frightened to pull the curtain and get to know him for the human being he really is.

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (84072)	7/25/2000 7:47:33 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

I firmly believe that most of our problems are figments of our individual and collective imaginations. That may be true for upper-middle-class Americans. It is a good deal less true for many others. Is Africa's AIDS problem a figment of the imagination? How about the problems of the tens of millions of people around the world who live under the sway of petty tyrants who rob and abuse them at every turn? I suspect that the world is a good deal more complex a place than you would like to believe. You may "GO" all you like, but you are fooling yourself if you think that your going is going to generate any real service to the rest of the world. I live in a developing country which suffers from a deluge of upper middle class white-skinned New Age mushytalkers from the US and Europe, all babbling on about "service", and "appropriate technology", and "human development", and dozens of other catchphrases which mean absolutely nothing to the local poor. The truth is that they are serving nothing but their own egos. One hard-nosed businessman who comes here to make a profit, opens a factory, and creates jobs does more good for this country than the whole lot of them combined.