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To: IN_GOD_I_TRUST who wrote (500)	11/13/2001 8:23:31 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

"The only way this mess in the world is ever going to get cleaned up is by God doing it! " 1000% agree. The greatest tool for peace, always, is Prayer to God, in the mode of devotional surrender. If you want to do that via Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha,Krishna, Adi Da, it really makes no difference. You choose your own Help! When this current "mess" comes to a close there will be certain unexplained "happenings" that any aware and observant person will be able to see as the Hand of God (should they be open to so doing). Really! Namaste! Jim

To: IN_GOD_I_TRUST who wrote (500)	11/14/2001 2:45:43 AM
From: uu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

Hi IGIT: > The only way this mess in the world is ever going to get cleaned up is by God doing it! By profession I am a software Architect. I create software, and as is the norm in this profession my software do have bugs and errors. It is always much easier for me to fix the bug and error than someone else who is not familiar with the design and the code to fix it. Similarly, if we look at God as the creator of everything there is, he also created these bugs/errors in this world (the likes of Taliban, osaman, Khomeini, certain Muslim psychopaths(otherwise known as terrorists) who just want to kill and destroy. Therefore it would be much easier for him (than someone else) to clean up and fix the bugs and errors he has created! However I also believe that for everything that is in this world there is a reason. God does not create something (even if it is evil) if he did not think it would benefit us (as strange as it may sound)! >We should always keep God in our prayers, to ask him how to aid him in his cleanup work! Actually I believe we should NOT ask God to cleanup his work, but to ask him to help us to guide us and to see how we can clean up what he wants us to do! Like J.F.K said "Dont ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!", we should also ask God, to help us to tell us what is it that we can do to achieve what he wanted to accomplish by creating these evils in this world, and ask him for his help to let us see the way to do his work. Who knows, perhaps the reason the September 11 attack happened was God's way of unifying this country more than ever, to get rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan thus bringing justice to the people of Afghanistan, and to bring the nations and countries that have been in hostility for so long together under the excuse of fighting against the terrorism. Of course in this nobel cause and process he took away almost 4000 innocent people from us, but who are we to argue with God! Perhaps if this had not had happened the lives of much greater innocent people would have been destroyed. It kind of reminds me of WWII and how the drop of atomic bomb cost 100,000 innocent lives, but saved perhaps millions of lives if the war had continued. Still, regardless of what God meant to do, for me (for all of us) it is so hard and so painful beyond it can ever be expresses to see so many innocent lives lost in a blink of an eye without any apparent reason... Regards, - Addi