Oh my, I've received the gift of reading some of the great books, some of the great authors of the world: Jesus, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Alfred Adler, Dr. King, Zinn, Barbara Demming, David Dellinger, Teresa of Calcutta, Pitirim Sorokin, Saul Alinsky, Ashley Montegue, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Abraham Maslow.... The words I've quoted recently from David Dellinger strike me as the words that could save the world:
"Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war. "
Yes, absolutely these words stand on their own. They are a miracle of Truth, of insight, a Revelation.
But these words explode in my mind, and I hope that maybe they will explode in your mind. These words of Dellinger explode into the entire thing, they explode into a statement of the entire problem!
Every EVIL STEMS FROM some form of SELFISHNESS. Here are some examples; they are arbitrary; YOU CAN THINK OF BETTER ONES:
Very few people chose global warming. They chose capitalism and the result was....
Very few people chose 18,000 kids starving PER DAY. They chose Starbucks and the result was ....
Very few people chose divorce. They chose alcohol and the result was ....
Very few people chose Darfur Genocide. They chose a safe neighborhood and comfortable house for THEIR "family" and the result was ....
Very few people chose U.S. child health being ranked 19th among the richest nations. They chose "health" clubs and games and the result was ....
Very few people chose 80% of the world in abject poverty. They chose "normal" life style and the result was....
Very few people chose 650,000 murdered in Iraq. They chose "Christian" hypocrisy and the result was ....
Very few people chose 3-6 million slaughtered in Congo. They chose high tech electronics, the Internet and video games and the result was ....
Very few people chose...
Very few people chose...
Very few people chose...
Very few people chose...
Dellinger also told us the only solution: "Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or ... "
Dorothy Day told us, "The only solution is love."
Jesus told us, "Love as I have loved... Do unto others ALL that you would have them do unto you."
Dr. King told us, "We [will] be extremists for love or extremists for hate."
"The Golden Rule is to steadfastly refuse to have what millions cannot have," Gandhi.
Ignoring these words is murder.
"SELFISHNESS IS MURDER," brother jay.
"WAGE LOVE, OR YOU WILL WAGE MURDER," brother jay.
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