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In the past I have stated on more than one occasion that the only time it seems we can accept each other as equals is during times of disasters.
originally posted by: ketsuko
No, the OP is talking about in order for humanity as a whole.
We can always find it in us to help those we already know and love. But total strangers?
However, I think the OP is being totally optimistic in their assessment. It's when society as we know it breaks down that there is no more restraint and we see people at their ugliest worst. After all, polite rules no longer apply and the worst of us can give reign. Think about what the Internet would look like if it was your everyday, face to face reality. That's where we would be and people would be acting on it.
In the past I have stated on more than one occasion that the only time it seems we can accept each other as equals is during times of disasters.
Amanda, a young mother living in Washington state, awoke one night at 2:30 a.m. from a nightmare. She dreamed that a large chandelier hanging above her baby’s bed in the next room fell into the crib and crushed the infant. In the dream, as she and her husband stood amid the wreckage, she saw that a clock on the baby’s dresser read 4:35 a.m. The weather in the dream was violent. Rain hammered the window, and the wind was blowing a gale. The dream was so terrifying she roused her husband and told him about it. He laughed, told her the dream was silly, and urged her to go back to sleep, which he promptly did.
But the dream had so frightened Amanda that she went to the baby’s room and brought the child back to bed with her. She noted that the weather was calm, not stormy as in the dream. Amanda felt foolish—until around two hours later, when she and her husband were awakened by a loud crash. They dashed into the nursery and found the crib demolished by the chandelier, which had fallen directly into it. Amanda noted that the clock on the dresser read 4:35 a.m. and that the weather had changed. Now there was howling wind and rain. This time, her husband was not laughing. Amanda’s dream was a snapshot of the future—down to the specific event, the precise time it would happen, and the change in weather.
The Power of Premonitions
On Friday, October 21, 1966, a mountain of coal waste, perched above the Welsh mining village of Aberfan, broke loose and came flowing down uncontrollably. A total of 144 people, including many children, were crushed or suffocated to death in one of Britain's most horrific peacetime tragedies. A study of dreams in which people see the future has convinced a doctor that we have a sixth sense.
But for one family, the overriding grief was even more acute. For one of those killed - ten-year-old Eryl Mai Jones - had not only predicted the catastrophe, but had warned her mother of it, too. In the days leading up to the atrocity, Eryl had told her mother she was 'not afraid to die'. 'I shall be with Peter and June,' she added.
Eryl's busy mother offered her imaginative daughter a lollipop and thought no more about it. Then, on October 20, the day before the disaster, Eryl said to her mother: 'Let me tell you about my dream last night. I dreamt I went to school and there was no school there. Something black had come down all over it!' The next day, Eryl's horrific premonition came to pass and she was killed alongside schoolfriends Peter and June. They were buried side-by-side in a mass grave, just as the youngster had predicted.
The in-depth study of our intriguing dreams that convinced one doctor
originally posted by: soulpowertothendegree
Because in order for humans to love and help each other there has to be a disaster first. As to the lettering in my OP, get over it.
originally posted by: Cinrad
originally posted by: soulpowertothendegree
Because in order for humans to love and help each other there has to be a disaster first. As to the lettering in my OP, get over it.
The sort of thinking that sees people's deaths as collateral damage along the road to a better world is Illuminati thinking.