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Originally posted by lpowell0627
Originally posted by Procession101
Are starving children a positive thing?
Are wars a positive thing?
Are corrupt governments a positive thing?
Of course not. But, I'm sorry. Merely willing them to be positive is not going to feed the kids nor cause armies to throw down their weapons.
Rather, that can be done with knowledge -- knowledge that often times they are not fighting the enemy they think. Knowledge that there are innocent children wrapped up in this adult world of chaos and fighting.
There is no greater sin, or negative act, than merely pretending these things do not exist and skipping down the road whistling "Life is good."
[edit on 9-6-2010 by lpowell0627]
Originally posted by one_small_step
reply to post by ET_MAN
Clap clap clap - bravo.
posts like this are what make me come back here.
& a star.
The World Hunger Problems, Facts, Figures & Statistics!
Every year 15 million children die of hunger. (Roughly 40,000+ per day)
The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy!
Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF
3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programs in developing countries.
To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years.
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've read this at least 200 people have died of starvation.
library.thinkquest.org...
"The energy of hatred can cause real-life illnesses, ulcers, cancer. It will make you weak"
"shift your focus away from the enemy and invest your time and attention in solutions, betterment, beauty, work, help, support, virtue, creativity, positivity, peace, prosperity"
"After analysing evil, forgive evil and counter it with good."
"You dont need the emotion of hate in order to analyze and resolve a problem. To solve a problem you need the emotion of Love."
"Love is the ultimate Power and the ultimate Weapon of Liberation.”