I’m sure no one would disagree with me when I say, “ The
world is in a mess.” But how should we react to this? It is so easy to sit comfortably in front of
the T.V. and because there is the need to protect oneself, to calmly eat tea
whilst watching the most awful scenes. A large dose of denial helps one brush
it all aside as happening a long way away. However problems are coming home to
roost. Migrants are invading our borders
and expecting to be assimilated into our own countries. Who is responsible for all the chaos in the
world? We all are, our collective
sinfulness causes all these problems.
The Western world is responsible for grabbing more than its share of the
natural resources of other lands and thereby causing the poverty of millions. The
chickens are definitely coming home to roost. However many migrants are not a
drain on the country. There are many
immigrants keeping our health service, in Britain, from crumbling. The government are talking of bringing in a
law that says after immigrants have been here six years, if they have not
reached a certain level of pay they will have to leave. Obviously they have not thought this through
properly as it would mean us losing thousands of nurses. Always, it seems, the
rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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