If you were to learn a new language, would you only do it if
you thought you might use it? Would you
need to be planning a trip to the foreign country whose language you had
chosen? That is how many people think. I
however can invest large amounts of time in learning a language when I have
very little chance of using it just for the joy of the experience. I have never had a passport or, therefore,
travelled abroad, but at different times I have dabbled in French (at school),
Italian, German, Spanish, Icelandic and recently in Russian. Language is fascinating. It worries me a little that I may be trying
to reverse Babel. After all God caused
mankind to have different languages then so that they would move apart and stop
hatching plans which were against God’s will. Now that the language barrier is
somewhat solved by the use of interpreters at global meetings, still the things
that men hatch are mostly detrimental and crises like that of the migrants
through Europe are not helped as they should be.
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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