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Originally Posted by Antaletriangle
I'm being truist here and please don't take offence-which is what it's supposed to be about right?
I'm a little concerned that most people,i mean most not all are all about saving their own skins in one way or another and not so much concerned about those on the planet that have suffered throughout their entire existence on this planet,such as children in many African countries.How many on here have done volutary overseas work,helping to try and irrigate places to enable peoples to drink water-yes water not beer or super nutritional-expensive hyper drinks with magnesium this,monatomic gold that.How many have helped to try and feed and care for starving,wounded families in Rwanda?I just seem to have the ability to step back and look at the big picture-People talk on here mostly about themselves and i'll go and buy this and that to protect themselves from some forthcoming disaster when the disaster has been under their very noses all along!Look after your brothers and sisters here first before even thinking about saving your own asses,then maybe we may experience the source together.Please forgive me if i sound harsh-has to be said.Provided with love.
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I'll match your truism, and raise the stakes:
People often talk about not interfering with others' will, everyone has their path in life. And yet when it comes to feeling pity for others, they do it so quickly and blindly that they forget that original noninterference concept.
Who are you to say that what you get out of your life is better than what some small hungry child in Africa gets out of his/her life? They may receive lessons that are utterly invaluable to their personal evolution, and they have just as much chance - if not more - of becoming ascendant, saintly, etc...
Do not be hasty in judging standards of living.
I do not feel good about human suffering either... But if you ask me if I would rather have someone step in and alleviate my own suffering - I would not have a clear answer. Suffering has its own lessons, its own benefits.
This thread is fantastic, and serving positive purpose for all involved (and the forums at large). I am not promoting human suffering here, do not get me wrong. Just be more attentive of the spiritual issues involved.