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SAFE Ark Two Newsletter
October 21st, 2012
A Statistical Threshold
Statistics were released this week that for the first time since the
invention of the automobile and such statistics have been kept - The TOP
cause of violent deaths in the US is no longer the automobile. It is
__????__. I will continue this story further down in the newsletter - to
give you a chance to think about it.
Other news of the moment.
We are in that ten day time frame, that we have been talking about for
months, between the end of the Jewish Holidays and the end of the month
before the US elections, with the weather window - etc., etc., etc. (to
quote "The King and I").
It is of note - with all the military movement that I mentioned in the
previous newsletter - that the US and Israel are going to conduct within
this same next ten days the LARGEST joint military exercise/games that
they have ever conducted. The exact date of which is still unannounced,
which in itself is unusual because usually for games you want to let
everyone know exactly when, where and what you are doing so that they
don't become overly paranoid.
In the meantime, as if that were not enough, there are still at least six other interesting pieces of news.
1. Iran too, is doing exercises/high alerts/murky water announcements.
2. Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and now Jordan, all bordering Israel, have all
had very traumatic/unsettling experiences this last week.
3. Everyone in the Middle East including Turkey and Russia have somehow
gotten in on the Syrian confrontations this last week. Overall, things
could hardly be more unsettled.
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4. There is a website, called October Surprise, that has announced that
it will make a major announcement on Monday or Tuesday - impacting the
National election. This is most likely a hoax.
5. Numerous highly respected financial/market consultants are
speculating on the possibility of a "Black Monday" within the next three
months (I think four) but even tomorrow. This all ties into the "Euro",
the US "Financial Cliff" (because of the US budget law), and so forth.
6. And of course the whole US election/societal/racial scene is getting
edgier. The next couple of weeks could indeed be very interesting.
But, IMHO, (although I don't see it as being all that humble - just
often wrong) this time next month the talk in the "end of the world
circles" will be all about the approaching culmination of the 2012 Mayan
predictions. My personal expectation is that around mid-February we
will be off to a depressing 2013, that will climax between late 2014 and
late 2015.
The only thing that I feel that I can definitively say is that while
things will surely get worse the only thing that we can expect with
certainty is - the unexpected.
Now - back to the lead story. The answer is suicide. Suicide has become
the top cause of violent death in the US. There is a lot to ponder about
that. Some might have thought 'guns' and that this was a paen for gun
control. Others might hold that abortion is a violent end for life - and
it didn't even make the running although it far outnumbers suicide.
Yep, the numbers of suicides is climbing. Perhaps, for the crossing over
of the numbers, the number of auto fatalities is decreasing. Serious
statistics will take into account such factors as the number of
automobiles and numbers of both causes per thousand. Whichever. I am
going to talk about the increasing incidence of suicide.
It is certainly not just a phenomena in the US but one that is
worldwide. Rising human expectations and disappointment and all that.
Certainly varies from culture to culture. The United States and Canada
are down in 38th and 39th places in the World Health Organization list
with less than 20 per hundred thousand and the top ranking countries
have over 50 per hundred thousand. The statistics for many countries are
probably highly unreliable - but things are tough all over.
Suicide is not all that easily defined or identified. For example -
"death by cop" or "terrorist going after 72 virgins". Even war heroes
become intentionally careless and sometimes it is said they just "no
longer give a d--n." I have mentioned before how over half the flag
draped caskets coming back from Afghanistan are suicides. What
psychological motivations there are for both terrorists and heroes - we
sometimes don't know.
The Japanese Kamikaze pilots were Japan's most effective weapon. Tens of
thousands volunteered and several thousand planes were set aside for an
invasion of the Japanese mainland that never happened, because Truman
used the atomic bomb. Still they were the pride of their country and did
great damage to the American fleet. Mothers would go about getting
1,000 women to put a single stitch into a 1,000 stitch sash for their
sons. How many thousands of these were made, I don't know, but they
remain collector's items today. There are such attitudes of pride and
courage in many cultures, besides our own.
But why am I writing about this? Well, the point is - as times get
tougher - the rate of suicides will increase. I want to point out that
in actuality - things aren't all that bad. So the electricity gets
turned off. So one gets turfed out and is having to sleep in a tent or
car. So one only gets one meal a day or misses a day or two. Honestly,
most of humanity has had it that tough forever. We just live in
exceptional times. People expect/want/demand far more, and we feel more
than a little sorry for ourselves when we don't get it.
In reality it is a spiritual trip - but I am not going to go there.
Neither am I going to make one of my regular trips into the past, or
even the present. What this newsletter is about is the future - and
initially not all that a pleasant one. In a sense the world is
committing suicide. Death by detonation. There will be initial
survivors. But in the two years after the 'event' many will die of
starvation, cold, epidemics, radiation sickness, and other accompanying
causes. They can just hang in there and suffer (I think the recommended
path) or they can take the 'easy way out' and it is not mine to judge. I
am not, however, going to give a comparative analysis of methods.
What is the purpose of living, anyway? Well, if one can't figure that
out - then they have no real purpose in surviving. Natural instinct you
say? We overcome that all the time. Unfortunately, many of the survivors
will be - well... 'survivors'. I mean that they will be highly
motivated by the natural instinct, without any restraint of morals, and
you really don't want to have to interface with them. But, you may - and
that too is another story.
The real solution is to understand the purpose of living, which I define
as being - "To love God and serve one's fellow man", and with that
focus one is equipped and capable of facing any hardship because -
"Greater love hath no man - but that he will lay down his life for
another." None of us are going to get out of this world alive. The
purpose of the journey is educate the soul. That is done through tests
and suffering. There is no greater opportunity for tests and suffering
than that which is coming down the road.
It is also the greatest time and opportunity in the history of man, to
be able to serve God and humanity, by helping to construct a new human
society that most greatly encourages the development of the human souls.
All things need to be in balance. In order to develop, the chick is
required to struggle to get out of the egg. If we 'help' - it will not
survive. If the individual soul does not struggle - it will not develop,
but there is balance in all things.
Humanity as a whole needs better education, diet, medical care,
opportunities for service, and so forth. Reconstruction of society in
that way is what Ark Two is all about. Not to put back a society of
selfishness and greed, materialism and immorality, prejudice, distrust,
hatred and violence - as we have today.
But there I have gone and done it. I said I wasn't going to preach - and I ended up doing it anyway.
None of us know what this week is going to hold for us. We have Jemma
dog back from her operation and they had us sign the adoption papers so
she stays with us now. We would have liked to go see her puppies
graduate on Wednesday, but it is not shaping up that way because we
don't yet have a dog sitter and we don't have the gas anyway.
Still getting some more writers for the book series. Could still use
more so it is still not to late to join. We would need 150 if everyone
wrote just one chapter - although I am hoping some will write lots more.
Next couple of weeks is our wood challenge. Jean urging me to go out and
bring in some more this very minute - but I need to move the rest of
the old woodpile so this year's supply can be delivered. Money challenge
again. Not complaining. As Jean said yesterday, looking at all the
stories from the Middle East. "Unbelievable. We can't even imagine it."
This issue hasn't been just chuck full of cheerful news but here is one.
Victoria's video for this week is on a subject that I have spent years
trying to figure out how to clearly communicate.
Designing Shelter Entrances
Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org
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