2001-04-23 - 21:43 M DST

THE WONDERING JEW

Mild Thoughts

Once in a while I get busy enough that I forget to eat a meal. Everything goes along pretty well for a long time. When it is time for the next meal after the missed one and food is not forthcoming, there begins a pain in the middle of my belly which if not appeased turns up the heat and pains more yet. The headache begins, things finally deteriorating so the desire to eat leaves me, and I get sicker.

What if that condition is with a person from birth on ? Makes me think, makes me realize how many of the people of the world (some of them in our own country too) manage to exist in spite of the gnawing of the internal snake. How can they concentrate on things around them when there is a constant scream from the inner person for food, any food. Even from the garbage of the better off people and the offal from the dumpsters behind restaurants and bakeries. Hunger can be ignored longer than thirst I guess. Neither is good for the body though and terribly harmful to the soul.

How can the people of the world allow hunger to exist ? It is needful to forego the caviar and prime ribs and all the sweet you can eat, needed is enough to keep a body healthy. It has pretty well been established that diet in some of the poorer countries is plain, rough but very healthy.

Various organizations have been laboring for years to try to alleviate the crying need for food, sometimes seeing the minions of the local warlord make of with the means of survival for many to be sold or wasted by the few. Also they are trying to help get the other necessities of life to people in need -- unsuccessfully.

Maybe I am being to simplistic and a cloud castle denizen but it seems to me that every one born should have three basic things, food, shelter and clothing adequate for the climate. Nothing fancy but not concentration camps or internment facilities. How much would we, the, "Fat cats" of the world have to sacrifice to see timely distribution of necessities to the suffering ones.

Supposing that all the countries outlawed the manfacture and sale of armaments - the big guns the big vehicles of war, the aircraft costing in the millions, the billions of dollars for the munitions and the structure of military bases and governmental bureaucrats be drastically reduced ? Could we not feed and clothe millions of people ? Certainly the capabilities of countries could be restructured to manufacture and build things that preserve and save lives instead of mounting one of the Four Horses Of The Apocalypse and spreading death and devastation to innocent young people.

Why is War still taught at Mother's knees and the milk of hate from her breast ?

Why do these things still occur from the first recording of history to the present day ? Have we not learned anything ? We have churches, relief organizations government departments who tell us that they are trying the best they can. Uh huh, how many of the top officials of these things drive a Lexus, how many of the churches and organizations are operating from Bauhaus, utilitarian type buildings ? Y'all know the answer to that one. Just why, please tell me why is it that church buildings have been so expensive and huge for centuries ? What are the words I once read (or did I misunderstand), "Where ever three meet in my name, there am I." How many rooms can some of these Ding-Dong Daddies live in at one time, how many bedrooms does a family of two or three have to have when they can only sleep in one bed at a time and do not need a different bed every night ? On and on into the sickening, sinking feeling that we are not doing right by our fellow man.

I know that there is no magic, simple solution covered by one action. All these damn think tanks should be trying to solve the problems I have mentioned, instead of trying to make political hay and/or foster more armament and bigger armies.

Wouldn't it be nice if the world over, people would live with the conviction expressed by this lady, "Making the decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body. (Elizabeth Stone) Isn't it time we abandon the attitude of the distracted parent who yells at the kids, "Go play in the street." "Here Johnny is a couple of hundred bucks -- go buy a MAC 10 to defend yourself at school.

Somehow from such feelings I force myself to think Mild Thoughts . . . . . . .

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