Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007 - (Page 36)

WATCH F OR T HIS M AN INCORRUPTIBLE , WISE , SIMPLE OF SPEECH He will advocate sharing the world’s food and resources more equitably among nations Every year millions of people die needlessly from starvation, disease, and war. Millions more struggle to survive on less than $1 a day. As long as this injustice persists, we will never know peace. elementary social skills. I spent many hours in one philosophy lecture course wondering how the German Kierkegaard expert onstage ate soup through his great beard. It was like a cotton candy machine was stuck to his face. He would talk for two hours straight through that beard, low guttural noises that sounded like he was trying to hack a pickle out of his throat, and then a student would stand up in the back of the room and ask a question in a squeaky voice. “Rub-a-rub-a errgh rugga wub,” said the instructor. “Weee me we me, mee mee, wee?” He will call for massive emergency relief An immediate program to provide basic necessities for the poorest areas of the world— perhaps in the form of a global Marshall Plan— will be the first of many changes needed. He will turn our attention to the environment Pollution is the #1 killer in the world today, and new reports say the consequences of global warming will come sooner and be more catastrophic than expected if we fail to act in time. I realized all of a sudden I had found a place where my deafness didn’t matter–I hadn’t thought about it in ages. It didn’t get in the way of anything. It didn’t bother the chief. asked the student. “Ahh, glubba, glubba rugah erggh,” answered the instructor, stroking his beard. e afternoon sun slanted through the high windows and set ﬂoating dust on ﬁre. A sea of students blinked in the sunlight, then bent over spiral notebooks and wrote their secrets. What great wisdom was being discussed? Who could tell me why the world was molded with such inequities? None and no one, I began to conclude. Everyone was ecstatic when the bell rang. Occasionally, if I was sitting next to a cute girl and wasn’t feeling shy, I’d ask her to take notes for me. Otherwise, I’d take my own notes, which were usually some variation of “Stop talking please.” For papers I’d smoke a joint and write whatever came to mind, which usually tended to be the same sentence written 78 diﬀerent ways–always worth at least a B in philosophy. I had hopes for a religious studies class. e professor was one of the With his help we will see that all life is one Acting as one human family, we will rebuild our world along more just and compassionate lines, and thus create the only basis for lasting peace. His public work will soon begin As millions worldwide take up his call for peace through sharing, he will acknowledge his role as World Teacher, the one awaited under different names by people of all religions and by those who simply wish for a better life for all—a Teacher for all humanity. WHO IS THIS MAN? www.TheEmergence.org/wv 36 Winter 2007 http://www.TheEmergence.org/wv http://www.TheEmergence.org/wv

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Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007 Contents President's Note Lafayette Park Note to Readers Commentary Letter from India Commentary Letter from Botswana Letter from Ha Teboho Letter from Jumbi Valley Letter from Mununga Letter from Medellin Giving Back Community News

Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007

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