Don't look, it's Hell on Earth

Spinbrett
Spinbrett Posts: 251
edited May 2008 in A Moving Train
I have to say that we have it real good here in AMerica. We eat as much as we want, take naps when we want, watch TV all night, while there is literally Hell on this Earth. In Africa, people die and starve every single day and the world just doesn't care. Is there nothing that can be done? People say the people there act crazy, but like 2-Pac said, how can you act like an angel if youre living in Hell?
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,343
    I think there are few things we agree on, but I'm with you. It absolutely blows my mind what people have to deal with in parts of Africa. It's so fuckin' unreal and sickening...not even so much WHAT happens there, but what people AREN'T doing to help them.
  • tony vi
    tony vi Posts: 72
    no man , you wrong , , misery is just behind this corner , behind your door , everywhere you are ..... people suffer but is no mean it is hell ...
    once understand life is not fair
    everything become more clear and simple
    wish to all of you freedom
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    I think all Americans should spend some time in Africa - or any of the many other places that have it much worse off than we do. Perhaps then we would get some perspective. I think it's quite difficult for us to even begin to comprehend how most of the rest of the world lives (some might say at our expense). It seems like many Americans have a difficult time understanding even the experiences of other Americans who don't have what they do.

    (Of course, admittedly, I haven't been to Africa either. :o )
  • tony vi
    tony vi Posts: 72
    scb wrote:
    I think all Americans should spend some time in Africa - or any of the many other places that have it much worse off than we do. Perhaps then we would get some perspective. I think it's quite difficult for us to even begin to comprehend how most of the rest of the world lives (some might say at our expense). It seems like many Americans have a difficult time understanding even the experiences of other Americans who don't have what they do.

    (Of course, admittedly, I haven't been to Africa either. :o )
    I leave in Africa and Asia , they don't want help like we can provide to them , we help but after we take , and they learn that very well ....
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    everything become more clear and simple
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    tony vi wrote:
    I leave in Africa and Asia , they don't want help like we can provide to them , we help but after we take , and they learn that very well ....
    If you look into the history of some of these countries, it's usually the fault of the western world back in the days of colonisation. I've just finished 'shake hands with the devil' by Romeo Dallaire about the genocide in Rwanda and you can learn a lot from that book about how the west often makes it as it is... and then won't help
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  • spiral out
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    Heineken Helen wrote:
    If you look into the history of some of these countries, it's usually the fault of the western world back in the days of colonisation. I've just finished 'shake hands with the devil' by Romeo Dallaire about the genocide in Rwanda and you can learn a lot from that book about how the west often makes it as it is... and then won't help

    Pretty much every book i have read on non western countries has firmly placed the start of things going badly wrong at the west's door.
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  • Cosmo
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    Spinbrett wrote:
    I have to say that we have it real good here in AMerica. We eat as much as we want, take naps when we want, watch TV all night, while there is literally Hell on this Earth. In Africa, people die and starve every single day and the world just doesn't care. Is there nothing that can be done? People say the people there act crazy, but like 2-Pac said, how can you act like an angel if youre living in Hell?
    http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gKQ6Hm0yuq8jNqzJY4rRkn0qzwhQD90G681G0
    ...
    One day, I was talking with my neighbor... who is really nice... but a bit of what I call, a looney Christian. We were talking about Jesus and all of that when I said that if Jesus comes back, He should save those people suffering in Africa before he comes to save her from her comfortable American life.
    Her response was basically that those people in Africa are being punished by God for NOT believing in Jesus and that she would be saved by Jesus, not them. She believes that they are bringing on the suffering on to themselves. I asked her would the punishment end if all of those suffering in Africa believed in Jesus... To which she said Yes.
    So, i decided to switch gears and started talking about my fence needing to be repaired.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    One day, I was talking with my neighbor... who is really nice... but a bit of what I call, a looney Christian. We were talking about Jesus and all of that when I said that if Jesus comes back, He should save those people suffering in Africa before he comes to save her from her comfortable American life.
    Her response was basically that those people in Africa are being punished by God for NOT believing in Jesus and that she would be saved by Jesus, not them. She believes that they are bringing on the suffering on to themselves. I asked her would the punishment end if all of those suffering in Africa believed in Jesus... To which she said Yes.
    So, i decided to switch gears and started talking about my fence needing to be repaired.

    Talking to people who think like this never ceases to blow my mind.

    To me they sound like children who make up stories off the top of their head when they are playing make-believe together.
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  • Jimmydean55
    Jimmydean55 Posts: 1,584
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    One day, I was talking with my neighbor... who is really nice... but a bit of what I call, a looney Christian. We were talking about Jesus and all of that when I said that if Jesus comes back, He should save those people suffering in Africa before he comes to save her from her comfortable American life.
    Her response was basically that those people in Africa are being punished by God for NOT believing in Jesus and that she would be saved by Jesus, not them. She believes that they are bringing on the suffering on to themselves. I asked her would the punishment end if all of those suffering in Africa believed in Jesus... To which she said Yes.
    So, i decided to switch gears and started talking about my fence needing to be repaired.

    Well Cosmo...If you put your faith in Jesus....your fence shall be repaired :)

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