I accuse the island government of neglect.

Lawmakers, law enforcers, department heads, and all others who fail to do something that they know could help. I accuse the island government of doing serious bodily harm to many people, through neglect. I accuse the commissioner of traffic of incompetence for not improving road safety. I have seen enough blood on the roads. I have heard enough cries for help, seen enough shattered bones, destroyed careers, depleted bank accounts, limping citizens, overworked surgeons and underpaid nurses, hopeless year long dragging court cases, fortunes lost. All through traffic blunders. They call it accidents. It is a form of terrorism, by people who are as uneducated as some governments employees. Accidents do not exist, only acts by unthinking, not looking, intoxicated and sleeping, cell phone using dimwits. Laws against speeding, overtaking, not stopping for pedestrians etc., should be enforced, a thousand times more more than wrong parking laws.  Government got money for Link One Phase Two, they make a road to Cay Bay Industrial area, BUT THEY DON’T PUT WHITE LINES ON OTHER ROADS.  Accidents do not happen. Every mishap is the result of a persons actions. Clearly, the people of Sint Maarten need guidance. The majority does not think. Witness the need for signs that announce fines for littering. Any normal thinking person does not litter, needs no sign every hundred yards. On Sint Maarten it is needed. The common man needs signs, guidance, a yellow line to wait behind, ropes to form orderly lines in post office, airline check in counter and bank. Otherwise the man of ordinary wit makes blunders, fights, gets hurt. He needs to be protected against himself . It is governments responsibility to protect its people, also on the countries roads, WITH CLEAR MARKINGS AND SIGNS. We have laws against maiming, hurting and killing each other with guns and fights and drugs and domestic violence. But hardly at all with cars. Those persons responsible for road safety seem to have no logic, do not objectively observe clear facts, have not the brainpower to see the relation between our hospitals financial burden and traffic accidents.

 WITH IMPROVED ROAD SAFETY, HOSPITAL COSTS WILL GO DOWN..

 Who can ignore that? The greatest calamity is that the responsible people do nothing, see nothing, feel nothing, say nothing. Our roads invite trouble.

 When asked why no white lines, the commissioner for traffic answered that his paint is not good and does not stay. My reply to paint again and again just like the grass on roadsides is cut again and again was not answered. That we could get good paint from the French side, or Holland, not answered.  The cost of road signs and markings is not as much as the cost of caring for traffic victims.  Death is not a problem, the deceased is gone, suffers no more. It is the wounded victims that claim the surgeons time and fill hospital beds. The problem is for the family, the hospital, nurses, the doctors, lawyers, employers.  When I drive past the SMMC I hear the cries, when I am at the other end of the island I hear them , when I fly over the ocean to Europe, I hear them still, those that suffer the loss of a limb, an arm, half a face, an eye, a finger. All from the stupid moves some ignorant persons do in traffic.

 Because there are no signs to guide the ignorant, to show who has right of way, no white lines to indicate where to stop, there are not enough lights, no side walks, not enough bumps...... North of here, the French part is cleaner, clearer, safer, brighter, well kept, civilized, NORMAL, an example of how it should be........

Murder, violent encounters resulting in serious bodily harm for the victim, and/or loss of income, transport and use of bodily functions are punishable crimes. Or are they??? In certain cases they are but if these things happen between traffic partners they are not.

Hit by a car, driven by an angry or depressed or careless driver goes unpunished. No matter how many victims roll bleeding on trolleys into the hospital, laws to curb these road crimes are not in place. Doctors tend to traffic victims more than to any other sickness in hospitals and all that because the perpetrators who put these people in  hospital are innocent as the law decides. I say Bull Shit, nobody who hurts another human being is innocent. How can I make this known to the lawmakers? By what norm do these lawmakers judge? If a crime happens in anger, or in sudden instinctive action, or through stupidness, or in innocence, the victim does not care. The victim has to cope with a lame leg, or a blind eye or a missing hand and the perpetrator is guilty, no matter if he did it on purpose, through carelessness, through stupidness or whatever.

Ignorance of a law does not mean that that law does not apply to you. Ignorance in traffic means to my thinking not that one can hit someone and get away with it. If you run a red light and you say sorry, you still get a fine. If you hit someone with your car, maim him, hurt him, or whatever, and you say sorry, you go free... Why is that???

As a victim of a traffic hit by a careless driver I am now waiting over 6 month for justice. Costs that I cannot bear, troubles, handicap and nerves, under medication , not so much now for physical pain any more, that lasted only three month, but now for mental agony, because I am going mad. Want to kill myself instead of waiting for justice that seems to be non existent. This is maybe the 6th or 7 th letter I write on this subject. I wish it was the last. Having debts to friends, landlord and doctors, hospital, why should I continue? Angry that the man who hit me did not kill me. That would have been the end of my troubles. But no, I have to talk to my lawyer, ask for free court procedures~ -- as all my savings are gone. And take medication so as to stay functional and not become mighty mad at the person who did this to me, or go look for him, to take revenge, as the old testament advises me. why do we have laws??? I would think to keep the citizens in a kind of morally acceptable way of conduct. But in traffic any citizen can misbehave and abuse any other participant to the full. Morals are not taken into consideration and I wonder what my lifelong honesty and morality have brought me. Is it not time for me now to go out and steal a car, drive it like mad, send a few pedestrians into hospital with injuries as it does not get punished anyway? Stealing a car is called joy riding, hitting anyone (without intent) is not punishable. And any- way, if I should get jail time, by writing some articles in the Herald I will get freed sooner, as we all have learned from the famous shoplifter who gets praise from the judge for his public writings and confessing that he is a thief. I should have built up a buffer allowing me to steal me rich unpunished after all the articles I wrote. Cultivating crime is what I call it and it makes me sicker than I was already from the hit I got on the 2nd of December.'99. And this is the truth, so help me God.

We are not separate from each other, nor are we separate from God. We are all together and this fact we have to live. Not just agree to this Truth, but we have to Know it, and Feel it and Live it.

Six month after the attack on the WTC in NY city, the meeting in Mexico City of over 50 Heads of State of developing countries this week came up with an awful, shocking, long known Truth. The final statement said:

Until the rich countries share more of their wealth with the poor countries, terrorism will not be beaten.

I see it almost as a desperate declaration of war from the poor to the rich. The primitive response of Might is Right of the USA will surely never stop terrorism.

The things I mentioned three days after the 9-11 attack in my letter titled: What makes one a terrorist, have now become worldwide recognized and accepted. Extremely wasteful big cars that are common transport in the USA and likewise here on our roads , and huge oversized motorbikes, compared to three wheel covered scooters and push bikes in India and Indonesia and Singapore and Thailand and in most Arab countries and in most of Africa, the small compact cars almost everywhere else on the planet, are proof to the strange unequal distribution and abuse of the worlds resources. We are not alone. Because national borders exists on the map, we still are not on another planet, we are not separate from each other. The planet is One, and we all stick to the same Earth with our feet. The wind carries the same air around the globe, we all breath it. The polluting exhaust gasses from the huge overpowered car engines do go into the same air that the people in Chili and Africa and Uzbekistan breath. The ozone depleting pollutants do hurt all people under the sun. We are all together. 50 Heads of State of Developing Nations came together in Mexico City to make this Truth known one more time. And they came up with the ultimate information about the present terrorist threat:

 Terrorism will not be beaten unless the rich countries share more of their wealth with the poor countries. So what else is new.

 Ironically this meeting was in a place where only 40 extremely rich families own an immense country that holds millions of very poor peasant workers.

 My letter about the American Military Academy in Panama some weeks ago was a warning about what happened just now in South America. The car bomb that exploded at the American Embassy in Lima, Peru, while president Bush is visiting there, was a clear sign of the terrorist approach to the USA’s presence in South America. If the USA wants to control and police the rest of the world, it must be prepared to scarify numerous of its soldiers that play the role of watchdog-policemen.

But we are together, all of us people of the world. As long as the United States separates itself from the rest it will be prone to terrorist attacks. How long will it take before the people in the highest positions will understand that ? That we cannot ignore the plight of others? Just as here on Sint Maarten, the government should not and may not ignore the ugly ghetto streets and their sewage problems, so in the wider world do the rich have to consider the plight of the poorer people that live on the same planet. I know that things are getting better slowly, the internet helps a lot, however, in my view it does not go fast enough and I remind you the one and only Law of Laws: Do to Others as you want Them Do to You. For better understanding of my ideas, read any or all books by Neale Donald Walsch and by Boone Shree Rasjneesh, and OSHO. Have a nice day, with lots of sharing.

Green, clean green, straight green, bright green, organized green, clear green, light green, dark green, gray green, soft green, red green, deep green. Holland is so very clean. Red, white, and blue are the flag, topped with orange for the Queens mother birthday, the day after I arrived, 30 of April 2002.

As long time resident of Sint Maarten, I send you my first report from Holland where I seek funding to open a school in Sint Maarten.

Even the garbage bins are green, unobtrusive, inconspicuous and not out of harmony with the environment, wherever there is a house or a dwelling. There is no visible garbage anywhere. No empty bottles, plastic bags or fast food paper plates and cups. This is the first impression after the overwhelming greenness. The filth and garbage of Sint Maarten is not here. Praise the Dutch! They have found the solution for a healthy and clean environment.

It works as follows: Garbage is separated by the people who make it, and goes in designated bins, green glass in one, and brown glass and transparent glass each in different small containers that stand at places where everybody can easily reach them. Paper in another, as well as plastic. In the bin one has in front of the house goes mixed household garbage. Biological offal, food rests etc. can be put in the compost bins in certain areas, for those who produce that, restaurants, food producers. On the street bins, the private bins, a label with dots, like an enlarged braille letter, is stuck. That label contains information of ownership and is read by the computer that is part of the truck which collect garbage. It knows whose bin it is and it weighs the bin before and after emptying. It calculates the price one pays for the garbage collection... One pays for every kilo of collected garbage 25 Euro cent.

For wood, construction garbage and old furniture one pays 18.- Euro per cubic meter. One can bring it to the dump or for a fee, have a truck come for it. Disposal of broken electrical equipment, iron and paper is free.

Here you have it, the garbage story of how a rich country makes itself richer. I tell you how it works, now you act on it.

As long as Sint Maarten does not educate its uncaring population to take care of its garbage, there is little hope that it will get help from Dutch politicians who come and see. The filth, the carelessness and the total neglect for the countryside works as a psychological detriment upon those who could dispense of funds. Why should one give help to people who do not care for their own place? What would you do for someone who makes a mess and then comes to ask you for help? WouldnÕt you say to first clean up your act before giving anything? First let people do what they can do them self, before giving help with what they cannot do.

Why not separate garbage, and make on the dump certain places for different sorts of filth? Glass to the left, electrical stuff to the right, paper in the middle. Once you have a great heap, recycling companies will ship the loads away. Compress car wrecks, and let the owner of the wreck pay for it. Containers can be filled with paper for recycling. Make the people who make filth pay for the removal of it. Why continue to ignore that what must one day lead to shame, health problems and loss of tourism, toxic residues that kill plants and animals? A Herculean task, but one that will reap great rewards. The very agreeable cleanliness of Holland is something that looks unreal and impossible to me coming from the dirty roadsides where the empty bottles lay as far as they will fly from a open car window. After a bush fire, all that is exposed and it looks so poor. It looks so sick. It is the result of sick minds in stupid heads of people who have no love for their own country. Who do not deserve help or assistance, and who Holland officials certainly will not give autonomy to start on its own. A people who shows no love for its own environment is surely not ready to go on its own. I understand better now why Holland is so against Sint Maarten leaving the Netherlands Antilles, it is still in the baby state of mind, it is not yet house-clean. It still is a baby, and first needs to grow up a little more.

I am tired of trying to give ideas, to give advice, to point out  errors, to ask for betterment. I will stop writing to my beloved readers. Because nothing is done about my ideas.  I do not ask God for help, I do not pray to some invisible power, I ask the men in charge to do their job. Read here the incomplete list of  things that are not done.......

No white lines on the roads, no pavements for pedestrians, no cleanliness in the ghettos of Middle Region, Dutch Quarter and Cay Bay. No garbage bins in the ghettos, no better behavior by young police men. Nothing done about the abandoned hotel at Upper Princess Quarter. Or at the salt crushing ruins at Arch road. Still no solution on Mullet Bay Resort. No local industries, no schools for young artists, jewelry repairing or making, no souvenir manufacturing, no schools for teaching  tourist guiding, no high level service teaching. No road over the St. Peter hill straight to Marigot. No garbage recycling bins like on the French side. No stop on free plastic shopping bags that pollute the environment seriously. No refunds on bottles. Do the people in power never travel to civilized countries? And if they do, are they blind to see how things are done there? Are we governed by blind and deaf mental cripples? And most annoying, still no education towards inner development, instead churches full of ignorance and lies. Church leaders, priests and others, are under investigation everywhere in the world for child sex abuse. They should also be under investigation for keeping the people ignorant about the truth of God. Real teaching of how to reach enlightenment, spiritual liberation, would lead the real world to become a better place. Then, the plea some weeks ago in the newspaper by the craft producers did not get answered by the governing powers, who seem not to be interested at all. The whole island economy and spirituality is in a pitiful  mess. What I can see and understand is that the people who should take care are not competent. Resulting in the economic stranglehold that the tourist industry has over this island.  The political ignorance  and ill will of not wanting to be full member and part of Holland, without different laws, just like a county, a province, a part like every other town and place, has brought about the poverty and dirty roads and lack of social  assistance that we enjoy now. How blind can people be not to see the prosperity and civility of the French side that is a normal part of France, and the ugliness of our roads and dirty shambles in our shanty town ghettos that are locally ruled. Time for a change, but as the good artist Michael Jackson sings: “they don’t really care about us.” Us being all people that are not in the Antillean Governments pay. Imagine the tourist say:  “How pretty , the dirt road leading to the old wooden shacks, how outlandish, no sewage under ground, it runs over the roads, what an attraction, see the poverty and the empty bottles, how different from home.”

 Dear readers, it makes no sense to write about the things that everyone can see. It makes no sense to write for the blind.  Those that are in power and do nothing about the ugly  reality in the ghettos and everywhere else, once they leave this life of opulence, squandering and neglect, I hope they will see their errors. Only then it will be too late.  Have a nice day.

Earlier I explained how to observe your thoughts. This is done with your mind, spirit, and soul, whatever it is that holds your sixth sense. This makes it possible to feel things, like the need to go see an old friend, or a certain client, who just when you arrive exclaims that he was thinking of you and wanted to see you. That may be called telepathy. It works between a mother and her child, if the child is in need, the mother feels it. With the sixth sense one observes political ideas, meanings, and abstract things like love and hate and moral issues. One uses it to judge. Church and state do not want you to use it. In [state] schools you learn that you have only 5 senses, not six. The Church says: Judge not, that thy will not be judged.

However, you do judge, if you are aware of it or not. You judge if you feel attracted to this place or that, if you shall wear this dress or another and if you shall feel sick, happy or sad.

What you tell me there, I judge how I feel?

When I feel sick, sad, angry, or happy, I can’t help that, you will say...

But you can I tell you: Start to observe   your feelings. You are not your feeling, you are only having it. How do you feel just now? Grim? What thoughts made you feel so? Did your partner get you irritated? Don’t like the traffic? Or was the coffee not strong enough at breakfast?

Don’t worry, no feeling stays forever, unless you  keep it there. A feeling is the result of how you think. You will never be able to keep the same thought all day in your head. It may come back tomorrow, likely it was there yesterday, but it will  not stay 24 hours. When you observe what you think, you soon will realize that any bad  thought can be replaced with another, a happy or pretty, thought.

Things you learn when young stick to you like barnacles to a ship. Traumas from the past may return unconsciously and behavior may be reduced to something that happened in the past. Psychiatrists are called in to evaluate sufferers that become a nuisance for their surroundings. Psychiatrists  do not even know the thought-observing process and will only listen to a patient, judge the severances, reduce it to something that happened long ago and say; now that the reason for the behavior is known, it is acceptable. How amazingly stupid. To teach a criminal thought-observing would cure his/her bad behavior. Any one who learns to see him/her self will become a better person. And a free person at that. Thought observing should be taught in prisons.

When a person starts using the sixth sense, [the mind, spirit, soul] and starts to observe the Self, s/he will find out that the past is gone. That the Present is all there is, that behavior today must be reduced to what is important today. The word is: Present, as Gift, Hand out, Grant, Award. It is a  gift  from the Unified Field, from Life itself, from God if you so prefer. The past is what you drag up from a time that is gone and should not be Here Now. People paste the past into the Present and so destroy the precious Gift. Realize that the Present should be graciously received as it is the best moment in your life.

Now look at yourself and say: I love you.

Earlier I explained how to observe your thoughts. This is done with your mind, spirit, and soul, whatever it is that holds your sixth sense. This makes it possible to feel things, like the need to go see an old friend, or a certain client, who just when you arrive exclaims that he was thinking of you and wanted to see you. That may be called telepathy. It works between a mother and her child, if the child is in need, the mother feels it. With the sixth sense one observes political ideas, meanings, and abstract things like love and hate and moral issues. One uses it to judge. Church and state do not want you to use it. In [state] schools you learn that you have only 5 senses, not six. The Church says: Judge not, that thy will not be judged.

However, you do judge, if you are aware of it or not. You judge if you feel attracted to this place or that, if you shall wear this dress or another and if you shall feel sick, happy or sad.

What you tell me there, I judge how I feel?

When I feel sick, sad, angry, or happy, I can’t help that, you will say...

But you can I tell you: Start to observe   your feelings. You are not your feeling, you are only having it. How do you feel just now? Grim? What thoughts made you feel so? Did your partner get you irritated? Don’t like the traffic? Or was the coffee not strong enough at breakfast?

Don’t worry, no feeling stays forever, unless you  keep it there. A feeling is the result of how you think. You will never be able to keep the same thought all day in your head. It may come back tomorrow, likely it was there yesterday, but it will  not stay 24 hours. When you observe what you think, you soon will realize that any bad  thought can be replaced with another, a happy or pretty, thought.

Things you learn when young stick to you like barnacles to a ship. Traumas from the past may return unconsciously and behavior may be reduced to something that happened in the past. Psychiatrists are called in to evaluate sufferers that become a nuisance for their surroundings. Psychiatrists  do not even know the thought-observing process and will only listen to a patient, judge the severances, reduce it to something that happened long ago and say; now that the reason for the behavior is known, it is acceptable. How amazingly stupid. To teach a criminal thought-observing would cure his/her bad behavior. Any one who learns to see him/her self will become a better person. And a free person at that. Thought observing should be taught in prisons.

When a person starts using the sixth sense, [the mind, spirit, soul] and starts to observe the Self, s/he will find out that the past is gone. That the Present is all there is, that behavior today must be reduced to what is important today. The word is: Present, as Gift, Hand out, Grant, Award. It is a  gift  from the Unified Field, from Life itself, from God if you so prefer. The past is what you drag up from a time that is gone and should not be Here Now. People paste the past into the Present and so destroy the precious Gift. Realize that the Present should be graciously received as it is the best moment in your life.

Now look at yourself and say: I love you.

The title could also be: The Way to Truth, but because the Truth shall set you Free, it is the end-result that  counts.

In part one I told you to observe your thoughts. I compared your thoughts with clouds that block the clear blue sky, which is you. A thought never stays, just like a cloud and a thought is not you, you are the one that thinks the thought. If you have started to observe your thoughts you will have found that most of the thoughts you think today are the same as the thoughts you had yesterday. They do not progress, and you are not [yet] creative enough to think new thoughts.

Now comes the most important part of this lecture: Between two thoughts is a moment of NO-THOUGHT. Just like between breathing in and breathing out there is a moment of no-breathing, so is there a tiny moment between thoughts when you think not. That is the GAP. You shall have found that observing your thoughts is possible for a moment or so, but soon after, you will be living again without giving it attention. That does not matter, go back as soon as you notice it. To help the process very much, also start to observe how you walk, how you sit, how you talk, how you read this letter. When you can observe your breathing you almost have it made, you are fast getting closer to Who You Really Are. The strange fact is also that the more you observe yourself, the clearer other people become. You can know others only after you found out who you are yourself. While you observe your inhaling and exhaling, you cannot at the same time have disturbing thoughts. You are then not exactly in the gap, but you come close. And because you are traveling inside yourself, wisdom can come in. Yoga can lead to the gap, but yoga is not needed to reach there. When you notice the gap between thoughts, stay there. That is not easy in the beginning, but try anyhow. It is this moment of

NO-THOUGHT that we started out to observe our thinking  for. When you think not, Wisdom enters. That’s how easy it is. To stop thinking though may take  quiet a while for you to reach.

Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge, it cannot be learned. It can be invited, a place must be made for it. It comes to fill the Gap, that is the Void, the Emptiness  between thoughts. Knowledge you can gather from school, from books, from the library, from the internet. You can become a professor and still not have wisdom. Wisdom comes from the Unified Field, from God if you want to call it that. It is Omnipresent,  it knows All, it is the Truth, it transcends knowledge. To finish this part two of the Way to Freedom, I’ll tell you why you need an empty mind in order for Wisdom to enter.

I need an Empty Space on this page of this newspaper in order to get this printed, you need an Empty Stomach in order to eat, and you need an Empty Mind in order to let Wisdom enter. As long as your mind is full of thoughts, of lamentations, of prayers, of anger, of wishes, there is no place for wisdom. Church and State want you to stay away from Wisdom, because the sage needs them not. That is why you shall never learn this in school or church.

Recap: first observe your thoughts, then discover the gap, and stay there. That’s all there is to it. In Wisdom you find Truth, which leads to Freedom. In Wisdom you find yourself.

Now look in the mirror and say: I love you.

In the past 100 days not much has changed. Except for the new Dutch government, the killing of the most famous politician in Holland, and the American President, eager to revenge the blunders of his father. With thoughts always in the ancient past, most poor souls still think that revenge and violence and killing can solve problems...So far so bad. 

Remember that those who revenge a crime are no better than those who started the crime in the first place. They do this in the name of religion. The ideas of religion and state are only a justification for some to dominate others. State and church work together to keep the small man quiet, promising a better world, forgiveness for crimes, salvation from [imaginary] sins and paradise in the hereafter... So far so bad...

There is hope though, for the doubter, for the seeker, for those that are right now wondering what is true and what is false of all that church bell ringing and those endless political debates that lead nowhere.

The truth can be known however, because Truth is Love, is Life, is Nature, is All. Only is the Truth twisted and hidden behind the lies and the empty promises and the beautiful singing in the Sunday service. I will reveal in several parts written over the coming days how you will find Truth. And who you really are.

It works as follows, first and foremost: you  start to observe your  thoughts.

You may be thinking of work, or of your partner, or of what is for dinner tonight, no matter what you are thinking of, observe it.

When we where young we learned that we had 5 senses, for: smelling, touching, hearing, seeing, and tasting. However, you have 6 senses. You wasn’t told that, because  this knowledge will set you Free. The sixth sense is your mind, or spirit, or soul, whatever you call it. The 6th sense you use to sense what is wrong and what is right. You take decisions with it. You weigh with it if you shall buy  this thing or that. If you like a  person or not, if you shall go out or stay home. All that and more you do with your sixth sense. And with it you can observe your thoughts. Your thought is not you. Say, you are full of sorrow, you have lost something, or someone, and you are grieving. Now the thought of grief is overwhelmingly blocking all else, it is like a cloud blocking the sun. But, the grieving thought does not stay for ever, sooner or later it is gone. As sure as the sun comes up, another thought soon takes its place. Maybe your next thought is a happy one, you won the lottery, or you feel good in your new shirt and look in the mirror while you put on a fresh after shave, or while trying to get out on the road another car stops to let you get out of your driveway, whatever. That happy thought soon makes place for another thought again, you follow? Perhaps your next thought is angry, you found a scratch on your car when you got out after parking, it must have happened sometime when you wasn’t there, or the cup of hot coffee you took from the drive-through spills in the car on your skirt. Again, you are under a cloud, blocking your true own self.

 Because you are still you, whatever you lost, you are not lost, and the lottery money did not even cover what you spent on tickets over time. The scratch is on the car, not on you, and  your mind did not get soiled, only the skirt.

To find the Truth, first start observing your thoughts. As if you are sitting next to yourself and watching yourself and witnessing what is taking hold of you right now. YOU ARE NOT THE THOUGHT, always keep in mind: YOU ARE THE THINKER.

Learn this and soon you will find out who you really are, and all by itself you will see that the thought is nothing but a thought, it is not you. Next I will tell you how the thought observation process leads to Truth.

And why do you think, is this never told to you in school or in church or anywhere else?? Because when you know this you cannot be mentally enslaved, and you will become free. Which is very much against the interest of church and state. To be continued.

It is unbelievable that the media are still full of programs that shows the most primitive part of our human  race’s activities, war. In all its forms and ways, the idea to solve a conflict with violence is the most  primitive. For thousands of years nothing has changed. The earliest known history records tell us how wars have been causing misery, pain and suffering .

I wonder how it is possible that people in the highest places of the governments of great nations still cling to the most primitive ways of behavior. When will they come up with the new approach? When will their brains grow up and will they become real human beings? And when will they apply the teachings of Jesus whom they proclaim to follow ???

Maybe not in my lifetime. Still it is my duty as  messenger to tell about the new way. Hopeless as it may sound, a future without war is worked on. A  large group of people pray and think constantly about ways to stop the production of weapons, to counteract the ancient sentiments of revenge, violent  actions and all other things that cause suffering. The people who do these prayers, know how others suffer. On TV we witness the suffering in war zones far away , which is nothing compared to being there.      

If only Bush could be in the next house that is blown apart by an Israeli tank shell . If  Osama Bin Laden could walk next to one of his bombs going off.  If Sharon could live some time in one of the Palestinian refugee camps. If Central Intelligence Agency officer What’s your name could get the electrodes attached to his own genitals, and if my  neighbour himself could get a very hard punch in the face from his wife when he smells of strange perfume. Then maybe we should get a little less violence tomorrow.

It takes a while to brake old habits. How long did women not speak up after being abused? In Switzerland women could vote only recently. Changes come slow, but if you help, they  come sooner.

Pray with us. Pray silent, pray loud, pray singing, while you work, while you eat or walk or sex, pray at all times for peace, if that is the only thing you can do. Think  as if  every day it is Christmas again. Study peace, because war is so primitive, is for undeveloped nitwits. Soldiers are men and boys that have never learned to love, compassion, forgiveness and togetherness.  They are encouraged to develop the basest instincts of  ancient  behavior, the predator, the destroyer, the killer. Not even animals  make war on their own sort. Pray that the soldier will learn to make something, to create, to think , to write and read in stead of destroy. Pray to help your violent neighbour, that he may calm down and become a real person. That the next man in uniform will not abuse his position and harass someone.

And try to use less paper to preserve the forests, use a smaller car to emit less greenhouse gasses, use non-ozone-depleting coolant in your airco, do not double bag a small thing from the shop, try to preserve our earth actively, not with prayer alone. Believe it or not, we are all together on this one and only home, our Earth. Hurting your Earth is ultimately hurting yourself.