The answer, according to my daughter

william becker fbbecker at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 21 06:59:37 PDT 2001


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Subject: Re: The answer, according to my daughter


> Dear Chris and Dear Aine,
>
> Thank you so, so much for sharing your dialogs and questions you found
> in
> the nature.
> Aine you are so wise. Thanks again ... I am very deep touched ... you
> made
> my heart warm.
> If there would be any way to bring your suggestions into reality ...what
> a
> gift for all humans!
>
> LOVE & Peace
> Gabriela from Berlin
>
> ************
>
> Chris Corrigan schrieb:
>
> > My daughter Aine and I were walking in the woods today playing a game.
> > She was pretending that there were monsters in the forest and that they
> > were coming to eat us.  We had to be vigilant.  We had to defend
> > ourselves.
> >
> > I asked her "What is the plan? What are we going to do if we see one of
> > the monsters?"
> >
> > She replied, "Feed them."
> >
> > "Feed them?" I said.
> >
> > "Yes," she said. "If we feed them they won't want to eat us."
> >
> > I think she has the answer there.  Imagine if George Bush took that $40
> > billion that Congress gave him and used it to feed people.  Heck, take
> > $20 billion to fix up US security and clean up New York and use the
> > other half to feed people.  And not just feed them with food.
> >
> > What if we decided that people's spirits needing feeding too?  What if
> > we chose to take $1 billion and build the biggest, most beautiful mosque
> > in the world, right in the heart of Kabul.  And what if we gave it as a
> > gift, no quid pro quo, as a place for people to feed their spirits?
> >
> > What would the reaction be?  What do we want the reaction to be?  We
> > have choices
> >
> > Seems we could bomb innocent people to death and celebrate, mirroring
> > the images of this week, and thereby satisfy our thirst for vengence.
> > But what would that get us?  A world that so admired the West that it
> > wanted to emulate it in every way and celebrates it;s way of life?  Or
> > would a large part of the 5 billion people that don't live in the west
> > see things differently?  Would more people feel as if vengence was the
> > only possible response, and figure out more simple and effective ways to
> > terrorize?  We can have that kind of world if we choose it.
> >
> > Or we can take Aine's advice and feed people.  And what would that get
> > us?  There is no better way to rob the world of it's anger and
> > bitterness, jealousy and hate, than to feed people
> > unconditionally...feed their bodies, minds and spirits.  Build places of
> > learning, places of spirit, places for healing and nourishment, places
> > of community.
> >
> > Take that $40 billion dollars and spend it in every neighborhood in the
> > world.  Put the world to work growing food, healing people, restoring
> > land and water, building communities, creating the thin fibres of
> > connection between peoples, families, communties, cities, nations....
> >
> > "If we feed them they won't want to eat us."  Can you think of a better
> > form of security?
> >
> > Love to all,
> >
> > Chris
> >
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