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Our World, Our Family


I wonder what people might not consider as essential items in life. Pleasure boats, vacation homes, make-up, beer, televisions, sound systems, movies, the list is probably pretty long and would certainly be contested.



I wonder what we might achieve if we all agreed not to stop buying these “luxuries” but rather to spend half again as much of what we spend on any of these things on finding real and lasting solutions to issues that affect all of humankind, like curing cancer, ending hunger and persistent starvation, providing crisis response teams around the world for natural disasters, etc.?  And most of all I wonder who would feel best about all of that?  And by the way, I wonder what impact it might have on the economy?  (I think I may have over-momented myself!)








Significance


The Buddha used to say that there were seventeen million mind moments (17,000,000) every second.



Isn’t it amazing what can happen when we grab on to one of them and make it more significant?








5 Charged in Gang Rape of Girl, 7, in NJ Apartment

By ANGELA DELLI SANTI and BETH DEFALCO, Associated Press Writer

April 4, 2010

TRENTON, N.J. – Two men and three teenage boys were charged Saturday with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in the state’s capital, police said.

Details of the arrests were announced at a Saturday evening news conference outside police headquarters. Police Director Irving Bradley said detectives had been working around the clock since the crime was reported March 28. Continue Reading →