…”Let’s collect blankets and used clothes and ship ‘em off to Afghanistan. Then let’s make those poor souls pose for the camera wearing my ‘donated’ apparel, so that I can show-off to my friends that I am fighting global poverty”…power to you…if that is your perception of reality – power to you!…please don’t send damaged and soiled junk to someone just because you have the need to get ‘rid of it’…giving lip-service to ‘fighting poverty’ is not an opportunity for the rest of us to collect ‘brownie-points’ from some dude way up in the heavens somewhere…don’t even go there…neither is our perception of ‘poverty’ anywhere near the harsh reality that it really is…we choose to oversimplify and stereotype the affliction of poverty to fit a certain ‘mold’ because we are too afraid to face up to the brutality that it is…in fact, many of us even look down on the underprivileged – yes we do!…

…your thought is a tree rooted deep in the soil of tradition and whose branches grow in the power of continuity…my thought is a cloud moving in the space…your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it…my thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve…you have your thought and I have mine…

…The attribute of ‘greediness’ in itself is not the issue — the bigger issue is in the lack of information/knowledge/analysis with which we choose to make our decisions in life…greed (or any other ‘vice’ for that matter) has not shoved out honesty, integrity, ethics, and good ole common sense — we have chosen to accept a sub-standard (low-standard actually) existence for ourselves – ultimately not developing that honesty, integrity, ethical framework, and good ole common sense…