A POST BY PSAM!- Title- OVERPOPULATION.

I thought I would post a rather looong comment by our own, Psam, who we love and admire. This is in response to our other valued and endeared AV. He asks AV some questions that I think we can all attempt to respond to. I hope you enjoy, the one, the ONLY----------

Puh-Sam-uel and for the rest of you Psam is writing the following post, which may not be the view of this blog. This view requires disgression. It is not written by Chankslee.

Dear AV,

I only got a chance to read your comments in the last post recently. My internet availability's been scarce.

I'd like to ask you what you mean when you say that you think God is being kept out of schools. I remember several classes in elementary school where I was asked to brainlessly recite "our father who art in heaven..." every morning. I also remember a teacher who regularly read to the class from the Bible every day.I happen to think that neither the Bible nor the "Lord's prayer" have much to do with God, but I was too young and impressionable to ask to be relieved from this expectation. I don't think either of these things did any of the other students any good either.Nonetheless, I think that Biblical Christianity, like a lot of other religions, has some good things to teach people. In Europe, there is a whole subject devoted to religion in schools. They study all religions, and they learn how all of them interact. There is a lot of unbiased study of how much harm individual religions have done throughout history, as well as their contributions to the integrity of communities. This kind of study is, I feel, beneficial to all. An understanding of religion can bring harmony to the world. That's what I would expect you meant by "bringing God into the schools". Enlighten me if you meant differently.The other subject of contention between us was the population explosion and its effect on social stress among the populace, leading to explosive situations like the one currently in light.First of all, I believe that it's a foregone conclusion that the human race can not continue to multiply as it has been without choking the planet to death. I appreciate your sentiment that if my parents were convinced not to procreate, I wouldn't exist. I feel the same about you. I do indeed believe that every human being should be valued. However, in order to look towards the future, it would be good to convince the human race to stop behaving like a tumourous growth on the face of the earth. Please don't think that I'm saying that every single human being should be convinced never to have children. But I do believe that if we try to convince people not to have children, and reduce the birthrate by 50%, then we will be saving the future of our world. Also, I think that it's important that people don't have children unless they have spent countless hours with other people's children prior to doing so. People can enjoy time with the children of their friends or their siblings. If they find that they enjoy this time with children, and they feel a need to live with it around them, then by all means they should not be given any grief for that decision.A lot of people decide to have children for the purpose of "carrying on their line". This mentality should be stricken from human consciousness. It is this mentality that is at the root of the population explosion that the world is being subjected to. Most certainly, if that is people's reason for having children, they should be strongly discouraged by any enlightened people that know them.Please understand that I believe that the most important factor in creating a peaceful world in which all living things exist harmoniously is that our offspring are treated with respect and love. That, and putting Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush in jail for crimes against humanity and warmongering. Put them in the same cell and let them duke it out with each other. Sorry, I know I talk about Bush too much, but he really is an obscene greedy villain who's filled with glee over the war he's created and it disgusts me every time I turn on the television.As to the relevance of the population explosion to acts of mass murder such as the Virginia tech shootings, well, I can understand that you might believe they are unrelated. There is much evidence to support either side of this argument. However, I believe that a rapid surge in population leaves the majority of children with less time and attention given to them by the adults around them. It is not only the responsibility of parents to raise children. It is the responsibility of the entire community in which they live. The less children a community is raising, the more attention those children receive. That works on a small scale and a large scale.I look forward to reading responses to these ideas. It has been a pleasure reading your thoughts, and I hope you've enjoyed mine too.

Psam...........

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I am having a good one too.