"oldwifetale"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:   
      
   These are only the absurd ravings of someone living below the "poverty level".   
   I've been thinking a lot about my mortality lately.    
      
   Yes, I too. Do you think that there is a reason why we became born? That each   
   one has a purpose he has to fulfil?   
      
   That happens sometimes when you're getting old, and have suddenly lost your   
   mate, and your home, and your primary income, and your belongings, and your   
   health. But i'm rich because i have a large extended family and people who   
   love me. My home is a    
   travel trailer, but it's a dry place with a roof over my head. I don't go to a   
   doctor because i'd rather use my money to live on. My choice. That's the only   
   "old way" i know about right now. Even when i'm poor, it's not my "number one   
   focus". I have    
   other things to give.    
      
   If my poverty (which may or may not be permanent) became everyone's main focus   
   of attention... i wouldn't like that very much, to be honest. Every human   
   being deserves a little dignity, unless they're flat-out evil. I'm more than   
   my ability to physically    
   survive, and so are you. So is everyone. No one likes to be reduced to an   
   'issue'.   
      
   You think i'm kidding or making fun of you? No. I'm bringing up immortality   
   because everyone wants to live forever, or acts like they're going to. But no   
   one ever does. One day you're talking to them, the next day they're gone.    
      
   There was this old man I sometimes talked with. Somehow he remembered me a   
   little bit at my Grandfather and he was a little sunshine in all the dark   
   there.   
   Then did I hear that he died. The next day appeared this soldier...he said   
   that he gave this old man his word to care of his matters...That   
   did impressed me much...I will never forget this.   
      
   It hurts. You know? But that's what life is, it's constantly changing. All   
   these... laws... that you're talking about. Even if everyone 'obeyed' them,   
   eventually things would change again, and everyone would be breaking the laws,   
   and we'd right back here    
   where we are now.    
   The only answer is empathy, love, compassion, kindness... aspects of humanity   
   that people either have and cultivate, or they don't.    
      
   I fear, the most of humanity haven't cultivate it. Insanity rules the world.   
      
   There is no law that can ever *make* someone kind, it can only force their   
   actions. Without sincerity, they're just going through the motions to appear   
   kind, and that never endures. Sooner or later, the real person is going to   
   come through. Law or no law.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)