suchandra Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 "..fill the land and conquer it. Dominate the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every beast that walks the land." (1:28) God spoke on day six of Creation in the Old Testament to those who follow His laws and maintain a religious live. (Chartbook: Global Indicators) Vedic culture seems a bit more strict by demanding: "One who cannot fully deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother, or a worshipable demigod" (Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.18). Or as Prabhupada put it, "don't produce children like cats and dogs". One can say that Prabhupada's long-term vision was to create a perfect example of an ideal life-style how human society can live in full harmony with nature and among themselves. Somehow in US this effort based upon the gurukula ended abruptly with also some quite severe after-effect in the European Union. Upon witnessing the development of Hare Krishna North America from the distance the impact upon the European Parlament was as such to pass laws which make the existence of Krishna temples and vedic farms except a few places with high share of Hindu population more or less impossible. The population explosion of Europe's 500 mio people is retorted by the European Parlament with laws that don't support a spiritual life-style but resemble rather a materialistic emergency brake: creating an artificial joblessness of presently 50 mio people, overtaxing lower and middle-class households as such that it becomes a financial torture to raise children and brainwashing young people to replace the want for family life with pornographic content or intoxication. Hopelessness to make an adequate living for properly maintaining a family is ruling. The upper-class and well educated class of people are in "modern" jobs which mainly don't allow proper taking care of children, additionally, better paid jobs compensate peoples want to have children. When reading Gunnar Heinsohn's book, "Sons and Worldpower", which explains in numbers which will be the leading nations in future and with which tools global karmi governments overpower the increase of humanity it becomes clear that Vaishnavas cant accept defeat due the tragedy what happened with Northern America's ISKCON and what came with a crushing Tsunami-effect all over Europe. Widely discussed Gunnar Heinsohn links: Population Catastrophe and Economic Crisis in Renaissance Europa. An Alternative Macroeconomic Explanation - With an Appendix by John M. Riddle A Continent of Losers. Interview with Heinsohn by Lars Hedegaard. Covers youth bulge theory in context with world demographic trends and European demographic decline Gunnar Heinsohn: Babies Win Wars Gunnar Heinsohn: Why Gaza is fertile ground for angry young men - financial times article Youth and War: A deadly duo: Christopher Caldwell discusses Heinsohn's generalized youth bulge theory (financial times article) Weltproblem Radikalismus: Heinsohn on German TV, commenting on terrorism from the perspective of youth bulge theory (in German) Heinsohn on german TV, commenting on 2005 civil unrest in France (in German) Articles by Heinsohn available online (mostly in German) The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict after the Cold War The "Youth Bulge" Anne Hendrixon criticizes Youth Bulge Theory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murali_Mohan_das Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Well, the ZPG (Zero Population Growth) folks are pretty rabid about their beliefs that the world is over-populated. When I flew cross-country in the USA recently, I noticed that, yes, most of the country is still open space. The problem is not over-population, it is over-consumption, and over-crowding in the cities. Of course, building cities in the middle of the best farmland is not a very bright idea either. The world cannot support 6 billion people living like the typical American lard-butt, but the world could support many more Krishna-Conscious simple-living, high-thinkers. We see with the current wars the issue of irreligiosity and unwanted progeny that is mentioned in Bhagavad Gita, but, if all were to take shelter of Mahaprabhu, I'm betting we'd have fewer SUV's fewer people commuting three hours per day, and, the big one, less meat-eating. So, there is not a lack of resources or space, there is an overabundance of selfishness and greed and a lack of Krishna Consciousness. "..fill the land and conquer it. Dominate the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every beast that walks the land." (1:28) God spoke on day six of Creation in the Old Testament to those who follow His laws and maintain a religious live. (Chartbook: Global Indicators) Vedic culture seems a bit more strict by demanding: "One who cannot fully deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother, or a worshipable demigod" (Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.18). Or as Prabhupada put it, "don't produce children like cats and dogs". One can say that Prabhupada's long-term vision was to create a perfect example of an ideal life-style how human society can live in full harmony with nature and among themselves. Somehow in US this effort based upon the gurukula ended abruptly with also some quite severe after-effect in the European Union. Upon witnessing the development of Hare Krishna North America from the distance the impact upon the European Parlament was as such to pass laws which make the existence of Krishna temples and vedic farms except a few places with high share of Hindu population more or less impossible. The population explosion of Europe's 500 mio people is retorted by the European Parlament with laws that don't support a spiritual life-style but resemble rather a materialistic emergency brake: creating an artificial joblessness of presently 50 mio people, overtaxing lower and middle-class households as such that it becomes a financial torture to raise children and brainwashing young people to replace the want for family life with pornographic content or intoxication. Hopelessness to make an adequate living for properly maintaining a family is ruling. The upper-class and well educated class of people are in "modern" jobs which mainly don't allow proper taking care of children, additionally, better paid jobs compensate peoples want to have children. When reading Gunnar Heinsohn's book, "Sons and Worldpower", which explains in numbers which will be the leading nations in future and with which tools global karmi governments overpower the increase of humanity it becomes clear that Vaishnavas cant accept defeat due the tragedy what happened with Northern America's ISKCON and what came with a crushing Tsunami-effect all over Europe. Widely discussed Gunnar Heinsohn links: Population Catastrophe and Economic Crisis in Renaissance Europa. An Alternative Macroeconomic Explanation - With an Appendix by John M. Riddle A Continent of Losers. Interview with Heinsohn by Lars Hedegaard. Covers youth bulge theory in context with world demographic trends and European demographic decline Gunnar Heinsohn: Babies Win Wars Gunnar Heinsohn: Why Gaza is fertile ground for angry young men - financial times article Youth and War: A deadly duo: Christopher Caldwell discusses Heinsohn's generalized youth bulge theory (financial times article) Weltproblem Radikalismus: Heinsohn on German TV, commenting on terrorism from the perspective of youth bulge theory (in German) Heinsohn on german TV, commenting on 2005 civil unrest in France (in German) Articles by Heinsohn available online (mostly in German) The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict after the Cold War The "Youth Bulge" Anne Hendrixon criticizes Youth Bulge Theory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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