I feel motivated to write about my fears. My fears run very deep and are about very huge things. One thing I worry about is nuclear war. People don't talk about it much. I don't hear other people talk about their worries related to it. But I cannot concentrate on common things such as making money because I only want to do work that will disarm nuclear weapons or help in some way. There is great reason to fear nuclear war. There has been a lot of warfare since civilization began. In most wars, both sides use every weapon available to them. I will be worried as long as there are nuclear weapons, even if we develop a one world state in which all armies are disarmed except for an international government. I worry about nuclear weapons even in this scenario because governments have killed millions of their own people in history. There is no practical or good use for a nuclear bomb. All it can do is destroy and kill and cause deadly radiation. I believe we are souls that reincarnate. Imagine if all the major cities are obliterated. If civilization collapses, where will our souls go when humans don't exist or perhaps only live in remote places? We are destroying the natural habitat of the earth that supports animal life, so perhaps our souls would not reincarnate at all. Are our souls when not in a body able to travel through the cosmos to find a new home? Would we be stuck on Earth as ghosts, unable to find bodies? Everything could be wiped out in a second. All it would take is a political leader to lose his cool. Is it reasonable to believe that our political leaders are beyond human, beyond emotion? Is it reasonable to believe that they will never lose their cool? Is it reasonable to believe that our political leaders cherish everyone so much that they would never harm us? I find these views to be unreasonable. So I am afraid. I am afraid that this planet will turn into a cemetery. I'm afraid we could all end up stuck as ghosts on a planet without life.
What do we need to do to disarm nuclear weapons? One thought is that we need to develop a spiritual technology that is capable of preventing nuclear weapons from working. Something that provides hope for me in this is Chapter 25 of the lotus sutra. That sutra says if you are being attacked with weapons and cry the name of Regarder of the Cries of the World Bodhisattva the weapons will break. Perhaps Kuan Yin, Chenrezig, Avaloketesvara, Regarder of the Cries of the World has the answer of how to stop nuclear war. I remember writing an email to the Dalai Lama once and asking him what he could do to disarm nuclear weapons. The next day I saw on TV, CNN or MSNBC that UFOs often disable nuclear weapons. They will fly and disable the nuclear systems of the United States. The person on TV wrote a book about it and said it has been happening for years.
I don't think we can rely forever on miracles to save us from nulcear apocalypse. We need to disarm the armies of the world and in order to do that we need to have peace between all nations. In order to do that people need to learn multiple languages, learn multiple religions, and learn multiple cultures. I am not good at learning multiple languages. I am impressed by those who really do know many languages. I am very concerned about this issue. I do not claim to be an expert. I would like to hear discussion of what people think needs to happen to insure that we don't have a nuclear war, not just this decade, not just this century, but throughout the possible hundreds and thousands of centuries that humans are capable of surviving.
I dedicate this post to world peace.
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