Apathy : "Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you."
On one occasion when I was teaching a class I asked the question, "What would you say was the number one sin of people who claim to be humans?"
One jokester from the back of the room shouted, "Apathy, but who cares?" He may very well have been correct because, as the old saying goes "many a true word is spoken in jest."
Benu recently said, "Many people, once motivated by protecting the sanctity of life, religious freedom, and traditional marriage, seem inconsolable—
Embracing this attitude is a certain prescription for disaster.
In 1800s, when the colonies were still a part of England, it is claimed that the Scottish writer, Professor Alexander Tyler, wrote the following about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship".
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." This is a cycle of bondage.
According to one Leadership Foundation "we are entering the stage of apathy…. Apathy manifests itself in how people dress, how they talk, how they care for each other—and how concerned they are about the great issues of the day….
Apathy inevitably leads to dependency. And once we become dependent on Big Brother [the government], we are back in bondage. Can anybody really watch the dramatic growth of governmental power and not be alarmed? For the fact of the matter is that the more government acts as God, the less people depend on the one true God." Vox Populi, Vox Die, but is dead now.
If ever there was a time when we need to stand up and be counted it is today. Like the frog in the kettle that, because of the deadening of its response, allows itself to slowly but surely be boiled to death, we too will allow our nation and ourselves to be overrun by those who are determined to destroy every vestige of Democracy in our nation. Little by little it is already happening.
However, at this time it has never been easier to stand up and be counted by actively communicating the message of Truth by a tactful use of the electronic media by forwarding suitable messages.
Are we really silent, I dont know, but if we are not alert, we will have a fate like this soon.
Rajesh Diwan
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