Taking charge...

After more than a decade surfing the World Wide Web (Ouch! Im getting old lol) it still amazes me the thing we can find online. Last night I was doing my daily run through of my favorite blogs, and I came across a list on http://www.lista10.org/ (Its in portuguese :P - Original List: http://listverse.com/bizarre/top-10-incredible-recordings/) the list was of the top 10 incredible recordings of all time... Number 9 is a 44:30 minute recording of the Jonestown massacre... A bit of the background: "Jim Jones was the American founder of the People’s Temple group. The group became infamous after the November 18 1978 mass suicide/murder in Guyana where the group had moved after rising tensions in the USA. Nine-hundred-and-nine people drank cyanide after Jim Jones ordered his men to kill visiting Congressman Leo Ryan and numerous members of his entourage. In this horrifying recording you hear the last 30-45 minutes of Jones directing his followers to poison their children and then themselves. At one point one of the female voices on the tape is heard to say “It’s okay - they aren’t crying because of pain - it is just because of the bitter taste). Some of the bodies found had died of forced cyanide injection or gunshots. Jones was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head." I heard the whole recording last night, and it left me in shock... It was one the most horrid things I have ever heard... by the end you can hear babies crying and Jim Jones telling the mothers present to keep them quiet... one of the babies cry gave me a chill down my spine... The end of the recording is the loudest silence you'll ever hear... Now, you aske me why have I brought this up... That recording made me think, made me think why would 909 people do something like this? why would you let yourself be manipulated into "laying down your life", as jim Jones put it on the tape? He states that death is preferable to living in this inhumane world, is that so? This tape in from 1978, we can say that world is worse than it was then, cant we? Is it time for a world mass suicide? Should we give up hope of making this a better world and "lay down" our lives??? I don't know about you, but my answer is a resounding NO WAY!!!! Yes, the world is far from perfect, people are suffering in a lot of places, peace is practically a curse word in the middle east... But, there is still a lot to live for, isnt there? The birth of a new child... Sunsets, sunrises... Nature... Love... It might look like there really isnt much hope and that there is nothing to be done about it... But, that is exactly why we got to where we are... It's our job to not sit idle and watch it all go down... It's our job to something, even a small something... We usually think, "what can i do, Im only one person"... If we ALL think like that, we ARE doomed... You are ONE person, but if every ONE person out there do at least a little something... There is hope for us yet... Recycle, Use biodegradable bags when going to the store... something small can go a long way... I want to leave the best world I can to my children... and so should you... I know this post was a bit off my usual... But I felt I needed to say it... :D