1 result for (book:ecs2 AND heading:"esp class session may 5 1970" AND stemmed:problem)
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It is not one of my problems.
([Gert:] “You are blessed, Seth. What about us who have the problem. Deliberately not allowing a life to begin?”)
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A service. Now this is too complicated to handle in an evening. However, since I have nowhere made any statement on such a weighty problem, I shall here do so for the statements are needed regardless of humor. Simply on a physical level the animals have sometimes more sense than you do. They listen to the inner voice, and they do not overproduce. They set up safeguards that are automatic and instinctive. Any true evolution of your species as such is dependent on evolution of consciousness and spirituality. If your world is overpopulated, you can reduce yourselves to a state of consciousness that existed, in your terms, eons ago from which you would then again have to learn to emerge. Only certain persons are tempted to return when the world is over-populated. They are not stable. They are persons who returned too soon. They are then already erratic.
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—small remark. I cannot by any means sufficiently answer it in one evening. However, you will use war as an instrument, [a] way of solving your population problem, if you will not have sense to control it otherwise.
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We do not use such words as condone. The problem is an individual one. If you believe that abortion is evil and have one—it will be an evil. It is not basically evil, but that makes little difference to you if you believe that it is.
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