Crying Out For Joy For Another Year Of Peace

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Douglas

September 17, like August 10, is another beautiful day on the calendar of the uniting world. On September 17, 1978, the Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Israel and Egypt have been at peace for 43 years. Anwar Sadat was assassinated in October of 1981. Menachem Begin died in 1992. The peace between Egypt and Israel has lasted for many since the deaths of its original architects.

Crying out for joy for another year of peace

Between the founding of Israel in 1948, and the signing of the Camp David Accords, Egypt and Israel went to war three times. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, over 6,300 Israelis and as many as 7,000 Arabs died. During the 1967 Six-Day war, as many as 15,000 Egyptians, and almost 1,000 Israelis died. In the 1973 Yom Kippur war, 2,800 Israeli and as many as 15,000 Egyptians died. What would have happened if Sadat and Begin had not signed the Accords? That part of the world would be a much sadder and poorer place.

I wish to recall peace much more than war

Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin at Camp David, Maryland

I consider the keeping of this peace agreement to be a great accomplishment for both Israel and Egypt. It is something to celebrate. This year I celebrated by eating kushari, beloved street food of Egypt. Next year it will be falafel, beloved street food of Israel. As I ate the kushari, I imagined an Egyptian man born after the signing of the Camp David Accords. In my imagination, he was eating some kushari with his family after a busy day at his work. He was grateful for the peace between Egypt and Israel, as he had family members who died in one of the earlier wars.

Kushari and falafel at Zait and Za’atar in St. Paul, Minnesota

If we are to have peace, we must celebrate peace at every turn. We must make the celebration of peace in the world part of our lifestyle. Each year, I am looking for a way to celebrate the waging of peace. Every year, I am crying out for joy for another year of peace.

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A Lot More People Think We Might Have Visitors

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Douglas

Some public opinion polls ask the same question on a regular basis. The Right Direction / Wrong Track poll is an instance of this. Sometimes, polling organizations ask the same questions as they did on an earlier occasion, to measure how opinions has changed over time. For example, the Marist Poll asked the same question in 2005 and 2018. From time to time, pollsters have measured public opinion regarding extraterrestials. I am writing to share of a poll repeating a question regarding extraterrestrials.

A lot more people think we might have visitors

The poll is the Gallup Poll. The first time the poll was taken was in August of 2019. The second time the poll was taken was in July of 2021. The question asked was “Which comes closer to your view – some UFOs have been alien spacecraft visiting Earth from other planets or galaxies (or) all UFO sightings can be explained by human activity on Earth or natural phenomenon? The percentage of people expressing the possibility that UFOs have been alien spacecraft jumped from 33% to 41% in two years. The “human activity/natural phenomenon” group declined from 60% to 50%. If this is a representative sample of American adults, it means that millions of American changed their minds on this subject.

There were multiple subgroups that had significant increases over two years. College graduates, people with some college, men, and middle-aged adults (34 to 55) all showed significant increases. I consider the Gallup Poll to have downplayed the significance of these changes. The headline of their article read “Larger Minority in U.S. Says Some UFOs Are Alien Spacecraft.” It didn’t say how much larger (about 20 million Americans). And it didn’t give the time period over which this change took place (a mere 23 months). A lot more people think we might have visitors.

What inspired so many people to change their minds?

I consider the US government UFO/UAP report of June 2021 to have had a substantial impact on this change in public opinion. The UFO/UAP report confirmed a belief that there were many more UFO sightings taking place than what the government was reporting. The reports of unusual movement patterns were confirmed. The report debunked beliefs that these movement patterns were instrument malfunctions or pilot hallucinations. The confession of ignorance by the US government sparked a certain degree of wondering in the American public.

Are the visitors here for our benefit?

There have been two recent public opinion polls asking if UFO’s constitute a military threat. There have been many polls on the existence of intelligent life on other planets. A growing number of polls ask if intelligent life from other planets is present in our world. There is a question I would ask that no pollster has asked yet. The question is “If intelligent life from other planets is present in our world, are they here for the benefit of humanity?” What do you think?

The New Message from God teaches what is currently a minority viewpoint on the subject of extraterrestrials.

1) Intelligent extraterrestrial life exists
2) Extraterrestrials are intervening in human affairs today
3) This extraterrestrial intervention is a threat to human freedom

This extraterrestrial intervention relies upon secrecy and human acquiescence. Nobody is going to resist something that they think doesn’t exist. But a lot more people think we have visitors.