So, this is my post to make up for yesterday and today. I unfortunately did not write anything on my wonderful folder, but I feel like forcing something "inspirational" to come out onto paper is worse than making something up right here on the spot and claiming it inspired me, so no.
Ironically, this was due to my final week of my online class, and yes-- I'M DONE. WHOOT.
But it is actually ironic, because the class was anthropology and we were learning about the Mbuti Pygmies in the Ituri forest in the Congo.
Did you know...
"More than three million people died in Congo's six years of civil strife, an internal scramble for power that saw one president assassinated and laid Congo open to the invading armies of at least six of its neighbors. The dead consist mainly of civilians. They perished mostly from starvation and disease: the worst human calamity since World War II. Yet, inevitably, it is Congo's lurid tales of cannibalism, its sensational stories of human sacrifice, its ornamental killings, which end up bubbling into the news."
Yeah, cry. Now. But really--- get real and get your life together, because you have one and if you are reading this, you are somehow a combination of educated, funded, loved, supported, and care for people around you! So, yeah.
Have you ever heard of "conflict minerals"? No...good, because I never thought about them before literally this last week of class, and also through this video: Our Electronics from DR Congo Slavery.
I watched the video, but then I had this gruesome image in my head:
Imagine, for a moment, that the United States is prostrated by a civil war. Desperate bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., cut off by years of fighting, issue an SOS to foreign green groups: Please help rescue America's fabled national parks! British activists respond by funding the entire budget of Yellowstone National Park, where gangs of neo-Nazis are holed up, machine-gunning the last buffalo. Japanese wildlife experts, meanwhile, face gunfire while resupplying beleaguered National Park Service rangers at the Everglades, where armed profiteers are peddling real estate. Scores of American rangers have been killed.
This is conservation work in Congo.
I know this is sans-GIFs, but this is real (and I'm tired and there is much going on...also I missed out an amazing movie) and we need to learn...as I clearly have the past 5 weeks (in class) and the past week (in NYCUP).
So, I leave you with this: when we look at the world, what do we see? Is there pain, why? Where is sin, and is it in me?
Because sin is around us, but I believe we are engraved with the ability to care beyond the normal, because we reflect a God who cares beyond imagination.
If we can make so much hatred, imagine if we came together--- each and every unique soul--- and took this planet to the place called Paradise.
Praise Jesus.
Goodnight & Goodbye,
Princy
Read more in National Geographic
Grab a copy of The Forest People
Pray, love, grow.
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