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| + | “The emphasis now for the human family is not growth and expansion, but stability and security. This world cannot continue to be plundered at such a violent and rapid rate if humanity is to have a future here. And you will not be able to go out in the Universe and gain the resources that you have depleted here in this world, for those resources are owned by others, and they are far more powerful than you are. That is why humanity must strive now to establish a balanced use of the world. This will require immense change in people’s behavior, beliefs, and attitudes. And this change will not be easy to secure.” | ||
| + | :::::Bringing Balance and Security to the World [shared on Fireside Chat, July 8, 2023] | ||
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| + | ==Boundaries to growth== | ||
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| + | "Economies of the world are based on growth, but you are hitting the boundaries of growth, for you are facing a world of declining resources, a world of changing and violent weather, a world where food production and the availability of water will diminish, a world where a growing humanity will have to drink from a slowly shrinking well. | ||
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| + | The emphasis now cannot be on growth and expansion and profiting off of this. It must be on stability and security."<ref>[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/the-new-world-prophecy/financial-storms The Coming Financial Storms] (October 11, 2008)</ref> | ||
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"Nations who are aware of your presence, who are not intervening in your world, will respect your sphere of influence if it is established within this solar system alone. But beyond that, any intrusions into space or into the territories or worlds governed or owned by others will be intensely resisted. You have boundaries and constraints now, and these are new to your experience, for you have been growing and expanding for so very long. But there are limits to this. Your world will limit you, and the Greater Community will limit you."<ref name="aohiii2/> | "Nations who are aware of your presence, who are not intervening in your world, will respect your sphere of influence if it is established within this solar system alone. But beyond that, any intrusions into space or into the territories or worlds governed or owned by others will be intensely resisted. You have boundaries and constraints now, and these are new to your experience, for you have been growing and expanding for so very long. But there are limits to this. Your world will limit you, and the Greater Community will limit you."<ref name="aohiii2/> | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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| + | == Further study == | ||
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| + | *''The New World Prophecy'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/the-new-world-prophecy/food-water-and-energy Food, Water and Energy] | ||
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| + | *''The Reformation'': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/the-reformation/restoring-the-world Restoring the World] | ||
[[category:the Greater Community]] | [[category:the Greater Community]] | ||
[[category:the future world]] | [[category:the future world]] | ||
Latest revision as of 00:41, 9 July 2023
“The emphasis now for the human family is not growth and expansion, but stability and security. This world cannot continue to be plundered at such a violent and rapid rate if humanity is to have a future here. And you will not be able to go out in the Universe and gain the resources that you have depleted here in this world, for those resources are owned by others, and they are far more powerful than you are. That is why humanity must strive now to establish a balanced use of the world. This will require immense change in people’s behavior, beliefs, and attitudes. And this change will not be easy to secure.”
- Bringing Balance and Security to the World [shared on Fireside Chat, July 8, 2023]
Boundaries to growth
"Economies of the world are based on growth, but you are hitting the boundaries of growth, for you are facing a world of declining resources, a world of changing and violent weather, a world where food production and the availability of water will diminish, a world where a growing humanity will have to drink from a slowly shrinking well.
The emphasis now cannot be on growth and expansion and profiting off of this. It must be on stability and security."[1]
"Nations who are aware of your presence, who are not intervening in your world, will respect your sphere of influence if it is established within this solar system alone. But beyond that, any intrusions into space or into the territories or worlds governed or owned by others will be intensely resisted. You have boundaries and constraints now, and these are new to your experience, for you have been growing and expanding for so very long. But there are limits to this. Your world will limit you, and the Greater Community will limit you."[2]
"Your notions of growth and expansion, therefore, will have to change. For you cannot plunder the Earth without bringing yourself to a devastated state, a state that can be easily taken over by others in the universe. While outright conquest of your world is not permitted in this region of space, other nations are free to intervene under two conditions: first, if the native peoples of your world appear to others to welcome intervention and to not resist it; and, second, if humanity were to fall into a truly deprived and declined state. Under the second set of circumstances, other nations would be free to come and take the world for themselves, using humanity as a resource for their own ends." [2]
References
- ↑ The Coming Financial Storms (October 11, 2008)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Allies of Humanity Book Three, Second Briefing: The Requirements for Freedom in the Universe
Further study
- The New World Prophecy: Food, Water and Energy
- The Reformation: Restoring the World