SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION....


there is a theory that every person on the big blue earth can be connected to another person by no more than six degrees of separation.... they aren't talking abt the physical definition of degrees... protractors don't have a part in this theory... they are talking abt friends of friends... if you have used friendster before you'll know what degrees they are talking abt...

just hypothetically..... if everybody in the world knew 100 different people each....

1st degree friends = 100
2nd degree friends = 100x100
3rd degree friends = 100x100x100
4th degree friends = 100x100x100x100
5th degree friends = 100x100x100x100x100
6th degree friends = 100x100x100x100x100x100 = 1,000,000,000,000 friends = A LOT OF PPLE

considering that i know a lot more than 100 people both family and friends, the number of 6th degree friends will just keep growing and growing with every new person that i meet...

so if every person in the world in the world are friends of friends(to a certain power) why is there still so much animousity amongst the people sharing this planet together... we have not advanced far enough to be able to travel to and live on another planetary body and we probably will never be able to in our lifetimes... so why can't people realise that there isn't going to be a restart button which we can press and the world will come back to the way it used to be...

there is really no such thing as a entirely renewable resource... eventually everything will sooner or later be used up.... fossil fuel resources seemeed to be inexhaustable a few decades ago... but now... scientists estimate it will only last for another fifty++ yrs... are we really that selfish to use up all that we have now and give our children a barren desolate world...

guns, WMD, navy warships, tanks, aircraft of war.... all wonders of human constuction... but consider... what is man's work compared to that of the Creator.... the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the food that we eat, the animals that hop, run, swim and fly about the earth... that is something that man cannot create... and through such weapons they are destroying what He has made....

Six degrees... within six degrees i might know a guy called Anders frm Sweden or a Sarah from the States or Jacque frm France or Dimitri frm Russia... isn't it fascinating... within six degress i might even know the men that flew airliners into building over three years ago... i might even know the person sitting in Row D of the plane or the person sitting in her cubicle in the building doing her daily "chores" when the liner crashed into the towers.... it is saddening to see people dileberately killing each other of no real purpose... would killing those people grant them their demands... would killing themselves with bombs strapped to their bodies in the middle of crowded marketplaces grant their desires...

Six degrees... would the knowledge that everyone in the world is connected by no more that six degrees prevent these "men" from carrying out the task they so fervently wish to carry out.... i doubt so...

will there ever be lasting peace on our planet... i'm not talking abt "ceasefires" or "dialogues"... i'm talking abt true lasting peace... not the flower power kind... but peace as in the definition of the word... harmony in personal relations...

if the people of the world cannot accept the ways of another people, is it too much to ask if they could just be tolerant and accepting of their differences and learn to live with each other side by side....


if only it could be so....