the development writer.

“ If we are to reach real peace in this world we shall have to begin with children .” – Gandhi In the world in which we currently live, the ideas of aid, charity, humanitarianism and activism are becoming extremely popular. You can find some charity or NGO (non-governmental organization) doing anything you might consider ‘good’ somewhere in the world and they will be more than happy to accept your donations. Also, most people will have some cause that they, at the very least, have some kind of inclination towards supporting. But the question is: what problems in the world need outside intervention to fix? I’ve been moving around the world for four and a half years now and everywhere I go I meet the local people and look for the apparent problems in the area and try to think of the root of the problem and how it can be fixed. Through my observations, individual study and research, and deductions, I have come to see that there is only one root problem in the world that, if addre...

Why are we here? What is it all for? What is the meaning of life? Why were we given the ability to ask ‘why?’? These are the questions that have plagued humanity since the first intelligent thought. The answers may be all around us, but if they are, we have not yet learned how to decipher them. So, we work with what we have and this leaves us with an answer that is both simple as well as complicated. I will make some simple, logical assumptions to open the path of understanding but then I have to contradict them later to present the bigger picture. Assumption #1 : There is no Supreme Being Before you burn the object that you are reading this on, please read further; this will be one of the statements that I will contradict later. However, statistically speaking, you will never be presented with direct evidence of a higher power. Also, the authorities who claim that there is a God have lost all credibility through corruption of the message and the organizations that deliver the...