THE NINE WOES

I feel I MUST share with you these wonderful observations of Kahlil Jibran which force us to stop dead in our tracks and THINK.

Where as a nation do we stand in view of this description? Where are we heading? What are we planting and leaving behind for our successors?

THE NINE WOES 

• WOE to the nation that departs from religion to belief', from country lane to city lane, from wisdom to logic.
• WOE to the nation that does not weave what it wears, nor plant what it eats, nor press the wine that it drinks.
• WOE to the conquered nation that sees the victor's pomp as the perfection of virtue, and in whose eyes the ugliness of the conquerer is beauty.
• Woe to the nation that combats injury in its dream, but yields to the wrong in its wakefulness.
• WOE to the nation that does not raise its voice save in a funeral, that shows esteem only at the grave, that waits to rebel until its neck is under the edge of the sword.
• WOE to the nation whose politics is subtelty, whose philosophy is jugglery, whose industry is patching.
• Woe to the nation that greets a conquerer with fife and drum, then hisses him off to greet another conquerer with trumpet and song.
• WOE to the nation whose sage is voiceless,whose champion is blind, whose advocate is a prattler.
• WOE to the nation in which each tribe claims to be a nation.

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