Comments on: The Financial Crisis – an Analysis

By: patricia

patricia — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:05:46 +0000

what are the preparations made by the affected countries of the financial crisis?

By: Jim Matei

Jim Matei — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:33:10 +0000

The Top Heavy Corporate Greed is a major contributing factor for the financial problem. How can any business or country operate effeciently when capitalistic greed and ego is the primary driving force? What will happen to these people when these individuals can no longer survive without their Million Dollar per year salaries and yet try to continue on with that life style?

The ugly part of this financial crisis has not even begun as of yet.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:30:15 +0000

It sounds like socialism or communism. We work for others and then we receive in return. It was tried in Russia and now China, and unfortunately, it doesn’t work. There are ALWAYS leaders who set themselves apart and altruism goes out the window. Theory sound great but on a mass global practice, it cannot exist. Take only what it needs for sustance goes back to the cave men days. We may be only one body and therefore all connected, but the parts of this body, (human soul) is free and choice is always for the self and survival. Humanity has learned over the centuries that to depend on others for altruistic help is impossible and will lead to complete destruction in time. Do you force someone to give their bread to you if you are more hungry, how do you determine what more hungry is?
How easy it is for Laitman to speak to an audience that considers itself enlightened. He should go to an audience that is suffering and needs enlightment and then he will be confronted with front line suffering and need. I feel this entire discussion given by Laitman to an audience that gives undivided attention, is false. Social values cannot just “change” if they don’t know what to change to. You are talking about coersion (communism, dictatorship, facism,) then what is he really talking about. I for one would never want to be forced to give. Obama talks, CHANGE, but in reality to actually do that you need mass suffering. I don’t agree that this will ever happen voluntarily. Laitman is sounding like a soft spoken dictator. Love toward everyone? How about a pedaphile or murderer, a torturer? should we LOVE them. Should we open our homes to them? Come on, where can this begin. At home? with loving parents and children? The wolves will devour them when they leave their home. I have read a few of Laitmans books and he is very learned. I love to read the Zohar and find it a great source of light and hope. But this conversation is disheartening because it all seems impossible.

By: Mark Goldstein

Mark Goldstein — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:46:03 +0000

To put a spiritual “spin” on the current global financial crisis is on the one hand refreshing and optimistic while on the other hand quite a stretch for most people. For those of us who view the material world as a reflection of the spiritual world, this is no stretch at all.

Both the spiritual world and the material world have separate gods; the spiritual world’s G-d is the Ein Sof responsible for all creation, yet found more in time than space. This G-d, for the most part, is inconceivable and concealed. The material world’s equivalent exists and is perceived clearly in space and is responsible, for the most part, for our moment to moment existence; money.

This idolatry of money has been a problem in need of correction for longer than any of us have been alive. Even amongst the Jewish people, for many if not most, it is common today to accept the pursuit of money over the sanctification of the Sabbath on the seventh day; as if six out of seven were not enough, we choose space over time; the profane over the holy.

I realize that for the average person it is no comfort to view the current financial crisis as a welcome correction to an age-old problem, but for those of us who study Kabbalah and have followed the teachings of Rabbi Laitman, was this not expected? At some point in our study did we not ask ourselves how this transformation from an ego based material world into one that is guided by altruism will actually manifest?

America’s golden calf, in the form of the Merrill Lynch bull, has fallen; and as painful as this event continues to be there will be a tomorrow. And like the tomorrows that followed the events of 9/11 and Katrina, we will be tattered and weary but with new insights. I long for a world that gains insight through enlightenment, but our world continues to need the angst of suffering to move forward.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:56:04 +0000

what does all this mean for the younger generations financial future?

By: bisobrl

bisobrl — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:32:17 +0000

americian high tech industry relys mainly with those of chaina and japan so how can you say that everything crashes except americian high tech industry.

By: Paul Mill

Paul Mill — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:07:49 +0000

It is a new way to look at the unfolding crisis, and I appreciate the common-sense attitude of the article. Howevr, I take issue with the answer to the fourth question:
“Hence, countries will try to move away from globalization. However, this won’t help them, because then they will stop developing. Without full communication and exchange, they will cease developing and regress to feudalism!”
This country had development, communication and exchange before globalization. Globalization was a bad idea, America stopped developing. We stopped exchanging and took what the foreign recipients of our commmerce gave us, and on their terms. We didn’t complain too loudly about industrial chemicals in baby food out of fear that they would stop selling us baby food, and refuse our dollars. That’s not communication, it’s supplication.