Against One’s Own Self

Against One’s Own Self

1989 7 July 12 Against One’s Own Self (269) No one who is involved in destructive activities can save himself from these consequences, even if he has the greatest power (like the USA or USSR) behind him, and even if he has planned his destructive course on the highest scientific level.

One of the latest weapons invented in the modern scientific age to annihilate enemies is deadly gases. But now stores of such deadly gases are being destroyed because experience has shown that these posed great dangers even to the countries of their possession. According to a report published in The Times of India January 24,1989, Section 2:

“After years of study, the U.S. army has decided to destroy 69,453 ageing, sometimes leaking rockets filled with deadly nerve gas, and which are now stored in Richmond, Kentucky. It will build a special furnace at the depot to destroy them. There are similar rockets in seven other depots. They too will be burnt in incinerators. These poison gas weapons are now acknowledged to be as much a threat to the possessor as to the potential enemy. If kept too long, they could ignite spontaneously releasing an odourless, invisible mist that would kill everything in its path.”

This is an indication that destructive activities against others can amount to destruction of one’s own self. No one who is involved in destructive activities can save himself from these consequences, even if he has the greatest power (like the USA or USSR) behind him, and even if he has planned his destructive course on the highest scientific level.

The secret of all success is patience.

The cause of all failure is impatience.