Because I can never really answer for certain which things should be first (with the exception of a real emergency) I think I have narrowed it down to which things above all else I would place the most importance on.

1. Education: Though fixing the hunger problem is usually number 1, for whatever reason, it still isn’t fixed so I figure that there has to be a problem, not just academically but also socially.

It could be that people really don’t believe that there really is a hunger epidemic. I figure that because on a daily basis, I do not see people starving. Therefore it might seem like there isn’t a problem yet, I became aware of the problem through education so I think that education will have to come first otherwise they wouldn’t know about the other problem.

History falls well under education, history tells us everything! Personally I have never been good at remember dates which seems to be a downfall when testing because most test are not set up with the intention of allowing you to think. They are multiple choice and usually only consider the name, the date, and the place, the cause but they hardly ever get into the: conditions, the thoughts, the culture and those seem much more important to think about then remember the date because I think that gives you a more promising foresight in the world we live in today.

With all that, we still know that hunger has always been a problem, politics has always been a problem and lack of education has always been a problem.

And though on its own, a person believing in god is not something I would laugh at or think is just plain stupid however, when the belief wants to write policy and “enslave people to a certain “conditional” thought, then I have a problem and that has been a huge problem.

Again, those problems come from the lack of education, the way of thinking things through, the ability to recognize a contradiction, the flaw etc. because the notion that the entire life history has been already written in a book that is only about 2000 pages long is so absurd that I actually question the validity of ‘teachers’ and their ability to discern and use logic.

Anyways, what I was trying to say is that nothing will change unless the way people think changes. One of the most annoying and frustrating things that I hear come out of religion is that “god doesn’t change”.

With the mindset that nothing will change, nothing will change and the outcome is only what they believe because things cannot change.

They might believe that science is a crock of dookie and not valid because it does change and they cannot accept change. Sooo…..

Next on my list is actually science, space exploration and yes, the search for extraterrestrial life and yes “pure science” as you put it. I know without knowing my thoughts about it, it sounds selfish and absurd and without regard for humanity and the moral obligations we have to each other. I understand how it really makes people angry and think I am selfish and evil.

However if there is an answer out there, then we can find it. All we know for certain is that life will run out here, we will run out of resources (unless of course people change it through getting educated) but what will remain is the intrinsic need, desire to live, to survive because that is what we do and that is what we are capable of. I will never see that day myself so to call it selfish is pretty mean, I think. But I do regard our kids futures and I do still have those hopes for a better future and something so amazingly wild that I want my kid to say to my grave, “Mom, I wish you could have seen this”. Okay so maybe it is a little selfish. :D

Selling life short for “religical soul money” is not an option and it does not feed the hungry. That said, everyone can and probably should (unless you really cannot afford it, which I do understand also) be helping the poor and feeding the hungry as a regular charity that doesn’t come with rewards. Nobody has to know that you do it, you just do it because you know it is right.

You should just do it because you know it is there. Religions preach it all the time but haven’t done much to change it and most of them, though they really might be good hearted people, are so fearful of feeding a “bum” that they wont even consider it and that is ignorant, the is plain ignorance.

Anyways, I am rambling now. I could go on trying to justify why I think education and science are the most important things we can do to fix the hunger problem and answer those questions that we need to answer to make life a better place.