[Greg10036]

Thank you for this excellent outline Bill. Angel, the future is not set in stone and if we believe something is stone cold fact, such as the Book of Revelations in the Bible as an example, we develope the situation of a self fulfilling prophecy. This is the challenge of fundamentalism, that things will not change and we are at the mercy of what has been said to be so. We can change anything because, even though we do not have the technology of other races, we each have a soul, regardless how obscured, neglected, or disavowed one choose to treat it. This is what gives us the ability to change, anything. As to your question of how many does it take to make a change; in society as heavily institutionalized as the one we now occupy, which has been centuries in the making (these are not new problems), there is the so-called "hundreth monkey" phenomenon, which no one that I am aware of has been able to define the definite threshold response for. What more prominently comes to mind is what a housewife turned activist told me years ago when she took on and successfully defeated a major oil company to prevent the spraying of raffinite, a low grade nuclear waste, on crop fields just to get rid of it. She told me, and I quote, "The reason people do not become more involved in issues is because they have been convinced they can do nothing. The truth is that you need only 2% of a given constituency to make a change." You can make your own conclusions from this. Seeing what she was able to do alone makes me believe that 2% is a good metric to go by. All the best.
Greg