In the News (Reuters): “A group of more than 100 billionaires and millionaires has issued a plea to political and business leaders convening virtually for the World Economic Forum: make us pay more tax.

“The group calling itself the “Patriotic Millionaires” said that the ultra-wealthy were not currently being forced to pay their share of the global economic recovery from the pandemic.

“‘As millionaires, we know that the current tax system is not fair. Most of us can say that, while the world has gone through an immense amount of suffering in the last two years, we have actually seen our wealth rise during the pandemic – yet few if any of us can honestly say that we pay our fair share in taxes,’ the signatories said in an open letter, published on the occasion of the World Economic Forum’s ‘virtual Davos’…

“Reuters reported last year on the staggering rise in billionaires’ wealth in 2020, as the world went into lockdown and the global economy faced its worst recession since World War Two, prompting the millionaires’ group to call for higher taxes. …

“Over the course of the two years of the pandemic, the fortunes of the world’s 10 richest individuals have risen to $1.5 trillion – or by $15,000 a second – a study by Oxfam this week showed. …

“According to a study conducted by the Patriotic Millionaires together with Oxfam and other non-profits, a progressive wealth tax starting at 2% for those with more than $5 million and rising to 5% for billionaires could raise $2.52 trillion, enough globally to lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty and guarantee healthcare and social protection for individuals living in lower income countries.”

My Response: You can count even more. Where do they get these billions from? They collected this from all the poor, from the oppressed.

Question: So you would like to go deeper, to the basics?

Answer: I don’t want to deal with these matters! But humanity must still put things in order for once. How can it be that one person has billions, not only billions but even more, that is not taxed at all?! Not taxable! They officially create enterprises that initially pay zero taxes! Zero taxes! How can this be?! And an ordinary person pays 20%, 30%, to 40% in taxes.

Why?! They can then scream beautifully: “Take taxes from us! We do not know what to do with our billions! Do me a favor! We beg you!” The beautiful duplicity of our world.

Question: But does this decision of theirs at least please you?

Answer: They are doing it in advance. Overtaking, as if on the run, in front of the chariot, which descends after them from the mountain.

Question: That is, this chariot, as it were, hints at the fact that now they will take 10%?

Answer: I would charge them 90%. Why not a progressive tax?

Question: So the conclusion is that you do not see much progress in this?

Answer: I do not see any progress in this. I see duplicity in this, an abomination! And they still do not even know what they look like in the eyes of the masses.

Question: That is, they are not benefactors of the people?

Answer: No.

Question: Is the main question of equality how to achieve it?

Answer: Equality. There is nothing to talk about. Let them add it there so that these taxes, among other things, are not deducted from those gifts that they make to the government and others. They deduct billions.

Question: Do you consider this a bribe?

Answer: Of course. Clear bribery.

Question: So all the time there is this thought that I can give something if only it brings me some benefit. Is there no way out of this thought?

Answer: Nowhere. Otherwise they wouldn’t have said it. It’s just to save their own skin. And they have already crawled through all the holes and distributed them to save it and protect it.

Question: Is it ever possible to send a message that I am not doing all this on my own account?

Answer: This will never happen voluntarily. Never! And do not hope that it will!

Question: Then will everything always lead to some kind of revolution?

Answer: If it continues until such a time, yes. Or it will still break through because the personality develops in a person and he will yet be able to understand what the methodology, practice, and goal of the development of the world are.

Question: Can it come to a rich person who has a lot of money?

Answer: No. He has it closed.

Question: Here they write the words “fairness” and “fairly.” What does “justice” mean to you?

Answer: In fairness, this can only be in proportion to the bestowal from a person to the world. This is justice. Nothing else.

Question: How much can I give to the world as much as possible?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What do you mean by bestowal?

Answer: Giving back is any of my actions to bring the world into balance. So that with respect to each person, receiving and bestowing are balanced.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 01/31/22

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Question: Irma asks: “Why is the feeling of the end of the world so sweet, that it is here on the doorstep?”

Answer: For her, the end of the world is the end of suffering, confusion, disappointment, all sorts of obstacles, resistances, everything. Many people would like to die quietly, peacefully. Let me just forget and sleep.

Question: Leave me finally alone. And that is why the feeling of the end of the world is sweet?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what of it? How to emerge out of this sweetness or what to do?

Answer: There is no end of the world at all. There is a transition from this state, which we call our world, to the next state, to another world, to the next degree, to another universe. Here we go to another world.

Question: Does this sweet sensation give us something? Does it encourage us to do something?

Answer: Of course. We have nothing to be afraid of. We just need to move toward it consciously.

Question: Go to the end of the world?

Answer: Yes. This egoistic world of ours must end. And instead of it, there will be an altruistic world, a connection above our egoism.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/10/22

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In the News (Daily Mail): “Earth is getting its own ‘Black Box’ that will track climate change and other man-made perils – and potentially document civilisation’s downfall.

“Built ‘to outlive us all’, the 32-foot-long indestructible steel monolith, based in Tasmania, Australia, will be filled with hard drives documenting an ‘unbiased account of the events that lead to the demise of the planet’.

“It will capture scientific data on temperature, sea levels, atmospheric CO2 and many more metrics to provide a document of how humanity failed to avoid a climate disaster.

“Researchers see it as akin to a black box in aviation, which records the performance and condition of an aircraft to provide vital information in case of accidents. “

Comment: It feels like we’re on a plane; we are flying, and the black box is recording something, and we already are starting to crash.

My Response: And we want to send a telegram to Earth.

Question: Yes, and we want to send a telegram: look, this is how we are living and you can’t live like this.

How would you decode this?

Answer: It causes an apocalyptic state. That is, I know in advance that we will die, that we will not exist. Not just me, but the whole civilization, everything.

And in this case maybe we will not leave something even for the grandchildren, because they will not be there, but for someone there. Some humanoids will land on our Earth, dig up our black box, look at it and say: “Ay-ay-ay!”

Comment: But it says here that this is our future civilization; in the future someone will still remain after this downfall.

My Response: And what’s next? What will they see? What kind of idiots we were?

Question: Will they draw any conclusions from these mistakes?

Answer: To do this, we need to tell them about the essence of our life, about the forces that control us and why we cannot make a normal society out of ourselves. After all, everything depends only on us. Why can’t we bring ourselves to normal relationships, mutual support, communication, and so on? It is only because of this, it is because of our inability to unite together—although no one is stopping us except ourselves—we cannot create a normal civilization.

Question: Should they understand that this is the only reason we died?

Answer: It is because we couldn’t cope with ourselves. Yes, it’s generally terrible to tell some future generation who we are, what we have come to, to what level we have developed, that we know about our future demise and can’t do anything about it.

And at the same time we are proud of what we have in our hands: what bombs, what sciences, and so on. But in fact we can’t use anything for the real good of people, only to everyone’s detriment.

Question: I don’t even want to say that this civilization will perish. And will the people of the future understand this? Will they understand it themselves or do we have to transmit it to them now?

Answer: It won’t help.

Question: So they have to come to this by themselves?

Answer: Of course. I wouldn’t do that at all. I wouldn’t leave this black box. I would still try to bring people to the fact that they are in a dead end development.

We must use ourselves to the end in order to raise humanity to the next level of correct, kind cooperation.

Question: In your opinion does such a recorder not give anything to the future generation. Will it give us nothing?

Answer: No. Even today we find all sorts of cave writings and the Qumran records from the Dead Sea in which they recorded that we are the last generation here and there will be nothing more, and so on. So what?

Question: Nothing. What conclusion can be drawn? Don’t leave any boxes, do you think?

Answer: Do not leave anything, but do everything now. Humanity must understand that the future is in our hands in any case. We can change it, and it depends on us. Only on us.

Question: If now I will advance to this future, as you say, of good relations and connections, and so on, will I see and feel it all now?

Answer: Yes.

Question: No death and after death?

Answer: Nothing at all! To rise above our animal life and death to the level of immortality.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/9/21

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Question: The German philosopher Herder argued against war as a legitimate course of action and criticized the age-old justifications for the use of military force and subjugation of one nation by another.

What should replace the glorification of military achievement, heroism?

Answer: Nothing. A hero is someone who can prevail over himself, over his egoism. The hero is the one who defeats himself. By this he is glorified.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 3/4/22

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Question: Hegel wrote that war is the engine of historical progress. He believed that without wars there would be stillness and stagnation. Will eternal peace lead to stagnation in evolutionary development?

Answer: No way!

Real peace is an even more dynamic existence than war. During war you are searching how to escape, where to hide, what to do, but in real peace you are always in search and in ascent.

It is not stagnation, as philosophers say. After all, you are in constant search for means to preserve the peace, to develop yourself and others, to bring them closer, and to unite them.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 3/4/22

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Question: Does the discovery of The Book of the Zohar and the fact that we are studying it indicate that a new cycle of development has begun in humanity?

Answer: According to Kabbalah, since the end of the 20th century humanity has entered a special period when it is obliged to change the paradigm of development from reception to bestowal. We must fully implement the principle of “love your neighbor as yourself.”

However, we have neither the strength nor the desire for this. We are guided only by the need to avoid suffering. If, along with this, we open The Book of the Zohar, then a person will be able to change so much that while in our world he will feel himself as if he is in paradise.

Today, there are many comments and explanations on this book available in every language. There are about two million people around the world who are studying within the system of the international KabU education centers. Therefore, we have the experience to explain to everyone the essence of The Book of Zohar.

In the past, we were promised a bright future and we will really be able to implement it because there is a force in nature that can change us. The communists did not know this, but the Jews had it as their little secret. Today they tell everyone about it.

The time has come when humanity must realize that it must change itself, otherwise it has no future. Therefore, The Book of Zohar is now revealed and we can use it. I am sure that all of us will be happy.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up, Gene of Altruism” 9/19/10

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The coronavirus gave us a short breather for a few weeks and then began to spread with renewed vigor. We wonder why this epidemic seemingly will not end? But this is a sign that we have not yet done what we should have done to properly respond to this virus.

As usual, there is no other cure but connection or rapprochement between us and a more human and attentive attitude to each other. This would have greatly weakened the virus.

We expected that after half the country had been ill with omicron, some kind of general immunity would arise, yet for some reason the pandemic is not going away and instead is growing again. The fact is that the previous laws do not apply to this virus. They won’t help anymore.

After all, this is not an ordinary virus, but one that requires us to fix the relationships between people. It would seem, what can the virus know about our relations? However, the virus knows everything because it has all the information inside it. We think it’s just a piece of DNA, but it’s alive!

This is not a dead element or a vegetable, but is in fact on the animal level, the same as ourselves. The coronavirus has a mind and feelings. It perceives the environment and influences it. It is able to connect to others, penetrate into the human body, and integrate into it so much that it begins to control this body.

Do not treat it condescendingly and with neglect. It seems to us, well, how can the virus know if I said hello to my neighbor today? But the virus is smarter than us and it knows everything. The virus controls the world because it is a particle of the Creator.

Coronavirus is an important element of nature, which includes in it a special concentration of all the information about this world in order to influence it. Therefore, it can be destroyed only by improving our human relations.

This may sound a little naive, but let’s try it! We don’t have anything to lose. Let’s start treating each other well and with great attention and care. We will take care of the needy, the elderly, the children, and each other; let us not litter the street or make noise. Let’s try to think about others and try to do everything to make them feel good.

I’m not waiting for someone to tell me what to do, but I’m looking for where I can help others with my kind attitude and show them that I really wish them well. Let’s conduct such an experiment in the country and in a month we will check what the situation is with the coronavirus through the following questions: Is the pandemic continuing or not? How many people have died this month? How many died from road accidents? It’s easy to check, let’s try it.
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From KabTV’s “Insight” 3/21/22

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Question: Should a leader have a desire for power? Can he do without it?

Answer: It depends on what this power is for. If I want to raise my children correctly, I must have power over them. But this is for their benefit and within the framework that is given to me by nature.

Everything else is a bad use of power. This is already something that should not be.

Question: In general, is the desire for power an innate characteristic of a person or an acquired one?

Answer: It is an innate desire. A person is born a dictator and it is impossible to raise a dictator. Society only provides conditions.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/22/22

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Question: What advice would you give to a leader or a manager who feels a desire for power? What should he do?

Answer: They should decide to conduct elections only according to the criterion of kindness and love of the candidate for power: what he wants to do, what kind of good deeds, and how he wants to fill the space subordinate to him with his love.

Comment: Usually he has an entire list of things he wants to do.

My Response: No! The list will not help here. It is necessary to constantly check his management:, every day, every week, every month, and every year. If it is not according to these criteria, he should be dismissed immediately.

And behind him there is a queue of people who will fight for kindness! A queue of people who want to show the power of love in relation to society.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/22/22

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Question: Are there any effective mechanisms for combating the negative influence of power on an individual and on the behavior of a person?

Answer: There is the gradual cultivation of love in everyone for everyone else over many years and even maybe generations. Nothing else! Only in this way will we be able to rise above our egoistic essence and become controlled by love.

Comment: But this is a long educational process.

My Response: We do not have anything else.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/22/22

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