Benjamin Howard Tobias

Many people should be wondering what they can do to further the work of God's plan.

Here is what you can do:

The Single Biggest Problem we have is Over Population of the Earth.

There are too many people making too many babies.  Not one faith, nation, ethnicity, or group is to blame. 

Some people are guilty of making too many babies, all of us are responsible.

All the other problems we face on this planet are symptoms of this problem and must be addressed.

However, keep in mind, if we level off the increase of the number of people on this planet, and make PEACE with each other, it will be much easier to solve the other problems.

Here is what you can do:

1. If you already have children, do not make anymore.

2. Consider not making any if you do not have any and adopt children that need a home.  Show God that you appreciate diversity the same way He does.

3. Please cease using fertility drugs.  We have enough people on the planet as it is.

4. Please do not hurt babies that are already with us.

5. Governments must cease financial incentives for having many children.

Use some common sense.  Realize that God with us, He always has been, and always will be.  But His methods for controlling population growth are severe and we must not test Him.  If we work on this problem together we can make some very substantial progress in solving all the other problems we face in a relatively short time.

Please do your part to stop making so many children.  The children of today are counting on us.

Is there anything else I can do?

I believe every single person on Earth has the capacity to make the world better.  Every single person matters and because God hears and knows all of us, everything that everyone does counts.  There is an expression that I learned about how "prayer, repentance, and charity" have an affect on our lives.  I encourage you to practice these three things on a regular basis.  This space is far too small for me to explain and demonstrate how to apply these concepts, but with a little initiative on your part you can begin to make a great difference in the world's condition.

One thing I would like to mention, that I have participated in for a long time is a form of charity.  All of us have the ability to help those in a very real and direct manner.  This form of contribution is more indirect but very powerful.  You might be reading this in front of a computer and wonder what can I do right now?  My answer is, put your computer to work right away and leave it alone while you go out there and make a difference.  The way you can get your computer to work is to join a distributed computing project and put all of the spare computing cycles to work.  Although this means using more electricity which is not in everyone's best interest, it is possible to regulate how much work you assign to your computer or computers so they can make a positive impact on the world.

I have been a member of the BOINC project for many years.  You can download the client software at this location: main page for BOINC

Below is a graphic image depicting my contributions to different distributed computing projects.