Jewells of Thought

I find it fascinating that the year I was born some intriguing historical events happened. Including when I was about 5 months old Robert Ballard had used some amazing technology and found actual wreckage of the Titanic. Talk about big news and it was something I was yet to know until I began learning about Titanic little by little.

Over the last few years even more research has been combed through. Look at the bottom headline 6 men worth half a billion dollars. Plus don’t forget Molly Brown was also on that Cruise Liner. She was there due to an unexpected illness of an infant grandchild. Is this all by some conspiracy that 6 men were killed in this what has always seemed an accident? Yet at least three of these men were wholly opposed to the idea of a Central Bank.

Over 1,300 souls were lost from this chilling disaster. There were not enough lifeboats and they went faster due to one man’s pride, Mr. Ismay’s. He was showing off to the press. The facts remain those billionaires died and President Wilson and the Rockefellers and however else got their Central Bank. Do all of the dots align? Who knows? It’s a rather difficult idea to digest and yet everything swirls around greed doesn’t it?

Still the notoriety of the RMS Titanic is disappointing. Ismay challenged God saying even He couldn’t sink this ship. Yet God is not mean spirited as some of the staff were keeping the 3rd Class Peasantry locked even as the ship was sinking. That was not an act of God, and then for Ismay to take the seat of a woman or child that could have been saved shows pride and human nature at its worst.

So what lessons has the world learned from this harrowing incident over a 100 years ago? Some recent events have happened leaving us wondering if lessons had been learned. Titanic had some dirty dealings going on with how it was built besides the books I have I also have 3 different versions on DVD. Two are movies and the third is a BBC series of sorts that shows how corners were short changed and not finished as it should have been.

What comes to your mind when you hear ‘Titanic’? Does this make you think before thinking about a cruise or getting on any kind of ship?