The history of Schokland in the north of the Netherlands is bizarre. It was once a former lonely island in the middle of the Zuiderzee and became over the centuries increasingly endangered by the furious storms at sea. Eventually, the government forced in1859 the inhabitants to leave to the mainland, where they started to live in a district in Kampen on the IJssel river. Now the island is situated in the fully muted Noordoostpolder, as a kind of heightening in the flat meadows.
We spent a
day visiting the museum and the former island and got deeply impressed by what
the islanders have done in the past to survive. Periodically, houses and
sometimes the whole church were destroyed by the wild sea. Periodically, a
little bit of the island crumbled away, and it must have been a hard and
difficult life for this small group of citizens of the Netherlands.
Would You
like to comment on this?This group of people has suffered a tough struggle for life and eventually after several generations they had to abandon it. They are a symbol of the power of man, who tries to survive in barren circumstances. These islanders find their brothers and sisters in the rest of the world, such as in the Sahara desert, on the cold plains of Siberia, in the high mountains of Tibet, in the rainforests of Brazil. And for centuries, mankind has evolved thus into what it is now, intelligent, resourceful, social, conscious and powerful.
But there is something more important to say.
These extreme circumstances were necessary to
evolve evolutionarily the intellect, the willpower and the creativity of mankind.
Because the more exciting the circumstances of this evolutionary man is, the
more evolving his talents are. So it is stated here: the challenging planet
earth is a great opportunity for mankind as a whole to reach unprecedented
heights in its development. And this is what God is waiting for. And then the
near future with her big challenges is still on the rise.
The fact that the residents of Schokland lost
the battle does not detract from the fearless and powerful genes they are still
on the continent passing on to their children.
The Schokkers are blessed. My blessings to you all
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