Row, row, row your boat...

Sometimes memories of the PAST, including the many mistakes we made, are recalled with sorrow more than with anger. At the same time, we look longingly to the FUTURE, pinning all our hopes on some ambitious plans, which encourage us to be involved in a race to reach… who knows what. However, the PRESENT doesn’t seem to exist. Actually, our everyday experiences are considered trivial or even meaningless for ourselves. It's true we are not the kind of people that this society looks at with admiration, although in the light of that issue, we should know that with no more than a few joyful moments, we’ll cross the finishisng line.

:( No doubt, after reading this rambling post, you won’t wish to check this boring blog again. Anyway, if attention is paid to this song/video, you’ll understand these idle reflections better :)
 

We belong to something new, where there is no place for cruelty.

I’d like to share a newspaper article by Dr Taj Hargey (Director of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford), where he explains who are the real heretics and who betray Islam. It has been particularly revealing for me. A must-read!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2902821/Killers-betray-Islam-Muslims-driven-wilfully-perverted-misinterpretation-faith-says-academic.html
 

 



Ready, aim, fire!

Religious extremism has always been as dangerous as the most powerful weapon: stealing many lives and leaving painful wounds on others. Obviously, I’m talking about holding grudges, but don’t forget that they are only words. Are they important? Of course, they are the cartridge cases of that war in which I stand up for the human race and freedom of speech.

Sincerely, I can’t see any difference nowadays between the main religions and those so called sects. From the moment that they reduce you to being part of a community, you lose your freedom, which is what I believe and practice as my own spiritual faith. I would say that I’m agnostic –again in the middle of the classical black or white. Even though, I recognize the necessity of looking for a place or state where I can calm my soul. Rituals from different religions are often the perfect path to reach the longed-for peace, but freeing them of dogmas, precepts, commandments or fears.

To my mind, we don’t want to believe that we are executioners and victims at the same time. Violence, discrimination, fanaticism… are the truths that we don’t want to see in ourselves. Although, this kind of "social problems" should show us that human beings have been the same for centuries and because of our nature we dominate the earth for good and for bad (along with rats and cockroaches). However, it’s better for us to think that we have the solution; we can change. Will our children change this world? Last Wednesday, while I had lunch with my family and we were watching the News, it sent a shiver down my spine when I felt that my son was as I was at his age and I was watching the same war, the same conflict, the same hatred, the same irrationality between animals. Oh, sorry! We are human…