Matter of faith

They said, “I called God many times, but I never heard from him.”

He said, “Maybe you didn’t listen well.”

They said, “How can we know if it is him who has spoken to me while we were trying hard to hear?”

He said, “Does life feels on either side of the extreme?”

They said, “No, but what if my life was on either side, and how about now, this moment where my life is on the moderate scale, couldn’t my life be a little better this moderate one?”

He said, “By better I know you mean more wealth, as now days money is what judge of one’s life as been good or bad, so now I ask what if you had all the gold in the world, would you consider this as a blessing of God? I am sure not as you would say ‘I am to be credited for all the gold I have possessed as my wealth, as I worked hard for them. You soon would be engulfed in your wealth and power that soon you will forget God and maybe use God as a tool for increasing your power.
Then a day will come that you will suffer again, and then you will remember God.
You see my friend we human only remember God in times of pain, in times of hardship, when things are uneasy, but when you are blessed with good fortunes God feels miles away. Yes my friends, therefore there can never be a good enough sign for one if they wish not to see it. If you wish to see with a willing mind and heart you are surrounded by signs which I call an endless blessing. As for those who live in the extreme low, where they have no wealth to live on, have no food to eat, in them you will find people with strongest faith. It is true that most may only worship God because faith is all they have left, only few will worship God the way he was meant to be worshiped as once again we only remember God when we suffer and the only reason we pray is because we are suffering otherwise it would be luckily we would never even try to remember God. You may say but most of them never recover from those hardship and even some see their sons and daughters die, well my friend that is the sad bitter truth .All I can say is pray in in hereafter they will be rewarded for all their pain and enter the kingdom of heaven. Yes my friends I cannot tell you the exact location of heaven nor if it real, but all I know if you want to live a Godly life things will soon work out, you don’t know how but it does eventually all make sense. You may not be convinced but at least have it in back of your head, if you are a rational person who does not believe in luck, in moments where you feel lucky, as something happen for you favour in a manner that you just cannot make sense out of it, that maybe the bless which you may or may not deny of.

The option is up to you, after all you are free to will a freedom you want.”

Critique to freedom

The limit to freedom

We all like to talk about freedom, we all love to defend this lady for her rights when we feel it is been abused. We are so sensitive about it that whenever we hear the cry of “help our freedom is under fire” we give ourselves the right to attacked lands and wager wars just to fight for it, but in reality how free are we?
In reality freedom is nothing but actions bounded in limits. These limits in my opinion come in two forms:
1. Physical freedom: What we can do physically
2. Mental freedom: What we can think
In my opinion freedom at its best is mostly freely in the second arena.

The Utopia of limitless freedom, and how it can never exist:

Consider a universe where there is no laws of physics applied in manner which can restrain your physical freedom and, no laws are there to govern you and limits you on your actions and you are truly free to do whatever you want, think whatever you think, and carry them physically. In this case you can truly be free, act and do what you feel like. However for this case to work there should be one main principle which must apply at all times:
• You must be alone in this universe at all time.
You may ask why is this so? A universe with populations of +1 will lead to limited freedom automatically. Once everyone wants their version of freedom your freedom will be restricted more and more. Let’s say you wish to fly naked on a half breed horse and cat, and the other individual does not want that so he or she is then free to complain. However since you are a selfish fool you tell her tough luck, deal with it, I am free to do whatever I want. So now the other person has two options:
1. Since she/he cannot remain indifference to this he or she must limit her freedom by not been where you are, which automatically demolishes the perfect Ethiopia of freedom for her.
2. She can get a gun and shoot you in the face because he or she is free to do so, offcourse others then have the right to do the same to her and soon you will have to hell in this haven of freedom.
Consequently you must be alone. No let’s not forget the reality that been alone is impossible now days and the perfect Ethiopia is just a thought experiment at its best. And we all saw how one in this hypothetical made up world is still very much limited in its freedom! Let’s go back to reality and look at the two cases I have stated at the very beginning.


Physical freedom:

Physical freedom is the state of being able to carry any physical actions without been bounded by anything. Of course there are limits to this. The limits come down to laws/regulation of one’s nation/culture/religion and your physical ability. So once again perfect freedom cannot exist .
Laws and regulations restrain us from many actions. The fact that you are restricted to be free in completely against the idea of freedom.

Mental freedom:

This is the place where we can have the most freedom. We can think of all things we are physically restricted. However once again the limit to this is your imagination. Some person can be more mentally free than the other.
Mental freedom at its best is only a subjective, limited to the power of your mind.

So what is my point?

Let me clarify one thing, freedom by all means is not an illusion, it does exist and yes it is quiet applicable, however freedom is not limitless, and in fact if it becomes limitless all it will be doing is attacking itself. So it is best to have limited freedom.
So why did I wrote that? In current times we all become so lost that our racism and ignorance finds its way out by a abusing the notion of freedom. Countries wager wars upon other nations by the name of freedom. We attack people as they are appearing to be from the people who “hate freedom”. Reason for this is because we forget to notice freedom is very subjective and culturally sensitive. We put down people who do not agree with our version of freedom. We make fun of people who use a different version of freedom. We make fun of people for the clothes they wear, for the food they eat and......... We forget that all they are doing is following their own limited freedom. And in their limited freedom your action could very much be the joke or the stupidity they all try hard to prevent themself to do.
Laws and regulation always exist. One nation came to this limit by means of ‘census’ and the other by means of ‘divine intervention’. What is important is that laws and regulation are a must, and a necessity. They are there to protect the very subjective notion of freedom from itself.
The only question remains now is under which limited freedom you want to live your life in. I believe this is why war occurs. People do not like the limit their society is given to them, they have issues with it and their ideas are been way too restricted then it should. Other nations see that and want to help but they are forgetting that in the same society there maybe be millions who are happy the way things are limited. People should have the right to be able to live in societies best suited for them. World politics fails at this. We fail to allow people these rights. And we try to solve this problem in the most unusual ways. In means of wars.
So what now? I guess at the end it is up you and after all you are free to be free within the limit of the limit your choice to freely live a limited life.
Like always this is only my opinion and could be very wrong.

wall and paint

"Put yourself in the shoes of others, pretty soon you will notice your life will have a different tone, because you are beginning to for once hear and sincerely understand what it is like to be the other side. I am all for dialogue, even if the other person happens to be my worst enemy. ", said the paint to the wall!
Wall replied, " Have you finished talking, now wipe yourself of my self your good for nothing foreigner paint!"
And the drying process continues!