Peace
First of all let me take this opportunity to which everyone a beneficial fast and may your spiritual month be one filled with enlightment and peace to the heart. Secondly I had the privilege some time ago to attend a discussion show. This was an experience wich I welcomed greatly since I had never attended a tv show and thus was interessted into knowing how things are run as well as being live one planning from the team was crucial. Moreover before attending the editor sent everyone attending the topics and asked for feedback, and so I would like to share them here:
1) Should the great apes be given civil rights? (Things like a right to safety, against discrimination, equality, all sorts of non-speaking rights that humans have)
I agree that the great apes should definitely be accorded the legal right to life and protection from torture. Apes have been endangered for centuries where ape mothers have been shot and their infants shipped off as pets in different countries. I also believe that this law should be extended to other endangered species and that justice and respect should be observed for all non-human species since giving rights for one group and not another is in itself a breach of civil rights and discriminatory. However I do believe that this law would not mean to open up zoo gates and let all apes free but rather zoos should serve the purpose of preserving species but also ensuring an environment where they are given the opportunity to flourish and not be tortured or subjected to cruel and degrading treatment. Moreover as we debate about establishing laws for animals we should not forget the millions of humans around the world that live in sub-human conditions
2) could catholic confession be a replacement for therapy?
I believe that the purpose of confession i.e. acknowledge ones sins, repent from them and seek forgiveness is therapeutic for the soul and can protect it from further insult. However I don’t believe that it should be a replacement therapy where it involves third party since repenting should be a personal act whereby one does the mistake, seeks repentance and enter into a sincere covenant with god directly.
3) Are worldly goods an obstacle to enlightenment?
As with everything, worldly goods if over indulged or extravagant and overly obsessed with could be one of the factors in the prevention of enlightenment since ones focus and energy is engulfed by the interest for money and possessions rather than spiritual or ethical values. Having said this humans by nature have the tendencies for material inclination but if used within measured levels can serve a purpose of a more harmonious existence where neither material ingredient (rank of beast) nor spiritual ingredient (monasticism) dominates.
Three purtent questions which I know has no right or wrong answer, but one thing I would like to also add is that it was extremly interessting to see that a room filled with people could have such a varied opinion which in turn propagated a discussion whereby points were raised from a few point I didnt considere.
peace
Sunday 23 August 2009
Monday 17 August 2009
On a lighter note
Peace
so suffering net I found this site where it poses 25 personal questions which is supposedly good for any conversation, interessting I though. So for a change I try to answer the here no matter how embarassed I will be (this is a challenge) it'll be a change from my seriousness. By the way havent read the questions yet so it will be answered as I go, so I quess here we go:
1. Name the most terrifying moment of your life so far.
A: finnishing my degree lol no seriously when I was slightly burnt on a small patch of my foot (its healed pretty good now) years ago.
3. What famous person do other people tell you that you most resemble?
A: dont know seriously? have to ask those around me.....
4. What is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?
A: samosas with pourage, promise its strange but delicious, just buy samosa stuffed with minsed meat and eat it with freashly made pourage,mummm
5. If you could bring one character to life from your favorite book, who would it be?
A: prophet moses, such a character, want to ask so many questions.....
6. Do you believe honesty is the best policy? A: always no matter how butter it is!
7. What vegetable do you most resemble? A: I think ananas, why because seems unapproachable on the outside but sweet on the inside lol
8. What dead person would you least want to be haunted by?
A: All the corrupted, evil, dishonest people who have caused mass destruction to human souls as well as every living creatures.
9. Who would you most like to be stuck in an elevator with?
A: do I have choose I person, then a fire fighter who would know how to rescu us or call his biddies to do so, lol no seriously anyone from my family to keep me in company.
10. What do you think Victoria’s secret is?
A: Who?
11. Which cartoon character do people say you resemble the most?
A: I think pokahontas use to be on ages ago....
12. Would you rather go a week without bathing, but be able to change your clothes, or a week without a change of clothes, but be able to bathe?
A: what? whats that for question, seriously? do I have to answer? well....defenetly cannot live without a bath.....weird question, who came up with this?
13. Which of the four seasons do you most anticipate?
A: I do love winter, it means so much to me, I know must be weird....lol
15. You can choose your last meal. What will the menu consist of?
A: dates
16. If you had to be trapped in a TV show for a month, which show would you choose?
A: The Big Question, such an intellectual show, if only I could have the front seat lol
17. List 5 people you know. Then describe each of them in 1 words.
Friend 1: warm
Friend 2: responsible
Friend 3: funny
Friend 4: loyal
Friend 5: calm
18. You can select one person from history and ask them a question to which they must give a thruthful reply. Whom would you select, and what question would you ask?
A: I would ask Yasser arafat: What motivated you to keep going all those years?
19. If you joined the circus, what act would you most want to perform?
A: definitely the clown, brings such a smile
20. You discover that your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mix-up at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to correct the mistake?
A: What that for question, who wouldnt???????
21. Would you be willing to become extremely ugly physically if it meant you would live for 1,000 years at any physical age you chose?
A: I would choose to be the way I am and live according to my prescribed time, everything has its meaning!
22. Would you be willing to commit perjury in court for a close friend? What if your lie would save his life?
A: Very difficult question, I dont know depends on what the situation is, but I know that my friends would not end up in court in the first place.....
23. Would you be willing to eat a bowl of live crickets for $40,000?
A: no way,
24.If you could have one superpower, which would you choose?
A: making people forget about their traumatic experiences, especially children.
So I have now completed the most weirdest set of questions I will ever come across, how do I feel? Feel like I have wasted some energy and time ,but some of the questions werent all that bad though needs some major re-developments,lol
good night
so suffering net I found this site where it poses 25 personal questions which is supposedly good for any conversation, interessting I though. So for a change I try to answer the here no matter how embarassed I will be (this is a challenge) it'll be a change from my seriousness. By the way havent read the questions yet so it will be answered as I go, so I quess here we go:
1. Name the most terrifying moment of your life so far.
A: finnishing my degree lol no seriously when I was slightly burnt on a small patch of my foot (its healed pretty good now) years ago.
3. What famous person do other people tell you that you most resemble?
A: dont know seriously? have to ask those around me.....
4. What is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?
A: samosas with pourage, promise its strange but delicious, just buy samosa stuffed with minsed meat and eat it with freashly made pourage,mummm
5. If you could bring one character to life from your favorite book, who would it be?
A: prophet moses, such a character, want to ask so many questions.....
6. Do you believe honesty is the best policy? A: always no matter how butter it is!
7. What vegetable do you most resemble? A: I think ananas, why because seems unapproachable on the outside but sweet on the inside lol
8. What dead person would you least want to be haunted by?
A: All the corrupted, evil, dishonest people who have caused mass destruction to human souls as well as every living creatures.
9. Who would you most like to be stuck in an elevator with?
A: do I have choose I person, then a fire fighter who would know how to rescu us or call his biddies to do so, lol no seriously anyone from my family to keep me in company.
10. What do you think Victoria’s secret is?
A: Who?
11. Which cartoon character do people say you resemble the most?
A: I think pokahontas use to be on ages ago....
12. Would you rather go a week without bathing, but be able to change your clothes, or a week without a change of clothes, but be able to bathe?
A: what? whats that for question, seriously? do I have to answer? well....defenetly cannot live without a bath.....weird question, who came up with this?
13. Which of the four seasons do you most anticipate?
A: I do love winter, it means so much to me, I know must be weird....lol
15. You can choose your last meal. What will the menu consist of?
A: dates
16. If you had to be trapped in a TV show for a month, which show would you choose?
A: The Big Question, such an intellectual show, if only I could have the front seat lol
17. List 5 people you know. Then describe each of them in 1 words.
Friend 1: warm
Friend 2: responsible
Friend 3: funny
Friend 4: loyal
Friend 5: calm
18. You can select one person from history and ask them a question to which they must give a thruthful reply. Whom would you select, and what question would you ask?
A: I would ask Yasser arafat: What motivated you to keep going all those years?
19. If you joined the circus, what act would you most want to perform?
A: definitely the clown, brings such a smile
20. You discover that your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mix-up at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to correct the mistake?
A: What that for question, who wouldnt???????
21. Would you be willing to become extremely ugly physically if it meant you would live for 1,000 years at any physical age you chose?
A: I would choose to be the way I am and live according to my prescribed time, everything has its meaning!
22. Would you be willing to commit perjury in court for a close friend? What if your lie would save his life?
A: Very difficult question, I dont know depends on what the situation is, but I know that my friends would not end up in court in the first place.....
23. Would you be willing to eat a bowl of live crickets for $40,000?
A: no way,
24.If you could have one superpower, which would you choose?
A: making people forget about their traumatic experiences, especially children.
So I have now completed the most weirdest set of questions I will ever come across, how do I feel? Feel like I have wasted some energy and time ,but some of the questions werent all that bad though needs some major re-developments,lol
good night
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