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A.
IF YOU ARE WRONG, YOU CAN’T BE HAPPY FOR LONG. IF YOU ARE RIGHT, JOY MUST SOON BE IN SIGHT.
NOW, FORM YOUR OWN CODE, OR LIFE’S MORAL MODE.
EXAMINE THE BASIC LIFE STYLES OF THOSE WHO ARE
GENERALLY SUCCESSFUL AND RELATIVELY HAPPY: FIRST, AS NATIONS; THEN, AS COMMUNITIES;
AND FINALLY, AS INDIVIDUALS. A COMMON THREAD THAT RUNS
THROUGH ALL WILL BE SOON BE EVIDENT – TRUE CHRISTIANITY
OR TRUE COMPASSION; THE PRESENT, HUMANITARIAN POPE JOHN PAUL II BEING A
SHINING EXAMPLE*(1) MARGARET THATCHER AND MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
ARE TWO OTHERS, WHOSE SINCERITY AND DEDICATION ARISE PURELY
FROM A FEELING FOR THEIR FELLOW BEINGS – NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL*(2)
THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT TRYING TO BE GOOD, BUT MERELY TRYING TO DO ‘WHAT THEY ARE CONVINCED IS RIGHT*(3); AND THEY SEEM TO ENJOY DOING SO TOO!
OF COURSE THEY ERR, BUT SINCE THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY TRUE TO THEM SELVES, THEY ADJUST QUICKLY.*(4)
*(1) – COMPASSION BLOSSOMS WITH UNDERSTANDING AND INTELLECT. HENCE ANY FORM OF BIGOTRY, DECEIT OR EVEN UNBRIDLED SENSUALITY WILL TEND TO OBSCURE UNDERSTANDING, its BASIS OR INTELLECT – AND COMPASSION. BUT CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN FOUNDED ON SINCERITY AND TOLERANCE. THEREFORE, A GOOD CHRISTIAN WILL INVARIABLY ENJOY LIVING, AND A BAD ONE WILL OFTEN BE MISERABLE. THIS IS TRUE EVEN INSTANCES WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE TOTALLY UNAWARE OF CHRISTIANITY. SO, JESUS’ MESSAGE SHOULD COME NATURALLY, AS SHOULD MOHAMMED’S; THEY WERE MERELY EXPECTED TO PROVIDE CLARIFICATION – OF THE OBVIOUS.
DECEIT BURIES THE TRUTH. BIGOTRY PREVENTS IT FROM BEING UNEARTHED. AND UNBRIDLED SENSUALITY (MATERIALISM) HELPS ONE TO IGNORE IT. SO IF ONE SIMPLY BELIEVES IN ONE SELF, COMPASSION (AND ONE’S OWN HAPPINESS) WILL COME NATURALLY – ‘DOING UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD EXPECT OTHERS TO DO UNTO YOU’.
INCIDENTALLY, ISLAM IS AN EXTENSION TO CHRISTIANITY. AND IS AS MEANINGFUL AS ITS PREDECESSOR. BUT ISLAM HAS GOT SO ENMESHED IN RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY, THAT EVEN ITS BASIC TENET OF ACQUIRING MASTERY OVER THE SENSES BY PERIODIC ABSTINENCE, HAS BEEN DOGMATIZED INTO A RITUALISTIC FASTING. ALSO, ONLY ISLAM HAS FUNDAMENTALISTS, CLEARLY SHUNNED BY OTHER RELIGIONS, MOST HINDUS AND MANY BUDDHISTS ARE FAR TOO BUSY APPEASING ANTHROPOMORPHIC GODS, HOPING FOR PERSONAL FAVOURS CAN BE CONSIDERED NEAR PERFECT IN HER IDEALS EXCEPT FOR HER RIDICULOUS INTERPRETATION OF SANKARA’S HINDUISM. WHAT WEIRD IMAGINATION CAN CONJURE UP A POT – BELLIED HUMAN WITH AN ELEPHANT’S HEAD AS A GOD? THE ORIGINAL BRAHMINISM CONTAINED NONE OF THESE TRAVESTIES. NO ONE CAN BE A GOD IF ENCUMBERED WITH A PERSISTENTLY DEMANDING BODY. THE OBVIOUS PURPOSE OF A BODY IS TO LIVE WITH IT. WHY HAVE A BODY AT ALL IF ONE HAS CAPABILITY OF LIVING WITH THE MIND? THIS IS USELESS MORAL POWER WAS MARGINAL!
*(2) – MARGARET THATCHER POLITICAL TURMOIL AND EVENTUAL DOWNFALL WAS OWING TO AN INABILITY TO RESTRAIN HER CONCERN FOR HER OWN PEOPLE: NATIONAL WELL * BEING TENDING TO
OVERWHELM INTERNATIONAL WELFARE. EVEN THE WAY SHE LEFT, EPITOMIZED THE CONCERN FOR HER PEOPLE. THE REVERSE IS APPLICABLE FOR MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS CANNOT ALWAYS SOLVE NATIONAL PROBLEMS. THESE MUST BE PAINSTAKINGLY ATTENDED TO; FOR JUSTICE HERE IS NOT AS READILY ACCEPTED AS IN THE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE .AS EX-PRESIDENT REGAN ONCE SAID,” GORBY IS SUCH A NICE GUY, I CAN’T IMAGINE THAT HE IS COMMIE”.
IF MARGARET THATCHER AND MIKHAIL GORBACHEV HAVE SOME THINGS TO LEARN, THE PEOPLE WHO REJECTED THEM HAVE VERY MUCH MORE TO LEARN – WHICH THEY WILL, SOON! ONLY MAGGIE COULD HAVE MAINTAINED THE DIGNITY OF THE FORMER EMPIRE WHILST CONFORMING TO MODERN REALITIES. ONLY GORBY COULD HAVE PUT ASIDE COMMUNISM – SO DEFTLY.
POST SCRIPTS (4 – 7 – 96) WHEN BORIS YELTSIN WAS ELECTED FOR A SECOND TERM AS THE
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA, BY A HANDSOME MAJORITY OVER HIS COMMUNIST RIVAL; THE RUSSIAN SHOWED
*(3) – MOST HUMANS, WITHIN THEMSELVES, KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG; BUT THEY ARE SO CONFUSED BY CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGIES WHICH SUBMERGE THEM, THEY HAVE ALMOST LOST THE ABILITY TO THINK FOR THEM SELVES. FORTUNATELY, CHRISTIANITY HAS PROVIDED HUMANITY WITH AN INFALLIBLE MORAL YARDSTICK – ‘DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD EXPECT OTHERS TO DO UNTO YOU’
THIS IS MEANINGFUL MORALITY, AND CAN ARISE ONLY FROM A STEADY INTELLECT WHICH AFFORDS UNBIASED, RATIONAL ASSESSMENT. FOR INSTANCE, A RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALIST OR AN ALCOHOLIC WOULD LIKE OTHERS TO BE SIMILAR. HERE, CHRIST’S MORAL YARDSTICK HAS BEEN
TWISTED.
*(4) – OPENNESS WITHOUT DECEPTION (GLASNOST) CHANGE FOR A PROVEN BETTER WITHOUT DIFFERENCE (PERESTROIKA) AND OPTIMUM SENSUALITY (WITHOUT ADDICTION) ARE THE CORNERSTONES FOR BUIL-DING RIGHT UNDERSTANDING, MEANINGFUL MORALITY AND HAPPINESS, NO RELIGION IS NECESSITY.
10 .B
THE TWO MOST CHASTISED COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD – THE WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS*(1) AND THE ISRAELITES*(2) – ARE CERTAINLY NOT THE MOST HUMAN. ACTUALLY, THEIR PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES (SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SOCIALLY REPUGNANT) ARE DESIGNED SOLELY TO PREVENT THEIR OWN EXTERMINATION! THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT THAT THESE COMMUNITIES WOULD GLADLY
ABANDON THEIR DISCRIMINATIONS AND RECRIMINATIONS, AND EVEN GIVE UP A PART OF ALL WHAT THEY POSSESSES, IF THE REST OF THE WORLD COULD GUARANTEE A SAFE, SECURE FUTURE FOR THEM. THIS IS THE PROBLEM*(3)!
*(1) – THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOUTH AFRICA FROM A PARIAH STATE, TO ALMOST A MODEL STATE – OVERNIGHT – WAS, UNDOUBTEDLY, DUE TO THE TWIN MIRACLE OF MANDELA AND DE KLERK
*(2) – WHEN THE ARABS DECLARED WAR ON ISRAEL IN 1967, THEY INTENDED TO ANNIHILATE ISRAEL, AS IT DID NOT HAVE THE NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXIST! BUT WHEN ISRAEL DEFENDED IT SELF, AND CAPTURED TERRITORY FROM WHICH IT WAS BEING ATTACKED; ISRAEL WAS BRANDED THE AGGRESSOR. BY 1995 ISRAEL HAD RETURNED 90% OF CAPTURED TERRITORY; BUT IT HAS TO RETURN THE REST-FOR THE RIGHT TO EXIST! ISRAEL MUST NOT MISTAKE PEACE FOR SECURITY. THOUGH SECURITY IS A GOOD BASIS FOR PEACE. (ARABS MUST KNOW THAT GAMBLING LOSSES ARE NOT REFUNDABLE.)
*(3) – TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM A GENERALLY ACCEPTED GLOBAL POLICEMAN (JUSTICE) IS NECESSARY. AND NONE COULD FILL THIS ROLE BETTER THAN U.S.A. AND BRITAIN. RUSSIA AND CHINA CANNOT, PRESENTLY (17.2.03) MAKE BOLD, JUST DECISIONS, AND FRANCE HESITATES TOO LONG BEFORE MAKING THEM. THE U.N. IS A EUNUCH MOREVER, WITH THE TRUSTED NEWS COVERAGE OF CNN AND BBC, THE WHOLE WORLD COULD BE JURY, AS IT WAS WITH THE WAR TO LIBERATE KUWAIT.
10 .C
CHRISTIANITY INTRODUCES ONE TO MORALITY OR TO BE BASICALLY RIGHT AND WRONG. ISLAM EXTENDS THIS TEACHING BY SHOWING THAT WHAT ONE LIKES AND DISLIKES (RATIONALLY) SHOULD CONFORM PERFECTLY WITH WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG (NATURALLY). TO ESTABLISH SUCH ‘SENSE OF VALUES’ IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT ONE REMAINS TRUE TO ONESELF AT ALL TIMES: AN EXPLOSURE WITHIN, NOT NECESSARILY WITHOUT: THE APPROACH TO REALITY.
10 .D
TWO OF THE FOUR MAJOR RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD (CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM) WERE FOUNDED ON (OR AUTHENTICATED BY) MIRACLES. ONE ASPECT OF REALITY IS TO IDENTIFY THE SOURCE OF (OR POWER BEHIND) THESE MIRACLES. SO THAT YOU TOO CAN DRIVE A DIRECT BENEFIT FROM SUCH SPECIFIC SUPERNATURAL INVENTION – NOW!