WHY ALL THESE PROBLEMS ON EARTH?
Allah created the heavens and the earth with (the aim of manifesting) the truth and to reward ech soul according to its deeds. And they shall not be wronged.
- Surah:45, Ayat:22,
verily, the vilest creatures in the sight of God are those who are bent on denying the truth and therefore do not believe.
- Surah:8, Ayat:55, the glorious Qur'an.
THE DAY WE SEE THE TRUTH AND CEASE TO SPEAK IS THE DAY WE
BEGIN TO DIE.
- Martin Luther King
While the Isaelis kill hundreds of innocent protesters, the Western media shows the Israelis as the victims, the picture on the right describes the "truth" told to everyone. Shame on all the news agencies, it's as if the Apartheid movement is being favored (which indeed was favored) or as if Russia is being allowed an illegal occupation of Afghanistan.
It is, however, true that much of the evil in the world is 
due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious, as it is also true that with increasing insight we can combat with evil its source in ourselves. As science enables us to deal with injuries inflicted from without, so it helps us to treat those arising from within.
- Carl Gustav Jung
(Above)Palestinians forbidden to enter their mosques. October 2000 [courtesy of Elizabeth Dalziel, AP]
MAN�S OBJECTION TO HIS OWN IMPROVEMENT
Geroge Bernard Shaw
But would such a change [change of every human on Earth into a tolerant, open-minded thinking individual] be tolerated if Man must rise above himself to desire it? It would, through his misconception of its nature. Man does desire an ideal Superman with such energy as he can spare from his nutrition, and has in every age magnified the best living substitute for it he can find. His least incompetent general is set up as an Alexander; his king is the first gentleman in the world; his Pope is a saint. He is never without an array of human idols who are all nothing but sham Supermen. That the real Superman will snap his superfingers at all Man�s present trumpery ideals of right, duty, honor, justice, religion, even decency, and accept moral obligations beyond present human endurance, is a thing that contemporary Man does not foresee: in fact he does not notice it when our casual Supermen do it in his very face. He actually does it himself every day without knowing it. He will therefore make no objection to the production of a race of what he calls Great Men or Heroes, because he will imagine them, not as true Supermen, but as himself endowed with infinite brains, infinite courage, and infinite money.
(Right)Courtesy of Greg Marinovich, 17 August 1990. An innocent South African gets killed by apatheid supporters.
The most troublesome opposition will arise from the general fear of mankind that any interference with our conjugal customs will be an interference with our pleasures and our romance. This fear, by putting on airs of offended morality, has always intimidated people who have not measured its essential weakness; but it will prevail with those degenerates only in whom the instinct of fertility has faded into a mere itching for pleasure. The modern devices for combining pleasure with sterility, now universally known and accessible, enable these persons to weed themselves out of the race, a process already vigorously at work; and the consequent survival of the intelligently fertile means the survival of the partizans of the Superman; for what is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the elimination of the mere voluptuary from the evolutionary process. * Even if this selective agency had not been invented, the purpose of the race would still shatter the opposition of individual instincts. Not only do the bees and the ants satisfy their reproductive and parental instincts vicariously; but marriage itself successfully imposes celibacy on millions of unmarried normal men and women. In short, the individual instinct in this matter, overwhelming as it is thoughtlessly supposed to be, is really a finally negligible one.
*The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton. The glutton, as the man with the strongest motive for nourishing himself, will always take more pains than his fellows to get food. When food is so difficult to get that only great exertions can secure a sufficient supply of it, the glutton�s appetite develops his cunning and enterprise to the utmost; and he becomes not only the best fed but the ablest man in the community. But in more hospitable climates, or where the social organization of the food supply makes it easy for a man to overeat, then the glutton eats himself out of health and finally out of existence. All other voluptuaries prosper and perish in the same way; way; and this is why the survival of the fittest means finally the survival of the self-controlled, because they alone can adapt themselves to the perpetual shifting of conditions produced by industrial progress.
(below) Widows and Orphans by Kathe Kollwitz
The following parable [of the realtionship between God and Man] is more to the point than the similes of either puppet-master or oriental despot. The rich owner of a country manor has sent various friends of his to stay there during their summer vacation. The trip, however, proves so rough that the guests are afflicted with amnesia by the time they arrive at the mansion. Inside they find rooms full of wondrous objects, tables decked with fruit, and beautiful tapestries.
The owner of the house, aware of the difficult passage of his guests, has left a manual on the main table outlining the house rules. One of these rules is that the guests should share in the daily household chores, such as cooking and washing the dishes. Another is that they should show proper love and respect for each other, since they have all been chosen and sent there by the same landlord. It is also good etiquette to remember the landlord from time to time, to phone him and thank him for the beautiful gift he has made to his guests.
So from that point on, it is the guests' collective responsibility to manage the household. But if they fall among each other; if they start quarreling and attacking one another; if they dump their waste in the middle of the living room; if they start swinging from the chandeliers; if they make a hell out of this paradise resort; if they pretend that the landlord does not exist, or pick up the phone and curse him for all their own self-caused troubles; if their response is grumpiness instead of gratitude, then they will have sunk into the depths of discourtesy. And what if the guests ruin the house, if they destroy the furniture? What if they burn the house down in the end?
Now this is exactly our situation on earth. And for this reason if for nothing else, we must unmask all atheistic philosophies as a self-deception that provides man with an excuse to shirk his responsibilities, and to defile the mansion in which he is a guest-the world-with his abominations.- Henry Bayman in Science, Knowledge and Sufism.[http://home.att.net/~nungan/sufiway/]
The great NOAM CHOMSKY in the book, " THE CHOMSKY READER":
"...People would like to think that there's somebody up there who knows what he's doing. Since we don't participate, we don't control and we don't even think about questions of vital importance. We hope somebody is paying attention who has some competence. Let's hope the ship has a captain, in other words, since we're not taking part in what's going on...
.......It is an important feature of the ideological system to impose on people the feeling that they really are incompetent to deal with these complex and important issues: they'd better leave it to the captain. One device is to develop a star system, an array of figures who are media creations or creations of the academic propaganda establishment, whose deep insights we are supposed to admire and to whom we must happily and confidently assign the right to control our lives and to control international affairs...."
The reason that we are faced with crises, psychic and social disintegration, violence and dissatisfaction in the midst of plenty and at the peak of civilization, is that we have tried to quench our thirst by material means alone.
- Henry Bayman
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