My beloved India..

Still hiding behind your so-called 'traditions' that are no more – and no less – than the chauvinistic behaviours of boy-men. Still hitting your children.Still treating your women like slaves and denying them basic human rights.

After all these years, even after the leadership of an amazing man,M.K.Gandhi, still you resist the inevitable recognition of the dignity and rights of women.

For Shame,India. For Shame.

You desecrate the beauty of your spirituality, the sanctity of your specialness. This horrendous crime is merely a reflection of attitudes and behaviour patterns.An extreme reflection, but a mirrored image nevertheless.

 

via Healing the Planet

 

one-ness in flight

The first meeting

With such moments are life's great treasures of friendship and caring revealed to the consciousness and the river of lovingness,which flows through all of us ,carries us to a paradise of caring and sharing

Adam's snake-003

there is a green hill……..

Words are too small to carry this pain…

"Is this the world we created?
We made it on our own
Is this the world we devastated
Right to the bone?
If there’s a God in the sky looking down
What can he think of what we’ve done
To the world that he created?   "                                   Freddie Mercury

I think,therefore I am not

The report, "Freedom of Thought 2012", said "there are laws that deny atheists' right to exist, curtail their freedom of belief and expression, revoke their right to citizenship, restrict their right to marry."

The IHEU - which links over 120 humanist, atheist and secular organizations in more than 40 countries - said it was issuing the report to mark the U.N.'s Human Rights Day on Monday.

According to its survey of some 60 countries, the seven where expression of atheist views or defection from the official religion can bring capital punishment are Afghanistan, Iran, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.

The 70-page report lists no recent cases of actual execution for "atheism" -- but researchers say the offence is often subsumed into other charges.

In a range of other countries - such as Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Kuwait and Jordan - publication of atheist or humanist views on religion are totally banned or strictly limited under laws prohibiting "blasphemy".

In many of these countries, and others like Malaysia, citizens have to register as adherents of a small number officially-recognized religions -- which normally include no more than Christianity and Judaism as well as Islam.

Atheists and humanists are thereby forced to lie to obtain their official documents without which it is impossible to go to university, receive medical treatment, travel abroad or drive.

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snake medicine

Joseph Campbell + Schopenhauer+oneness

Now you can be forgiven for thinking that this is just philosophy. But it actually happens all the time.

Check THIS OUT for a more recent instance

A rebel WITH a cause

Unconventional and apparently lacking in respect for 'the way things were', this is the man who

almost went personally bankrupt a number of times setting up Live Aid.

In the 3rd verse of this song he wrote:

"

play with the toys of war
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
That the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain cackles with the problems and the hows and whys
And he can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die?

The worldwide concert raised $283 million in 1985, in economic worth terms just under £1 billion at today's value.

shhhh! It happens

remember……..

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moments of reality

“I’ve seen a lot of hardcore people on a battlefield.

When the bullets start flying,

there are no atheists out there.”

Lt. William G. Haneke   (read his amazing story here)

 

love it, love it, love it

inner rays

Artist: Ruth Ward (Heavenly Stained Glass) created this window for a school in Milton Keynes

Ubuntu

the poverty of affluence

change is sometimes appallingly slow

Despite promises to reform their textbooks, the Saudi education system continues to indoctrinate children with hatred and incitement

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You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught from year to year,
It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear.
You’ve got to be carefully taught!

You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a different shade,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.

You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are 6 or 7 or 8,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
You’ve got to be carefully taught!

(from the film South Pacific).

Celebrating differences, not condemning them

In remembering the tragic and horrific death of Matthew, that became a symbol

against hate crimes, we also think of the young people who are suicidal

and desperately unhappy because of their sexuality.

It's good to see that there are some Christians who are more concerned with compassion and

understanding than in hiding behind ritual,dogma and literature.

check Timothy out here