YOU ARE NOT JUNK
There are many people who are being passed by because others don't see
what is in them. But God has shown me what's in me, and I know it is in
you too. My job is to stop you and say: "Can you see what's in you? Do
you know your potential? Do you know that you are not just someone born
in a ghetto over the hill? There's a wealth of potential in you."
A sculptor sees so differently. They say Michelangelo used to walk
around a block of marble for days, just walking around it, talking to
himself. First he would see things in the rock; then he would go and
take them out.
Insight like that of a sculptor is seen in the Bible. When the world
dumps and rejects you, you land on the garbage heap of the world, God
walks along and picks you up. He looks deep within you and sees a person
of great worth.
Don't ever let anybody throw you way. You are not junk. When Go looks at
you, He sees things that everybody else ignores. you are worth so much
that Jesus went to Calvary to salvage and reclaim you. The spirit of God
connected to your spirit is the only true judge of your worth. Don't
accept that opinions of others because they do not see what God sees.
When God looks at you, He sees things that everybody else ignores.
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
WHOSE WISDOM GOOD PEOPLE??
Potential is dormant ability. (The word dormant literally means "that which is, but it is just lying there below its full strength, unused.") It is also reserved power, untapped strength, and unused success. Potential is everything that a thing is, that has not yet been seen or manifested. Everything in life begins as potential. all things have the potential to fulfill themselves, because God created everything with potential. There is no fulfillment in life without understanding the reason for being. if we want to know the real potential of something, we first have to know what that thing was created to do.
So if you have a seed in your hand, kernel of corn or a pea, you will never get the seed's complete fulfillment until you know that there is a plant inside that seed. It is only as we look beyond the seed to the plant that we understand its true potential.
The same is true of our relationship with God. God created each man with a great wealth of potential. Too often, however, we look only at what we presently have. We look at our last dollar and say, "All I have is one dollar."
But God says, "No. That is not all you have. If you only knew the potential of that dollar."
And we reply, "But God you don;t understand. There's a one next to that '$' thing."
Again God says, "No. if you could just take this dollar and put it into a certain condition, it would multiply."
The potential of everything is related to its purpose for being. Before we can understand the potential of a thing or person , we first must know the conditions under which it was meant to exist. Thus the most important thing for you and me, as human beings, is to try and find out for the rest of our lives what is the purpose for everything in life. That is our main goal. Unless we ask ourselves, "What is the purpose for everything in life?" we will die without having experienced the potential of everything. We will miss the wisdom of God in creation
WHY WERE YOU BORN
Monday Orucho can call you and you feel new and inspired. PLO can clear all doubts in you when you chat on phone. They feel good about themselves.
If you feel good about yourself, you will feel good about other people.
What about you, do you feel good about who you are?
That's a very important insight because many people do not feel good about themselves. They look at themselves and wonder why God made them; or they doubt that anyone can find any good in them. But remember, God sees what others, and we ourselves, can't see. God looks at us and see that we are worth feeling good about. We are special to God. We are valuable and important
Saturday, 6 September 2014
THINKING OF LIFE AGAIN
Charles Dickens is widely considered the greatest writer of the
Victorian era. He wrote almost twenty novels of quality, dealing with
profound themes, building remarkable literary characters and unleashing
withering social criticism. There is a striking similarity in the plot
structures of some of his best novels. This common thread is the
disadvantaged, oft-orphaned child who strives to overcome a challenging
childhood.
Think the eponymous Oliver of Oliver Twist, the industrious Pip in Great Expectations and the unfortunate Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop. My favourite such Dickens is David Copperfield. Surprising, since I gave up the book half-way on my first reading. I read the book years later with contrasting results. Copperfield is considered the most autobiographical of Dickens’ novels, and was also his personal favourite.
The first chapter, delightfully named ‘I am born’, has an auspicious opening: “Whether I should turn out to be the hero of my own life, these pages must show….” This grand start hearkens to the immortal heart of youth that ever yearns for heroism, ideals, valour and conquest. So of all Dickens’ characters, Copperfield is a creature after my own heart.
Youth differs from age in the spirit of adventure, the courage of conviction and the heroism of ideals as fresh as the first flowers. The young thrive on ideals. They are inspired by hope not fear, attracted more by good than evil. True youth is driven by a spirit of heroism. Nothing is more distressing than to meet young cynical people who have lost their ideals or never aspired to heroism. Thus in Dickens’ difficult novel, Hard Times, Louisa was tragically drilled to suppress sentiment and value only ‘facts and calculations’.
The spirit of the Greek hero Achilles and the drive of the famed Hercules bubble under the skin of youth, ready to be called up to the surface by the conjurer of hope, the visionary. But also, easily corrupted by the usurper who appears disguised as a prophet but concealing a spirit of manipulation. So it is distressing to see the push for liberal sex for the youth, dressed as a condom campaign, supported by the government.
The cynic believes the young are incapable of controlling themselves. So the false pragmatist rails at any actual or imagined ill in society, from environmental degradation to tribalism, from smoking to corruption. Yet these same persons are surprisingly content with moral, emotional and social pollution among the youth, and thus timidly counsel them, “Since you must have sex, use a condom.”
Recent studies on youth contraception and cohabitation should trigger a reassessment of the ‘C-word’ campaign, at least to counter false advertising. A study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family in 2010 showed significant positive relationship outcomes for couples who delayed their sexual involvement until marriage.
Other social studies have shown strong correlation between early sexual experience or multiple sex partners and higher rates of marital instability. They conclude that young people who practice sexual restraint are more likely to later experience the benefits of marriage, including various desirable life outcomes associated with marriage such as greater financial stability, improved physical and mental health.
Condoms also have contraceptive failure rates. But the real deal-breaker on condoms is that every apparently-protected sexual act actually harms the character and commitment of the young person and their future relationships, as Glenn Stanton explains in his recent book, “The Ring makes all the difference.”
Why not embrace an approach that challenges and inspires the youth to live up to the great ideal of fidelity? This ideal marks the final uplifting scene of David Copperfield when David’s friend Agnes is revealed to be his true and faithful lover: “Oh Agnes, oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life. So may I, when realities are melting from me like the shadows…, still find thee near me, pointing upward!”
Think the eponymous Oliver of Oliver Twist, the industrious Pip in Great Expectations and the unfortunate Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop. My favourite such Dickens is David Copperfield. Surprising, since I gave up the book half-way on my first reading. I read the book years later with contrasting results. Copperfield is considered the most autobiographical of Dickens’ novels, and was also his personal favourite.
The first chapter, delightfully named ‘I am born’, has an auspicious opening: “Whether I should turn out to be the hero of my own life, these pages must show….” This grand start hearkens to the immortal heart of youth that ever yearns for heroism, ideals, valour and conquest. So of all Dickens’ characters, Copperfield is a creature after my own heart.
Youth differs from age in the spirit of adventure, the courage of conviction and the heroism of ideals as fresh as the first flowers. The young thrive on ideals. They are inspired by hope not fear, attracted more by good than evil. True youth is driven by a spirit of heroism. Nothing is more distressing than to meet young cynical people who have lost their ideals or never aspired to heroism. Thus in Dickens’ difficult novel, Hard Times, Louisa was tragically drilled to suppress sentiment and value only ‘facts and calculations’.
The spirit of the Greek hero Achilles and the drive of the famed Hercules bubble under the skin of youth, ready to be called up to the surface by the conjurer of hope, the visionary. But also, easily corrupted by the usurper who appears disguised as a prophet but concealing a spirit of manipulation. So it is distressing to see the push for liberal sex for the youth, dressed as a condom campaign, supported by the government.
The cynic believes the young are incapable of controlling themselves. So the false pragmatist rails at any actual or imagined ill in society, from environmental degradation to tribalism, from smoking to corruption. Yet these same persons are surprisingly content with moral, emotional and social pollution among the youth, and thus timidly counsel them, “Since you must have sex, use a condom.”
Recent studies on youth contraception and cohabitation should trigger a reassessment of the ‘C-word’ campaign, at least to counter false advertising. A study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family in 2010 showed significant positive relationship outcomes for couples who delayed their sexual involvement until marriage.
Other social studies have shown strong correlation between early sexual experience or multiple sex partners and higher rates of marital instability. They conclude that young people who practice sexual restraint are more likely to later experience the benefits of marriage, including various desirable life outcomes associated with marriage such as greater financial stability, improved physical and mental health.
Condoms also have contraceptive failure rates. But the real deal-breaker on condoms is that every apparently-protected sexual act actually harms the character and commitment of the young person and their future relationships, as Glenn Stanton explains in his recent book, “The Ring makes all the difference.”
Why not embrace an approach that challenges and inspires the youth to live up to the great ideal of fidelity? This ideal marks the final uplifting scene of David Copperfield when David’s friend Agnes is revealed to be his true and faithful lover: “Oh Agnes, oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life. So may I, when realities are melting from me like the shadows…, still find thee near me, pointing upward!”
FAMILY INTERGRITY
Have you ever experienced regret? Not the casual passing kind, but an
entrenched piercing regret? The kind that comes with heartbreak? As
Fulton Sheen explained in ‘Three To Get Married’, “a broken heart is not
a fracture of a single heart but the rupture of two hearts once united
in the rapture of a single love.” Have you ever suffered such loss?
In contrast, is there anything more uplifting than a small child’s eyes, than its smile, its laughter? Can the dancing eyes of a child fail to melt the hardest heart? Can any tragedy compare with the violent loss of childhood innocence? Those who have suffered real loss may understand something of the tragedy of innocence lost, a replay of the first ancient tragedy of man, the tragedy of the lost paradise of Eden.
Mankind’s first tragedy moved John Milton to compose his epic 350-year-old poem ‘Paradise Lost’. His anguished prayer bears repeating, “O Spirit… say first, what cause moved our grand Parents, in that happy state, favoured of heaven so highly, to fall off from their Creator and transgress his will? … Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?” Milton later puts into the mouth of the villain Satan this fearful defence: “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.”
The social institution of ‘marriage and family’ survived the ruins of the ancient Paradise Lost. It was later renewed through the redemptive Easter events dramatised in Milton’s ‘Paradise Regained’. It now exists to rescue human love from corruption and to defend childhood innocence from violation. Thus Fulton Sheen affirmed marriage and family as follows, “The pleasure associated with love is the frosting on the cake; the purpose is to make us love the cake, not ignore it.”
It is egotism and the decline of reason that make decadent civilisation give primacy to sex over human love. This may be unknown to some media persons whose casual approach to sex, marital fidelity and family integrity is eroding our society’s capacity for love. Through the print and electronic media, these priests and priestesses of libertine sex continue to curse the Kenyan family and seduce it to a foul revolt.
The purveyors and consumers of libertine sex crave ecstasy as the pathway to love. What they find though is the bitter dregs of marriage perverted, family destroyed and a mirage of love that doesn’t satisfy. Martin Luther King’s unanswerable words ring out, “On the bleached bones of dead civilisations are written the words, ‘too late’.” The Kenyan family should be saved before it is too late.
Available statistics show that family is essential for the good of children, and marriage for the good of spouses. Physical, psychological, social, economic and spiritual wellbeing derive from marriage and family. A recent American study showed that children living with cohabiting parents, or with the mother co-habiting with a boyfriend, are respectively four and eleven times more likely to be sexually, physically or emotionally abused or vulnerable than children living with married biological parents.
Family integrity is in the best interests of our children (art 53(2), Kenyan Constitution). Stable family secured from adultery, cruelty and whimsical divorce is also good for men and women, and the basis of social order (art 45(1)). By nurturing our positive cultural heritage (art 11, 44), we can safeguard marriage and family. Thus the drafters of Kenya’s Marriage Bill should reject subtle proposals that cheapen marriage. Come-we-stay should not equate to marriage. No-fault or on-demand divorce, which treats sacred covenantal vows as worth even less than simple contracts, must be rejected. And polygamy should be limited by granting veto rights to women in customary marriages.
Have you ever been really happy? Not the contentment of a healthy animal but the stable uplifting joy that grows even through pain? Look into it and you will see that such joy, which implies a personal gift of self, always springs from family or similar community of love. Don’t you care to share such joy?
In contrast, is there anything more uplifting than a small child’s eyes, than its smile, its laughter? Can the dancing eyes of a child fail to melt the hardest heart? Can any tragedy compare with the violent loss of childhood innocence? Those who have suffered real loss may understand something of the tragedy of innocence lost, a replay of the first ancient tragedy of man, the tragedy of the lost paradise of Eden.
Mankind’s first tragedy moved John Milton to compose his epic 350-year-old poem ‘Paradise Lost’. His anguished prayer bears repeating, “O Spirit… say first, what cause moved our grand Parents, in that happy state, favoured of heaven so highly, to fall off from their Creator and transgress his will? … Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?” Milton later puts into the mouth of the villain Satan this fearful defence: “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.”
The social institution of ‘marriage and family’ survived the ruins of the ancient Paradise Lost. It was later renewed through the redemptive Easter events dramatised in Milton’s ‘Paradise Regained’. It now exists to rescue human love from corruption and to defend childhood innocence from violation. Thus Fulton Sheen affirmed marriage and family as follows, “The pleasure associated with love is the frosting on the cake; the purpose is to make us love the cake, not ignore it.”
It is egotism and the decline of reason that make decadent civilisation give primacy to sex over human love. This may be unknown to some media persons whose casual approach to sex, marital fidelity and family integrity is eroding our society’s capacity for love. Through the print and electronic media, these priests and priestesses of libertine sex continue to curse the Kenyan family and seduce it to a foul revolt.
The purveyors and consumers of libertine sex crave ecstasy as the pathway to love. What they find though is the bitter dregs of marriage perverted, family destroyed and a mirage of love that doesn’t satisfy. Martin Luther King’s unanswerable words ring out, “On the bleached bones of dead civilisations are written the words, ‘too late’.” The Kenyan family should be saved before it is too late.
Available statistics show that family is essential for the good of children, and marriage for the good of spouses. Physical, psychological, social, economic and spiritual wellbeing derive from marriage and family. A recent American study showed that children living with cohabiting parents, or with the mother co-habiting with a boyfriend, are respectively four and eleven times more likely to be sexually, physically or emotionally abused or vulnerable than children living with married biological parents.
Family integrity is in the best interests of our children (art 53(2), Kenyan Constitution). Stable family secured from adultery, cruelty and whimsical divorce is also good for men and women, and the basis of social order (art 45(1)). By nurturing our positive cultural heritage (art 11, 44), we can safeguard marriage and family. Thus the drafters of Kenya’s Marriage Bill should reject subtle proposals that cheapen marriage. Come-we-stay should not equate to marriage. No-fault or on-demand divorce, which treats sacred covenantal vows as worth even less than simple contracts, must be rejected. And polygamy should be limited by granting veto rights to women in customary marriages.
Have you ever been really happy? Not the contentment of a healthy animal but the stable uplifting joy that grows even through pain? Look into it and you will see that such joy, which implies a personal gift of self, always springs from family or similar community of love. Don’t you care to share such joy?
Saturday, 23 August 2014
A CALL FOR INTELLECTUAL HYGIENE IN KENYA
IT IS NOT ENOUGH
(This is an excerpt of my latest paper, "A Call for Intellectual Hygiene" )
Bertrand Russell was a great Mathematician and Philosopher. Though his 1927 book "Why I am not a Christian" is not a good read for staunch Christians, it communicates a value that cannot be seen in many intellectuals (or non intellectuals) today. He could not just follow what he did not understand. His 1927 Papers also assert why intellectuals have to stand by their own. No wonder, when he won his Nobel Peace price, he was uneasy why the people who could not comprehend his mathematics could find a reason to believe he was the winner.
(This is an excerpt of my latest paper, "A Call for Intellectual Hygiene" )
Bertrand Russell was a great Mathematician and Philosopher. Though his 1927 book "Why I am not a Christian" is not a good read for staunch Christians, it communicates a value that cannot be seen in many intellectuals (or non intellectuals) today. He could not just follow what he did not understand. His 1927 Papers also assert why intellectuals have to stand by their own. No wonder, when he won his Nobel Peace price, he was uneasy why the people who could not comprehend his mathematics could find a reason to believe he was the winner.
Bertrand said,
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, and wise people so full of doubts." And the
same can be seen in Kenya, and especially in the young minds in
universities who are supposed to inject clarity of though and reason to
the ideals of the country and the thinking of its people. Poor minds!!
Albert Einstein could tell you that any fool can know, the point is to understand! But my problem is that the so called intellectuals cannot give you an ear. They will instead employ their intellect to demean you, abuse you, and direct all manner of vendetta and vengeance for seeing a fault in them. And especially if you are a young man, or woman.That is why Abigail Van Buren said that “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” Oh, Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish, so said the legendary Euripides Bacchae!!
Look here good people. An intellectual who uses his intellect to defend the corrupt, manouvre through laws, manipulate policies for the wrong, and even ensure that generations are weakened is as good as evil. When intellectuals do not stand firm, then we fail. They are like mothers of destiny. A gaze down the memory lane tells me that it was the likes of Willy Mutunga, Prof. Micere Mugo, Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, James Orengo among other intellectuals who stood firm and the result was the democracy that Kenya enjoys. I do not want to explore the sorry side of the politics in it but the point is that intellectuals were the solid backbone of the transformation. Look at the US, the civil rights movement was inspired by intellectuals who were not compromised at all. King himself had several degrees!!
When you study Mathematics, don't study to know it, understand it and be a better person because you are a guru in Math. If you cannot be better, freer or wiser when you know or get educated, you are as good as a deadly and poisonous concotion.
(The paper will be discussed in the Africa Leadership Academy Annual Convention in October)
Albert Einstein could tell you that any fool can know, the point is to understand! But my problem is that the so called intellectuals cannot give you an ear. They will instead employ their intellect to demean you, abuse you, and direct all manner of vendetta and vengeance for seeing a fault in them. And especially if you are a young man, or woman.That is why Abigail Van Buren said that “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.” Oh, Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish, so said the legendary Euripides Bacchae!!
Look here good people. An intellectual who uses his intellect to defend the corrupt, manouvre through laws, manipulate policies for the wrong, and even ensure that generations are weakened is as good as evil. When intellectuals do not stand firm, then we fail. They are like mothers of destiny. A gaze down the memory lane tells me that it was the likes of Willy Mutunga, Prof. Micere Mugo, Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, James Orengo among other intellectuals who stood firm and the result was the democracy that Kenya enjoys. I do not want to explore the sorry side of the politics in it but the point is that intellectuals were the solid backbone of the transformation. Look at the US, the civil rights movement was inspired by intellectuals who were not compromised at all. King himself had several degrees!!
When you study Mathematics, don't study to know it, understand it and be a better person because you are a guru in Math. If you cannot be better, freer or wiser when you know or get educated, you are as good as a deadly and poisonous concotion.
(The paper will be discussed in the Africa Leadership Academy Annual Convention in October)
A CALL FOR INTELLECTUAL HYGIENE AMONG THE INTELLIGENTSIA
{An abridged version of Abuta Ogeto's latest paper}
Life can be a very hard nut to crack if you create a gap between your life and wisdom. But in my interaction, schooling or listening, I realize that the most that the most important thing in life is to make a decision, and for that case a very good decision. A decision you will stand by even if the world went against you. The question is, have you made that decision. Again, have you made that decision(s)?
the tragedy is that in Africa, people refuse to think. And that is why most decision are made by the West and soon by the East. and we complain saying that they have enslaved us and they are dictatorial. The only strength they have capitalized on is THINKING and for that matter, thinking right and powerful!!
Listen good people. When Joshua was faced with a tough decision when leading the people deviant former slaves to Canaan. As is recorded in Joshua 24:15, He said, " As for me and my family, we shall worship the Lord, and indeed, he stood by his decision. When Jesus was faced with the reality of his crucifixion, it was painful but he said, "If it is your wish that I go through all this, hen let it be so". And indeed, he endured he painful whips and nailing to save the world.
Mother Teresa asked people not to complain when in a dark room. "Let each one light a candle and the room will soon be consumed in light".
I am a practising Catholic and when I read the doctrine of the church, I read about the Benedictine order where Monks have to undergo Conversatio Morum (Latin for complete change). Its a hard decision but when you make it, you must be ready to stand by it.
But as young Angolan Economist, Dampisa Moyo, explains in his book, "Dede", Africa is home to a theatre of researches courtesy of foreign organizations like world Bank and IMF. But what decisions have Africans made by themselves. You can now understand why we demonize saints and canonize the corrupt. That's why we honour fools with unschooled opinions and give them standing ovations when they pour their "wisdom" (or lack of) upon us. But when an intellectual and moral citizen gives his/her opinion, we jeer them. But what irk me is when intellectual endorse fools!! They cow down upon people who are out to satisfy their egocentric ambitions. The questions is, if the intelligentsia have dirtified their minds, where do we go from there??
Education is for life, not livelihood!! If you think I am wrong, why are there adverts telling us "wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands", we take education for livelihood instead of life, where livelihood is part.
A time will come when we have to make a decision. we may postpone it but it will just cause more worry, suffering and loss. Lets avoid so much empty talk. The spirit is only powerful if the decision is solid. MAKE A DECISION!! If Socrates or John Stuart Mill was alive, he could have wondered how petty the intellectuals have become. He could have wished to swiftly switch back to his grave.
When developed civilizations are talking about superior technology, we are talking about removing jiggers and washing hands. When the TRUE intellectuals are standing out and tall, our mediocre intellectuals are worshiping money and power and soon, they are ousted out of office.
I have to say that the problem is so worse that it has gotten into the Church as well. And very few clergymen can stand by the true word in the Christian's Bible, the Islam's Koran, Bhagavad Gita or Vedas of the Hindus.
Just as the Catholics say, Mea culpa, Mea culpa, Mea Maxi Maculpa, we ought to accept the fault and Make a decision. We have to be clean. And clean indeed we must be.
Therefore, I wish that we think clean and act as so. Let us act and live to the true meaning of our creed. and I repeat, if intellectuals have refused to think, what else can you expect.....DISASTER!!! Period!!
Abuta is an Actuarial Science Student, Author and personal Development Consultant at The Ignition Talks (Inc)
{An abridged version of Abuta Ogeto's latest paper}
Life can be a very hard nut to crack if you create a gap between your life and wisdom. But in my interaction, schooling or listening, I realize that the most that the most important thing in life is to make a decision, and for that case a very good decision. A decision you will stand by even if the world went against you. The question is, have you made that decision. Again, have you made that decision(s)?
the tragedy is that in Africa, people refuse to think. And that is why most decision are made by the West and soon by the East. and we complain saying that they have enslaved us and they are dictatorial. The only strength they have capitalized on is THINKING and for that matter, thinking right and powerful!!
Listen good people. When Joshua was faced with a tough decision when leading the people deviant former slaves to Canaan. As is recorded in Joshua 24:15, He said, " As for me and my family, we shall worship the Lord, and indeed, he stood by his decision. When Jesus was faced with the reality of his crucifixion, it was painful but he said, "If it is your wish that I go through all this, hen let it be so". And indeed, he endured he painful whips and nailing to save the world.
Mother Teresa asked people not to complain when in a dark room. "Let each one light a candle and the room will soon be consumed in light".
I am a practising Catholic and when I read the doctrine of the church, I read about the Benedictine order where Monks have to undergo Conversatio Morum (Latin for complete change). Its a hard decision but when you make it, you must be ready to stand by it.
But as young Angolan Economist, Dampisa Moyo, explains in his book, "Dede", Africa is home to a theatre of researches courtesy of foreign organizations like world Bank and IMF. But what decisions have Africans made by themselves. You can now understand why we demonize saints and canonize the corrupt. That's why we honour fools with unschooled opinions and give them standing ovations when they pour their "wisdom" (or lack of) upon us. But when an intellectual and moral citizen gives his/her opinion, we jeer them. But what irk me is when intellectual endorse fools!! They cow down upon people who are out to satisfy their egocentric ambitions. The questions is, if the intelligentsia have dirtified their minds, where do we go from there??
Education is for life, not livelihood!! If you think I am wrong, why are there adverts telling us "wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands", we take education for livelihood instead of life, where livelihood is part.
A time will come when we have to make a decision. we may postpone it but it will just cause more worry, suffering and loss. Lets avoid so much empty talk. The spirit is only powerful if the decision is solid. MAKE A DECISION!! If Socrates or John Stuart Mill was alive, he could have wondered how petty the intellectuals have become. He could have wished to swiftly switch back to his grave.
When developed civilizations are talking about superior technology, we are talking about removing jiggers and washing hands. When the TRUE intellectuals are standing out and tall, our mediocre intellectuals are worshiping money and power and soon, they are ousted out of office.
I have to say that the problem is so worse that it has gotten into the Church as well. And very few clergymen can stand by the true word in the Christian's Bible, the Islam's Koran, Bhagavad Gita or Vedas of the Hindus.
Just as the Catholics say, Mea culpa, Mea culpa, Mea Maxi Maculpa, we ought to accept the fault and Make a decision. We have to be clean. And clean indeed we must be.
Therefore, I wish that we think clean and act as so. Let us act and live to the true meaning of our creed. and I repeat, if intellectuals have refused to think, what else can you expect.....DISASTER!!! Period!!
Abuta is an Actuarial Science Student, Author and personal Development Consultant at The Ignition Talks (Inc)
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