jamahir
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It will be in Paradise where all pain, suffering, and mis-understanding is removed. This pilgrimage we call life is beset with trials , tribulations, this vale of tears.
true words, but i am a happy-go-lucky person so i see it like this...
most sufferings are not written in the skies, dictated by nature, and to be imposed on some person for life. sufferings are political, social, economic, in the "here and now", caused by wrong political systems. therefore to remove sufferings one must change the political systems and that is only possible through revolution... call that ancient egypt, christianity, islam, renaissance, french revolution, russian revolution, baath revolution, occupy movements...
i have written a bit more on this in my intro thread today (hello and many salaams... to comrades and otherwise... ), especially in my reply to truthseeker.
Every religion was political if you go back few centuries.
Why?
Modern system of politics and governance had not take shape.
However in 2014, no religion should be mixed with politics.
Politics is dirt, religion is petrol/fuel for our soul.
Once you put dirt in that petrol, your soul gets corrupted.
Hope you understand.
yes, i understand. but all these fights are mostly because of nationalism, dividing the world with artificial and unneeded boundaries ( national borders ). the french revolution should have created the beginning towards a world government but it ended in creating the concept of "republics" which then as you alluded turned into the modern "nations". mistake upon mistake
now that people are again interested in space ( spacex, mars one ), interested in non-capitalist future ( occupy... ), sick and tired of war crimes ( google "libya rebel atrocity" )... they should think that from space, we see no national boundaries, no border security posts... so what is the point in maintaining armies and visas??
there is a song in the hindi film "refugee". it goes "panchi, nadiya, pavan ke jhonkay... koi sarhad na inhe rokay". meaning, "the birds fly the world free, rivers don't respect borders, nor does wind".
religion... i can say that since islam ( and christianity ) are socialism, spiritual, political, practical... they are part of the solution. but of course, the leaders of religion must be scientific people, of wisdom. they must be against superstitions, rituals, prayer-mindedness, capitalism etc. they must talk common sense, acceptable to any sensible and independent human.
that is idealism, of course, but when problems are created by groups of people, it has to be solved by groups of people, yes?? politics need not be a bad word. it is the duty of every person to contribute to the good of society, by practical political participation. what else should they do if not that??
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