Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Religion and Majority Pays the price, for the evil [Re: willie] #20737 - 09/20/02 03:23 AM Edit Reply Quote

From your posts I can understand that you are against any kind of blind faith or clinging only to the past. That's great. But in one sense i feel that your understanding of the present and the past is a little coloured. Not everything of the past is bad, not everything of the present is good. It's great that nations have the possibility to come mondially closer. But is that really happening? We have the same amount of wars and atrocities as in the past (not counted the great holocausts everywhere in the world). We have even more large scale problems than in the past. Uniformity creates also vulnerability, that's why every great empire rose to power and equally dramatically went down (lessons of the past). The past is an interference cadre, a reference on the basis of which one can avoid things and develop good things, and create other new things. This is the 'evolutionary way'. Abrupt or 'revolutionary ways' are seen in Marxism, Wahhabism, etc. Revolutions can work out negatively or positively, but they are risky, compared to the evolutionary way. We have to stick to real problems and real solutions (lessons of the present=reality). In short, one cannot stick isolated to just one time. The past, present and (near) future have to be in balance, only then one can understand and work properly towards solutions. Another important point, you have mentioned it too in your posts, is the (global) protest voice against agression of terrorist nature. The last but most important point is selfrespect and (global) respect for others, no matter what differences there are.