Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day
I believe that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we attract even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange…
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Any thing can be ustified if we speak in terms of perception. Things can become so grey that there is no right and wrong. That’s why the individual’s journey is imperative.
It’s all about the energy, constantly changing…we are all one.
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong …
And that other thought that is present for me these last couples of days. I was there seeing that when others are preparing for their retirement (time to live!) I was there putting up strategies to assure the existence and realization of my dream (professional centre in help and Foundation to bring that private service to the community on a free basis), and I thought: I have it all wrong. I have going in the opposite way that the world defined. And then, I stood there stunned. My references, well, what makes them right, so right! And then I realized that I was the one living, for I am entering a line of work that flows, that makes me full, that helps, and that I can do at all moments in my life, that retirement well is something not for me, that I am lived before, I live now and will live after.
Nothing in the “divine world” is ever wrong, and nothing is this world is ever completely wrong because the Source is always there to bring back, address, reform, transform, maintain from what is completely wrong. Jojo.
It’s funny but today when I came on that portion of the blog, I thought: Why always trying to understand what is right or wrong in the World (exterior) and why do I not put my energy to see what is right or wrong inside me (interior)? For I loose myself in that incomprehension that surrounds me, and find it more energy filling, more simple, more definite when I tend to put all my senses towards my interior. And then, yes, I need to look at the exterior, because I need it to contemplate my interior … Use to hate that kind of feeling that is there today … today I woke up with again a night filled of dreams, intense dreams, and with “what is the meaning of all this Creation, what do I need to comprehend”, and I need to comprehend … and then I come back to comprehend what is there for me to comprehend at this precise moment, today, this moment … Those dreams … are they dreams … I believe they are so much more … so much bizarre encounters … but I trust that I will be guided … so, I leave my lap top and go outside to attend gardening (a sunny day in Québec! Rare and precious before winter time that approaches). I trust that meanings and responses will appear to help me comprehend that for me, in this life, nothing is never completely wrong. Jojo.
This is especially true to those who are slaves of social norms. They suppress their inner instincts (which cause no harm to others) and when they look back when they are old, all they see is their life being lead by an imaginary social hand. Not by themselves.
Have you ever tried to wear your sweater inside-out? Wasn’t it light and warm? And you would never notice that it was not the right side even if ‘your friends’ wouldn’t laugh at you… Hmm… Maybe they all have lost their sweaters and now they are simply jealous of you…?
Be brave! And if you love to wear your sweater inside-out, just do that! Nothing in this world is ever completely wrong while it makes you feel warm and comfortable! :)
‘Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong’.
Now thinking again of it, I read ‘in the World’ and by that I think that it implies the world of creation after … ‘Paradise Lost’. When we entered the worlds of duality and separation.
So, I think, it is obvious, that nothing is … completely wrong. Everything happenes for a reason. To … restore ‘balance’ and for us to learn. To transform matter into spirit. To become the Alchemist.
Only the Eternal Light[Ανέσπερο Φώς] ΙS.
We are in the Cave, see the ’shadows on the wall’, chained in Matter and think that what is happening to us is real.
But deeply inside us, the sparkle of Light, the … spectator ‘understands’ that these are just Illusions! The play of .. Light and Shadow.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
“Eχεις δικιο, αλλα ο Καλος αγωνας δεν ειναι μονο αυτο.Το να κανεις πολεμο δεν ειναι αμαρτια.”ειπε οταν του μιλησα για τις αμφιβολιες μου. “Το να κανεις πόλεμο ειναι μια πραξη αγάπης. Ο εχθρός μασ δινει την ευκαιρια να προοδευουμε και να ολοκληρωνομαστε, οπως εκανε ο σκύλος με σενα” – Petrus – The Pilgrimage
Petrus says that making war is not a sin..it is an act of Love.. (this is after the incident with the dog and Paulo) – sorry everyone i read this book in Greek..
Dearest Satora, you know, as I think of it, maybe it is really hard for me to sit with the ‘old’ Annie and smoke the peace pipe..because I believe if I do that, then she might trick me at a moment of loosing my guard.. I thank her though for her existance , because I wouldn’t be who I am now..but still I don’t know..sometimes I believe that the ‘new’ Annie is a temporary one, or maybe I am afraid of returning back to the ‘old’ one..
Now as I realise it, fears are connected with wounds..possibly with those that have not healed.. SO, back again to the forum..
I don’t know how it all got connected.. maybe I ve gone off topic now..
Love and Graditude
Annie
Dearest Annie,
no you have not gone off the subject at all…actually you just took your first puff from the peace pipe…and be assured you will make peace with “her” and move on without any fear…it may take some time but the metamorphosis is already taking place…just like a butterfly…
With loving kindness,
Satora
Dear Satora and Annie
I have just had a sign that may relate to this posting…. a butterfly came into my house just now, and couldn’t get out.
She moved towards the light of the door on window in vain, then turned away further into the house (again in vain), I turned around and she has disappeared, she found her freedom.
Lots of love to you both
Pandora
Yesterday I saw a yellow butterfly and was thinking about Annie and her Sulfur hehe.
She finally found her way to go to her freedom…a really clever one that butterfly!examining the wrong and the right decisions and going to the light..
It is amazing how we speak all of us together, with the language of signs…
That happenned with Ilva also (the dream with the violin and the cherry tree)
Thank you both, Satora and Pandora…Blessed be
Moving toward the light
Love and Graditude
Annie
So true Annie, you just showed me something about myself. I have the same fears. Lovely the way you put it, you smoking the pipe with the other Annie…ha ha, cute. Thank you.
Much love
Alexandra
Dear Annie
“Going to war is not a sin. It is an act of love.” English version.
I am not sure I understand this statement correctly by Petrus. It seems to me that an act of war is an act made as a result of the absence of love from someones life. (Don Suero de Quinones as an example)
Hitler was violently abused as a child, and to me was so filled with anger and rage from being abused, that he punished and inflicted his hurt onto the entire world. (Emotional wounds again)!
There was a big magical battle in defence against Hitler. (which truely was an act of love in my opinion).
But on a normal day to day basis, I agree with Petrus, an adversary is rarely evil.
With love
Pandora
Well, Annie, there were too much rain in your past… And that is good that now you are ‘new’ Annie – sitting near piano with rainbow keys, not standing under the rain without umbrella… :)
a stopped clock is broken, it’s of no use..even the coincidence is irrelevant…it seems to me as if mankind relies on this coincidence and that this waiting of this coincidence to appear is all the effort it makes to change the life into something ‘working’..
My beloved and I live 3000kms apart. One night we spent 10 hours on the phone. The next day she noticed her clock had stopped at the moment we hung up. The coincidence was significant for us.
With love, Daniel
Hello, I think this is more a sign than a coincidence,
regards M.
Right and wrong, near and far are such abstract concept only to the beholders each is diffrent according to their experiences!!!
I liked it Marlene. Although, I looked at this motto at a different side of view at my post, you are absolutely right. Just throw the clock away and don’t have to wait for these 2 min (of the day’s 1440 min).
Very nice opinion!!
Thank you, I appreciate it..it is always a way of perspective, but there are things that happened that certainly can’t be justified.. they simply wait as a broken clock to get a meaning just by chance..
with love M.-
There is only one thing that cannot be ignored.
If those “things” start moving at that coordinated time, they will have an amazing relult and/or an amazing “meaning”, as you said!
One of my favorite mottos (although I am not fond of mottos) is the “know the right moment”.
Take care, Marlene…
“Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I’m inclined to believe Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell… What we need is harmony. Fresh air. Stuff like that” “Bruce Robinson (1986, ref. 1)”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGY_Zr6FyyM
One of my favourite films.. :-)
Danny in the film, reminds me of someone I used to know, who smoked many a Camberwell Carrot…
Does this quote also mean that
1. hitler was not completely wrong, 2. all the killing in name of releigion was not completely wrong, 3. the witch hunt in middle ages was not completely wrong.
…4. 5……
love
aditya
Depends dear Aditya how you interpret the word “wrong”, etc … For me that citation refers to “errors, mistakes, bad choices, things that seem to not go in favor of what one wished, prayed or intended. Also, for me, it refers to the relation me and the world. Yes, if I go on that road of analyzing actions, facts, history, I would ask myself the same questions, but again, I could not respond since I am not a part of that personally. But if I had been a Jew with Hitler, I would have found a meaning, a security that the world is ever completely wrong. Because if I had not, I would have been destroyed by other things (hate, revenge, abandonment, etc …) I am of the resilient type and that citation well is part of my way of having been able to fight the Good Fight. With affection, Jojo.
good thought
the start of the week might have allowed me more time to answer this jeje ;o)
right now, I must also ask… well, how did a ‘civilised’ nation allow Hitler to ‘happen’..?
now that is a good thought!
a good question ” how did a civilised nation allowed ‘hitler’ to happen”
yes let lessons be learnt here. Germans are civilised people, very civilised, their engineering is the best in the world, this must be due to something, and they are mostly noble, my views, although i have never been aquainted with any german personally, i have been a student of history for long, and also enginnering. without a shadow of doubt germans qualify to be vacalled civilised in true sense of teh word, not absolutely civilised but better than most nations, or qt least equal to the best. then what went wrong. Hitler ( not the man, the phenomenon that we remember the person for ) was not born the day he became in charge of gernmany, he was born the day an unfair and unjust ‘treaty’ was thrust upon the defeated german people in first world war. the humiliation heaped upon them, in desparation hitler happned, with support from intellegentia, incidently hitler was exact opposit of what a normal german stands for, tall, proud, competent and compassionate ( though very quite ), hitler was hort, of poor personal appearances, everything about him was ungerman like. In desparate times, even teh best make mistakes, hitler was the mistake germans made when faced with teh humiliation.
let’s hope there are no conflicts in future, even if it happnes let teh winners show due respct to the loosers, or else, scores will get settled sometime or the other.
love
aditya
The only thing I can respond is in the present. We, as a civilized nation, allow many things to happen that are as hurtful than Hitler!, but more subtil … :-) Jojo.
Jojo,
u the civilised nation are uncivilised to that extent, ain’t it !
love
aditya
Does Light consist of Darkness?
“I am the darkness that must come out of light”
;o)
Could you be loved… and be loved…
Could you be loved… and be loved…
Don’t let them fool ya,
Or even try to school ya! Oh, no!
We’ve got a mind of our own,
So go to hell if what you’re thinking is not right!
Love would never leave us alone,
Against the darkness there must come out the light.
Could you be loved… and be loved…
Could you be loved…wo yeah… and be loved…
Bob Marley
Classic.
XXX
Hi pandora beautiful song.
hmmmmm. light and darkness, to me it appears just the direction from where u are watching, presence of something is light and its absence is darkness. when cats says i am that darkenss which comes out of light, i am sure darkness too is soothing, comforting, restful and wven light can be blinding. so it’s all a matter of perspectives i feel, like two sides of the same coin.
saying whether light consists of darkness, it’s better to see it as light owes its existance to darkeness and vice-versa, if there is only light and no darkness, it would not be observable, the contrast is required to highlight. and funny thing is that light wouyld not be aware of existance of darkness, when there is light darkness is gone and when darkness is their light is no more, curious !
love
Even the most lit landscape, if you look at it at a specific corner, it has shadows..
Dear Annie, I don’t understand them when I write them either! Tomorrow might be different but today I think it means take away all the labels and names, then you can understand with your heart instead of your head. Also with regard to light and darkness, for me they are two parts of the same thing. It is impossible to live your life from birth to death entirely in light. So I guess it is also about feeling more than just a physical sensation, going deeper, and loving both equally because they are ultimately the same.
So yes! See the beauty, hear the melody, smell the flowers, taste your lover’s lips. Then shut your eyes, cover your ears, close your mouth, and understand them. When my lover touches me, I know what it feels like to be touched. When she takes it away I understand what it does to my heart.
Thank you so much Annie, now I think I understand my poem! :-)
With love, Daniel
Dear Annie, Aditya,
This world contains light and dark, but even at night we have the reflections of the Moon and stars from the Sun.
Without the Sun of course, there would be no life on Earth, all would be darkness…
Lots of love
Pandora
I ask myself that question often Pandora.
I don’t think one can exist without the other. Just as wood does not become charcoal, and a river is never the same, but is always a river. They are separate.
The Heart of the Universe
Take away my tongue
No more to taste the salt of oceans
or the sweetness of a mango
Now my mouth can know the flavour of worlds
and taste the dust left by comets
Off with my nose
I would not smell sweet flowers
or rain on a summer day
I’d forsake these
To know the scent of Love
Off with my ears
and come blessed silence
Show me the hum and grind
of planets and stars
Lead me to the rustling of trees
and the secrets whispered by insects
Pluck out my eyes
Come sweet darkness
Envelop my world
Sink down upon hills and valleys
Shadow the clouds
and obliterate the colours of nature
Only now may I know light.
With love, Daniel
Dear Daniel, I love so much your poem.. But maybe I don’t really understand it.. So here comes again, that famous question of the teacher in high school “What does the poet mean?”!!
Isn’t it with our senses that we can ‘feel’ Love ?
By seeing the beauty arounds us?
By listening and attuning ourselves to the voices /rythms/melodies/ echoes of the Universe?
By smelling the trees/flowers after beeing wet/blessed with rain?
By tasting our lips after being kissed by your lover?
Well, I don’t know if it was intended but, you left the ‘touch’ outside.. Is it because you wanted to say that you know Light/Love by the touch of your beloved?
Love and Graditude
Annie
Daniel – this makes sense!:)
Daniel – this makes more senses. One is missing though?
Puzzle for the day?
:)
Beautiful Daniel,
Thank you
Love
Pandora
Marie-Christine, I just went back to my original notes from this poem, and this is what it says in my “brain dump” before I wrote it:
“Be boundless. Touch. Hear. See. Does love have a smell?”
“What’s at the heart of the Universe?”
“If I pull myself apart, will I find out?”
“Off with my fingers and toes. Now I know the meaning of touch.”
So, why did I leave it out when I wrote the final poem? Because the hardest thing for me to go without is touch. It is the language that speaks louder to my heart than any other.
So I think the first verse should be
What’s at the heart of the Universe?
If I pull myself apart,
Will I find out?
Off with my fingers and toes!
Now I know the meaning of touch
Thanks Marie-Christine and Annie!
Definitely needed that extra “touch” ! ;-)
With love, Daniel
Dear Daniel , that is a great POEM!! ;O) Thank you for sharing with us these personal notes
Love and Graditude
Annie
Daniel -
I thought you did – touche that is the French word!
I find that very touching!
:)
Love
Dearest Aditya, if all these hadn’t happenned, then we wouldn’t be here rejecting them right now…
SOmetimes we need the enemy, so as to glorify the right thing..I think.. but also, the world is a very conservative one and likes immobility..many things are not/were not ripe back then..but this is the way changes happen..little by little and steadily..
Also, Jesus needed Judas to fulfill his purpose.. so even the ‘bad guys’ are needed sometims..
yepp….
in context to hitler and nothing being absolutely wrong, i will see it as even at his worst hitler was not beyond redemption, oh ! how glorious had it been had hitler abandoned his hate ( u know originally it was directde against that chap who refused him admission in that art school, wonder what would have happned had hitler been admitted there and trained to become a painter, but as u said everything has a purpouse a destiny to fulfill ) and faced the tribunals, repented and faced the gallows with remorse on his face. anyway, noithing is absolutely one sided in this world.
love
aditya
you can’t say hitlers germany allowed the holocaust, because they were feeling ‘oppressed’ after the first world war..
plus.. who started that first war huh?
maybe we are reading different history books ;o)
X
C
Have a peaceful weekend…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJzcUvS_NU&feature=related
You said this of course with… tongue in cheek… didn’t you dear Aditya…? What Hitler did, was very, very wrong… but some of his ideals were understandable considering the miserable circumstances in Europe at that time… Fanaticism however, impaired his visions… I pray that this will never, ever happen again… Love, Paul
Aditya – there is no right or wrong – only effective and not effective! What Hitler did was not effective… thus he did not ultimately achieve his aim.
In my country, South Africa, what Nelson Mandela did after Aprtheid, was effective – he achieved peace & equality without war.
When we think of our choices in life as being right or wrong, we can often land up in self-blame, regret & GUILT (the most difficult emotion to deal with!!) We should rather think of our choices as being effective or not effective… there might be less “emotional wounds” (Paulo’s current blog topic) if we all thought like that!
x
Dear claudia,
so what counts is if something effective or ineffective, and remeber it’s always the winners who write history, the people who are effective. not wrong but not write also, was zesus effective, look at the greed and sleepwalking generations, zesus does not seem to have been very effective, in fcat bad seems more effective than good, yet goood is good and bad is bad, at least in our deepest beings we ratain our longing to associate with good.
and it’s good that hitler did not achive his aim although he was instrumental in bringing foth to the world teh fact that discrimination in name of race and releigion can land the whole earth in hell.
thanks, u know for what…
love
aditya
” We should rather think of our choices as being effective or not effective.. there might be less ‘emotional wounds’…if we all thought like that!”
Exactly! Thank you for your comment, Claudia.
U know paul, i love you ( with all my views against homosexuality, i won’t be misunderstoood, i hope, love between freids is something i have found to be more divine than between married couples, and sex is of course a situational by product, )
yes u guessed it right, tounge in cheek, i too join you in that prayer, let’s trust our collective intelligence and also our individual intents and being.
love
aditya
Dear Aditya,
Interesting question. I was thinking along the same vien about how things are so wrong that we can’t even imagine something being right about it in any other perspective.
But as some of the responses say…Darkness is needed to define the boundary of Light.
I tried to imagine just one light never ending without boundaries..it would be blinding. WHen the light has a visible boundary of darkness we can see much better.
Maybe that is the purpose served by the wrong and it ends up right to define the light!
Love,
Laxmi
hello,
i was thinking about the same line Aditya, and wondered why one is never angry with a clock that doesn´t work. Like one doesn´t blame the weather for being bad or shouts at the brick that falls on ones toe.
A lot of people say that the really great wrong doings in our world actually started because the instigaters thought acting would bring peace and equilibrity. Did Hitler know he was doing something wrong? Or was he honestly convinced that in the end all would work out just fine?
And does it help us to be indignated and upset about it? Or could one better regard history as a clock that has stopped working? Beyond emotion?
ya too much messing around even with good intentions may not be a good idea, look what we have done in name of growth and development.
Hitler was convinced that what he was doing was to purge the earth of bad blood, of dishonesty, etec tec. he was convinced about his divine responsibilities.
History should always be referred to, otherwise each generaton has to reinvent the wheel from scratch. each person anyway has to reinvent teh wheel, their is no other way, but learning from others, successes, and failures is necessary. i used to hate history as a subject ( as was fashinable those days ) but my views changed drastically, when on a whim a chose history as a subject for a very tough exam, luckily i had good guidance and history saw me through teh first stage of that exam. history is important, actually more important than science and technology, for even thry too have a history, else they won’t be where we are today.
history is not dead, history lives on in the present moment, but yes no point lokking at history for fault finding, learn the lessons and move on, as they say what is gone is history
love
aditya
aditya,
is my first time reading a blog in this site, and is very interesting how we react and analize things and situations in our own favor, because alwalys we want to have the reason. We make the war at any moment when we feel someone is attacking us. I think you are against many issues in this world, and the quote of the week which we are analizing is simple true. The clock is right two times a day, isn’t it? even if it is broken!!!!There are bad and good decisions but seem all occurs in the exact moment. In the right moment and to the right people.Because is the destiny. With love, claudia l.
“160 million people died in wars during the 20th century:
1860-65: American civil war (360,000)
1886-1908: Belgium-Congo Free State (8 million)
1899-02: British-Boer war (100,000)
1899-03: Colombian civil war (120,000)
1899-02: Philippines vs USA (20,000)
1900-01: Boxer rebels against Russia, Britain, France, Japan, USA against rebels (35,000)
1903: Ottomans vs Macedonian rebels (20,000)
1904: Germany vs Namibia (65,000)
1904-05: Japan vs Russia (150,000)
1910-20: Mexican revolution (250,000)
1911: Chinese Revolution (2.4 million)
1911-12: Italian-Ottoman war (20,000)
1912-13: Balkan wars (150,000)
1915: the Ottoman empire slaughters Armenians (1.2 million)
1915-20: the Ottoman empire slaughters 500,000 Assyrians
1916-23: the Ottoman empire slaughters 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks
1914-18: World War I (20 million)
1916: Kyrgyz revolt against Russia (120,000)
1917-21: Soviet revolution (5 million)
1917-19: Greece vs Turkey (45,000)
1919-21: Poland vs Soviet Union (27,000)
1928-37: Chinese civil war (2 million)
1931: Japanese Manchurian War (1.1 million)
1932-33: Soviet Union vs Ukraine (10 million)
1934: Mao’s Long March (170,000)
1936: Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia (200,000)
1936-37: Stalin’s purges (13 million)
1936-39: Spanish civil war (600,000)
1937-45: Japanese invasion of China (500,000)
1939-45: World War II (55 million) including holocaust and Chinese revolution
1946-49: Chinese civil war (1.2 million)
1946-49: Greek civil war (50,000)
1946-54: France-Vietnam war (600,000)
1947: Partition of India and Pakistan (1 million)
1947: Taiwan’s uprising against the Kuomintang (30,000)
1948-1958: Colombian civil war (250,000)
1948-1973: Arab-Israeli wars (70,000)
1949-: Indian Muslims vs Hindus (20,000)
1949-50: Mainland China vs Tibet (1,200,000)
1950-53: Korean war (3 million)
1952-59: Kenya’s Mau Mau insurrection (20,000)
1954-62: French-Algerian war (368,000)
1958-61: Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” (38 million)
1960-90: South Africa vs Africa National Congress (?)
1960-96: Guatemala’s civil war (200,000)
1961-98: Indonesia vs West Papua/Irian (100,000)
1961-2003: Kurds vs Iraq (180,000)
1962-75: Mozambique Frelimo vs Portugal (?)
1964-73: USA-Vietnam war (3 million)
1965: second India-Pakistan war over Kashmir
1965-66: Indonesian civil war (250,000)
1966-69: Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” (11 million)
1966-: Colombia’s civil war (31,000)
1967-70: Nigeria-Biafra civil war (800,000)
1968-80: Rhodesia’s civil war (?)
1969-: Philippines vs New People’s Army (40,000)
1969-79: Idi Amin, Uganda (300,000)
1969-02: IRA – Norther Ireland’s civil war (2,000)
1969-79: Francisco Macias Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (50,000)
1971: Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war (500,000)
1972-: Philippines vs Muslim separatists (Moro Islamic Liberation Front, etc) (120,000)
1972: Burundi’s civil war (300,000)
1972-79: Rhodesia/Zimbabwe’s civil war (30,000)
1974-91: Ethiopian civil war (1,000,000)
1975-78: Menghitsu, Ethiopia (1.5 million)
1975-79: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia (1.7 million)
1975-89: Boat people, Vietnam (250,000)
1975-90: civil war in Lebanon (40,000)
1975-87: Laos’ civil war (184,000)
1975-2002: Angolan civil war (500,000)
1976-83: Argentina’s military regime (20,000)
1976-93: Mozambique’s civil war (900,000)
1976-98: Indonesia-East Timor civil war (600,000)
1976-2005: Indonesia-Aceh (GAM) civil war (12,000)
1977-92: El Salvador’s civil war (75,000)
1979: Vietnam-China war (30,000)
1979-88: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (1.3 million)
1980-88: Iraq-Iran war (1 million)
1980-92: Sendero Luminoso – Peru’s civil war (69,000)
1980-99: Kurds vs Turkey (35,000)
1981-90: Nicaragua vs Contras (60,000)
1982-90: Hissene Habre, Chad (40,000)
1983-: Sri Lanka’s civil war (70,000)
1983-2002: Sudanese civil war (2 million)
1986-: Indian Kashmir’s civil war (60,000)
1987-: Palestinian Intifada (4,500)
1988-2001: Afghanistan civil war (400,000)
1988-2004: Somalia’s civil war (550,000)
1989-: Liberian civil war (220,000)
1989-: Uganda vs Lord’s Resistance Army (30,000)
1991: Gulf War – large coalition against Iraq to liberate Kuwait (85,000)
1991-97: Congo’s civil war (800,000)
1991-2000: Sierra Leone’s civil war (200,000)
1991-2009: Russia-Chechnya civil war (200,000)
1991-94: Armenia-Azerbaijan war (35,000)
1992-96: Tajikstan’s civil war war (50,000)
1992-96: Yugoslavian wars (260,000)
1992-99: Algerian civil war (150,000)
1993-97: Congo Brazzaville’s civil war (100,000)
1993-2005: Burundi’s civil war (200,000)
1994: Rwanda’s civil war (900,000)
1995-: Pakistani Sunnis vs Shiites (1,300)
1995-: Maoist rebellion in Nepal (12,000)
1998-: Congo/Zaire’s war – Rwanda and Uganda vs Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia (3.8 million)
1998-2000: Ethiopia-Eritrea war (75,000)
1999: Kosovo’s liberation war – NATO vs Serbia (2,000)
2001-: Afghanistan’s liberation war – USA & UK vs Taliban (40,000)
2002-: Cote d’Ivoire’s civil war (1,000)
2003: Second Iraq-USA war – USA, UK and Australia vs Saddam Hussein (14,000)
2003-: Sudan vs JEM/Darfur (200,000)
2003-: Iraq’s civil war (60,000)
2004-: Sudan vs SPLM & Eritrea (?)
2004-: Yemen vs Shiite Muslims (?)
2004-: Thailand vs Muslim separatists (3,700)
Arab-Israeli wars:
I (1947-49): 6,373 Israeli and 15,000 Arabs die
II (1956): 231 Israeli and 3,000 Egyptians die
III (1967): 776 Israeli and 20,000 Arabs die
IV (1973): 2,688 Israeli and 18,000 Arabs die
Intifada I (1987-92): 170 Israelis and 1,000 Palestinians
Intifada II (2000-03): 700 Israelis and 2,000 Palestinians
Israel-Hamas war (2008): 1,300 Palestinians ”
source: http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massacre.html
Every day we can add more and more to this list….
How many wars are going on right now? Genocide anywhere?
Are human beings ever going to stop making war?
If you don’t stop your “war” on a personal level how on earth do you expect it to stop on a world wide level?
With loving kindness,
Satora
Maybe that war on the personal level is needed though, dear Satora, I don’t know..and I really don’t know it if it can be stopped..
I ve been thinking that if I didn’t declare war to that old ‘Annie’ (which was something that I didn’t and don’t like) , I wouldn’t be closer to what I am now, and I wouldn’t strive to change..
Also, I don’t know if this is from Pilgrimage,please anyone correct me if I am wrong.. but Paulo says that war is a declaration of love.. or maybe Petrus said so..
Love and Graditude
Annie
Dear Annie,
conflict resolution is not easy.
Maybe you should sit down with the “old” Annie and smoke a peace pipe?
With loving kindness,
Satora
Dear Annie,
I went to my bookcase and got out “The Pilgrimage” and opened the book randomly to page 120…
“…But agape is much more than liking. It is a feeling that suffuses, that fills every space in us and turns all our aggression to dust.” (Petrus)
With loving kindness,
Satora
Such a sad human phenomenon. There is a wonderful book called “Parenting for a peaceful world”, I can’t remember the names of the authors.
I find it confusing, but sometimes my thoughts drift to the fact that without war peace would hold no meaning (just as light and darkness go hand in hand).
With love, Daniel
Dear Satora,
Thank you so much for this gruesome list. We, living in peaceful countries, need to be reminded of this horrible fact. I read some time ago, how at any moment, there are about 30 – 40 wars going on at various parts of the world. So much suffering. In addition all the added destruction like landmines, nuclear pollutions so on. So what could possibly be positive about this? The War machine. Secure the weapon industry. Money to the production owners. Jobs to men in production and for the soldiers fighting. When will we turn swords into ploughs and figure all the positive rewards of generous sharing? In a way, with all our knowledge and understanding it is amazing how primitive our problem solving abilities are. And Destruction GOT TO STOP.
I’m reading a book called; ‘Managing Planet Earth’ about sustainable human development on a planet with a fragile environment, where one conclusion is…unless we do something about the causes of poverty, we will not get very far in changing planet earth to a better place. The rich and the poor people needs to improve talks, have dialogues, and start to enjoy each other’s company!
Love and Admiration,
Heart
I love you and I adore you and I admire you and I applaud you,sis, for bringing up the matter of poverty in the blog..!! the RICH should REACH them, and yes, start to enjoy their company
Thank you Annie ..big smile. The question is, do I have the courage to begin with myself, give away something of my wealth? Let me show you one example how ridiculous modern life is. You know I visit many families to support them in raising healthy children and solve many of the stresses they experience. Several times I have met people with no heater when it is cold or with no fan when it is hot, to conditions in fact could be deadly for a little newborn baby. So, I know I have a heater or a fan at home I gladly would give them, or even go and spend a little of my money to buy it for them. Oh, no, not in the modern society. Woe to you for having a charitable heart. Don’t you see what it could cause? These electrical items could cause a fire, and then the family you helped could sue you! So, you cannot follow your heart, you have to start a bureaucracy of documents to fill out to apply for financial support for the family, so they can buy their own heater/fan (money they then might use for alcohol or drugs) instead. Annie, sometimes I feel like banging my head in the wall… and just say; How about some common sense!!!
Love you yellow butterfly :) or was it orange & black…colorful anyway :)
Heart
A story for Paulo and WoLs – from Women who run with the wolves, Estes 1995.
A man came to a Szabo, Tailor, and tried on a suit. As he stood before the mirror, he noticed the vest was a little uneven at the bottom.
“Oh,” said the tailor, “don’t worry about that. Just hold the shorter end down with your left hand and no one will ever notice.”
While the customer proceeded to do this, he noticed that the lapel of the jacket curled up instead of lying flat.
“Oh that?” said the tailor. “That’s nothing. Just turn your head a little and hold it down with your chin.”
The customer complied, and as he did, he noticed that the inseam of the pants was a little short and he felt that the rise was a bit too tight.
“Oh,don’t worry about that,” said sthe tailor. “Just pull the inseam down with your right hand and everything will be perfect.” The customer agreed and purchased the suit.
The next day he wore his new suit with all the accompanying hand and chin “alterations.” As he limped through the park with his chin holding down his lapel, one hand tugging at the vest, the other hand grasping his crotch, two old men stopped playing checkers to watch him stagger by.
“M’Isten, oh my God!” said the first man. “Look at that poor crippled man!”
The second man reflected for a moment, then murmured, “Igen, yes, the crippling is too bad, but you know I wonder…where did he get such a nice suit?”
Thank you Catherine.. I love that story, it says too much!
Yes, we shouldn’t tailor our dreams according to The Tailor (society, family, etc)
yes we can all be ‘nice suits’ with alterations…(as the second man says) but I don’t want to be a suit!! I want to be something flexible, and not tight, not restraining (as a suit is)..Maybe I ‘d prefer to be a hat, so as when the wind blows, I go to places…
Love and Graditude
Annie
Hats on Annie!
lOVE and the hug of the day!
X
Marie-christine :)
Like it, thanks Catherine.
Bonjour Catherine!
I appreciated your sharing. And most of all, seeing its source, Clarissa Pinkola Estès and her book. For me, when I came across it, some years ago, it came at a time where it had to come and I was amazed. That book became a great instrument of healing, comprehension and changes for me. I was touched to revisit that moment for me by reading your comment. With affection, Jojo
That was great!thanks Catherine!:)
Great website CandieB!
A visual delight!
x
Thank you!:)
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What? was that???lol
I laugh for the nonsense……lol
But funny the use of Hungarian…
What do I do about it when I’m wounded?
I’ve found that making a legend out of it helps a lot. I’m not just a guy clicking around, coming up with nothing, his desire to express himself growing stronger and stronger by the minute, even though he knows he’ll just be 1 out of 725. amd he’ll not get the recognition he needs.
No, indeed. This is part of my personal quest. The rock is covering the well of (living) water, and I can’t get it off. But it can be done. That’s the moral of all these quest legends, and it’s the moral of my own quest legend as well. How do I position my body, my outer and inner stance, as I pull all my various parts, conflicts, loves, and hates together in one strong package, a package able to remove that rock from the well?
I visualize myself at the well, not at the computer any more, and I work with it. I see myself approaching it, using wisdom more than bodily strength, and I know enough not to push it.
In some of these quest legends, the one who fails has a pit open up underneath him. He wasn’t so foolish as to approach the well with nothing. He believed that he understood and embodied all that he needed to perform the task and drink from the well of living waters and receive the hand of the daughter. And some of them may have actually had all that they needed.
Their only mistake may have been that they didn’t wait for the moment when they were synchronized with the hands of the clock. They had 2 moments in the day when it would have been possible, but with all they had, they weren’t expert enough in knowing the times, which, when all is said and done,and ready to go, may be the most crucial factor.
In Judaism, we say that the way of Chasidut is the way of the eyes, seeing what’s in front, even the times…
Very good Story. Thanks for sharing.
Love,
Laxmi
Querido Paulo
Esta semana pude leer y ver su entrevista para tv azteca, estoy encantada de escuchar de viva voz parte de su vida, es muy grato, aunque la entrevista me pareció corta, ojalá y tenga oportunidad para poder escucharle nuevamente, y deje de lado la idea de no estar en contacto con sus lectores a través de la televisión. un abtrazo
I remember this sentence from one book (R. B.)