Minaret and other religious troubles

Shouldn’t faith help people with their lives and troubles and not cause more of them? Or is it simply the invention of religion which caused and causes the troubles?!

Why is everybody so surprised or even furious about Switzerland’s voting against minarets? Why do have others to scream: “Switzerland is right, look at Turkey and other islamic countries where Christianity is forbidden or Christians are prosecuted just because they believe in God and Jesus and not Allah and Muhammed.”

Good morning everyone!

First: Take the islamic timeline. If you compare Islam’s timeline and Christian’s timeline you will find out that Islam is in its Medieval Times. When you take a look back at Christian’s history you will see what  Christians have done to followers of other believes in those dark times and especially to women, so you will see there is not such a big difference between those two religions!

Women were said to be soulless- BUT on the other hand their souls (which shouldn’t be there at all, because of what I have stated before!) could be redeemed of their sins by confessing under torture and finally being cruelly killed. Whenever a woman got harrassed or raped it was NATURALLY HER fault, because either she was a witch who bewitched the poor male fellow who raped her or she deserved it simply because she was a woman and maybe nod modest enough- funny, men decided what was modest or not…. and so she got the BLAME and the PUNISHMENT, not him!

Does that stir something? Hmmmm, whenever a islamic woman gets harrassed, raped or whatever, who will get the blame and punishment? Very medieval, isn’t it? Who has to be veiled to be modest? Who is responsible if a MALE loses control over his hormones? WOMEN! Always!

Please GUYS, WAKE UP! It is you who HAS to HAVE CONTROLL over YOURSELVES, not US!

Second: The prosecution of followers of other religious believes. It was popular through out all times and cultures! It is sad, but it is true, whenever a religious believe is seen as *dangerous* for those in power it will get prosecuted! Romans vs. Christians, Christians vs. Islam, Islam vs. Christians.

Didn’t anybody notice that revenging an injustice with injustice won’t make the revenging injustice more right?

What about enlightment and progress? Yes we have mor industry, more technology and we are more educated, but are we enlightened? I think NOT. Because if we were we would LIVE tolerance!

What about: “Love thy neighbour as yourself!” Learn to love yourself, than you can love your neighbour and the rest of our world!

I am not sure, but something tells me, there must be a similar proverb in the Alcoran. And I know that what I have described above is surely not written in the Alcoran as the obligation of a good Muslim.

How can it be that what is written in the Bible and Alcoran differ so much from what is lived by? Why do all those power hungry- self loathing men always recite religious guidlines in their own interpretations as law?

Now that we can fly to the moon and back and maybe soon to Mars and back, wouldn’t it be time to enlighten our hearts and souls?

Tattoo…

Yes, I am going to get my dragon finally done… I just hope the artist will be able to draw it the way it looks in my mind for the last 12 years

Since I am making some major enquiries on the internet and in my neighbourhood, I am wondering if there are people out there who have more than one tattoo on their skin which belong together like a storyline or like having a fancy for mythology, magic, etc? I met a lot of people who wear a mix of  many different pictures which have nothing in common and I cannot understand why.

I always thought (well since I turned 18 anyways ^^) of getting tattoed and I was sure I wanted to fit those pictures together, to let them have a deeper meaning than just being beautiful and artistic (just like my dragon and its oncoming friend- the phoenix- but he is still gliding up and down my back and I am only getting him if he finally chooses a spot where he belongs.Oh yes and maybe I am getting some verses of Odin’s Runesong- but I am undecided which ones would really fit me, so that decision can take some time to be made

Are there others with that oppinion out there?

Enjoy your weekend!

Avarra

Terminator Salvation

Good parts:

• Christian Bale, looking gorgeous as always, catching acting
• Sam Worthington, *yumyum*, caught my interest from the first second
• Music: Catching, tantalizing, thrilling
• FX: Great!
• Action: I ducked every single time something seemed to fly out of the screen! Great!
• Yadagrace aka Star: I loved that girl and her acting, those eyes, unbelievable!

Mediocre Parts:

• Dialogues: Well there have been better ones, evenin Terminator movies!
• Why did Marcus kill his brother and two cops? Or better how comes that a killer turnes so nice?!

Bad Parts:

• Dialogues with emotions involved: Who made those up? They were terrible, not real and just absurd! Especially those at the end!
• That final scene! What was that?! No logic at all!
• How could that important knowledge about that special man not being transported into the past with Kyle???
• Timetravelling paradoxa are really getting absurd with each passing sequel or prequel in this case… -> headaches!
• Sarah Connor is missing! I can only repeat my oppinion, which I had on T3 already, Sarah Connor aka Linda Hamilton is missing. She made those action moivies come alive, she was the soul of Terminator I and II!

Conclusion:

If you want a distraction full of action and dark pictures of the future, then go and watch the movie. If you look for something that reaches up to Terminator I and II you will be dissapointed!

For You…

HP, this is for you, if you ever stumble upon my blog:

Your fairy with the 3 wishes (which never got fullfilled)

Almost…

Almost 12 years now. Still hurting from time to time. I guess something went terribly wrong, or am I just a masochist?

One may say it is my father’s death which I’ve never quite overcome- I don’t care- those are two totally different shoes. Two different kinds of pain.

What is it about love? First you’re behaving like a lunatic because you’re falling IN love and then, when it’s over you’re behaving nuts and keep on craving for it…

Feels like searching sunshine and finding hell’s darkest pit of doom instead… Ripped out, torn apart, bleeding….

Did You Know?

Did you know that Whitsunday is a pagan feast, too? Yes, it was a feast for cleaning the fountains- Brunnenreinigungsfest. It was kinda an honor feast for Barabara- Hel- Frau Holle and for the inner and outer cleaning of our holy grail, our body.

Yes, the holy grail is real, but it is our body and we should cherrish and honor it! 

Take a long walk outside, look for a river, a small creek or rivulet with a bridge (bridges- connections of two worlds- Heimdall- does that stir something? ^^) calm your thoughts, lay down on the bridge if possible, let yourself, your conscious being go. Just let GO! Relax and let yourself float into the water, float with it, let it do the cleaning!

Take your time and enjoy the meditation. I like to write my experiences down, when I am done. It helps me organizing all the pictures I’ve seen. 

If you like, we can share our experiences here

Bright Blessings,

Avarra

The Pagan Community

Since my point of view seems not to have been becoming clear enough through my *short* comments on Mig’s posting, I just *had* to make a whole entry on it. I am so sorry folks ^^, so if you had enough of it already, just stop reading, if you’re still interested and maybe even like my writings, go ahead reading

 

Back to topic. The Pagan Community, feasts and whether to celebrate them together or alone. 

Well, I’d say that’s totally up to anybodys own liking. I have attended several feasts with other (at that time seeming to be like minded) people, but found it not to my liking at many points- for example I do not like to dress up, well not if it is quite a MUST- I prefer it as a voluntary act. So, when I left that community it was quite a relief (I can asure you it was not only the feasts and the dressing up in for my liking too fancy clothes!).

At the same time I felt that suddenly I was missing something and I am still looking for it. I arranged myself quite good with the situation as it is, but I know it could be better, and I am sure there will come a time when I will have found others like me and we will celebrate together

Because I must really agree with Mig, it is 1. so much more fun to celebrate nature and it’s feasts with others and 2. if we want to honor and help Mother Nature we simply HAVE to celebrate her feasts together! Because on each of the eight festivals of the year there are rituals to be done to improve your own personal harvest and physical constitution and mental state.

Just as the old Romans said: “Mens sana in corpore sana.” (“A healthy mind in a healthy body.”) But as we all now the mental state has its significant influence on the body and vice versa. It is all linked together! Just as in nature and as soon as we take us (human kind) out of Nature, we cut ourselves off and suffer from the consequences. We are NOT the creation’s crowning glory, we are A part of it, maybe NOT even a very significant!

Okay, enough sidestepping. Where did I leave off? Ah, yes, feasts and community, harvest, honoring Mother Nature and ourselves.

Yes, it is as with energy work (I know I said it before, but it IS important, so I say it again!): You will only get what you put into it! And, energy is ALWAYS NEUTRAL! You have to direct it! The more precise and positive you adress the destination of the energy flow, the better the outcome will be!

And therefore, feasts in a community are ALWAYS better then festivals you celebrate on your own. But as I said in the beginning, it is STRICTLY up to anybody’s OWN liking! And therefore it HAS to stay clean of any kind of *force*. Because a free mind and heart which is REALLY into the celebration and ritual iswhat we are looking for. Not someone who attends because he or she HAS to in addition to be accepted (another point why I left that special community.) 

The Pagan Community or better CommunitIES (because there is NOT ONE but many!) are proud of being open minded and tolerant. But I learned over the years that this is not always the truth. Many are as single minded as any Christian or other monotheistic believer! And personally, I CAN’T stand that!

Sometimes it is like attending a church, everything is allright as long as you are there on each sunday, if you are REALLY into the mass and listening to the pater’s preach is secondary as long as you have been seen there! What a bull…!

And it sometimes has the quality of ONE truth only, too. Didn’t we renounce our birthgiven monotheistic way of life to be freed of right THAT? ONE TRUTH, ONE WAY, ONE BELIEVE and SINGLEMINDEDNESS?

But why in the name of all known and forgotten Gods and Goddesses are we still following that PATH? Why don’t we just open up our eyes and mind to SEE that there are ALWAYS MORE sides than one!?

Take the qualities of nature for example: Light- Darkness, Rain- Sunshine, Summer- Winter, Spring- Fall, Love- Hate, Sadness- Happiness and all those things in between! Why does it have to be like “Black and White” only? Our nature is full of colors! As is the universe, the whole creation (who or whatever might have made it up!) and us- human kind.

When we want to be different, really different from our monotheistic roots, than we really have to become tolerant and open minded! So, if one wants to celebrate alone, fine, do so, but bear in mind what you want to gain from that feast! Do you want to enjoy and honor nature only for yourself at that moment, it’s quite allright! If you want to gain a bigger result, you should look out for other people like you and join them!

Keep your eyes and heart open and they will come to you!

Leighleigh, I found something very interesting in your posting regarding religion, Jesus and community, but I am going to state on that later

Well, that’s all for tonight from me,

enjoy whatever you might be doing right now and bright blessings,

Avarra

A List of Topics

Here are links to the latest topics I wrote about:

Resistance? Common Sense? Democracy? Religion? 

China, Burma, North Korea- The World Just Watches…      

Won’t Change Much?

History RepeatingWould the World be better off without Religion?

Would the World be better off without Religion, Part II        

How to Get Rid of Religions

 

A always and often repeated, I ENJOY good discussions, so feel free to COMMENT on my points of view

Bright Blessings,

Avarra

 

Hello Again!

Since I have been unhappy with the organisation of my main blog, avarra, I thought it too full and to unorganised, I decided to add another blog…

Now I have four of them, 

1. Avarra: There you’ll find patterns and almost anything which is important to me regarding KNITTING and CROCHETING.

2. Dragonstreasure: Almost everything regarding my FAMILY and PARENTING.

3. Just me and my mind: My thoughts, poems, stories and anything I find interesting in literature.

4. APOMM: A Piece of My Mind, regarding most anything IMPORTANT to me! Religion related discussions, philosophical talks, conversations on crises like the economical, social injustice.

As always, feel free to read me and to drop your own thoughts via the COMMENT button, I truly appreciate serious input!!

 

Bright Blessings,

Avarra