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Tag Archives: religion
Life, Humans and their Mind II – Becoming
How many times did you think about the way your mind explains what happens in your life? Were you able of controlling your fears and did you succeed in [singlepic id=390 w=320 h=240 float=right]winning the most important battle in life that happens to be with yourself? Or you never thought until this moment about facing yourself?
We are easily drowned into our fears once our mind takes the lead. Our beliefs, standards and codes of life guide our mind so the latter would be able to guide us through life. Those who prefer not to become leaders choose to follow their mind and their mind alone. They do not learn anything new and they
Lessons in Leadership – XXVII – How we shape our Destiny
In a problematic society many try to escape from the reality they live in so they can build patterns that would get them what they want. Usually the change [singlepic id=156 w=320 h=240 float=right] achieved is made by individuals and the lack of cooperation and shared efforts between the people results in a limited change which cannot be seen in all the parts of the society.
One example is the Palestinian society; in contrast with other communities in the Arab world, the Palestinian situation is much better but unfortunately it is going backward instead of developing towards the better.
Where Religion Meets Politics…
April 2009
There is no doubt that religion and politics make for a potent mix and the recent UN resolution, condemning the ‘defamation of religion’ has created quite a stir in the international community. In the following article Gitanjali Bakshi analyzes the possible implications of this resolution and what it could mean for the on-going debate on religion and politics.
The Peace and the real Peace
Peace is a word created by the human beings to describe the state that they wish to live in without losing what is precious for them and to gain the opportunity of living their life without wars or tragedies. Peace could also be the creation of the magical world that they humans want but can not have no matter where they live or what they believe in.
Why People in the Middle East does not want Peace…
In the last post “The Way to Peace…or War…” I mentioned that the truth is that the people in the
The Relation between Religion and the Arab – Israeli Conflict
An interesting subject to talk about is to discuss the relation between religion and the Arab – Israeli conflict that could become serious and even criticized by some people who prefer to relate this conflict to national reasons and not religion but isn’t religion also a part of the nationality in a or another?
