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"The Uncomfortable Definition of an Infidel" By John Harrison MBE. MIDSc

Allah or Jesus Christ?  Islam is the fastest  growing religion in the UK .

Last   month I attended my annual training session for  maintaining my security clearance in the prison service.  There was a presentation by three speakers from the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths, who explained their beliefs.

I was particularly interested in what the Islamic Imam had to say about the basics of Islam, complete with video.

After the presentations, question time.  I directed my question to the Imam and asked:  'Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a Holy War against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven.  If that's the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?'

There was no disagreement with my statement and, without hesitation, he replied, 'Non-believers!'

I responded, 'So, let me make sure I have this straight.  All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not a follower of Allah, so they can have a place in heaven. Is that correct?'

The expression on his face changed from one of authority to that of  'a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the biscuit tin.'

He sheepishly replied, 'Yes.'

I then stated, 'Well, I have a real problem trying to imagine Pope Benedict commanding all Catholics to kill Muslims, or the Archbishop of Canterbury ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in heaven!'

The Imam was speechless!

I continued, 'I also have a problem with being your 'friend' when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me! Let me ask you a question. Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because He will take me to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?'

You could have heard a pin drop as the Imam remained speechless.

Needless to say, the organizers of the Diversification'  seminar were not happy with this way of  exposing the truth about the Muslims' beliefs.

Within twenty years, i.e.. 2029, there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.K. To elect a government of their choice, complete with Sharia law.

Everyone in the U.K. Should be required to read this, but with the current political paralysis, tolerant justice system, liberal media and p.c. Madness, there is no way this will be widely publicised.


John Harrison MBE. MIDSc

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Is Religion Humanity Friendly?

Speak to the Nations, First that comes to mind was humanity. It has something Unique and Catchy that draws FreedomExpressions© to some enlightenment interest. Event Lasted 3 days started 3 days before today's blog post date. Nevertheless, this conference shares unique blends of people.

Isn't It Good enough, to just end just right there as People?

I personally believe as a Christian by fate, balanced by equations of humanism, and being a "realist dreamer" that "Yes" because when "The Conference" remarked participants as sub ethnic/country, It is autonomous giving further unseen categorization such as Color/Race/Country to the purpose of Speaking to the Nations. God do not categorize People.

If Participants from all nations were to form groups of "All Mixed Up" To Share and Speak , Where Youth Share Their Minds with Another, This would promote Humanism and Harmony in the context of Faith That The Conference Took Pride for...Christianity. Nevertheless, the event was beautiful, sights of different unique people from every parts of the world, flocking the gospel main hall of the venue. Efforts spilled in by organizers of the Christian Youth Community were highly spirited and only made sure things were running smoothly during the conference.

FreedomExpressions© was extremely enthusiast as of this is our golden opportunity to listen to what "Speak to the Nations" is all about besides the Fact that this is A Christian Conference of Asia Pacific. Fact 1, we were placed in country contingent like some Olympics delegates. Fact 2, they were no voices or story being told by any of the people of nations attended. Only A whole loads of worshiping and great music.


Words of holiness filled the atmosphere at the venue blessed by its official life span of Conference, verses and choruses were sang passionately to praise God and to Honor God. Music was rocking, some was mellow, some was mood swings, and all in all it was simply awesome. Great Speakers were uplifting the morale of the People at The Conference. The Least would send some negative impact to the attendees of the event.

·         Speaker A, Sends the most prolific talk about God with mutual balance to the environment and the facts that we are living in today’s world.

·         Speaker B, Sends the most unique and dramatic expressions through bad pub British jokes, and smart intellectual jokes and points.

·         Speaker C, Speaks about brain when she admits that she had never finished off anything in her life.

·         Speaker D, Allows emotions to overpower thoughts and speech.

·         Speaker E - Gave pretty deliberative fresh expressions.

·         Speaker F - Gave innovative expressions through people activity while communicating.

·         Speaker G - Allows emotions to overpower Facts.

Contradictions of pastor’s , directions of directory made inspirational talks became deliberatively meaningless with hypo criticism expressions shown by certain individual of speakers.

“When One Spoke about a New System, Another Spoke about Ignoring Denominations Differences. Then Another spoke about to be more than a Conqueror. “

Somehow One Spoke About The Human Brain - bringing Science VS Religion Insurance into that session. Contradictions of the brain theory being expressed were awfully spoken onto the ears of the world that day. Another Encouraged People to be Brave Hearts to start making changes for the nations and only to tell the people that He doesn't know how? Another Created Rain within the venue which was an remarkable experience.

FreedomExpressions© looks into Christianity.

"The word pastor usually refers to an ordained person within a Christian church. It comes from the Latin word pastorem, which means to shepherd. In some countries the term is used in relation to Protestant churches. It can also used in reference to priests and bishops within the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches. The word itself is derived from the Latin word pastor which means shepherd. The term pastor is also related to the role of elder within the New Testament, but is not synonymous with the biblical understanding of minister.

Present day usage of the word is rooted in the Bible. The Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) uses the Hebrew word רעה (raʿah). It is mentioned 173 times and describes the feeding of sheep, as in Genesis 29:7, or the spiritual feeding of human beings, as in Jeremiah 3:15, "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding" (KJV)."From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 "In Protestant churches, "minister" generally refers to a member of the ordained clergy who leads a congregation as its pastor. A minister may also participate in a leadership role in aparachurch or allied ministry such as a street ministry, reaching out to those in the community who do not attend or regularly participate in church services or activities. Such a person may also be referred to as a Preacher, Chaplain or Elder (although in some cases, an elder may be a layperson, not fully-ordained as a minister). A minister may also be designated a Bishop, but this is usually a hierarchical designation, for management or coordination of the church organization.
Professional ministers in many religious affiliations are seen as set apart from the community to which they minister through ordination. They may be provided a stipend, a wage or a salary.

All denominations make some claim to finding their model of leadership (or church governance) in the New Testament. However the variety of relationships is large, ranging from the view of a minister as one of the people, to that of the minister as a priest or church leader, set apart with special qualifications or authority. Ecclesiology is the area of theology that relates to church structures and ministry."From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Professional ministers in many religious affiliations are seen as set apart from the community to which they minister through ordination. They may be provided a stipend, a wage or a salary." FreedomExpressions© Says Lord Jesus Didn't Get Paid for Spreading his Love but only pain misery sadness and all the world most adverse emotions was placed and tested upon Him. So What Makes Humans with such ordained status claimed by achieving Knowledge to get paid to help God when he is busy saving the world?


Is it a need to condemn or shall we say instruct? Pastors, Priest, Ministers Are all Human Qualified. By Man themselves through biblical knowledge studies. We only listen to what speakers have to say, we have got 29 other nations participating with a unique individual mind of each. How Can a Pastor Give Motivation by the words of God when only the people who suffered hardship knows how it feels like to be in Hell Daily. Who are we to Judge or planned or instruct?

God Do not force no one in fact anyone to believe in him, all he does was to touch people who he thinks needs him most when he sees everyone else but you. He do not sit to gather disciples or only to pray for more followers. God walked with his feet, door to door, heart to heart, one by one. So again a question always bugs me in my head that is why would Lord Jesus Needs Politics in his kingdoms? Pastors claim not to preach about politics and claim not politics but what are they trying to administer to the Christians that attended? This is the real world, Cold and harsh and Blunt and Corrupted.

Lord Jesus Do not Pamper His Disciples.
Lord Jesus Do not Need Politicians Running as Minister to ensure the longevity and foreverness of his Faith.
God is Already Forever.

What's the point of having such great conceptual event? When above all contradicts the Objectives of this Gathering of the Christians.


FreedomExpressions© Strongly agree to Rev.Ong The First very Inspirational Speaker that seeks to see a new system of change in the way a Church has to function.

Pastor Mike Of UK, inspires the different with the indifferent. He says,” To ignore denomination when it comes to God Lord Jesus Christ.”

The rest were just harmonious church gospel been played by live worship bands from participating nations. Cultural dances was an eye opener, people who represented African Nations didn't quiet forget their highly spirited worshiping to their unique way of musical expression.

When Nations are still being placed as Nations throughout the whole entire conference, they will be going back home as Nations again.

They all gathered for God but they all went back home with their own problems with their own nations again. We didn’t hear anything from the people who attended. Ain't that the objective of having such grand religious conference with speaker and crowd interaction? Improper arrangements on participants seating that goes by nations separates us all again under the category of nations. How is Christianity ever going to prevail by having such categorizations? Where Gods love for human was so simple guided by his words from the bible.

Do we need to further complicate this beautiful faith call Christianity by having an ongoing church supremacy exhibition? Or the system of the Youth Church needs to be changed before the world continues this circle of no progress as Humans not Man of Gods. Because God says this, Place your eyes before all mankind and all living things. So what about in this event of such conference? When all pastor spoke about how to reach god when everyone that attended the conference has a burden unheard in their inner hearts. Voice out to God your confessions God says. What have we heard from the people that came to the conference with a hope? They will all return home with a slight hope that will forever be silent.

This is the real world. Should the world even start to consider the removal of RELIGION REGISTRATION to all nations in this world? Can a Pastor preach the current without any Concrete Supporting of Knowledge one possess?

- Can a person With Unfinished Education and negative lifestyle during her young age Preach about the working logics of a Left Brain & Right Brain Concept?
The Author Felt fouled mouthing expressions when FACTS were MERGED with RELIGION and HOW RELIGION STIMULATES THE BRAIN ON A RIGHT AND LEFT BRAIN PERSON. First of all How Can We Humans ever know this? Did you know that Medical History Started through a series of killings and murder and stealing? FACT

Can A Pastor Pave Dreams for People who attend the conference?
- Dreams are individualistic goals. When the conference was all about Speaking To the Nations They all Ended up telling every youth attended that they be business people that earns mega tons of cash and other occupation like divas and likewise like not. Pastors preached at their own will of emotional Expression for God. What we seriously need is “Talking with Responsible” Pastors.

No Truth was revealed upon the Microphone about any nation. All we here was Encouragement to the Nations through prayers without even knowing which nations which source that is facing problems.

“Humanity needs a revolution in Religion, in fact All Religion” The Author. This world today needs a revolution of mutual respect govern by Humanism as a core structure to adhere.Humans tend to conglomerate meanings and interpretations to incidents and accidents that occurred.

Why not Christianity Be Only Christianity?
Why not Islam Be Only Islam?
Why not Buddhism Be Only Buddhism?
Why not Hinduism Be only Hinduism?

Why Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism and Like Wise to other Respective Religions out there in this world today has Sub Categorizations to their believes of Their Respective Faith and the way of life. All Religion Teaches Humanity to be good. All Religion Bestowed to be Godly through History of All Nations are not made up or simply An artifact that is being placed onto the world’s under earth.

Why People Needs To Fight and Seek Blood Spills to end every miss understanding to Humanity?
Why Does a Same Faith that Believes the Same Savior, Fights for Glorified Supremacy to whose Teachings to the Same Savior is better? All Religion Has This Problem. So to humanity, why are we fighting among ourselves to proof whose ways of preaching is the better truth? Where we can all just sit down and preach our respective teachings the way the world is being bestowed with our own directions with Humanism in Mind as Humans?
The World Needs Religion, God Didn’t Place Religion in this world for no reason, It is evident that humanity hadn’t learnt anything about “Religion – The Purpose, The Needs, The Truth.”

If only Humanity acts in Humanism, Our History could have been a little more Civilized.

God Save US All

Amen.

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Humanity Brooding By Joel Low

It seems it is destiny

Always but a fleeting memory

Ah… in uncertainty…

I love it when you’re loosing sanity…

A nomad wanderer

In the lives of those dearest around me

No… dumb slumberer,

Awake your deepest furnace - set it free!

These soulful few

Of which I laid part of my life into

That useless crew?

Don’t bother laying their dues in queue…

Leaving when the smiles

Strikes across their beautiful faces

Seeking through these piles…

All these stacks of picturesque places…

Bidding goodbyes

When the mood’s in sweet lovely laces

Cutting the ties,

Just when you’re breaking to pieces!

It seems it’s my lot

To be just the catalyst to the plot

Ho… you’ll just rot

Lost in the dark, like a blackened blot…

Second fiddle

Only to the music of the coming chords

Worst than a weasel,

Trying to get past the trapping boards…

Oh, but a muse

To lay caring dreams in their beds

Oh… it’s all a ruse…

 I’ll tell you when dream & nightmare weds…

Dare I feel used

Another tool in God’s shed

You’re abused,

 God has thrown you out to be dead!

Left once more lonely

In the shadows of another wayward path

 Bereft of anything holy…

Cast in the depths of fiery wrath…

Though I feel fulfilled

My task completed and the joys abundant

Our agreement sealed…

I await you in this pit of burden…

I long for companionship

One who would walk with me instead

You’ll wish no friendship!

Once you’ve walked my hounds of dread…

Along the deep roads

Those lovely moats of agape love

A long painful path, these moats…

Come now to me, come now to sacrifice your love… 

For Humanity 

Written By,

Joel Low

BioChemist/Scientist

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Inspirational Words of Rocky Balboa

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!
Rocky Balboa

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International Women of Courage to Malaysia 's Ambiga Sreenevasan

Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama 12 Mar 2009, 0853 hrs IST US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama present give away Secretary of State's Award for International Women of Courage to Malaysia 's Ambiga Sreenevasan (Malaysian Bar Council) at the State Department in Washington , DC (AFP)

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Why did he punish anyone? in the Point of Christianity as A "Religion" towards Humanity.

An omniscient God would know what his creation would do in a given scenario. That is like me leaving my nephews and nieces alone in a room full of candy and telling him not to eat it and then killing him when he does. Since I knew he would eat it, I must bear at least some (most) of the blame for what happened. So, if I as an imperfect person can be held responsible for having foreknowledge and failing to act appropriately how can a perfect being not be?


On a lighter note, God held Adam responsible for the fall, not Eve. If Adam had not eaten the fruit and only Eve, God would not have reacted as He did. When Adam ate it changed everything. Adam was put in charge over Eve, and God held him responsible for this disobedience. Now all he had to say to her was NO, but he did not. Then he tried to blame it all on "this woman that you gave me". Nothing has changed in 6000 years.


According to the Biblical view of all of this, God is simply not all-forgiving. He is most certainly a God of justice and so He will not reward those who hate Him nor give them something they do not wish to have. Man has rejected God by his own free choice, not just once but repeatedly, despite the evidence in Creation, more wonders of which are being discovered almost daily, as well as the revelation through Jesus Christ in our context of "Religion". So humanity is receiving the fruit of its own choices, just as it is blessed when it, or individuals in it, turn back to God. So also, even though Eve certainly ate first, Adam is actually given more blame because Eve was deceived but Adam made a willful and knowing choice to join in her sin. All this took place only about 6000 or so years ago, and even though mankind has inherited the propensity to follow the first humans we all also make many choices which indicate that if we had been in their position we would have done likewise. 


To curb this heavily diagnosed race, Man kind should posses the following traits such as Compassion , Enlightenment, Virtuoso, Wisdom, And Love. It is the key of promoting harmony in this world with all differences in faith,race,colors,tongues,and lands. 


Below are the Only Reasons WHY HUMANITY NEEDS TO BE HUMAN FOR HUMANITY DESPITES THE DIFFERENCES IN BELIEVES,FAITH,CULTURE,TRADITIONS,& PEOPLE'S WAY OF LIFE FOR "US AS HUMANITY"

1. "Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known livingorganisms and some viruses. The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints or a recipe, or a code, since it contains the instructions needed to construct other components of cells, such as proteins and RNA molecules. The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in regulating the use of this genetic information. EVERY HUMAN SHARES THIS SAME TRADES IN FACT EVERY LIVING THING THAT BREATH LIEF HAS A GENETIC DISTINCT STRUCTURES" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA\
2. Bringing a child into the world should not be about our narcissism, vanity, or an attempt at indirect immortality, because we are all unfairly biased for ourselves and our genes.
3. History Of Man.
4. "I think we should focus on what is right also! If we focus on what is wrong, let it be to warn ourselves and others. Too much negative brings a drain on our spirits. " http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
5. "As long as there are people helping people, caring for other people, there is right in humanity today." http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
6.  "The rain still comes." http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
7.  "The sun still shines. " http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
8.  "You have your body. There is health there. Build on it." http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
9. "You have your soul, your focus of life. Unite it with the power of the creator. Build it up." http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
10. "You have friends and family. Honor them even if they are now only a memory. " http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
11. "Everyday if we all did all we could to make this world a better place, it would slowly be a better place." http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
12. "Remember that happiness comes from within and spreads outward not the other way around. Any happiness from without is only fleeting, temporary. " http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
13.  "Be positive. Be someone you would want to be around. Then other people will want to be around you." http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]
14. "All our reverses can turn to positives if we grow with them. The wind blows against the trees. They grow with it. We can also. " http://people.tribe.net/gg?_click_path=Application[tribe].Person[da63c1dd-a515-4963-8e46-c38edf4031d0]

"It is very difficult to preserve a legitimate pride in self if one is filled with indignant revulsion at their culture/Nation, gender, and even their species. I do not allow myself to go to the dark side and act on these thoughts of desperate rage and agonizing empathy but to ignore their existence and pretend they are illegitimate is also harmful.
To do nothing is harmful but to do nothing about them is worse. " Lazarus , http://people.tribe.net/lazarus_long

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Human Playing God.

To be Expressed soon. Literature in Progress

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In Palestine, a War on Children by John Pilger

June 15, 2006

In Palestine, a War on Children

by John Pilger

Arthur Miller wrote, "Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." Miller's truth was a glimpsed reality on television on June 9 when Israeli warships fired on families picnicking on a Gaza beach, killing seven people, including three children and three generations. What that represents is a final solution, agreed by the United States and Israel, to the problem of the Palestinians. While the Israelis fire missiles at Palestinian picnickers and homes in Gaza and the West Bank, the two governments are to starve them. The victims will be mostly children. This was approved on May 23 by the U.S. House of Representatives, which voted 361-37 to cut off aid to non-government organizations that run a lifeline to occupied Palestine. Israel is withholding Palestinian revenues and tax receipts amounting to $60 million a month. Such collective punishment, identified as a crime against humanity in the Geneva Conventions, evokes the Nazis' strangulation of the Warsaw ghetto and the American economic siege of Iraq in the 1990s. If the perpetrators have lost their minds, as Miller suggested, they appear to understand their barbarism and display their cynicism. "The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet," joked Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert. This is the price Palestinians must pay for their democratic elections in January. The majority voted for the "wrong" party, Hamas, which the U.S. and Israel, with their inimitable penchant for pot-calling-the-kettle-black, describe as terrorist. However, terrorism is not the reason for starving the Palestinians, whose prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, had reaffirmed Hamas's commitment to recognize the Jewish state, proposing only that Israel obey international law and respect the borders of 1967. Israel has refused because, with its apartheid wall under construction, its intention is clear: to take over more and more of Palestine, encircling whole villages and eventually Jerusalem. The reason Israel fears Hamas is that Hamas is unlikely to be a trusted collaborator in subjugating its own people on Israel's behalf. Indeed, the vote for Hamas was actually a vote for peace. Palestinians were fed up with the failures and corruption of the Arafat era. According to the former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Center verified the Hamas electoral victory, "public opinion polls show that 80 percent of Palestinians want a peace agreement with Israel." How ironic this is, considering that the rise of Hamas was due in no small part to the secret support it received from Israel, which, with the U.S. and Britain, wanted Islamists to undermine secular Arabism and its "moderate" dreams of freedom. Hamas refused to play this Machiavellian game and in the face of Israeli assaults maintained a cease-fire for 18 months. The objective of the Israeli attack on the beach at Gaza was clearly to sabotage the cease-fire. This is a time-honored tactic. Now, state terror in the form of a medieval siege is to be applied to the most vulnerable. For the Palestinians, a war against their children is hardly new. A 2004 field study published in the British Medical Journal reported that, in the previous four years, "Two-thirds of the 621 children … killed [by the Israelis] at checkpoints … on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half the cases to the head, neck, and chest – the sniper's wound." A quarter of Palestinian infants under the age of five are acutely or chronically malnourished. The Israeli wall "will isolate 97 primary health clinics and 11 hospitals from the populations they serve." The study described "a man in a now fenced-in village near Qalqilya [who] approached the gate with his seriously ill daughter in his arms and begged the soldiers on duty to let him pass so that he could take her to hospital. The soldiers refused." Gaza, now sealed like an open prison and terrorized by the sonic boom of Israeli fighter aircraft, has a population of which almost half is under 15. Dr. Khalid Dahlan, a psychiatrist who heads a children's community health project, told me, "The statistic I personally find unbearable is that 99.4 percent of the children we studied suffer trauma … 99.2 percent had their homes bombarded; 97.5 percent were exposed to tear gas; 96.6 percent witnessed shooting; a third saw family members or neighbors injured or killed." These children suffer unrelenting nightmares and "night terrors" and the dichotomy of having to cope with these conditions. On the one hand, they dream about becoming doctors and nurses "so they can help others"; on the other, this is then overtaken by an apocalyptic vision of themselves as the next generation of suicide bombers. They experience this invariably after attacks by the Israelis. For some boys, their heroes are no longer football players, but a confusion of Palestinian "martyrs" and even the enemy, "because Israeli soldiers are the strongest and have Apache gunships." That these children are now to be punished further may be beyond human comprehension, but there is a logic. Over the years, the Palestinians have avoided falling into the abyss of an all-out civil war, knowing this is what the Israelis want. Destroying their elected government while attempting to build a parallel administration around the collusive Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, may well produce, as the Oxford academic Karma Nabulsi wrote, "a Hobbesian vision of an anarchic society … ruled by disparate militias, gangs, religious ideologues and broken into ethnic and religious tribalism, and co-opted collaborationists. Look to the Iraq of today: that is what [Ariel Sharon] had in store for us." The struggle in Palestine is an American war, waged from America's most heavily armed foreign military base, Israel. In the West, we are conditioned not to think of the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" in those terms, just as we are conditioned to think of the Israelis as victims, not illegal and brutal occupiers. This is not to underestimate the ruthless initiatives of the Israeli state, but without F-16s and Apaches and billions of American taxpayers' dollars, Israel would have made peace with the Palestinians long ago. Since the Second World War, the U.S. has given Israel some $140 billion, much of it as armaments. According to the Congressional Research Service, the same "aid" budget was to include $28 million "to help [Palestinian] children deal with the current conflict situation" and to provide "basic first aid." That has now been vetoed. Karma Nabulsi's comparison with Iraq is apposite, for the same "policy" applies there. The capture of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a wonderful media event: what the philosopher Hannah Arendt called "action as propaganda," and having little bearing on reality. The Americans and those who act as their bullhorn have their demon – even a video game of his house being blown up. The truth is that Zarqawi was largely their creation. His apparent killing serves an important propaganda purpose, distracting us in the west from the American goal of converting Iraq, like Palestine, into a powerless society of ethnic and religious tribalism. Death squads, formed and trained by veterans of the CIA's "counterinsurgency" in central America, are critical to this. The Special Police Commandos, a CIA creation led by former senior intelligence officers in Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party, are perhaps the most brutal. The Zarqawi killing and the myths about his importance also deflect from routine massacres by U.S. soldiers, such as the one at Haditha. Even the puppet Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki complains that murderous behavior of U.S. troops is "a daily occurrence." As I learned in Vietnam, a form of serial killing, then known officially as "body count," is the way the Americans fight their colonial wars. This is known as "pacification." The asymmetry of a pacified Iraq and a pacified Palestine is clear. As in Palestine, the war in Iraq is against civilians, mostly children. According to UNICEF, Iraq once had one of the highest indicators for the well-being of children. Today, a quarter of children between the ages of six months and five years suffer acute or chronic malnutrition, worse than during the years of sanctions. Poverty and disease have risen with each day of the occupation. In April, in British-occupied Basra, the European aid agency Saving Children from War reported: "The mortality of young children had increased by 30 percent compared with the Saddam Hussein era." They die because the hospitals have no ventilators and the water supply, which the British were meant to have fixed, is more polluted than ever. Children fall victim to unexploded U.S. and British cluster bombs. They play in areas contaminated by depleted uranium; by contrast, British army survey teams venture there only in full-body radiation suits, face masks, and gloves. Unlike the children they came to "liberate," British troops are given what the Ministry of Defense calls "full biological testing." Was Arthur Miller right? Do we "internally deny" all this, or do we listen to distant voices? On my last trip to Palestine, I was rewarded, on leaving Gaza, with a spectacle of Palestinian flags fluttering from inside the walled compounds. Children are responsible for this. No one tells them to do it. They make flagpoles out of sticks tied together, and one or two climb on to a wall and hold the flag between them, silently. They do it, believing they will tell the world.

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What's love?

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast,A wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind . We are what we think, All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the other person you love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love. That is the message of the Buddha. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.] So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself- if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself- it is very difficult to take care of another person.

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."

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Cold...

Despairs rephrase reluctantly i shoved,
those unkind the unsure the untold,
Conversion to disputes where liaison lays,
Cold and buried
six feet underneath it all.

Enchanting flows of lies and deceits
Converge reality to time,
where would i stand before you,
How would i wake inside you...
for i m already buried
six feet under your cold biasness

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This is Politics

My hands grip your throat I need your end
Burned, Staked, ripped apart - I avenge
For every life you have taken
I am here to repay
You will scream "oh god why?"
'cause i'm god that's fucking why

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Dissapointments with the World and Yourselves

Never retreat to the depths for desire
Never forward to the temps for lustier
Cause never for we would see
the light torched inwards
gazed with cruel the unintended.

At the sight of your demise
I know what I must do
Choke
Die choking on your every word
Swallow every blasphemy
Eat out your heart and make it bleed
Tie the noose around my neck
Make this life end

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We Die in Absolutions.

Concerns manipulated
transcendence manifested
fracture my memory
in depths of your fall
say your sacred prayers now

You wronged me
for instances from edge knife
fracture my memory
in depths of your fall
say your sacred prayers now
say your jovial prayers now

Cause tomorrow
would be Absolution

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Disturbing Thoughts of People

Fantasizing my gruesome ending
This world looks down upon
My flesh is ripped at daily
It's the cross I bear
I feel it tear out my insides
A pain so heavy I could collapse
I feel it just may kill me
I must brave through this storm
A man who can stand on his own two feet
Without eating from their claws
Life feels like Hell should
But this Hells so cold
lacerations,Sob so heavily, we choke, then we die...

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Humanity today.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot anti-abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

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An Email from A Prolific Writer Jessica Ong ..

A little About Jessica Ong

Jessica Ong

Email: jessicaongster@gmail.com

I have been writing for 8 years and working as a full time writer/editor for the past 3 years. I hold a Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy) and a Diploma in Culinary Arts. My areas of concentration in terms of writing would be script, food and travel. Previous works have been published in Malaysian magazines, newspapers and websites. Should you require a portfolio, please do not hesitate to email me.

from jessica ong to freedom3xpressions@gmail.comdate Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:05 PMsubject Is Freedom of Expression Lost on Asian Culture?mailed-by gmail.comsigned-by gmail.comhide details Nov 24 (1 day ago)
Expressing oneself in an atypical Asian culture is actually considered 'answering back', which on a hierarchical stance, is an utter shaming of the elders. When a younger person choose to simply voice out an opinion, it is treated as being defensive and rude. Thoughts should be kept to oneself and self is not something you create or find anymore. Self becomes repressed and personal is non-existent. How do we change that?

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date Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:10 PM

subject Re: Is Freedom of Expression Lost on Asian Culture?

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You have a point there, In terms of Asian Culture VS The Rest Of the World and towards Humanity."Expressing oneself in an atypical Asian culture is actually considered 'answering back', which on a hierarchical stance, is an utter shaming of the elders." Nevertheless Yes i will have to agree that this is yet one great trade! in retrospective of preserving the traditions and the way of Asian's life. Again, me myself is a pure Chinese, brought and bred in Malaysia, with the things i had done in my past 25 years of life, i had been categorized as unfilial, irrespective, and self centered.

But Again Jessica, Asians Are the Greatest People in Humankind History (The Chinese, The Indians, The Arabs)and if you think that "Only Asian Culture" is facing such problem .. Please reconsider your thoughts..Look at the western for instance...Does it make any differences in anyway that they are free to express expressions? i doubt so it is still projected the same way like the Asian does. British , Scottish , Americans has their own taboo in expressions.

So again My question to you Jess.. Do we have rights to express regardless to where we are from ? or what we are ?

This is why i started off this freedomexpressions cause to cultivate intellects to see the indifferent differences towards morality,believes,politics,and people. US as Humans.

Change always starts from one selfs.. people always look for inspirations all over the world or place or people.yet it doesn't change anything to the mentality of expressions...Cultures remain Cultures,Traditions remain Traditions.But the mind is one and unique and different.That makes people unique.People tend to seek freedom in all ways I reckon .. a simple expression through writing would change the world and in your context of Asian culture.

If u dare to write your feelings,They will dare to read your feelings. Through writing we harm no one,we hurt no one,because it is an Expression.

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