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Namah Perspective

rituals for grieving by the bereaved, nor for
assisting the person to pass over beyond,
what happens to the spirits of the dead?

On Being human

Cain and Abel, the first-born sons of Adam and
Eve, started warring early. Cain murdered his
younger brother Abel and was said to have
be been cursed to wander aimlessly on earth.
I’m fed up with human behaviour against
those who they perceive as Others. I’m fed some powerful overriding Egregore from
up with Othering, and with politicians’ beyond, which manipulates the unconscious
blanket support of one side, or the other. All minds of critical thinking people? Why do so
this lies heavily on my heart. I’m fed up as many consumers believe the lies? How does
people only seem to know who they are, in it happen, this mass acceptance of ideas?
opposition to An Other.
I don’t condone bombing by people of any
In my opinion, the idea that one set of people faith. I don’t condone murder or kidnap. I
are The Chosen People is rubbish. We are don’t condone any violence, even retaliation
all the chosen people. All of us: humans, for an-other’s violence. That’s how many
animals, rocks, even blades of grass. I grieve humans have lived for over two thousand
for the peoples of colonised, dominated, years. Tit for tat, an eye for an eye. It’s an
occupied lands, alongside those peoples old-fashioned feeling and in my opinion,
who’ve experienced trauma nearby. I not appropriate for humanity’s future.
grieve for those whose entire apartment Rhetorical question: what do these sacred
blocks have been reduced to dust, where religious texts say about war: the Holy Bible,
there are no traumatised relatives left for the Torah, the Koran? Eh? What do they say
the BBC to interview. I grieve for those affected about the Ten Commandments?
by bombed hospitals, bombed refugee centres,
bombed journalists, bombed medical and aid Patterns of human behaviour
supplies, for those who triggered that bomb
and those who lie. And lie. I grieve for those Given the history of persecution of certain
who are sold a false narrative, and ordered peoples and the slavery of others, I don’t
to gather at so-called ‘safe zones’ where understand why so many of us can’t see

they are collectively bombed. Genocide? the patterns in human behaviour. Given
Yes. the history of the Holy Lands, I don’t
understand why most Western mainstream
Why don’t our leaders have clarity of media demonises those who react to being
thought? Why are our political leaders imprisoned in the ghettos, who have water
believed and esteemed? Where did they and electricity cut off, medication and food
learn to speak with such authority? Is there restricted, or whose concentrated homes are

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