Ramadan - the story continues

Sorry folks, I really do NOT want to slam anybody’s religion or mock it.
It’s just that Ramadan does not make sense to me.

Today, our AC started leaking again. We had that before. The water in one little area in the bathroom ceiling doesn’t drain. No big deal. A technician comes, wipes it, that’s it. Now, it’s Ramadan. The technician wanted to come at 9 p.m. (which usually means, he’s half an hour late anyway). I told our Harris, No way. We are already asleep then. WE have to get up at 4 a.m. and hubby works 12 hours and CANNOT sleep during the day, like these folks do. I explained it to him, he might have grasped the idea. I could deal with him for 7 p.m., but had to give him a bottle of water for that in exchange.He can’t buy any during the day and he’s off into nightnights land now. He lives right besides us and is a really nice guy.But don’t get me started again on the don’t drink water during the day thing. I mean, give me a break, these guys are WORKING too. It’s 45 Celsius out there, that’s something over 120….

I don’t get it - and I will NOT ever get it. Have your religion, whichever it is, but USE YOUR BRAINS!

Sorry, had to get it out - thanks for “listening”….

Btw., this is what it looks like (shot from last time they repaired it):

And it was not the AC this time. The guys came at 6.30 p.m. - whoot -  but there was no water up there.
This morning I found out, what’s leaking this time. The hose from the toilet. They just repaired that one two months ago. Real quality here, no?
Now we gonna play the same game again today, sigh…..

Religion

I grew up between various sorts of religions. Catholic, Protestant, Jehovas whitnesses and (even though I didn’t know it at that time) Islam. It never bothered me. I grew up, being taught the Catholic form of religion. I was with the Pathfinders for a while, but I’ve never been much of a groups and "follow the lead" type of person. Around age 13 I started exploring the Protestant ways, but mainly to join their Chorus, which was fun for a while. I liked their more open ways of thinking and preaching better than the Catholics as well. During that time we started exploring some esoteric ways and things as well. Working with a pendle and with a table, etc. Only for a short while though, for some weird things happened and we stopped.

I never was in favor of any form of the main stream religions. I always found it kind of weird to follow the rules of a man written old book, which had changed obviously over the centuries, because people make mistakes while copying it or deliberatly change it for their own good.

Soon the idea grew, that most religious leaders just use their power to feed and nurture their own greed and better themselves. It still seems to me that way in our present time.

Even in the ways I try to follow it is like that. People write a lot of books, because they know that people will buy them just to make money for themselves, truth be in them or not. Greed rules the world.

No matter which religion you choose to be yours is fine with me. It doesn’t matter as long as you let the people around you choose as well.

But never ever forget to use the brains that are given to you. Use those brains to make up your mind about your religious leaders. Look at the way how they live and what they ask their fellow believers to do. Do they live their own teachings? Do their teachings make sense?

Also never forget Love and Respect. I yet have to find the religion where in it’s roots is nothing mentioned about those two things. Yet, it’s amiss in quite a few places in our Life.

I could go on forever and start giving examples and comparisons, but I’m not going to.

I just ask everyone in this world for a bit more Love, Understanding and Respect. And stop believing blindly what religious leaders tell you and what is written in menwritten books, thousands of years old…..

Horoscopes and such

I thought, I give it a try, haven’t done it in a while. Here’s what it says, what I am:

Personal Astrology Profile

Section 1: How You Approach Life and How You Appear To Others
You meet life head on and throw yourself into new experiences with zest and enthusiasm. You are direct, straightforward, assertive, and usually completely aboveboard in all your dealings. Candid and incapable of guile, insincerity or phoniness, you project a confident and sometimes arrogant appearance to others. You often lack tact and sensitivity, and can be completely oblivious to others’ needs, and inadvertently selfish. You are self-reliant and don’t depend upon social approval and reinforcement as much as other people do. You like to be original and do not mind going it alone. You may feel that you do not fit into groups very well, and that you do not naturally blend in and cooperate with others very easily. You like to be either a leader or a loner.

Well, except for the part with being completely oblivious to others’ needs, I can agree with it .

Section 2: The Inner You: Your Real Motivation
You are a gambler and an adventurer at heart, one who loves to take risks, to discover and explore new worlds, and to take the untried path rather than the safe, reliable one. You are an independent soul, freedom-loving, and often very restless. You need a lifestyle that provides opportunities for travel, movement, change, and meeting new people. A steady routine which offers much in the way of security but little in the way of space and freedom is odious to you.

Not much to add to that one, grin .

Some time killer fun from www.astrology.com

This needs to be shared

Little Zachary was doing very badly in math.
His parents had tried everything… Tutors,
Mentors, flash cards, Special learning centers. In short, everything they could think of to help his math.

Finally, in a last ditch effort, they took
Zachary down and enrolled him
in the local Catholic school. After the first
day, little Zachary came home with a very
serious look on his face. He
didn’t even kiss his mother Hello.
Instead, he went straight to his room and
started studying. Books and papers were spread
out all over the room and little Zachary was hard at work.
His mother was amazed. She called him down to dinner.

To her shock, the minute he was done, he marched back
to his room without a word, and in no time, he was back
hitting the books as hard as before. This went on
for some time, day after day, while the mother
tried to understand what made all the difference.
Finally, little Zachary brought home his report
card. He quietly laid it on the table, went up to his
room and hit the books. With great trepidation,
his Mom looked at it and to her great surprise,
little Zachary got an "A" in math. She could no
longer hold her curiosity.
She went to his room and said, "Son, what was it?
Was it the nuns?" Little Zachary looked at her and
shook his head, no. "Well, then," she replied,
Was it the books, the discipline, the structure, the
uniforms? "WHAT WAS IT ALREADY?"

Little Zachary looked at her and said, "Well, on
the first day of school when I saw that guy nailed to
the plus sign, I knew they weren’t fooling around."

EU Swastika ban

The plan of some European states to ban the Swastika was rejected.

I know, it’s old news, but I just stumbled over it today. I lost track of all this due to traveling back and forth Germany / Hungary and then Kuwait.

Welcome to another day in Paradise!

Why is this not in the news?

Where do we live?
In the stone age?
I guess so.
I read this morning about this:

Iraq: Kurdish girl stoned to death, mob films it on cameraphones

at this blog and it just makes me plain sick.

How can something like this still happen in our so well educated an civilized world?
And the world stands beside and watches, not even showing it in the news?!

And for what? For the sake of religion.