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Post by Del on Sept 1, 2009 20:44:21 GMT -5
THIS is what motivates me: edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2009/08/28/wus.wedlock.bk.a.cnn?iref=videosearchTO force children to marry so that they can honor the family - that's a form of control and causes impoverished growth and development. And don't throw the culture card at me again. Culture is the expression of how a group of people exist on Earth, yet it should not be detrimental to growth. The greatest models of existence and growth are what exists in the cosmos and Nature [When I mention nature I speak of the elements, the plants, and the creative force that moves it]. There are no wars amongst these forces, no form of control, just movement, transformation, growth, and exploration/expansion of the external space. Allah is a formed concept of The Creator [an archetypal image], that which creates, and is just as fallable as the Human mind because the concept of Allah was created by a human mind. I know how hard it is to let go, but I also know how PAINFUL it is to not grow and move forward. Eventually, I would like to meet her...
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Post by Wunderkind on Sept 2, 2009 0:29:41 GMT -5
I wonder about those children. Do you think it's possible for someone to come into their own as an individual when their life has been so tailored and "meant to be?" Well, some people have- but I mean the average person. What that poor girl and those like her have endured just hurts my spirit.
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Post by Del on Sept 2, 2009 0:46:21 GMT -5
I wonder about those children. Do you think it's possible for someone to come into their own as an individual when their life has been so tailored and "meant to be?" Well, some people have- but I mean the average person. What that poor girl and those like her have endured just hurts my spirit. It's hard, it's really hard for people to come into their own after their likfe has been tailored because that tailoring is all they know. And I have the same hurt you do. When I see these things it always reminds me that there are shadows along the brilliance I see around me...it reminds me that I may have whatever views of existence but this, this is THEIR reality, their existence. Awareness, education...a deep integration of LIFE should be offered to all. Frankly I don't see how economics and politics alone can help these children; growth and change require more than that.... No, it is hard. Especially if they are unaware of the endless possibilities of being human...
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