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POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE IN KENYA....wonderful meditations...
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Nothing in the world is possibly worth the ghastly violence of suffering that we have seen in the past months.Nothing.Not power.not wealth,not even democracy.there's nothing more virtous thaan a human life.(unknown)


"A small spark of stupid reprisal is sure to turn into a national conflagration in which the arsonist himself is most likely to burn ,in other words,not a single tribe can gain pesa nane from it(Philip Ochieng)fighting against one another is not a remedy...

No peace without justice ?If we had a army or combatants in the field of war,this phrase would be understandable,maybe even acceptable.In the kenyan context,however,we have women and children.peasants and the urban poor whose only fault is their ethnicity,suffering the brunt of the orchestrated,some say premeditated violence over the perceived"injustice" of playing with their lives

Dictators often enjoy a cult status among the downtrodden, they have this uncanny habit of manipulating the poor,throwing goodies their way & assuring them of their love & dedication while doing little to help them stand on their fee(author unknown)

WE HAVE ALL WRONGED GOD AND OUR FELLOW MEN,EVEN I MAY HAVE BEEN PREJUDICED,THEREFORE I SAY AND WE SHOULD ALL SAY:

Forgive me for:

-focussing on the negative in others.....
-being insensitive to other people's feelings...
-neglecting displaced persons in time of need....
-fearing to be identified with the suffering minority...
-promoting division in our society....
-expressing my opinion arrogantly....
Letr us ask for forgiveness from God and those we have wronged......AMEN!


there's this cartoon I saw where there's a sick patient whose in need of blood transfusion....funny thing is HE WANTS TO KNOW FROM WHAT TRIBE THE BLOOD COMES FROM...DEAR JESUS...THAT SHOULD TEACH US THAT WE ARE ALL THE SAME,AND THE ONLY DIFFERENCE MIGHT LIE IN THE ANTIGENS....

February 22, 2008 | 3:23 AM Comments  2 comments

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KENYAN POST ELECTIONS VIOLENCE
Related to country: Kenya

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Well,it seems to me that no one wants to compromise,amid all the rigging claims i feel utterly disappointed that we had to resort to violence.I think the opposition should have tried to use all peaceful means possible before resorting to violence.there's an article by ken kamoche on the sunday nation dated january 13th and i like what he said in some parts of the article,quoting samuel johnson he says,'to instigate the populace with rage beyond provocation is to suspend public happiness,if not to destroy it.He is no lover of his country that unnecessarily disturbs its peace..few errors can justify an appeal to the rabble;who ought not to judge of what they cannot undersatnd,and whose opinions are not propagated by reason,but by contagion."Johnson goes on to warn about the false patriot who appeals "to the indigent,who are always inflammable;to th weak,who are naturally suspicious;to the ignorant,who are easily misled;and to the profligate,who have no hope but from mischief and confusion;let his love for the people be no longer boasted..the disadvantaged deserve to be heard,to have their condition improved.But what we're seeing is the blatant political exploitaion of the poor.WHAT WE WANT IN OUR BELOVED KENYA IS PEACE.WE CANNOT HAVE THAT IF THE POLITICIANS ARE IN THEIR SAFE HAVENS AND WE SUFFER IN THE NAME OF FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE.THESE PEOPLE LOVE THEMSELVES TOO MUCH!!!LET DIALOGUE PREVAIL ABOVE THEIR EGOS.

January 19, 2008 | 7:35 AM Comments  0 comments

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Majimboism in Kenya
Related to country: Kenya


what do you think about majimbo.Is it practical to have it in kenya,bearing in mind it is equal to a state int he united states.Is it really going to accelerate development in kenya or is it a recipe for disaster?I think that it has the potential of aggravating tribal clashes in kenya.It is good for the provinces to be independent but let us not forget the past that majimbo carries.Some provinces are better economically and this might be a bone of contention.What do you guys think?

October 31, 2007 | 9:29 AM Comments  3 comments

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just as true...

Who Wants To Be A Philosopher?, Alan Watts


Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. Other creatures may love and laugh, talk and think, but is seems to be that the special peculiarity of human beings is that they reflect; they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous ?echo? to all that we think and feel as the box of the violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.


Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one?s own person. Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know. For the human organism is, apparently, the most complex of all organisms, and while one has the advantage of knowing one?s own organism so intimately from the inside ? there is also the disadvantage of being so close to it that one can never quite get at it. Nothing so eludes conscious inspection as consciousness itself. This is why the root of consciousness has been called, paradoxically, the unconscious.


The people who we are tempted to call clods and boors are just those who seem to find nothing fascinating in being human; their humanity is incomplete, for it has never astonished them. There is also something incomplete about those who find nothing fascinating in being. You may say that this is a philosopher?s professional prejudice ? that people are defective who lack a sense of the metaphysical. But anyone who thinks at all must be a philosopher ? a good one or a bad one ? because it is impossible to think without premises, without basic (and in this sense, metaphysical) assumptions about what is sensible, what is the good life, what is beauty, and what is pleasure. To hold such assumptions, consciously or unconsciously, is to philosophize.


--Alan Watts, from "The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing

October 10, 2007 | 11:22 AM Comments  0 comments

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when u stop....

Beyond the Wall of Knowledge, Adyashanti


An intelligent mind realizes its own limitation, and it’s a beautiful thing when it does.

When you stop holding on to all of the knowledge, then you start to enter a different state of being. You start to move into a different dimension. You move into a dimension where experience inside gets very quiet. The mind may still be there chatting in the background, or it might not, but consciousness is no longer bothering itself with the mind. You don’t need to stop it. Your awareness just goes right past that wall of knowledge and moves into a very quiet state.

In this quietness, you realize that you don’t know anything simply because you aren’t looking back to the mind for its acquired knowledge. This quietness is a mystery to the mind. It is something unknown. As you go into depth, you literally go into a deeper experience of what seems to be a great mystery. Now the mind might come in and want to know what’s going on and start to define everything, but that’s not going to bring any more depth. The mystery just keeps opening to itself if you let it -- if you let go of control.

As acquired knowledge is left behind, what is found is that you have left your familiar sense of self behind. That self only existed in the accumulation of knowledge and experience. Something very interesting happens when you leave it all behind, because you are literally leaving your memory behind. You leave behind who you thought you were, whoever you thought your parents were, and everything else you thought and believed. Yesterday is gone. Then a very interesting thing starts to be noticed; you can leave all of that behind and still you *are* -- you are right here and right now. So what you are becomes even more mysterious.

When you realize that you can leave every self-definition behind and still you *are*, then you begin to see that these thoughts must not be what you are. In other words, who are you when you are not thinking yourself into existence? [...]

In that moment of recognition, you have already begun to move beyond the wall of accumulated knowledge. Then, if you don’t redefine this moment or rebox it in some concept, rethinking yourself into existence, your true state of being starts to present itself.

--Adyashanti, From "Emptiness Dancing"


October 10, 2007 | 11:20 AM Comments  0 comments

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