politicized religion

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/jesus-the-homeless-sculpture-rejected-catholic-churches_n_3085584.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jesus-homeless-finds-home-article-1.1321038



whilst reading the article it talked about how the sculpture could not find a home and was rejected by some churches as being controversial or to vague

well last time we checked there was no official picture of jesus only artistic impressions and artistic twists

but what also came to mind is that people were not used to this kind of portrayal
and this seems to have motivated some churches against the sculpture

mark 2 v 17
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

New Living Translation (©2007)
When Jesus heard this, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor--sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."

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matthew 19 v 24

Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy

matthew 6 v 19

which was confirmed when i told them jesus was for the poor 

he ate and conversed with sinners 

the people at the bottom of social ladders and castes

and was against materialism

and even pointed out that it will make it harder for you to get to heaven

yet there are some churches whose sermons revolve around the monetary issue

and the divisions in christianity have lead some to have skipped out on their history and how political and powerful it was 

and it was for the opposite of who you picture as faces of it now

with phrases as the meek shall inherit the earth 

got me thinking how many meek people do i find 

mattthew 18 v 21 to 22

²¹ Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

²² Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

with that much forgiving how could anyone wage war in the name of christianity

which brought me to the fact most people do not read 

i will leave you with this 

some may say blasphemy 

http://goodmenproject.com/in-good-faith/six-things-that-arent-literally-in-the-bible/

Schooling is not education part 1

education

for most people
school and education
is synonymous

but for others is not so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI

for following the logic all people who go to school are educated
and if school is compulsory so most people go to school in west
then following those lines of logic everybody in the west is educated

but the next thing interjected would be to a degree
just as it is synonymous for people that those who have a degree are intelligent

for where does that leave in the general consensus those who do not go to school or have no degrees

for in one of my previous posts i talked about autodidacts
people who taught themselves

but aside from that making school redundant

what is this prevailing canopy which suggest that schooling is education

i remarked before that education comes from the greek meaning to draw out or bring forth

but as in the  video^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-eVF_G_p-Y

and this video^^^

the symptoms created by the over arching theme of school is education

and that an exam will decide their fate
when it is you who does so

and how individualism is not incorporated
in schools
but individualism is the basis of education

and for the fact with school you are praised for following and being obedient
and shunned for the opposites

and that you are never reared to be your own teacher


for most students it is a day of rejoicing once they hear these scenarios

school is closed
teacher is sick
or reading week


i even heard a man who can twice over be my dad
yes very weird
make a joke about going back to school and how he feels like a kid

where schooling and education is synonymous
and that education is bound to school

and the foolish notion of their is a time for education
and more noticeably it is for the young

but he is not alone in this thinking
for many people
they can not wait to leave school and work
and even celebrate never touching a textbook again

many people put this down to school just making people cram
and their education is revolved around exams rather than learning

to be fair their is always one teacher who breaks the mold and students look forward to their classes

Would you like silence with that

Silence
the stillness of it all
when is the last time many of us had silence
or stillness


the vicinity of others or their sounds evade our inner sanctum

i was recently on twitter and there were some people discussing how they want to go back into reading
which made me think they are reading
but what they were really implying
about reading
still puzzled me

there was nothing stopping them
having an ebook open then or just switching designated
twitter time for reading time

the business of people
people are busy or think they are
but the fact is no body is as busy
as they think they are
they just have either not managed their moments
to optimum efficiency
or have very different priorities

so it can come down to priority management
of which we are all guilty of

for if we briefly dip into the concept of being busy
what counts as busy
the first things people say is work
well that is only true of some people
so the unemployed
the student from university down to
emeritus
have amply time
but back to those who work


it can be broken down further into what kind of work
from transport work
retail work
or
office work
the 9 to 5
 where some people are famed for having enough
 time on their hands
to search face book
and send chain emails


i used to work in a coffee shop when the silence or stillness dawned on me
and it is the reaction to the stillness which defines you
it did help that i was doing a philosophy degree

but stillness
is something we have to re imagine
re define
re live
for some the stillness is only here
the remote
or that one place
removed from the self
but we must adapt to our surroundings



for even in this concrete jungle their avenues of escape
of seclusion
and refuge
and if not we can create them


We make time
and these are the scenes of our new stillness
not just the sides of mountaintops
or the visit to the country side
but the journeys
the trains
the buses
the platforms
the walking to get groceries
the possibilities
are endless

for i stumbled onto it when i began an early working job
i had all this free time
and at first you play games
but after you realise your battery does not hold up so well

and it hit me that using this time
the journey
i could use it constructively
and even use it to see how fast i finished
books
that it even
jumped into break time
and my toilet time