Hi, hl-angel!
Nice to "meet" you...!
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I understand how you feel, although I have finally settled down somewhere, where I feel I belong. It took a while <G>, but it sure feels good...
All these things from the past that you mention are still around. There are still people who will help you without any hope of "profit", places where you can leave your house and car doors open, where children can safely play out of their Mother's sight... there are still people who believe in those stories that others call "myths"... some still take money out of their pocket to put it inside a beggars' hat... Many things have changed, but I don't think that human nature has changed much. There has always been good and bad in any civilisation and any time/era. There was a time when almost every child could die because of a simple appendicitis... when giving birth was a really risky job <G>... when knowing plants and owning a black cat could lead you to the stake... when the suzerain could pick your Daughter by the hair and do whatever he wanted with/to her... when you would never have let your child play on the street because of the fetid fange that ran alongside (translation?)...when the landlord could kick you out of the house with your kids and keep all your belongings... and all sorts of sweet things ;-) of the same vein.
There are still lots and lots of people who will cut their coat in two to keep you warm, people who get out of their way to help whoever whenever they can, people who drop whatever they're holding in order to lend a helping hand. The medias talk much less about those than about the latest serial killer, or war in Irak/wherever, that's it...
I think we should not judge people... ever... whether we think we know them or not. Judgement is always "tinted" by our own experiences/beliefs/education/lots and lots of things. No one is born bad... things happened that, along with a person's genes - and "memories", if you believe in reincarnation <G> - and lots of other factors, made that person what he/she is and led him/her to do ill/bad to another living being. You can tell what they did is bad or criminal, but you can't tell what this person is really "worth". Should I have been through what my neighbour (this is just a figure of speech: my "next-door" neighbour is a sweet nonagenarian! <G>) had to face in his life, maybe I'd have become a terrorist... Who knows everything...?
We can focus on the bad/ugly sides and feel angry, sad, or devastated... it will only bring more anger/sadness/devastation in this world... OR we can concentrate on the good/beauty of this world and bring Light in our hearts and make it shine on the outside... Like we can curse the oil spillers (translation?) and cry over the victims, or send healing thoughts, light, love to alleviate their pain... and find ourselves with more energy to address the "issue" in any positive way we can find, and concentrate on the things we can do rather than on the things we can do nothing about...
The way I see it, if a "value" is good/positive, it does not belong to a given time frame, it belongs to you if you make it yours and the time you were born is always right. Feeling out of place or time has probably happened to each one of us at a time of our lives, but I strongly doubt many (any?) of us will still have that feeling when the time to leave has come... actually a great many find out where they belong much earlier than that ;-))))
I would enjoy talking with you privately if you wish...
Any way, all this is just my two cents, of course, and I am, again, happy to have "met" you.
Take care, hl-angel... and Wellness to you and yours.
Jampa
hl-angel said:
My question was not one of which religion is right or wrong. It was never intended to cause problems or cause people pain.
I am sorry if my question has caused you and upset.
I have looked at many things in my life and tried to work out where i belong in life as i never seem to settle in one place for long.
During this search i found that all through history wars have been blamed on religion as it seems easier to say that men fight for religion rather than because of greed and envy.
Through this we have destroyed our planet and turned against each other.
Here in this forum we all have a common ground and that is Steven Seagal.
Before the dawn of science man believed that anything that had a shadow had a soul, that the stars in the sky at night were the people who had passed on watching over us. they had stories to explain why the sun rose in the morning and the moon came out at night, we now call them myths.
Life was simple and man helped and looked after their fellow man.
We no longer seem to have this, if we see someone begging in the street because they have nothing we walk past, we no longer seem to care about those who have less than us.
I think that this is wrong and that we should learn about people before we judge them.
Is this being spiritual or religious???
How many races have we almost wiped off the face of the earth in the search for more lands????
The native Indians of America said that they did not own the land but that they belonged to it. They seemed to know that we only have a short time on this Earth and that we should live in harmony with it, nourish and look after it.
There were tribes in the rain forests that are no longer there because other men wanted the trees for wood and cut them down.
We poison our waters with pollution and chemicals because it's cheaper to dump the stuff than dispose of it properly.
This is what i feel is wrong with our world, Man's greed.
Isn't it about time we learnt from the mistakes that have been made throughout history and tried to make things right instead of continuing to destroy???
I was once told that i was born in the wrong time zone because i search for somewhere with the old fashioned values of neighbors helping neighbors, a time where our children were safe to walk down the street or play out of our sight as we didn't have to worry about bad people doing bad things to them. It was a time when everybody knew everybody else and looked after other people's children as they would their own.
It seems we now just follow blindly to what we are told and no longer ask questions as to why we are doing what we do.
Anyway we all have a mind of our own and we all believe what we want to believe, i just wondered if anyone else felt the same or if i was alone in my thoughts.
We gave up and took it to a person who knew what they were doing. VOLA!! I am back on line!! 