From certainty of character to uncertainty of ideas:

People talk a lot about Socrates, his philosophy, his character and his life style. The noteworthy point is that there is no work of Socrates left because Socrates never produced them. All we know is the descriptions of Socrates through other philosophers, especially his students. The question is what makes Socrates stand out among philosophers?

The truth is that, it is not the philosophy of Socrates that make him distinct but the character of the Socrates that makes him distinct. In other way to put…… it is not the intellectual endeavor of Socrates that makes him distinct but his intellectual honesty that makes him distinct.

You can refute philosophical doctrines or philosophical ways of investigations but character is something never age or disproved. You can only judge a character in the context of events and Socrates grew into one of the giants of human history by making his character always available for the judgments.

Socrates is described to have lived with a strong control on his instincts. It is his way to not only present his character for test of the ideas to cross questioning but also to nature. Both of these ways may not seem attractive but they illustrate one thing and that is the certainty of character to uncertainty of ideas, doctrines and ideologies.

An eternal mythology that never rusts

I have a question to you….do you throw down your sorrows when you laugh?….or do you throw down your joys when you cry ?......... If joys are vast, open and beautiful like azure sky...then sorrows has great depths like earth below our feet….  Truth is we borrow our lives from eternal love of earth and sky….. Sky is a beautiful lady who is in eternal with masculine earth….. She expresses her joys by singing with winds and expresses her pains with shedding tears by raining….he expresses his joys with flowering vegetations and expresses his grieves with volcanoes…. Oceans and rivers are sweet and bitter exchanges of this couple…… We are the children of the heaven and earth…..

If sky let us to jump when we laughs…..earth hold us when we fall in grieves….. We get our strengths by falling and we get our ambitions by our rise to sky……. We can’t separate pain and joys… they are eternal….even when we die…we give back our body to father earth and our soul to mother sky……………………

Looking to falls as disgraceful or defeats….are betrayal to life...betrayal to eternal love… and symptom of sickness……..

This is a mythology…..that was and will be….it never rusts….because life doesn’t rust……..

Fossilized cultures

 

These two ways of  propagating fossilized messages to people got my attention. Printing a religious message on a dollar bill to show the importance of message was really clever..... Of course money is both the need and weakness.... and nobody can escape the need and his weaknesses......

Though religion is still the core of cultures around the world but a large part of it turned  into fossilized culture........

Similarly, socialism though still alive...have lost a large and essential part of it....

Still unless there are souls...there are religions.....

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unless there are unjustice...there are revolutions.............

Anytime that the soul of a society gets fatal wounds....religion resurrects....

Anytime that the justice system in society gets fatal wounds...revolutions resurrects.....

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then you don't need a million dollar bill to call for attention or a flyer to spread your message........

headlights and tail lights

Whenever I was hearing that, “life is two ways, highway”…..it doesn’t make much sense to me…as I was just  keeping record of what is coming…not what are going….tonight, the highway’s sight, illustrated this expression as never before to me….Cars that were going away showing their …red tail lights….. and cars that are coming were showing their ….yellow headlights…. Of course, cars have both yellow headlights and red tail lights…It is our direction that determines which cars have to show red tail lights and which ones, their yellow headlights…. More importantly… whatever our direction, we see both red tail lights and yellow headlights………………….First time, I said, “Yes, life is two ways, highway”…………..

It is unbelievable that how mothers teach identical lessons across the cultures

When I was reading the paragraph from page 20-21 of Ronald Reagan’s autobiography….”An American Life”….I got surprised that the identical lessons were repeated by my mother to sooth us in moments of despair…. It took me in total surprise that…. how mothers think alike across the cultures…….

Reagan writes, “I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan. My mother – a small woman with auburn hair and a sense of optimism that ran as deep as the cosmos – told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God’s Plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best. If something went wrong, she said, you didn’t let it go you down: You stepped away from it, stepped over it, and move on. Later on, she added, something good will happen and you will find yourself thinking – “If I hadn’t had that problem back then, then this better thing that did happen wouldn’t have happened to me.”

 After I lost job at Montgomery Ward, I left home again in search of work. Although I didn’t know it then, I was beginning a journey that would take me a long way from Dixon and fulfill all my dreams and then some.

My mother, as usual, was right”…………………….

I endorse this paragraph by my own experience….when I applied for Army… I was declined because of my height…. I was broken at that time…. But now when I look back and think…if I had the proper height…I wouldn’t be able to follow some of dreams that are now I am following…. Mothers are always right :)