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What are we afraid of? What is the scare? The thin line between love and hate.

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No no, situation is alive, thousands of beautifully angry Islamists don’t stand before me, they are exploding like flowers. You take and make beautiful pictures.

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Men have vaginas.

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Title to a school essay: My religion good religion.

I believe men have vaginas and women can impregnate men. Men have uteri (man can have uterus), breasts, periods, mood swings, emotions, as we all, and need to share their emotions and thoughts. Women have penises and need to be powerful and strong pillars of society. Women are intellectually as capable as men are emotionally open. Men are able to reproduce like women, bear children, take care of them, nurture and love their children, take care of their families and of their households in a same way as women without it being an issue. In this way by having the same bodily functions and organs men can understand women and children, women can understand men. Men can place themselves into position of those who need support and love, understand those who are dependent on them as adults, parents and as companions. As men can get pregnant too, population of the world is increasing by far too fast, but as nature has made it, it is essential for creating a mental connection between the sexes, connection which is being made via bodily similarities, though I am not sure why gender differences matter in this case anymore, we are the same body. It is a whole different world where reproduction, sex, periods and all of sexuality is openly discussed and problems are immediately solved. There are no taboos and women are strong leaders. People can decide whether they have kids, families or concentrate on other things in their lives. Therefore in this case, because we fully understand each other’s needs, desires, beliefs, goals, expectations and emotions of others, world is a peaceful and equal place. It is a ready-made perfection, unity and a paradise for people who equally have menstrual circulation, for people who get pregnant as equally, who learn to share and respect life and difference from very early on.

Conservatism is driving the world into destruction.

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What is conservatism now? How do we define it other than something solid that likes its solidness and unchanging character. Conservative finds nobility in his/her old-fashioned identity, believes in building a nation via traditions and how things have been and have been done before. How things look bright when they are polished and anything that may break that shiny image must be ranked and whipped out. There are of course mild conservatives, far right conservatives and mid road conservatives, conservatives who deny their conservativeness, conservatives who do not recognize their position as hindering change, equality, preservation of nature and think they are very liberal and approbative in their thinking and actions. For conservatives there are many taboo subjects, such topics which constantly are on the battle field of human rights issues. Sexuality is a huge no-no. Abortion..hello! Sex in art, nudity, portrayal of sexuality are still an abomination. Conservatives do not seem to notice the reality. They deny the reality, character of reality and make their own be reality of everyone else too. Not surprisingly conservatives are the most wealthy people, hold the most power and have true faith in God. They like to use their faith as a tool against progress, against human rights kind of progress. Those who make the most profit, make the most destruction and mold the society. What is God’s work in there one might ask?

To undo the untrue and unjust, one has to know what is true and just.

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How do we see the ultimate truth if our vision is blocked and mixed with desire and greed? What is an ultimate truth for a human being? Is it the one a person is raised to and by? For example a Muslim country that begins to give religious education for children since they are very little has a very distinct idea of what is right and true. How does truth, good and what is true and good to do come to form in a mind of a child when the ultimate truth is finished in unchangeable manner and cannot be argued? Nations which are constructed via heavy religious upbringing are interesting in this sense as building one mind. Nation full of people who are in use of a nation who believe are doing god’s work. God’s work via brainwash. It is no surprise fanaticism and religious armies are easily gathered, furious against the unfaithful and destructive entities such as the West.
How much all this has got to do with God is not only Muslim dilemma. Christians practice similar one truth ideology. Christian values, how much are they values of God, who is himself, not herself. So he has a penis? What comes to issues like gay and women’s rights religion is in main role. Battle is heavy, unbelievably tough. Talk about unnatural, traditions and what God wants are matters of opinion. What is seen right. People who defend the old ways have nothing else on their side but hearsay, thinking you know and hurtful blind spots. Religion is still the thing on which our culture is built on. Weighing much, religion and tradition, dictating ways to live, rights and wrongs, the truth.

What is belief, what is devotion, what is the will to live.

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Essential problematic of living is how one despite difficulties, heartache and other turmoil brought upon most everybody, one is capable of finding possibilities within oneself? I can speak for myself.  Despite what anybody says you alone must know what you want to do, you must learn to know who you are.
I have consciously learned to be in every moment not looking for the next moment like living the future as now, but living the now as worth while happening and learned to appreciate this moment. And why is this important?

until nothing else is left than a wreck and a mutilated body. It can be said it is our nature to be violent when looking at the evidence, the history of man. There are some radical contradictions in the picture of salvation; how we pursue it, how we select which ones are worthy of rescuing and how we place grounds for saving.

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To save a life is heroic deed. I can’t help of being cynical and think that there have been more or less desperate attempts in the name of saving the world. It is clear people acknowledge we need saving. It is a used theme in movies to give us, viewers, hope that someone is doing good for all of us. We like to see world in need of saving, but we inhabit and use it violently. I use the word world in the meaning it entails us in it, even though we, people like to use world as a tool of ours, which supposedly is outside of us and is for us. I see it, world, as us, in us, inseparable entity which deserves our respect and which is stronger than us self-evidently. We, humans are the ones who need constant saving, we are desperate for saving, hardcore rescuing of souls and minds is needed to mend our bad doings, to save something that is good. The world and its saving operation as it is us, becomes sensible, possible and actually realistic in religious context. It is sad and in the same time joyful situation of hopeful collective understanding which has got to do with faith. But does religion change ethics, attitudes and perspective of man when in the end he wants to save himself?

Why does it look like it is very often irrationality manifesting and presenting itself perfectly. How something very rational as Western modern straight mono culture can turn into being irrational, or has it been like that all along all the time. Something we have been afraid to acknowledge and see, the lunacy of ours in disguise. Modern mixed with Christianity tightly like the Stone Age mixed and living along with cyber space technology. Denying our mental illnesses as something out of demons, something to be hidden as dangerous, something to be killed is to deny ourselves. Crusades ongoing today in our world appear crazy on any scale. There are quite a number of people who have a very good and high opinion about themselves, but they do hateful acts in repeat, rightfully in their eyes for some reason they fail to see hate in their actions.

Personal ideas deemed appropriate or not., how individual can one be? What is personality and how restricted is it? Am I assumed to be of certain kind? Could religion be taught as a thing more than a compulsory force of nature? Could philosophy be more important a builder of ethics?

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Isn’t it so we, even if not religious, are bound to religious traditions and doctrines, like self-evidently falling into them. There is beauty, wisdom, some truth, guidance and hope. We know them since they are taught to us and lived by throughout the year. There is no escape, religion is here and there like a good thing. Our Finnish society for instance lays on Christian values, festivities, terminology, history and names even though we are secular state. Schooling system is built on Lutheran schooling system which was in use before in history, meaning preachers were the educators of people up to the beginning of 1900’s. Even thought church schools were separated from state schools at the end of 1800’s influence of church is immense. To teach religion at school still meant in 1980’s and 90’s serious deep studying of Christianity. This is slowly changing, very slowly, the compulsory part of studying faith. How many of those schooled really have had faith in their hearts since to have faith and say it out loud has been weakness. Here it is a very private matter. To be a believer is stereotyped often as a Holy Roller and zealot trying to convert those with doubt. There are strong bias what comes to believing in god or not and to which god to believe, not that there are many options offered. Essential questions in life probably for everyone. Do I believe that there is someone or something guiding us, making us, judging and watching. Being part of Lutheran faith by birth, schooling and living in a Lutheran country is somewhat a normality and everyday practice here. It is there like a rock. Loud objections aren’t that common, but you can choose to believe or not. It is there still and raises its head when LGBT rights or are women fit to be priests(still) are talked about and church personnel have objections. Religion is a serious business. Kids understand that and they listen, god is mysteriously intriguing and puzzling. We have a silent agreement and illusion of freedom which is not that free. 

She is fucking mad!

I wanted to disturb, I wanted to be annoying. I was hoping someone would understand why. Yes I had a little hope for being understood, just a little, but the thing that I think about hoping, the most important thing is what you do yourself, how do you understand what you are doing. And why you do what you do. Why do I think by disturbing I could make my statement or make something positive happen? Yet comes question what can I as a person do?