At one point in my life, if anyone were to say that humans are the ones who create the most trouble, I would have protested. But then, with more experience of life, I have to admit that there is truth in it.
There was a time, I studied part of spiritual exorcism through an Indian priest. It first started with meditation, then awakening of the third eye and then exorcism. Through my experiences and this guru's teaching about the spirit world, I had to admit that spirits do not harm people. It is evil people who use those spirits to harm others, just as religion is for the good of man kind but people use or abuse religion for their own selfish ends.
When I realised how evil most of these spiritual masters are I decided not to continue with the study. I did not wish to one day have to tangle with such type of people even though it is to untangle whatever mischief they have done.
And today, I read about a married couple who abused their Indonesian maid so badly that the poor maid died. How the poor lady must have suffered before she found relief in death. What kind of horrible monsters those people were! Someone commented that they were worst than animals. Please, the next time we talk of such human monsters, do not drag the good name of animals into the thought. Animals are never that bad. Animals kill only because they felt threatened or they needed food for survival. They never kill to exert power over others. Humans are the ones who crave for power and perform the world's most horrendous deeds to gain it.
Perhaps that is the reason God gave humans brains so that, hopefully, with such brains they could teach morals and understand that God is always watching whatever is being done. That is also the reason humans, more than any other creature on earth, need God. If not for the presence of God and the teaching of morals, the conscience would be blunted and easily turn humans to monsters such as the above mentioned couple and those known in history.
This weakness of humans to create problems exists to this very day among the ordinary people as well as people in authority and politics. It exists as long as there is inferiority complex and the need to feel power over others is present.
It is a human tragedy that such a creation which possess brains and the ability to think so well can descend so low, indicating an inability to use their brains correctly. And so, with this weakness, there will always be conflicts, cruelty and exploitation of others, even though the holy book of every religion tells us that all living things are His creations and therefore are to be respected if it is just to show respect and love for Him.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Friday, July 09, 2010
It is possible for different religions to thrive together.
Today I was in the library reading and catching up on old news when an article in the Star caught my attention. According to the article, there was this 1,500 year old church in Gaza City which stands next door to a mosque. The Christians and Muslims have no problem living and practising their religion so near to each other for more than a thousand years.
According to the article, 'It is not surprising to see head-scarved Muslim female workers sweeping and cleaning the church.' Even the conservative Islamic group Hamas allowed the church special permission to bring in wine for their Sunday service.
The Christians in Gaza were just as affected by the Isreali occupation of Gaza as the military strike and unemployment bring the same problems to all Gaza residents. So, be they Christians or Muslims, the ordinary folks are the same, loving each other, respecting each other, working with each other, even helping to upkeep places of worship and suffering the same fate.
What is the difference and who brought the difference? The difference is that the majority of the people in Gaza are Muslims but that was not a problem until leaders who craze for power would bring in their extremist thoughts to exterminate the minority. So, majority gives strength in terms of support and might. Percentage is important to leaders and lessening the minority number can increase the percentage of the majority.However, sometimes it is not the government but the extremists within the government or other extremist groups that cause people to change.
The presence of extremist leaders and their anxiety-creating opinions bring fear to the minority, unsettling their feelings of belonging. So, some would migrate, especially the best brains and the more capable.
The article I read strengthen my belief and understanding that all of us are the same, capable of a wonderful life together if not for power-crazy leaders who would cause all kinds of misery to mankind just to achieve their own selfish ends. But it is a fact that such people will never learn for their drug is power and like any drug addict, they would do just about anything to snuff the drug of power.
According to the article, 'It is not surprising to see head-scarved Muslim female workers sweeping and cleaning the church.' Even the conservative Islamic group Hamas allowed the church special permission to bring in wine for their Sunday service.
The Christians in Gaza were just as affected by the Isreali occupation of Gaza as the military strike and unemployment bring the same problems to all Gaza residents. So, be they Christians or Muslims, the ordinary folks are the same, loving each other, respecting each other, working with each other, even helping to upkeep places of worship and suffering the same fate.
What is the difference and who brought the difference? The difference is that the majority of the people in Gaza are Muslims but that was not a problem until leaders who craze for power would bring in their extremist thoughts to exterminate the minority. So, majority gives strength in terms of support and might. Percentage is important to leaders and lessening the minority number can increase the percentage of the majority.However, sometimes it is not the government but the extremists within the government or other extremist groups that cause people to change.
The presence of extremist leaders and their anxiety-creating opinions bring fear to the minority, unsettling their feelings of belonging. So, some would migrate, especially the best brains and the more capable.
The article I read strengthen my belief and understanding that all of us are the same, capable of a wonderful life together if not for power-crazy leaders who would cause all kinds of misery to mankind just to achieve their own selfish ends. But it is a fact that such people will never learn for their drug is power and like any drug addict, they would do just about anything to snuff the drug of power.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
All humans are the same wherever they may be. Who causes the difference?
How we take for granted our neighbours’ presence as we live our lives from day to day sharing each other’s joy and sadness, living our lives safe in the knowledge that there are friendly people around us regardless of the neighbour’s race, religion or beliefs and cultures.
In the 1950’s when I was living in Caunter Hall, now known as Jalan P. Ramli, Penang, a number of families lived in a huge bungalow house with seven rooms, each room housing a family. Some rooms were not as safe as others as their doors face the outside of the house while some rooms are safer as the doors lead out into an enclosed locked area with the common kitchen and big bathroom within that enclosed locked area.
Safer or not, all the families knew that help was always available should the alarm be sounded. Of course, in those days, there was no electronic alarm device which could turn on lights and alert the occupants with loud sounds should there be movement detected in the darkness of the night. But what they had was just as effective for should any occupant were to hear any suspicious movement or sound outside, he or she immediately reaches for a metal pan or its lid and hit it with a stick to sound the alarm, thus awakening all the other households, with every awaken occupant reaching for his or her own pot and stick to add to the din and that was sufficient to deter any robber or mischief maker from continuing with his/her nefarious activity. Pots and pans must be cheap in those days. Either that or they did not mind having dented pots and pans to cook with and possibly broken wooden ladles
And in those days, the Chinese, Indians and the Malays live closer to each other, especially in the rural areas where the simple folks only think of themselves as humans living together with a togetherness that has unfortunately been destroyed by the craze for power and ego politically and in matters of religion where there are those who divide humans into races and religions in order to master the power over God’s people. (To me, everyone is God’s people and God does not belong to anyone, for God is the creator.) These power crazy people use race and religion to separate the people, dividing them, creating the idea that certain races are more superior to others and certain religions the only religion of God, putting in human laws and professing such laws the words of God sometimes by having differing interpretation of words in holy books so that today in every existing religion, there are so many sects or groups with slightly different beliefs and these different sects are not on friendly terms with each other and in such a manner are moving away from the most important teachings of God, one of which is that all men are brothers, therefore women sisters. All are the same in the eyes of God Almighty.
Let us go back to those old days in Caunter Hall, Penang, where of the seven families, one of them was an Indian Muslim family. Although the family practiced the Islamic religion, praying at mosques and not eating pork, they cook in the same kitchen where others cooked their pork and sometimes accept and eat boiled cubed sweet potatoes from the same bowls as those used by the others, as the religion does not want its followers to eat pork and that is accepted and understood by everyone and no one would insist a Muslim should eat pork. With that understanding, they would eat at the same table too, respecting each and everyone with their religion's do and don't. And none felt any other difference among themselves except where religious rules are concerned.
Today, as politics and religious leaders put more meaning into race and religion, more differences are created and many Muslims cannot accept the sight or presence of pork. Sometimes, there is so much suspicion on the food available when it is prepared by people from another religion, even when those people are friends who would never knowingly hurt the feelings of their friends. Some would not take food even from the same bowls or utensils just as some Buddhist separate their utensils from those of non-vegetarians. Do we have to be more than just not eating a particular food? Does God mean us to be this way. Where the Buddhists are concerned, the religion encourages them to eat vegetarian food because Buddhists believe they should not kill and therefore by not eating meat, the necessity to kill the animals is eliminated. But to use utensils which had never been used to cook meat, I think that is not what the Buddha teaches.
It happened a few years ago. This friend was so disappointed especially as he believed that his friends were different. Although the relatives and in-laws had advised him against it, in a positive state of mind he went ahead and reserved some tables in one section and had ordered Muslim food from another restaurant to be delivered there so that all his friends, regardless of race would be there to celebrate the most important occasion of his life, his marriage. Unfortunately, less than half of the expected guests of those specially reserved tables were present. Here was a man who thought his well-educated friends were above those divisive ideas but instead had a lesson delivered on that occasion. Yet it ought not to have happened as suitable food had been provided. If the place was not suitable, would the few who came had come? Who caused such a feeling of difference? It certainly is not God’s doing. God would not be that small minded to mind the place. From what I observed, it is the slow but gradual planting of suspicion in the mind that leaders do to divide, inculcating a difference and inferring that the leaders’ ideology is far more superior than the others.
This superiority complex has been a thorn in the peaceful togetherness of humans. It is the idea of race superiority that led Alexander the Great to conquer other countries, to become their conqueror and have them be the conquered. Then, the same superiority led Hitler and the Nazis to cause so much death and destruction during the First World War. Again, the belief in Japanese’s supremacy took on the world to prove Japan’s greatness through another round of death and destruction only to shaken from their illusion by the atomic bomb. Man has learned from history and understands that with nuclear bombs available, a third world war can lead to the destruction of the human race or worst, the remaining humans maimed or scarred or permanently affected by the nuclear chemicals, living a life of misery, a horrid reminder of human follies.
So history has to be taught to every child in order that such a folly will never befall us to the extent of causing man not just to cause division through some kind of dislike or hatred but a war in which can possibly bring the end to this world or as I have said something incredibly worse.
In the 1950’s when I was living in Caunter Hall, now known as Jalan P. Ramli, Penang, a number of families lived in a huge bungalow house with seven rooms, each room housing a family. Some rooms were not as safe as others as their doors face the outside of the house while some rooms are safer as the doors lead out into an enclosed locked area with the common kitchen and big bathroom within that enclosed locked area.
Safer or not, all the families knew that help was always available should the alarm be sounded. Of course, in those days, there was no electronic alarm device which could turn on lights and alert the occupants with loud sounds should there be movement detected in the darkness of the night. But what they had was just as effective for should any occupant were to hear any suspicious movement or sound outside, he or she immediately reaches for a metal pan or its lid and hit it with a stick to sound the alarm, thus awakening all the other households, with every awaken occupant reaching for his or her own pot and stick to add to the din and that was sufficient to deter any robber or mischief maker from continuing with his/her nefarious activity. Pots and pans must be cheap in those days. Either that or they did not mind having dented pots and pans to cook with and possibly broken wooden ladles
And in those days, the Chinese, Indians and the Malays live closer to each other, especially in the rural areas where the simple folks only think of themselves as humans living together with a togetherness that has unfortunately been destroyed by the craze for power and ego politically and in matters of religion where there are those who divide humans into races and religions in order to master the power over God’s people. (To me, everyone is God’s people and God does not belong to anyone, for God is the creator.) These power crazy people use race and religion to separate the people, dividing them, creating the idea that certain races are more superior to others and certain religions the only religion of God, putting in human laws and professing such laws the words of God sometimes by having differing interpretation of words in holy books so that today in every existing religion, there are so many sects or groups with slightly different beliefs and these different sects are not on friendly terms with each other and in such a manner are moving away from the most important teachings of God, one of which is that all men are brothers, therefore women sisters. All are the same in the eyes of God Almighty.
Let us go back to those old days in Caunter Hall, Penang, where of the seven families, one of them was an Indian Muslim family. Although the family practiced the Islamic religion, praying at mosques and not eating pork, they cook in the same kitchen where others cooked their pork and sometimes accept and eat boiled cubed sweet potatoes from the same bowls as those used by the others, as the religion does not want its followers to eat pork and that is accepted and understood by everyone and no one would insist a Muslim should eat pork. With that understanding, they would eat at the same table too, respecting each and everyone with their religion's do and don't. And none felt any other difference among themselves except where religious rules are concerned.
Today, as politics and religious leaders put more meaning into race and religion, more differences are created and many Muslims cannot accept the sight or presence of pork. Sometimes, there is so much suspicion on the food available when it is prepared by people from another religion, even when those people are friends who would never knowingly hurt the feelings of their friends. Some would not take food even from the same bowls or utensils just as some Buddhist separate their utensils from those of non-vegetarians. Do we have to be more than just not eating a particular food? Does God mean us to be this way. Where the Buddhists are concerned, the religion encourages them to eat vegetarian food because Buddhists believe they should not kill and therefore by not eating meat, the necessity to kill the animals is eliminated. But to use utensils which had never been used to cook meat, I think that is not what the Buddha teaches.
It happened a few years ago. This friend was so disappointed especially as he believed that his friends were different. Although the relatives and in-laws had advised him against it, in a positive state of mind he went ahead and reserved some tables in one section and had ordered Muslim food from another restaurant to be delivered there so that all his friends, regardless of race would be there to celebrate the most important occasion of his life, his marriage. Unfortunately, less than half of the expected guests of those specially reserved tables were present. Here was a man who thought his well-educated friends were above those divisive ideas but instead had a lesson delivered on that occasion. Yet it ought not to have happened as suitable food had been provided. If the place was not suitable, would the few who came had come? Who caused such a feeling of difference? It certainly is not God’s doing. God would not be that small minded to mind the place. From what I observed, it is the slow but gradual planting of suspicion in the mind that leaders do to divide, inculcating a difference and inferring that the leaders’ ideology is far more superior than the others.
This superiority complex has been a thorn in the peaceful togetherness of humans. It is the idea of race superiority that led Alexander the Great to conquer other countries, to become their conqueror and have them be the conquered. Then, the same superiority led Hitler and the Nazis to cause so much death and destruction during the First World War. Again, the belief in Japanese’s supremacy took on the world to prove Japan’s greatness through another round of death and destruction only to shaken from their illusion by the atomic bomb. Man has learned from history and understands that with nuclear bombs available, a third world war can lead to the destruction of the human race or worst, the remaining humans maimed or scarred or permanently affected by the nuclear chemicals, living a life of misery, a horrid reminder of human follies.
So history has to be taught to every child in order that such a folly will never befall us to the extent of causing man not just to cause division through some kind of dislike or hatred but a war in which can possibly bring the end to this world or as I have said something incredibly worse.
Friday, January 15, 2010
God is with us but some of the things in religion are man-made.
Today, in the Star newspaper online, I read the comments of a Minister in Malaysia. He said that the word ‘Allah’ could be used in Sabah and Sarawak which are two states in East Malaysia while the rest of the states in the Peninsula cannot use that word. In fact, he told reporters that in Penang, Malacca, Federal Territories, Sabah and Sarawak could use the word ‘Allah’ legally speaking.
In the first place, we must admit that God came before us. Everything in this world is his creation. Yet, we sometimes talk as if God belongs to us. Some have lost their direction and claimed that this is their God and therefore they have the right to call him thus. They sort of put a copyright on that name even when they themselves acknowledge, something all intelligent and knowledgeable people have to, that the name, be it God or Allah, is a common word used centuries ago for Him. In fact, as reported in the Star online, the minister, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz, himself admitted that the word ‘Allah’ had been long used in Christianity way before Islam existed. Then when Islam came, the same word was used as it meant God. There was no quarrel about it because no leaders confused the people by making an issue out of it. Also, they pray to ‘Allah’ together, be they Christians, Muslims or others, as the aim for religion then, was to sing in praise of the Almighty and hope for his divine guidance and protection. That was their main aim.
Today, in our miserable world of greed for money and power, we abuse His name to achieve our human desires. This is clear when we see so many denominations in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and other religions. Humans put different interpretations into the words of God as they want their ideas or interpretations to be accepted. They start another denomination so that they can become leaders whose voice will be heard and accepted. Through religion, these people achieved power.
Humans terrorise others in the name of God and religion so that their ideas on issues are heard or forced upon others even when their deeds are against the very religion they claim to be fighting for. This means that they push aside God’s words so that their words can be heard. They forget that God is all powerful, all almighty, that should God want the world to be rid of Ong Ai Wei, all He needed to do is command that Ong Ai Wei will not awaken after his sleep. There is no need for God to call upon His people to sacrifice their lives, no need to kill and be condemned, no need to terrorise and cause the death of so many innocent people; just list those people He wants to sleep unto death. The fact that such people think they need to sacrifice themselves or commit other foul deeds to kill those they believed have wronged their God (Whose God? How can God ever belong to anybody? He is not something we can buy from somewhere. Oh, God, please do something about this.) indicates that they do not actually believe in God being all Almighty or compassionate. They must ask themselves: Do we truly believe in God?
One of the comments holds a lot of truth about some things in religion. When asked about the publication of the herald, which is a Christian publication, this minister said there could be separate editions with only Sabah and Sarawak using ‘Allah’ After all, “It’s all man-made. It’s not carved in stone.” So historically, ‘Allah’ is used by first, the Christens and then, the Muslims. They both used the same word originally, without confusion. The confusion is man-made, just as who should or should not use the word ‘Allah’ is man-made. God in his wisdom would never cause such confusion because the Christian God and the Muslim God are one and the same God. Certainly, and of course, they use the same word. ‘Allah’. Their followers, if they are not allowed to be ignorant of this fact, should know this. They pray to the same God ‘Allah’ and God is rightfully happy but humans are afraid that they may lose some of their followers, thus diluting their powers as leaders of a religion and so are unhappy. All this unhappiness is man-made.
May God give us the strength and courage to know Him truly, to understand the true message of God and have true faith in Him always. Let us stay true to God with our belief in Him. Read your Holy Book well and not allow humans to add what is not given. Study it with the intelligence and wisdom which god has bestowed upon us. All religions teach us good for ourselves, to others and with everyone. Let us return to the path of such goodness.
In the first place, we must admit that God came before us. Everything in this world is his creation. Yet, we sometimes talk as if God belongs to us. Some have lost their direction and claimed that this is their God and therefore they have the right to call him thus. They sort of put a copyright on that name even when they themselves acknowledge, something all intelligent and knowledgeable people have to, that the name, be it God or Allah, is a common word used centuries ago for Him. In fact, as reported in the Star online, the minister, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz, himself admitted that the word ‘Allah’ had been long used in Christianity way before Islam existed. Then when Islam came, the same word was used as it meant God. There was no quarrel about it because no leaders confused the people by making an issue out of it. Also, they pray to ‘Allah’ together, be they Christians, Muslims or others, as the aim for religion then, was to sing in praise of the Almighty and hope for his divine guidance and protection. That was their main aim.
Today, in our miserable world of greed for money and power, we abuse His name to achieve our human desires. This is clear when we see so many denominations in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and other religions. Humans put different interpretations into the words of God as they want their ideas or interpretations to be accepted. They start another denomination so that they can become leaders whose voice will be heard and accepted. Through religion, these people achieved power.
Humans terrorise others in the name of God and religion so that their ideas on issues are heard or forced upon others even when their deeds are against the very religion they claim to be fighting for. This means that they push aside God’s words so that their words can be heard. They forget that God is all powerful, all almighty, that should God want the world to be rid of Ong Ai Wei, all He needed to do is command that Ong Ai Wei will not awaken after his sleep. There is no need for God to call upon His people to sacrifice their lives, no need to kill and be condemned, no need to terrorise and cause the death of so many innocent people; just list those people He wants to sleep unto death. The fact that such people think they need to sacrifice themselves or commit other foul deeds to kill those they believed have wronged their God (Whose God? How can God ever belong to anybody? He is not something we can buy from somewhere. Oh, God, please do something about this.) indicates that they do not actually believe in God being all Almighty or compassionate. They must ask themselves: Do we truly believe in God?
One of the comments holds a lot of truth about some things in religion. When asked about the publication of the herald, which is a Christian publication, this minister said there could be separate editions with only Sabah and Sarawak using ‘Allah’ After all, “It’s all man-made. It’s not carved in stone.” So historically, ‘Allah’ is used by first, the Christens and then, the Muslims. They both used the same word originally, without confusion. The confusion is man-made, just as who should or should not use the word ‘Allah’ is man-made. God in his wisdom would never cause such confusion because the Christian God and the Muslim God are one and the same God. Certainly, and of course, they use the same word. ‘Allah’. Their followers, if they are not allowed to be ignorant of this fact, should know this. They pray to the same God ‘Allah’ and God is rightfully happy but humans are afraid that they may lose some of their followers, thus diluting their powers as leaders of a religion and so are unhappy. All this unhappiness is man-made.
May God give us the strength and courage to know Him truly, to understand the true message of God and have true faith in Him always. Let us stay true to God with our belief in Him. Read your Holy Book well and not allow humans to add what is not given. Study it with the intelligence and wisdom which god has bestowed upon us. All religions teach us good for ourselves, to others and with everyone. Let us return to the path of such goodness.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The craze for power.
Each day, we read in newspapers of people being killed. We often say that life is constantly changing. Yet, what is the difference between our fore-fathers’ time and the so-called civilized twenty-first century? In terms of violence and death, there is not much difference.There are still many people being killed. There is still a lot of violence, maybe more.
Do we not have governmental bodies to organize law enforcement? Do we not have armies to protect our country? Do we not have a United Nations to safe-guard the world?
Yes, we do. But we still have countries waging war on others. We still have terrorists and pirates to kill and plunder. We still have people ready to murder for one reason or another. So, how effective are our organized bodies?
We have religions to teach the people love for God. We have them understand that all creatures, big and small are the creations of God. We are all one big family, people of God. To show one’s love of God, there should be a healthy respect for God’s creations. Yet, each day, we read that somewhere on this planet someone is being killed in the name of God.
Schools, colleges and universities are built to install the best brains of all possible subjects so as to spread knowledge. Through this knowledge, we hope to develop better understanding of life on this planet. Yet, some of the men of violence come from such institutions.
So, where have we gone wrong? Yes, we have done everything possible to make this world a better place but we have not changed the instincts of Man. Inside every human, educated or otherwise, lies the desire for power.
To be powerful, Man needs to lead by good or foul means. It does not matter which , to some. So, there are those who become political leaders while there are some who become gang leaders. One uses brains while the other uses brawn. To hold on to leadership we see how such leaders can resort to all kinds of tactics to kill off the opposition in other parties or in the same party. In certain countries, we read of supporters of opposition leaders being killed with guns. This happens in gangs too. Leaders are killed so that another may take his place. And if the plot is exposed earlier, the aspiring gangster and his supporters could be killed to prevent power from being lost by the reigning gangster.
Sometimes, leaders of certain countries decide to wage war to achieve a particular objective which could be popularity among his people. Such a decision could also be due to a need to prevent an erosion of his power.
Nowadays, religion has been used as a tool to gain power in certain regions or the world. Since fighting for such kind of power is difficult to be done in the open, we have terrorists who kill sometimes innocent people, and even people who are of the same religion as the terrorists, just to achieve popularity and power in their groups.
Even the small man or woman desires power. Such demonstration of these people’s need for people manifests itself in road terrorism and road bullying.
Of course, when it comes to bullying, this starts at a very young age. The stronger ones bully the weaker ones at home among the siblings, then at school and eventually in the workplace or in society. So, this trait of power exhibits itself early in life. It is not that the weaker ones are too good to resort to such behavior; it is just that they know they dio not have the brawn to dominate others.
Well, this instinct to dominate, to have power over others starts from young and continue to exhibit itself in one way or another throughout life whenever the opportunity to do so arises. And all our problems come from this human instinct which is also very essential for survival.
Is there anything else anyone wishes to add to the above. I’ll appreciate it very much if you can do so.
Do we not have governmental bodies to organize law enforcement? Do we not have armies to protect our country? Do we not have a United Nations to safe-guard the world?
Yes, we do. But we still have countries waging war on others. We still have terrorists and pirates to kill and plunder. We still have people ready to murder for one reason or another. So, how effective are our organized bodies?
We have religions to teach the people love for God. We have them understand that all creatures, big and small are the creations of God. We are all one big family, people of God. To show one’s love of God, there should be a healthy respect for God’s creations. Yet, each day, we read that somewhere on this planet someone is being killed in the name of God.
Schools, colleges and universities are built to install the best brains of all possible subjects so as to spread knowledge. Through this knowledge, we hope to develop better understanding of life on this planet. Yet, some of the men of violence come from such institutions.
So, where have we gone wrong? Yes, we have done everything possible to make this world a better place but we have not changed the instincts of Man. Inside every human, educated or otherwise, lies the desire for power.
To be powerful, Man needs to lead by good or foul means. It does not matter which , to some. So, there are those who become political leaders while there are some who become gang leaders. One uses brains while the other uses brawn. To hold on to leadership we see how such leaders can resort to all kinds of tactics to kill off the opposition in other parties or in the same party. In certain countries, we read of supporters of opposition leaders being killed with guns. This happens in gangs too. Leaders are killed so that another may take his place. And if the plot is exposed earlier, the aspiring gangster and his supporters could be killed to prevent power from being lost by the reigning gangster.
Sometimes, leaders of certain countries decide to wage war to achieve a particular objective which could be popularity among his people. Such a decision could also be due to a need to prevent an erosion of his power.
Nowadays, religion has been used as a tool to gain power in certain regions or the world. Since fighting for such kind of power is difficult to be done in the open, we have terrorists who kill sometimes innocent people, and even people who are of the same religion as the terrorists, just to achieve popularity and power in their groups.
Even the small man or woman desires power. Such demonstration of these people’s need for people manifests itself in road terrorism and road bullying.
Of course, when it comes to bullying, this starts at a very young age. The stronger ones bully the weaker ones at home among the siblings, then at school and eventually in the workplace or in society. So, this trait of power exhibits itself early in life. It is not that the weaker ones are too good to resort to such behavior; it is just that they know they dio not have the brawn to dominate others.
Well, this instinct to dominate, to have power over others starts from young and continue to exhibit itself in one way or another throughout life whenever the opportunity to do so arises. And all our problems come from this human instinct which is also very essential for survival.
Is there anything else anyone wishes to add to the above. I’ll appreciate it very much if you can do so.
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