The way I want to live.....

[France]

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pbspan style="font-size: 18pt;"The way I want
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pbHuman history is not a history of increasing cleverness or increasing
acuity of vision. It is just that we change our views. It is
astonishing how many people, in this day and age, are still incredibly negative
and cannot or will not change their views on certain matters. I think
that no one will deny that we, Homo sapiens, are not always guided by
reason. I tend to agree with Schopanoer, the German writer and
philosopher who argues that human behaviour is governed not by the intellect
but by the irrational impulses of the human will – which includes ambition,
hate and sexual desires./b/p

pbA central concern in my thought is that man is a being unique on this
earth; he is endowed with an essential worth that exists nowhere else in the
known world. Man is a being who may easily be degraded, but to degrade
him is wrong. If he is debased, man is forced either to succumb or to
defend himself and fight for his /bown human dignity. /p

pbIn some of his Songs, Gustav Mahler says o/o/b/p

pbMan languishes in great
need o/o/b/p

pbspan style=""/spanMan languishes in great
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pbI agree, there are indeed great needs and great pain for us human beings
on this earth; but I cannot help thinking that there is one kind of pain that
we bring on ourselves and as long as there are people who cannot or will not
change their views on certain matters, there will always be murders and totally
unnecessary degradation of certain people and, in consequence, rebelliousness
and retaliation with disastrous results, which is horrible, despicable and
totally unacceptable. This is not a way to live! As it is, I feel
bitterly, bitterly disturbed and ill at ease.o/o/b/p

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pbI am referring to the unreasonable question of intolerance on the part of
white people against black people and black people against white people.
To me, a perfectly ordinary person, I cannot see any sense in this kind of
attitude. Even if one does not subscribe to any particular canon or credo
in any religious faith, one cannot help - if any one cares to reflect - to
realize that people with different coloured skin have always existed and will
always exist just like there are different kinds of trees and flowers. To
fell down a tree or pluck out a flower just because we do not like them is
totally senseless because they do exist in abundance and however much we try we
will never be able to destroy every single tree or flower we do not like.
People, like trees and flowers, are part of nature and have always existed and
will always exist. To kill one man or to bully and harass him until he
commits suicide just because he is White or Asian or Black – how does this
resolve one’s problem? Furthermore, I simply cannot see how, because
someone is White, Asian or Black, affect me in any way and that I have to take
those drastic actions against them. The fact of the matter is that our
profession on this earth is to die and that is irrespective of whether one is
White, Asian or Black. It is this mortal life and nothing else that we
should consider and reflect upon.o/o/b/p

pbWe perfectly ordinary people cannot grasp what is going on in the mind of
some people who, though possess with an immensity of a complexity of a brain,
with which they can achieve almost anything they want, and yet say absolute
barbaric inhumanities. I prefer to say that this is outside my range of
outstanding.o/o/b/p

pbOne cannot listen to Gustav Mahler’s music without confronting the
question of music as an expression of life. The “Adagietto” in his 5th
Symphony is a case in point. And there are so many examples of this in
his music. Mahler’s music takes one beyond what one is able to bear,
because it is the relief and because it is the freedom. Music, like
Mahler and Bach’ music, help us to touch something that is eternal and greater
than ourselves.o/o/b/p

pbA few years ago, I witnessed something on television that brought tears
to my eyes and it still does whenever I watched this particular programme on my
video. It was at a performance of the Vienna “New Years Day” concert and
while the orchestra was playing a waltz – “Roses from the South”, incidentally,
one of my favourites – something happened that I have never seen before,
something that touched me very, very deeply: The Vienna Choir boys distributed
flowers to members of the audience – European, Chinese, Black people, any one.
I thought, that is what I want to see, all the time, all over the world, no
crime of any sort, just pure love for every human being. This is the way
I want to live!o/o/b/p

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[goldeneye]

Skin colour has nothing to do with it. People generally choose to self segregate in mixed societies in "the West".

If it was just a matter of skin colour the Tutsies wouldn't commit genocide against the Hutus in Africa (both black) or conflict involving Catholics vs. Protestants in N. Ireland (both white).

People generally want to be surrounded by familiar language, food, and traditions and will fight to retain them if necessary.

Politics and group survival are the main motivators. Why did the Romans wipe out the Carthaginians in 200 B.C. ? Because they could.

[rosalyn_06]

I agree, a total discrimation of races...What a shame, isn't it??? The problem of white people is that they think that they are superior being. That noone can bet them, that was a total shame... Nobody has a right to judge other people by what their appearances are, "The West" people citicize everything and anyone... Not a great deal...

[rosalyn_06]

For me Marx's idea of Utopia is totally unreachable but I still believe that we can somehow coexist with one another in perfect harmony. I believe that it is pointless for us people to discriminate against other races and say that it is perfectly okay since we are more superior than them. After all these years we should learn from the lessons of the holocaust and the genocide. It is simply unfair to call oneself civilized while doing barbaric acts against fellow human beings.