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Dear Peter:
You wrote, "I
confess that what you have written is one of the oddest things I have ever
read. If you had written it in Hungarian, it would have been no more
incomprehensible to me."
Thank you.
You may be right for all
I know.
I wonder how much
Hungarian (or Irish) you actually understand in contrast to the English
we're using as a medium of communication in this intercourse.
The devoutly 'Christian'
Irish, for example, have been bombing their 'otherwise-Christianly' neighbours out of their brownies for as long as anyone
cares to remember.
It was long before you
were born, I guess, and long before anyone ever heard about present-day
suicide bombings by equally devout Muslim fundamentalists of various
stripes, to which you alluded in one of your posts.
All human beings are
conditioned creatures.
In our quest for
survival, we act and react and are constantly at each other's throats as in
the case of Ireland
-- in thought, speech, and action.
We are all caught up in
this continuum of action and reaction, action and reaction, action and
reaction, as you and I at this moment in time.
Our conditioning has
fragmented us into Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jew and what-have-you, which
is why East and West do not see eye to eye (even the eyes are different!).
Caught up in our labels
and dualities (good/bad, right/wrong, Christian/Muslim) we seek a common
peace (between Israel
and Palestine,
for example), but peace has eluded us since the mythic Dawn of Creation.
Never mind what I am
saying, and never mind if you understand what I am saying.
You come along and say,
like Jesus did two thousand years ago, "I am trying to shed some light
in as straightforward a manner as possible," yet none of us is
enlightened.
See?
That is the basic
problem we're grappling with.
No one understands
anything anymore, yet everyone is blabbering away.
We are all in denial
about our ignorance.
Welcome to the Tower of Babel.
Rashid Mughal
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