I top of the Hill ... But I had to come down....

I wanted to stay on top of the hill longer... 

I wanted to be by myself...

I wanted my indulgence in the silence of the world to echo louder in my brain cells... I wanted to think by myself... 

What a great treat... The luxury of being by myself and to think about all that is going on in the Global Village and in the cities down below...

I am on top of the hill...This is indeed luxury...After so many years confined in the four walls of a classroom or a lecture hall,,,

The breeze is refreshing and the air is clear...There are no administrative pollutants and no Big Brother whims... 

The younger people cannot burge in with their curiosity and the teachers cannot bother me with their demands of the day... 

I am by myself...in silence...with my thoughts...

That is luxury which I attempted to convey to the younger people...

Some got it... Some despised it... 

But most were indifferent...because this type of luxury cannot be measured by money...

On top of the hill...I did not need money...Nothing was for sale...and thinking was free...

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But all of us have to come down from the hill and smell the societal ills... and think for a solution...

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To be honest... I did not know who Emma Watson...was... Today I learned about her UN speech about discrimination again women of the world...and I was very much impressed... 

Bringing the struggle for gender equality out of the stereotypical paradigms is indeed appreciated by many...including me ... 

The essential need is to change our cultural approach... Our culture is based on gender-division-of-labour and gender-division-of-roles...Just one example...

The chefs are mostly man... They work outside in the restaurant...

The kitchen at home belongs to women...They work in the house...

This is a basic stereotypical model... and if you look around ... all our culture is based on sex and gender...

It needs to be changed... and Emma Watson's speech has been noticed...

Emma Watson's inspiring speech at the UN "HeForShe" campaign...Has inspired many 

Emma Watson at the UN... Smashing the stereotypes...

Advocating gender equality...inspiring many...

and...

A 15 year old boy was inspired too and wrote the following letter to a British newspaper...

May be in our schools in North America...There will be more discussion and there will be similar campaigns... "HeForShe"...

....And This...

Perhaps one of the most controversial issues of the day is that of sexual assault on college campuses. And for Janet Napolitano, former U.S. secretary of homeland security and now president of the University of California system, fighting that means pushing for a "cultural change."

Napolitano told ... that combating rape and sexual assault on college campuses would require a “cultural change” ...

I hope we will be part of the solution and ACT...to change the sexist culture...

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And ACT they do in Hong Kong... for DEMOCRACY...

Here people understand what democracy is... Here people are demanding democracy... So the Big brothers and Big Sisters of the West and U.S. should help them achieve it... instead there is a deafening silence...for Western and American and Canadian leaders...

They are more involved in parts of the world where democracy is not appreciated... They want to inspire "Arab Springs" and create chaos... and prepare the incubation of Islamist-Jihadist groups like ISIS and the rest...  

Student activists sleep on a road near the government headquarters where pro-democracy activists have gathered and made camp, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 in 

Hong Kong.

All the power to the people of Homk Kong...They want democracy and they should have democracy... Why the Beijing bureaucrats and apparatchiks...should decide what kind of democracy the people can have...

The Big Brothers in Beijing have bastardized the tenets of Marxism to feed their GREED...

The Big Brothers in Beijing do not advocate democracy... and true democrats MUST STAND BY THE PEOPLE AN STUDENTS OF HONG KONG...

Power to the PEOPLE... and not to the Big Brothers at Beijing...

The students not only demand democracy but they are responsible too...

Hong Kong's demonstrators have spent a peaceful night on the streets, offering people food and drink and cleaning up the mess left behind by thousands of their fellow activists.

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And then... I was stunned to encounter this...

NFL player Husain Abdullah 'gets penalty for praying'

The guy scores and then celebrates...

Husain Abdullah intercepted a pass from an opponent and dashed to the end zone to score...

An American Muslim NFL player has been penalised after celebrating a touchdown by sliding on his knees and pressing his forehead to the ground after scoring.

Officials penalized him for breaking "excessive celebration" rules by sliding on his knees and pressing his forehead to the ground after scoring.

And this is exactly what discrimination is... After all, I have seen so many football-soccer players entering the filed while making the sign of the cross... They celebrate their achievements by the sign of the cross... So why a Muslim be penalized for praying… that is kneeling down and touching his forehead to the ground…

This is exactly why ALL the bombs in the West and in the U.S. will not be able to defeat “radical Islam”… You CANNOT bomb ideas…

You fight ideas with ideas…

You may subdue someone…But you cannot with anyone with bombs…

The road to PEACE is to be inclusive and respect diversity…

You cannot bomb your way to PEACE…

Eliminate the violence fro our culture... Eliminate violence from society too...

Sports and nonsensical violence…

I love the outdoors... I am always mystified by the beauty of nature... 

I have always wanted to be in a monastery in the verdant lap of nature... But I have also always taken care of my actions and my steps... I never wanted to slip into some harm and pain... I did not appreciate the adventurous daring of humans... it did not make sense to me... Physically daring something or physically harming ones body are one and the same for me...

That is why I never appreciated violence on sports...

Check the news from the weekend...

Item 1...

More than 30 believed dead after volcano erupts...

At least 36 people are believed to have died from this weekend’s eruption at Mt. Ontake in central Japan, as dangerous gases emitting from the country’s second-highest volcano hampered efforts to recover victims.

The volcano erupts and more than 30 people who were hiking are not accounted for...

The mountain covered with volcanic ash...

Rescuers and fire fighters searching for survivors...

Soldiers and rescue parties looking for survivors among the mountaintop cottages...

Mount Ontake in Japan...

Definitely accidents of nature may happen... But on the other hand our cottages to not have to be that close to the volcano...

I am indeed fascinated by lava flows... The amber rage of nature is awe inspiring to watch... but I will be very careful when I go near to the lava flow...Of course, if and when I go near it...

Accidents of nature will happen...

But...

Violence in sports is more than "accidents of nature" and violent human behaviour is explicable... for me... 

....Item 2...

Netherlands 'monster truck' accident kills three people...

Three people including a child have been killed by a "monster truck" at a motor show in the east of the Netherlands.

The truck veered off course and through a safety barrier at the event in Haaksbergen in Overijssel province.

Three people died, another 18 were injured, five seriously.

Why people will go and watch stunts like this is beyond me... 

The noise is unbearable... and it is not even fun... to see some 

one drive a"monster" truck over other cars...

Item 3...

Brady Hoke's decision to send Shane Morris back into 

the game could be the final straw at Michigan.

Check the violence in football... One player is hitting the other with all the might in his shoulder... Running and hitting... 

And all is permitted...

But the player who was hit wobbles and most probably had concussions...

But the game must go on...

The profit trumps the safety of players...

Brady hoke, the coach, talks to Shane Morris, the quarterback-player, who was wobbly after this very hard hit...

The hard hit is legal...but dangerous too....

I will not buy anything from this man... The coach...

He is scary as a bull dog...

The coach yelling like that has one thing in mind... HIS GLORY and not the SAFETY of the kids..

Violence in sports and violence in society have direct correlation...

Item 4...

Skydiving must be fun... But I will never attempt it... It looks dangerous to me...

May be with proper care it will be okay...

May be with just jumping and having fun will be okay... 

But I do not understand what will be the fun... to test who will open his/her parachute the last...

Things may go wrong and they do...

One of these guys jumped to his death...over the weekend...

It looks indeed fun if you look at it..

 Till you hid the ground...and die...

After all said and done... violence in sports looks as nonsensical 

as this Indian guy's mustache... It may the largest in the world... It may be that he has the Guinness World record... But what good it is... ?

What is the fun in it... 

Growing the mustache... was his achievement in life...

Now after seeing the mustache... revisits the mountain in Japan... The stunt truck in Netherlands...

The football fields of North America... and the skydivers holding hands...

Compare the mustache with the violence in sports... and try to make sense of it...

How is your Sunday...?

Sunday...
A day of rest... in preparation to begin the cycle again... on Monday...
I always start the day with the Holy Mass... It allows extra time for my sleepy brain cells to wake up...If they ever will... Coffee is good... and in celebration of Sunday... I add few drops of liqueur in it... and I remember Jesus... "This is my blood..." and the rest...
The music and the coffee+cognac blesses the early hours of Sunday morning... It is beautiful and tranquil and charming... I am by myself... my wife is not home yet from her trip...
Lovely PEACE... and the morning lingers and the peace rises in curls of aromatic incense... and soothes my still dreaming brain cells... 

 I hope they dream all Sunday long... But no chance... I have promised to go hiking on the Hollywood hills...
The coffee is over and my ride is nearby... and on we go for another enchantment over the hills and breath freely... without the sounds of the city... without the soot of the city...

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This week was Confucius Institute Day...

All over the world... We celebrated the birth of the great sage... and amazing teacher... He said the measure of our knowledge is to realize how ignorant we are... and on the top of the Hollywood hills, I remembered my students of the past...and those who are struggling in universities... and I wondered if they will ever realize how ignorant they are... How ignorant we are...!

On Sundays... on top of the hills... and I looked at the world below... and I wondered...

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And CConfuciusinsisted....

Indeed be the change... and ACT on it... and the youth in Hong Kong is acting... and wants to be the change ...that they want to see...

In the thousands... it is Monday over there now...and  

They ACT... Courageous ...Idealistic ... and the vision of future in their eyes...       

But, the Big Brothers... But the Big Sisters...

Hong Kong police have used tear gas to disperse thousands of pro-democracy protesters near the government complex, after a week of escalating tensions.

After a day of tense protests in Hong Kong in which at least 34 people were injured, organizers called on tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in the Chinese territory to head home late Sunday.

But as Sunday became early Monday, it appeared many of the protesters were set to continue to jam streets of the business district.

The sometimes violent demonstrations follow a week of student-led boycotts and protests against what many see as the encroachment of China's political will on Hong Kong's governance. They were responding to China's decision to allow only Beijing-vetted candidates to stand in the city's elections for chief executive, Hong Kong's top civil position.

and the peace rises in curls of aromatic incense... dissipates and the harsh reality of the Global Village settles down...once again...

People WANT democracy...But the Big Brothers and the Big Sisters in Beijing insist on Democracy on their terms...

The Biggies define democracy...the biggies will grant us democracy ONLY if it agrees with their GREED...with their PROFIT...

Chinese all over the world celebrated Confucius Institute Day this week... in colour ...

Confucius was a great sage, a great educator, and one of the most influential and respected philosophers in world history. As a teacher, he believed people have integrity and dignity and are equal and educable; and there is abundant potential in each student, that there are no class distinctions, and that by nature all people are one and the same. In order to honoring his memory,  Santa Clara County Board of Education and County Superintendent of Schools proclaim September 28, the birthday of one of the world’s greatest teachers Confucius, as Confucius Day.  Please join the celebration of event this Sunday morning at 10am in Cupertino to celebrate this special day for this greatest teacher in China.

You attended school... and now think for yourself... be independent...stop leaking asses... and stand on your own two feet...

You will comprehend the beauty of the Global Village...

ONLY if you ACT...

and, why not...? ACT for WORLD PEACE...

Follow the advice of the great sage...and embrace his vision... 

Reflection is noble, he says...

Imitation is like cheating, he exhorts ...

Experience is the bitterest... Because by ACTING you will never forget... Because by ACTING you will become a human being...

And you will realize that you will fall...by ACTING...after all the great sage admits...It's the "bitterest"....and then you rise again... and then you will be much stronger... and you will be the phoenix rising from the ashes...

You will triumph...

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I read a report today... That 1 out of 5 kids 

in the U.S. live in poverty...

and  read more... that...

One-third of the world's food is wasted - and confusing 

expiry labels often contribute to the volume of groceries 

in the rubbish bin. Is there a better way to separate good 

food from bad

Indeed this was going to the dump...

...And the truth...  Americans throw away nearly half(40%) 

of their food every year. Americans (a regular family of 

four) throw way $2,275 worth of food annually.

...And the truth... 

...And MORE of the truth... and the hidden irony... that ALL of  us are overweight too...

And learn from the sage...and ACT...

Campus Violence and Dicks WITHOUT Borders...

Campus Violence and the "Dicks" on the Air...

Emma Sulkowicz says she was raped in her own dorm bed by a classmate on the first day of her sophomore year of college. Since then, a substantial amount of her time at Columbia University has been spent trying to convince college administrators, police, and even friends that what happened to her really happened, that it was rape, and that her rapist deserves to be punished for what he did.
Why the VICTIM has to convince admin...that she was a victim... The people who reason with their penises... are ruining the "party" for themselves and for us too...

No victim has to go through this ordeal in order to convince Big Brothers and Big Sisters that a rape occurred ... No victim has to be victimized again and again...because of the penises parading as academics ... 
It is happening on many campuses and in high schools too ... It happened on campuses and schools that I have thought...
Males have an extra duty to STOP sexual harassment an violence against women...

It was late on a Friday night and a freckled, blue-eyed University of Virginia student named Hannah Graham was partying in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia.

Graham, described as an accomplished athlete and straight-A student, was seen various times before her disappearance in the early hours of September 13...

And now she has disappeared...without trace...

Why a student will disappear in the middle of the night...without trace... Why women are subjected to sexual harassment and violence...?

When we will stop treated women as commodities and sexual slaves...?

When men will stop blaming their mediocrity and stupidity on females...?

When the ignorant macho will stop violence against women... and in fact, against all humans...?

When will we stop blaming the victims for male crimes...?

The culture breeds violence... Check the North American football fields... Check the enforcers of the hockey arena... Check the battlefields of the Middle east and Ukraine... and why not, check deep, deep... into your hearts...

When will my fellow males stand up and be counted...? 

...And Now the Dicks                       are on Air...

On Wednesday night, Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle was doing a segment on Mariam Al Mansouri, also known as the United Arab Emirates female fighter pilot who led the ISIS airstrike mission over Syria earlier this week. Also known as the first female fighter pilot coming out of the UAE. Also a great role model to both males and females...

"Dicks" and Kicks are Making me Sick...

After the "invention"of the 24-hour-news-channels on the TV...The ignorant "pundits" multiplied and multiplied like a idiotic amoeba...

These pundits on the air are making me sick… and I am not referring to any news channel in particular…All of them are the same and all of them serve the interests of the Big brothers and Big Sisters…

They have to fill in their programs…so they resort to creating and flourish controversies and of course twenty-four hours is a long time and the “news” is limited…So these mediocrities who parade as “pundits” have to engender…have to create news… and also mediocrities who have connections and who know-the-boss get hired and we have to tolerate their mediocrity… just like in classrooms all over North America … the students have to tolerate mediocre “teachers” … or the wiz-kids have to tolerate the money-bay-bosses…

The politicians + the business people + News Pundits + the ass-licking lobbyist = the “democratic’ system that is all around us…

Few days ago a female pilot from UAE participated in the bombing raids ... in Syria... against the Islamist-Jihadists... and some "pundits' make stupid jokes on the TV news ... when they were discussing "serious" topics ...like the bombing of Jihadists...
They joked about the female pilot...

Greg Gutfeld
"The problem is after she bombed it, she couldn't park [the plane]" interrupted Gutfeld...

Eric Bolling
 "Would that be considered boobs on the ground or no?".....

I am sorry that we have to share the Global Village...with these asses - i.e. donkeys, without holes... That why they are full of ... 
A comedian on his show...The Colbert Report, called these " the cocks on the Fox..." and indeed, not only they are mediocre, but them are ignorant too... 
After their "jokes"... they even laughed... !
Now check the credentials of the pilot-bomber...

• She is 35 years old and graduated from flight school in 2007.
• She was one of the first of three females to join the Emirati air force after it started admitting women.
• She flew an F-16 Desert Falcon during the airstrikes against ISIS over Syria.
• She has a degree in English literature and served in the Army before enrolling in flight training

Yousef Al Otaiba, the Emirati ambassador to the United States, called her "a fully qualified, highly trained, combat-ready pilot."

We call her a hero.

And then ........ fellow hosts, Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld, opened their mouths...

and 

let us read again...

Greg Gutfeld

"The problem is after she bombed it, she couldn't park [the plane]" interrupted Gutfeld...

Apparently Gutfeld has taken his joke from a 53-year-old stand-up-comic who is fired from his day job…for sexual harassment… and now is trying his mouth in jokes…who goes to amateur nights to try his mouth…and no one laughs… after all, no one appreciates asses-without-holes…

Eric Bolling
"Would that be considered boobs on the ground or no?".....

And now Bolling opens up… apparently he has taken his “joke” from a 12-year-old boy who giggles when they talk about “Homo sapiens” because the word “homo” is in it…

Ignorance and stupidity have not limits...

I think these club of "the Five' on the Fox News Channel ... qualify for the award for ASSES WITHOUT BORDERS...  I guess their wives...or girl friends ... or companion... have to give them a spanking on both ends...their mouth and their other hole... when they go home at night...

The solutions are above the waist... Thinking with penis is NOT allowed...

I have a wife and two daughters... and they are not commercial objects... They are beautiful and wonderful human beings...more cultured than I am... and smarter than I am... I respect them...
I want all wives and daughters and mothers and sisters to be respected too...
Read below... live the controversy... and resolve to ... find a solution....

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Asian Games – 2014 in Incheon, South Korea

The Games' mascots. Named from left to right: Chumuro, Vichuon and Barame.First 

Opening Ceremonies ... September 16, 2010                  Official slogan of the Games: "Diversity Shines Here"

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   ....    And indeed "diversity" outshone the bright sun...

The Qatari Basketball team forfeited their game over the controversy of Hijab...The Muslim Headgear... They were                                    not allowed to wear them...                                  Reason...? It is "dangerous"...

Qatar’s women’s basketball team leave the court after forfeiting their match against Mongolia.

It may be uncomfortable and it may cause difficulties…But as far as I can see… it should be their problem…If they want to play the game in headgear-Hijab…They should be allowed to… The rules are set by Europeans and the European… “White man’s Burden” is racist and out of fashion… 
On the other hand, one thing amazes me… They are wearing shorts…with the headgear-Hijab…I find it a bit contradictory…But then, I will not judge…I will not be judgmental…We have to be inclusive and we have to tolerate… and as my very wise friend has insisted and impressed me with it, that THEY ARE ALLOWED… let them be the way they want to be… The European dress codes and European customs do not fit us all…

If we tolerate their culture and customs and their way of life…May be the Islamist-Jihadists will not be an alternative anymore…and the extremists will be exposed for what they are…barbarian murderers…

Diversity became an issue even before the Games began on Sept. 19 

when Saudi Arabia revealed that its 199-strong team did not include any female athletes... Again, the Saudi monarch is not democratic...

And "diversity" means to allow variety...and to tolerate different customs and traditions...

The European athletes at times wear baseball caps... in their games... Why will the Hijab be treated differently...?  The Sikhs wear the turban... Why the hijab will be dangerous...?

I try to reason...I want to be logical... But these European outlook does not make much sense... and may be that is exactly why... the Middle East is in turmoil...

The Eurocentric outlook does not fit the diversity of the Global Village... and it should be retired... and not be allowed to crawl in every now and then in international affairs... and in international arena... and create controversy...

Will we allow a body search of U.N. delegations...when they are wearing their traditional costumes...from Africa and from various parts of the globe...? Of course not... Let the female athletes wear their hijab-headgear too... Why not...? 

This controversy is hypocritical, to say the least... and racist in its core... Let the Big Brothers and Big Sisters retreat to their dark corners and let the world be...

We do not need them...

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UAE First Women Pilot - Maj. Mariam Al Mansouri, the United Arab Emirates' first female fighter pilot, led a strike mission this week.

 It is her problem whether she wants to wear the traditional Hijab...or not...  

I applaud her courage and dedication... Wearing the Hijab and bombing the hell out of the Islamist-Jihadists is a laudable action...

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And the European Tradition...

These females are students... They are taking their selfies to post in social media as a protest... because the school has not allowed them to class unless they follow the schools dress code...

...and this lady... was asked to cover cleavages...at prom night... and of course she is protesting and of course her parents are supporting her and of course the Big Brother-Big Sister media is wallowing in the controversy... After all, the more the controversy...the more work for them... Creating controversy will provide work for the media "pundits"... and each one of them have an opinion... and each one of them will insist that they are absolutely right... which, by the way, proves they are absolutely full of themselves... ignorant people... 
After all said and done...No one can be "absolutely" correct...!
To have a viable society... we set up codes and agree to abide by them... and all students will be asked to abide by the dress codes...
   
If the European style is to expose themselves... then other cultures do not agree... They will say... "Cover up...baby... you are in the public and not in your bedroom..."

Indeed cover up ladies... Exposing your body parts do not compound your talents...!

Exposing yourselves... Just demonstrates how flippant and shallow you are... 
Women should not commercialize themselves... After all, they are not commodities for sale...
Women are not objects and the European fashion industry is sexist and has a profound gender bias... They treat women like merchandise for "sale"...
The hijab may not be the answer... but the European way of fashion is obnoxiously GREEDY... and has objectified women...

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My Questions... 

Check the males... they are buttoned up to their neck...

and now,

Check the women... 

Do you see what I see...?

Did you observe the unbalanced hypocrisy...?

Did you notice the gender bias in dress codes...?

And of course these are leaders... Big Brothers and Big Sisters...

Check again...The absurdity of the moment...

The bundled up male...

The objectivized female... role model...!

The hijab creates controversy... and exposes our biases...
But,
The European styles create sexual scandals and commercialize women...

Where is the Golden Mean...?

Ponder and reflect and meditate about this over the week end...

After all, 

You are either wives or have wives...

You are either mothers or have mothers...

You are either sisters or have sisters...

May be you are male and have a male companion...

No matter what... We do not want... wives, mothers, sisters, companions... to be commercial objects for sale...

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Just reflect on this...and let me know your solution...

After all, there MUST BE a solution...