Today is 9-11.....
Today is for reflection ...
They say love is the natural state of human existence... and vengeance and brutality need a deviant effort from human beings...Yet, people still harm each other ... Yet, human beings still use barbaric means to torture each other... Yet, the Big Brothers spent piles of money to manufacture arms... and if you manufacture arm, then you use it...
Today is 9-11 and with the U.S. the world remembers the brutish attack in New York...
But I propose that 9-11 should be designated World Remembrance Day of Men's brutality against fellow men...
No matter how much we hurt... We cannot stop brutality by force...
After all, "blood begets blood", and violence will engender more violence... The only way to change the world is through love and as Gandhi promoted non-violent resistance...
This is not committed by ISIS-The Islamist Jihadists... This is from the Armenian Genocide....The Turks committed the Armenian Genocide... They brutally killed the Christian Armenians and uprooted them from their 1000s-of-years old homeland...
The Armenian Genocide Memorial Garden in Yerevan, Armenia...
Indeed 9-11 should be a remembrance of human brutality trough the ages...
9-11 should be a day of reflection ...
9-11 should be a day to promote global peace...
Mount Ararat as viewed from the Armenian Genocide Memorial Garden in Yerevan...
Mount Ararat is still imprisoned by the Turkish government...
The Turkish Big Brothers have captured the heart of Armenian culture....
Ararat is where the Ark rested after the historic flood....
Ararat is where the Rainbow reappeared in all its PEACEFUL GLORY....
Ararat is the Armenian symbol of perseverance...
An Armenian poet wrote..." We exist...and we will be...and we will persist" like our Mount...Like Ararat...After all Ararat is the Armenian Symbol for perseverance and for peace...
9-11 should be a day to remember... all the victims of men's brutality... All the genocides...Alll the victims...of wars and human greed...
We cannot eliminate war unless we eliminate human greed....We cannot eliminate violence unless we eliminate the world system where the bigger fish will swallow up the smaller fish....
...And a young child wrote to Einstein and asked "Do scientists pray...?"
Only five days later, Einstein wrote back — isn't it lovely when cultural icons respond to children's unquenchable curiosity...? Isn't it lovely that Einstein does not dismiss the child and takes her inquiry with utmost seriousness...
Einstein was not running for presidency...and this was not a photo-opt ...
Einstein was just sharing his grasp of the truth with the kid... and his answer speaks to the same spiritual quality of science that Carl Sagan extolled decades later and Ptolemy entertained millennia earlier....
...And a young child wrote to Einstein and asked "Do scientists pray...?"
Only five days later, Einstein wrote back — isn't it lovely when cultural icons respond to children's unquenchable curiosity...? Isn't it lovely that Einstein does not dismiss the child and takes her inquiry with utmost seriousness...
Einstein was not running for presidency...and this was not a photo-opt ...
Einstein was just sharing his grasp of the truth with the kid... and his answer speaks to the same spiritual quality of science that Carl Sagan extolled decades later and Ptolemy entertained millennia earlier....
The Riverside Church
January 19, 1936
My dear Dr. Einstein,
We have brought up the question: Do scientists
pray? in our Sunday school class. It began by asking whether we could believe
in both science and religion. We are writing to scientists and other important
men, to try and have our own question answered.
We will feel greatly honored if you will answer our
question: Do scientists pray, and what do they pray for?
We are in the sixth grade, Miss Ellis’s class.
Respectfully yours,
Phyllis
January 24, 1936
Dear Phyllis,
I will attempt to reply to your question as simply
as I can. Here is my answer:
Scientists believe that every occurrence, including
the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a
scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be
influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.
However, we must concede that our actual knowledge
of these forces is imperfect, so that in the end the belief in the existence of
a final, ultimate spirit rests on a kind of faith. Such belief remains
widespread even with the current achievements in science.
But also, everyone who is seriously involved in the
pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws
of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. In this way the pursuit
of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely
quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.
With cordial greetings,
your A. Einstein
It is 9-11 and we need Big Brothers who will follow "the pursuit of science [which will lead] to a religious feeling of a special sort"....
We need Big Brothers devoid of greed and overflowing with human kindness and generosity... Maybe my students of the yesterday...and maybe my friends of tomorrow will ACT in pursuit of PEACE...
Today is 9-11 and it is human quest for peace...
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