See the sunlight, we ain't stopping
keep on dancing til the world ends
If you feel it
let it happen
keep on dancing til the world ends
Don't give up yet.....
beLIeve
Saturday, March 31, 2012
We Live In A Material World
Why is this kind of news exclusive when there are 6000 girls a day that are held down and their genitals are cut with dirty tool when there are children starving to death each and every day, when there are people who do anything for power (Including killing and raping)???
It is up for each and everyone of us to show what we want to read. It is for us to stop reading tabloids. We need to show care for other people that needs it and not for tabloids that are after your money. Use the money you spend on tabloids to give to people that need them to survive. If we all did that there would not be hunger in the world. The western world have so much more money than we need and others do not even have money to get food (not any food) each day. We live in a material world. Wealth is not about how much things you have or how much money you have in the bank. It is about how much love we have in our heart to share with others.....
Friday, March 30, 2012
The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
Love of Other People's Stuff
Envy with Anger and Pride as the sins of "Perverted Love." The other two groups are “Insufficient Love” and “Excessive Love of Earthy Goods.” Envy is perverted because it “loves” what other people possess, rather than what is Good, Beautiful and True. It is often portrayed as “eating away” the heart of the envious person. Showing that envious as among those farthest away from Paradise, with their eyes sewn shut, but weeping over their sins. A common metaphor for Envy is “wearing out the eyes", it is also refered to as "The Green Eyed Monster."
This happens in our everyday life on this earth. We all seem to think that someone else always has better then us. For most that’s true as far as materialistic things are concerned. But if we search deep we all have the same possibilities as the next person.
THE IMPORTANCE OF LETTING CHILDREN BE CHILDREN
Children should not be treated as small adults, because it alters their emotional and mental growth. There are many parents who think that treating children as small adults, helps them mature more quickly, however, this affects their development and their relationships at school, friends and family.
The fundamental step of any person is childhood, because this is the time most of the memories that make the adult behavior of a person. During childhood, people acquire the traits that characterize the rest of their life. It is also the stage in which major characters are rooted for life; values, fears, phobias, good or bad habits and the development of relationships.Children need to learn, but they also need to play, experiment and express themselves as children. Parents teach their children to ask and answer correctly, but they must do it naturally, using the child's language and not expect their children to behave and talk like them.
Some parents encourage cultural activities and positive attitudes in their children, such as reading, classical music, theater and arts in general. They use the right words to refer to objects and animals, body parts and situations. They worry about explaining things as they are, for not to deceive them. This type of education, fosters intellectual and emotional development of children, but the problem comes when it is the only thing that allows them to learn. To grow physically and mentally healthy, children should play and experience all kinds of age appropriate activities. They should be allowed to learn for themselves before discouraging them, because wanting to keep them away from danger tends to be repressive and promote fear in children, to experiment, to fall, and discovering new places and different games.
It is a reality, that now, games, toys and children's activities are related to violent acts, such as video games and the Internet. So as adults, parents have the obligation to review the games their children play and tell whether they are appropriate for their age and explain why. But, there are extreme cases and there is the majority. Children who are forbidden to play any video games or use computers, because parents think they are for fools and foster weakness. These parents think those who only play video games and spend every day watching television. For some parents it is the best way to entertain and to avoid being asked to leave the house and interact with them and with more children. Both cases are detrimental to the development of children.
There are children that their parents only allow them play with puzzles and strategy games. They are not allowed to watch TV on weekends in the morning, do not listen to music according to their age and that their most entertainment is play chess. Those children, do not ask for candy or toys and are not use to playing games or activity involving physical contact. They are children with sad eyes, feel very alone, you can perceive a great bitterness, and all the normal activities of their age, for them, are boring. These children also do not know life with children of their age, and when they do, they tend to be very aggressive. They behave and talk like adults and their parents desire is to turn their child into a genius, forgetting that geniuses are born, not made.
These children, as adults, will probably have a difficult time interacting with others. They do not know how to have fun. Fearful and phobic adults, they probably were children who were treated as adults, forced to mature early. Some of them can not establish loving bonds with their children, play with them, and are also often repressive parents who force their children to act like adults.
Children are children, not adults. Remember that, each stage in life is necessary to live. Our childhood is essential. Please do not kill their childhood.
The fundamental step of any person is childhood, because this is the time most of the memories that make the adult behavior of a person. During childhood, people acquire the traits that characterize the rest of their life. It is also the stage in which major characters are rooted for life; values, fears, phobias, good or bad habits and the development of relationships.Children need to learn, but they also need to play, experiment and express themselves as children. Parents teach their children to ask and answer correctly, but they must do it naturally, using the child's language and not expect their children to behave and talk like them.
Some parents encourage cultural activities and positive attitudes in their children, such as reading, classical music, theater and arts in general. They use the right words to refer to objects and animals, body parts and situations. They worry about explaining things as they are, for not to deceive them. This type of education, fosters intellectual and emotional development of children, but the problem comes when it is the only thing that allows them to learn. To grow physically and mentally healthy, children should play and experience all kinds of age appropriate activities. They should be allowed to learn for themselves before discouraging them, because wanting to keep them away from danger tends to be repressive and promote fear in children, to experiment, to fall, and discovering new places and different games.
It is a reality, that now, games, toys and children's activities are related to violent acts, such as video games and the Internet. So as adults, parents have the obligation to review the games their children play and tell whether they are appropriate for their age and explain why. But, there are extreme cases and there is the majority. Children who are forbidden to play any video games or use computers, because parents think they are for fools and foster weakness. These parents think those who only play video games and spend every day watching television. For some parents it is the best way to entertain and to avoid being asked to leave the house and interact with them and with more children. Both cases are detrimental to the development of children.
There are children that their parents only allow them play with puzzles and strategy games. They are not allowed to watch TV on weekends in the morning, do not listen to music according to their age and that their most entertainment is play chess. Those children, do not ask for candy or toys and are not use to playing games or activity involving physical contact. They are children with sad eyes, feel very alone, you can perceive a great bitterness, and all the normal activities of their age, for them, are boring. These children also do not know life with children of their age, and when they do, they tend to be very aggressive. They behave and talk like adults and their parents desire is to turn their child into a genius, forgetting that geniuses are born, not made.
These children, as adults, will probably have a difficult time interacting with others. They do not know how to have fun. Fearful and phobic adults, they probably were children who were treated as adults, forced to mature early. Some of them can not establish loving bonds with their children, play with them, and are also often repressive parents who force their children to act like adults.
Children are children, not adults. Remember that, each stage in life is necessary to live. Our childhood is essential. Please do not kill their childhood.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger/wrath
The Emotion of the Falsely Righteous
Whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment
"Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."
Some say we can't control our emotions, but we "choose" our emotions from our "emotional toolbox." If anger is in our heart already, events will bring it out. If we have let God give us peace, our reaction to events will reflect this: we may respond to offenses or accidents with humor, kindness and patience, because that is what is in our heart.
But if we still have anger in our heart, what do we do in the meantime? Once the anger wells up and starts to spill out, we have an ongoing decision: let it out or refuse to participate. This is not a matter of holding it in. It is a matter of starving it, refusing to feed it. Anger always dissipates eventually, so we can just let it happen sooner by not holding on to it and refusing to enjoy it. People enjoy their anger. Think about it; you will find it is true. Even though we may feel terrible later, we enjoy the power of anger while we are giving ourselves to it. We get an adrenaline rush and forget all the bad things about ourselves.
Every angry person feels righteous. When we are angry we concentrate on the object of it and forget everything else. It is Judgment Day, and we are playing God. Parenting may be the worst situation of all. An angry parent faces a small, helpless child and truly is an awesome force. The child can be frightened beyond belief, and the parent may come to enjoy this feeling, especially if the parent feels helpless in the face of others. Supervisors can intimidate employees in the same way, teachers do it to students, administrators to teachers, and schoolmates even bully each other.
The key is that only the righteous have a "right" to be angry. Appropriately, this is called "righteous indignation." There are rare cases where we are angry for the right reason: when we hear someone make racist remarks, lie to destroy another's reputation, or witness a heinous crime. However, none of us is truly righteous: we do wrong things, too. Given our own sins, we are in no position to judge, and righteous anger implies a kind of judgment, at least of an action. We aren't called to stand high above other people but with them. We fail, and we desire compassion and patience from others.
Many times, our anger over situations is not due to the situations' actual morality, but is because they conflict with our own ideas about what is good. And our ideals are not always God's. A good deal of self-examination is required: why am I really angry?
Whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment
"Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."
Some say we can't control our emotions, but we "choose" our emotions from our "emotional toolbox." If anger is in our heart already, events will bring it out. If we have let God give us peace, our reaction to events will reflect this: we may respond to offenses or accidents with humor, kindness and patience, because that is what is in our heart.
But if we still have anger in our heart, what do we do in the meantime? Once the anger wells up and starts to spill out, we have an ongoing decision: let it out or refuse to participate. This is not a matter of holding it in. It is a matter of starving it, refusing to feed it. Anger always dissipates eventually, so we can just let it happen sooner by not holding on to it and refusing to enjoy it. People enjoy their anger. Think about it; you will find it is true. Even though we may feel terrible later, we enjoy the power of anger while we are giving ourselves to it. We get an adrenaline rush and forget all the bad things about ourselves.Every angry person feels righteous. When we are angry we concentrate on the object of it and forget everything else. It is Judgment Day, and we are playing God. Parenting may be the worst situation of all. An angry parent faces a small, helpless child and truly is an awesome force. The child can be frightened beyond belief, and the parent may come to enjoy this feeling, especially if the parent feels helpless in the face of others. Supervisors can intimidate employees in the same way, teachers do it to students, administrators to teachers, and schoolmates even bully each other.
The key is that only the righteous have a "right" to be angry. Appropriately, this is called "righteous indignation." There are rare cases where we are angry for the right reason: when we hear someone make racist remarks, lie to destroy another's reputation, or witness a heinous crime. However, none of us is truly righteous: we do wrong things, too. Given our own sins, we are in no position to judge, and righteous anger implies a kind of judgment, at least of an action. We aren't called to stand high above other people but with them. We fail, and we desire compassion and patience from others.
Many times, our anger over situations is not due to the situations' actual morality, but is because they conflict with our own ideas about what is good. And our ideals are not always God's. A good deal of self-examination is required: why am I really angry?
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony
How Much Pleasure Is Enough?
Put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony
Some people can't have enough toys, television, entertainment, sex, or company. It is about an excess of anything.
There are at least three forms of Gluttony:
1) Wanting more pleasure from something than it was made for.
2) Wanting it exactly our way (delicacy).
3) Demanding too much from people (excessive desire for other people's time or presence).
More Pleasure Than It Was Made For
The world is full of good things, from the beauty of the stars to the ever-changing and never-changing oceans to the pleasure of human company. We are free to enjoy these things without becoming focused on any one of them to the exclusion of all else. It is possible to become so caught up in a pleasure, whether food or fun, that we can no longer enjoy other things, and would be willing to sacrifice other pleasures for the one.
We enter into Gluttony when we demand more pleasure from something than it was made for. Normally, we can only eat so much food, but some people in Ancient Rome wanted more pleasure, so they threw up after the meal and then ate more. This allowed them to enjoy eating more at the cost of health (and dignity).
Delicacy
In "The Screwtape Letters," C.S. Lewis describes delicacy as a desire to have things exactly our way. He gives the example of food having to be prepared just right, or in just the right amount, but it isn't limited to food. We might complain about unimportant defects in a product, the temperature in the room, or the color of a laundry basket. There is a certain amount of discomfort to be expected in life, but the Glutton will have none of it. Instead of becoming strong by suffering the minor inconveniences of life, the Glutton insists on being pampered. No one dares to point out how petty or foolish they are. In fact, some celebrities are praised for their excessive perfectionism, as though it were a virtue.
Demanding Too Much From People
There can be a healthy and natural enjoyment of time spent with friends and acquaintances, but some people just can't get enough. They make demands until the other person moves away or explodes in anger. The Glutton is wounded that someone would take offense at their "love" for them. At least some people can get away. Far worse is when a parent demands too much from a child, requiring too much time or too many accomplishments from someone too small to grant so many pleasures. Even pets get excessive attention at times, but they don't seem to mind as much.
In some dating relationships, one person desires the other's company constantly, to the point that the other can barely hold down a job or continue in school. Whatever the reasons, the object of affection is expected to provide the pleasure of their company (at least) more of the time than is reasonable. Even in marriage, it is possible for a couple to be so "romantic" that the children are neglected. One legitimate pleasure (sex) can become obsessive to the point that another pleasure (the company of one's children) is lost
Put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony
Some people can't have enough toys, television, entertainment, sex, or company. It is about an excess of anything.
There are at least three forms of Gluttony:
1) Wanting more pleasure from something than it was made for.
2) Wanting it exactly our way (delicacy).
3) Demanding too much from people (excessive desire for other people's time or presence).
More Pleasure Than It Was Made For
The world is full of good things, from the beauty of the stars to the ever-changing and never-changing oceans to the pleasure of human company. We are free to enjoy these things without becoming focused on any one of them to the exclusion of all else. It is possible to become so caught up in a pleasure, whether food or fun, that we can no longer enjoy other things, and would be willing to sacrifice other pleasures for the one.We enter into Gluttony when we demand more pleasure from something than it was made for. Normally, we can only eat so much food, but some people in Ancient Rome wanted more pleasure, so they threw up after the meal and then ate more. This allowed them to enjoy eating more at the cost of health (and dignity).
Delicacy
In "The Screwtape Letters," C.S. Lewis describes delicacy as a desire to have things exactly our way. He gives the example of food having to be prepared just right, or in just the right amount, but it isn't limited to food. We might complain about unimportant defects in a product, the temperature in the room, or the color of a laundry basket. There is a certain amount of discomfort to be expected in life, but the Glutton will have none of it. Instead of becoming strong by suffering the minor inconveniences of life, the Glutton insists on being pampered. No one dares to point out how petty or foolish they are. In fact, some celebrities are praised for their excessive perfectionism, as though it were a virtue.
Demanding Too Much From People
There can be a healthy and natural enjoyment of time spent with friends and acquaintances, but some people just can't get enough. They make demands until the other person moves away or explodes in anger. The Glutton is wounded that someone would take offense at their "love" for them. At least some people can get away. Far worse is when a parent demands too much from a child, requiring too much time or too many accomplishments from someone too small to grant so many pleasures. Even pets get excessive attention at times, but they don't seem to mind as much.
In some dating relationships, one person desires the other's company constantly, to the point that the other can barely hold down a job or continue in school. Whatever the reasons, the object of affection is expected to provide the pleasure of their company (at least) more of the time than is reasonable. Even in marriage, it is possible for a couple to be so "romantic" that the children are neglected. One legitimate pleasure (sex) can become obsessive to the point that another pleasure (the company of one's children) is lost
The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth
Even the Busy Can Be Lazy
His master replied, `You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?"
Most people think of sloth as laziness, not doing much of anything, but just sitting around doing nothing. Many people stay busy most of the time but don't do the things they should, putting them off for later. They may be staying busy so they have an excuse.
Sloth (or acedia) is a kind of spiritual laziness (as opposed to mere physical fatigue or depression). It means not making it a priority to do what we should, or change what we should in ourselves. Some people might call it apathy, which means a lack of feeling.
An example might be a parent that always sends their child to bed early so they can have lots of quiet time to play solitaire or watch TV. Perhaps they could let the child stay up a little later and play a game with them or read. Or perhaps they always tell their child "no!" without taking the trouble to explain why...
Another example could be someone active in a political movement. Perhaps they don't bother to read other opinions and so never question whether their group is right or wrong. As a result, they could support some very wrong beliefs, such as racism, because they never tried to find the truth.
In business, some people never check into the laws to see if their practices are illegal. For Christians, we sometimes don't really want to know what the Bible (or our Church) teaches about something, so we put off reading or asking about it. Sloth is quite possibly the main reason why people don't read good spiritual books. They will read Christian fiction or some odd Gnostic gospel instead that "tickles their ears," but never the ones that could call them to action: loving their neighbor, helping the poor, telling the truth.
Lastly, there might be a student who naturally picks everything up with very little effort. Instead of learning more than required, or doing volunteer work, they might just sit around getting high or gossiping. Not because it is fun, but because they just don't care.
His master replied, `You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?"
Most people think of sloth as laziness, not doing much of anything, but just sitting around doing nothing. Many people stay busy most of the time but don't do the things they should, putting them off for later. They may be staying busy so they have an excuse.Sloth (or acedia) is a kind of spiritual laziness (as opposed to mere physical fatigue or depression). It means not making it a priority to do what we should, or change what we should in ourselves. Some people might call it apathy, which means a lack of feeling.
An example might be a parent that always sends their child to bed early so they can have lots of quiet time to play solitaire or watch TV. Perhaps they could let the child stay up a little later and play a game with them or read. Or perhaps they always tell their child "no!" without taking the trouble to explain why...
Another example could be someone active in a political movement. Perhaps they don't bother to read other opinions and so never question whether their group is right or wrong. As a result, they could support some very wrong beliefs, such as racism, because they never tried to find the truth.
In business, some people never check into the laws to see if their practices are illegal. For Christians, we sometimes don't really want to know what the Bible (or our Church) teaches about something, so we put off reading or asking about it. Sloth is quite possibly the main reason why people don't read good spiritual books. They will read Christian fiction or some odd Gnostic gospel instead that "tickles their ears," but never the ones that could call them to action: loving their neighbor, helping the poor, telling the truth.
Lastly, there might be a student who naturally picks everything up with very little effort. Instead of learning more than required, or doing volunteer work, they might just sit around getting high or gossiping. Not because it is fun, but because they just don't care.
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