masukuma wrote:tycho wrote:masukuma wrote:Impunity wrote:masukuma wrote:Quote:Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
But nothing keeps the rich from murdering the poor.
as someone once said - "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better".
someone also said - politics is getting votes from the poor and money from the rich by promising each of these two groups protection from the other!
You can have no doubt about who defines politics. Like the person you are quoting, who does he represent? Notice how he takes poverty as a given. I am poor, and roughly clothed and hungry and insecure. Is it my lot to be so? Karma? Yet the gates of heaven are wide open!
All this is pseudo politics. For example, those who don't have religion as a vent, do they have some other kind of vent? Or are they ventless?
I know their vent. The poor, unenlightened masses living in the gulags. Laughing at them, spiting them. Quit poking our nose @masukuma. And by the way, if all you can do is rage against the masses, yourself, then you must be living in another gulag camp.
@tycho - i suspect that i have touched a raw nerve. let me start over! the reason I wrote what I wrote is for us to understand the place of TIME in all things not to poke the noses of Kenyans but rather to understand that
Quote:A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in
to urge us to 'pay the price' for our children. the tangent on religion was something else.
To pay the price for our children, is to sacrifice to the unseen. That's religion to the core.
If we understood ourselves then 'time' would be no problem. But we have lost our identity, and am afraid you're taking this matter with contempt. Or Mr. Kipkorir. The person taking quail eggs is chasing after time. The poor man and woman draped in sacks following the prophet hungers for time. Religion is about time.
So saying that you're reminding us about time is indeed poking our noses. We know time is important, but somehow, we are short of it. We need people who can create time in the first place.
Maybe even the challenge is distributing time evenly. And how to do that?