thommy

i will really never understand why a man in your age have never learned in his life that you will never get any answer if you see things from your point of view.

one of the most important gifts that evolution has given man is empathy.

without empathy we would not exist today on this planet because we would have exterminated each other long ago.

empathy is the instrument that makes us understand things that are strange to us. empathy makes us help each other and it is this apparent selflessness that ultimately brings us the greatest progress.

empathy is not characterized by the fact that an empathetic person understands another empathetic person but it does not require any counter-empathy at all and thus creates it.

instead of thinking about sense and nonsense of religions you should try to deal with them and ask yourself the question why.
then you would also find out that religion also has logical and helpful aspects that have secured our survival in the millennia of human history.

and yes there are still many uneducated people today (you are one of them) who can be impressed with divine and supernatural things and can even be made to think.

i will tell you an example that impressed me deeply and changed my opinion about freedom, equality and democracy in a certain way.

as you know i live a large part of my time in thailand and like every country thailand has its sunny sides and its shady sides.
for me, one of these shadow sides was the garbage, the air pollution and the desiinterest of the population in these issues. thais don't sit down with it because they don't think they can change anything anyway.

10 years ago the environmental movement here consisted of a handful of activists who didn't listen.
they tried to make people realize that it's better to use public transport or bicycles instead of smog in bangkok by standing in traffic jams for hours - without any result.

then a smart guy a few years ago came up with the idea of doing the "bike for dad" campaign, which simply consisted of the announcement that you should honour the king by doing without motorcycles and cars for a day and riding your bike instead.

shortly after the call there were no more bicycles to buy in thailand. you had to order them from china, india and europe and on the "bike for dad"-day you couldn't see a car on the streets of banok. only millions of thais on bicycles with yellow t-shirts waving laughing at each other.

since that day thailand has changed.
today no one throws a plastic bottle on the floor anymore - you collect it and win crude oil again.
the supermarkets no longer give plastic bags for free - air measurement systems are installed, the import of plastic waste from europe and the USA has been stopped, electric cars are not only subsidised here - they are built here.
solar systems that were almost impossible to find before are increasingly being seen on all new buildings, and people are talking about the environmental problems they have been turning a blind eye to for many years.

and all this because of a cult to a king, which the thais follow unconditionally.

why do you think eat muslim no pork?
why do you think they have to pray 5 times a day and wash their hands and feet every time?
which hygienic problem of slaughtering has caused schaechten and halal?

you should ask yourself why, then many things would not make you so angry anymore just because you don't understand.

maybe you would come to a point where you recognize the problem by its true root - because that means education. and we created this problem.

first of all british, french, israelis, spanish and americans have to grab their noses before they blame others.
we now pay the bill that has accumulated in hundreds of years.

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