Terrorism and Masturbation
Shekhar Kapur - February 25, 2006
In today's UK 's paper Guardian, an essay by Ian Buruma equates masturbation, repressed sexuality and homosexuality with acts of Terrorism and Fascism.
This is typical of a society looking for simplistic and convenient answers to rather complex human behaviour. Thereby driving a greater wedge between Them and Us.
The essay, for example, finds siginificance in the rumour that Mohmad Atta visited a strip joint just before he took a plane into the World Trade Centre. What the article does not take into account is that almost all religions have looked upon denial of sexual behaviour as an aspiration to God. The Christian Monks and Nuns should be rampant crazed terrorists if such simplistic theories were true.
We live in a soceity that refuses to look squarely at itself in mirror, rather believing that the mirror reflects only that which it chooses to see.
Gandhi, who publicly renounced sexuality and stated to have become celibate, should have visited the British Parliament with a Bomb strapped around his waist rather than with a walking stick and a dhoti.
Hinduism encourages the raising of your Chakras from the base ones that include sexual desire to higher ones that aspire to Spirituality. In fact in Hinduism the sublimation of sexual energy is equated with Spirituality. Buddhism equates the letting go of all desire including sexual desire to the discovery of the self.
Lets forget religion and spirituality. Even us ordinairy mortals are a heady mxture of all desire, love, it's fullfilment, and it's supression or non-fulfillment. And a drive by our ego's to find a sense of individuality, a place that effectively screams out 'I AM'. A desperate need to find reason to be. A plea to be heard in the noise of all existence.
What is Ambition if not this very heady mixture ?
So was Mohammad Atta driven to an extreme act of Terrorism by a complicated pattern of sexual repression, an acute conflict between the simplicity of equating sex with sin and a desperate inner need to express his sexuality ? I really doubt that. The fingerprint of the individual phsyche is far more complex than that.
So is there an Absolute we can use to mirror ourselves and our behaviour ? I think so. That Absloute is Death. For Life exists only in the context of Death. Ambition and Sexuality. Spirituality and the search for one's Soul. The search for ones individuality. All exist in the context of Death.
Can we look at Mohammad Atta's act in that context ? It's not easy is it ? For while it is easier to exclude fascists and terrorists from your tribe by isolating them in conext of a pattern of behaviour that you do not believe is your own(probably wrongly so), it is not possible to exclude yourself from a Tribe that's existence is defined by Death.
The full text of the story is included below.
Shekhar
Extremism: the loser's revenge
Can sexual inadequacy or deprivation turn angry young men into killers?
Ian Buruma
Saturday February 25 2006
The Guardian
Does masturbation lead to suicide bombing? One would think not. There is no more direct link to suicide bombing than there is to blindness or schizophrenia. But there may be a connection between sexual inadequacy or frustration and the pull towards violent extremism. This is the theme of an engaging novella, Seventeen, by the Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1994. The story is set in the 1960s, when it was written.
The main character is a 17-year-old boy who can't stop jacking off, in the bathroom, in the bedroom, in the bushes, even in the schoolroom. He is ashamed of his habit, just as he is ashamed of almost everything else. No good at games, a failure with girls and a bully at home, he can't really stand anyone - not his wishy-washy liberal father, or his mother and sister, or his teachers, and least of all himself. Conscious at all times of being an ugly failure, all he can do is masturbate, while living in terror that the whole world is aware of his practice just by looking at him.
But a kind of salvation is at hand. The boy is introduced by a friend to a band of extreme rightwing youths, dressed in uniforms, following a leader who rants about communists and socialist traitors, and the glories of the Japanese empire. Soon the great masturbator, too, is issued with a uniform and boots, and accepted as a warrior for the imperial cause against foreigners and leftwing traitors. He even gets into a few violent scrapes. And he has his first satisfying orgasm, in a massage parlour, in his new uniform, dreaming of total power, of killing his enemies, of raping their wives and daughters, and of dying for the glorious emperor.
It is not Oe's most subtle piece of fiction. The narrator often sounds too much like a literary tool for expressing the politics most abhorrent to his creator. But the sexual swamp in which extremism can grow is well described, and worth exploration. As a somewhat dogmatic leftist intellectual, Oe appears to think that violent extremism, arising from fantasies of omnipotence, is typically the domain of the far right. He has often expressed his admiration for Chairman Mao. But the combination of sexual frustration and violence was as typical of Mao's Red Guards as it was of Japan's Black Shirts.
In contrast to the insatiable chairman, who had a harem of dancing girls for his private use, Chinese men were forced to live like revolutionary monks and were discouraged from marrying young. The Great Helmsman, by the way, had his own peculiar brushes with inadequacy, as related by his personal physician. His sexual potency rose and fell, as it were, with his political fortunes. Any threat, imagined or real, to his sense of total control, and he wilted.
Sexual deprivation may be a factor in the current wave of suicidal violence, unleashed by the Palestinian cause as well as revolutionary Islamism. The tantalising prospect of having one's pick of the loveliest virgins in paradise is deliberately dangled in front of young men trained for violent death. And even those who are not trained to kill and die often live in authoritarian societies in which sex before marriage is strictly forbidden, in which women outside the family home are not only supposed to be untouchable, but invisible. Access to MTV, the internet, DVDs and global advertising reinforces the notion that westerners live in a degenerate garden of sinful delights. This makes the lot of millions of young Arab men even harder to bear, and can provoke a mixture of rage and envy.
Once in a while, this rage will explode in carefully orchestrated orgies of violence. It is said that Mohammed Atta visited a striptease bar before crashing a plane into the Twin Towers. Perhaps he craved one nibble at the forbidden fruit before his earthly extinction. The fact that it was forbidden - repulsive but also terribly seductive - marked his view of women in general. He made it clear in his will that he did not want any women to defile his grave with their presence.
Again, this is not to say that sexual frustration or bitter misogyny leads directly to mass murder. If it did, we would live in a very dangerous world indeed. But they cannot be dismissed as factors. It has long been assumed that young men are better fighters when they are deprived of sex, like slavering dogs fighting in a pit.
One of the many barbarities of war, in ancient times as well as in recent conflicts, is the promise to hungry, brutalised men that once a city is taken its women are part of the loot. The only difference between this and those fabled houris in paradise is that the objects of deferred lust are real and pay a horrible price for it.
The view that sex with women takes the fight out of men is common enough even in less bloody pursuits, such as football. Often, when a national team is about to do battle, the coach will announce that wives and girlfriends will be banished. The men have to be kept on the leash. Sex will be their reward once the enemy is defeated. Among the great myths of Dutch football is the story of the 1974 World Cup. Deprived of female company, some of the players allegedly took their pleasure with local floozies, and therefore lost the final against Germany.
All this applies to sex with women. Sex with men can be a very different proposition. As a rule, societies that prize machismo and male honour do not take a kindly view of homosexuality. It is tolerated, at best, but only the active, "male" partner, especially if he is older and married, can escape from homosexual encounters with honour. The passive one is like a woman - submissive, weak, despicable. So it is still said to be in many Arab countries, as it was in ancient Greece.
But there are notable exceptions to this rule. Some of the most macho societies in history have prized homosexual relations. The Spartan army encouraged loving relationships between soldiers, as it would foster loyalty and courage. Samurai in feudal Japan had a similar attitude. Sex with women was fine, as far as it went, which was to produce children. But honour and nobility were to be found only in relations between men. The premise behind this is not so different from the homophobia in other macho cultures. Women are soft, and their proximity softens men, just as the wiles of Cleopatra softened the Roman general Mark Antony. True manliness must never be tainted by the female sex, or the domesticity it represents.
In 2004, Johann Hari wrote about the "overlap" of homosexuality and fascism. "Gay men," he wrote, "have been at the heart of every major fascist movement that ever was ..." This was especially disturbing to Hari, who identifies himself as a "progressive gay" man. Examples supporting his thesis are readily at hand: Pim Fortuyn (though not really a "fascist", as Hari seems to think) was gay. Jörg Haider is said to be gay. And then there were the Nazi Stormtroopers, the brown-shirted SA led by a thug named Ernst Röhm. Röhm, and many of his comrades, were homosexual.
Röhm was a keen promoter of the Spartan ideal of fit fighting men pairing off. Like many German soldiers in the wake of the first world war, he felt like a loser, embittered by military defeat, and marginalised by peace. For him, the SA was a way to regain his self-esteem. He thought of it as an elite of superior men, chosen to control first Germany and then the world. Röhm was rather like the 17-year-old in Oe's novella: the uniforms, the boots, the brutality made him feel omnipotent. Sex was an expression of power, and power was eroticised. "Since I am an immature and wicked man," he once said, "war and unrest appeal to me more than the good bourgeois order."
Hari implied that there was something in the nature of homosexuality that made it particularly suited to fascism. Quoting a "gay pornographer", Bruce LaBruce, he cited "body worship, the lauding of the strong, a fetish for authority figures and cruelty". But this is to assume that homosexual desires can be reduced to a Tom of Finland cartoon in which the characters are manhandled by brutal leather-clad policemen. Such fantasies exist, to be sure, and fascism exploited them to the full. You only have to see the outsized sculptures of naked athletes in the former Foro Mussolini sports complex in Rome to get the idea. One should never forget that despite the antics of Röhm and his friends, homosexuals were persecuted in Nazi Germany.
There is a more plausible explanation for the attraction felt by a certain kind of homosexual for violent elitism and extreme political causes, and that is the loathing of bourgeois life. Röhm divided men into soldiers and civilians, and the latter, to him, were "swine". Everything associated with the word "prudence" was hateful to him. To a man such as Röhm, domesticated bourgeois society was, by definition, cowardly, materialistic, henpecked and dull. What he craved, above all, was constant violent action to disrupt the kind of life from which he felt excluded. This may be the key to gay fascism, more than the nature of homosexual desire. Extremism is the loser's revenge on society. Who the losers happen to be depends on the nature of the society. It can be homosexuals who feel shut out, or young Muslim immigrants.
The German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger recently wrote a brilliant essay about "the radical loser", the kind of person, usually a young man, who feels victimised by the entire world, and hates himself as much as the forces that oppress him. These men are walking time bombs. Anything can set them off, a social snub, the loss of a job. And the explosion will usually kill the bomber as well as his enemies. Circumstances dictate to some extent who the enemies are, but the categories tend to be limited. As Enzensberger says, the "usual suspects are foreigners, secret services, communists, Americans, big corporations, politicians, unbelievers. And, almost always, the Jews."
The only thing missing in Enzensberger's analysis is the sexual factor, the psychology of the great masturbator, the murderous gay thug, the drooping despot. Perhaps this element is best explained by recalling a very recent story: the murder in Amsterdam of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. His killer, Mohammed Bouyeri, was born in Holland, though his parents were from Morocco. As a teenager he tried to conform to the culture of his native city. He got drunk, smoked dope, and tried to seduce Dutch girls. After all, everything in the culture, from pop music to TV commercials, promises sex. This is a world away from home, where the saintly mother and virginal sisters must be protected from lustful eyes.
But things began to go wrong for Mohammed. The Dutch girls were not as easy as he thought. He lost interest in his studies. Subsidies for this and that failed to materialise. There were nasty brushes with the police. And his sister got a boyfriend. This enraged Mohammed. He felt dishonoured, useless, excluded. He was, in short, a radical loser, and Islamism promised righteous murder, martyrdom, and the feeling, however fleeting, of total power.
The reason Van Gogh became Mohammed's target was a short film he made with the Somali-born politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who wrote the script. The film, Submission, showed Koranic texts projected on to the half-naked bodies of veiled women who had been abused by men. Hirsi Ali blames Islam for the sexual subjugation of women and the misguided and frustrated machismo of men. Her take on secular European society is the exact opposite of Mohammed's. Where she sees liberation - above all, sexual liberation - he sees dishonour, decadence, filth and confusion. The freedom of living in Holland allowed her to flourish, while it made him feel small and hateful. And that is why he wanted to destroy her, and with her the civilisation that made him feel like a radical loser.
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Posted by Shekhar Kapur at February 25, 2006 08:30 AM
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Am afraid, Freejohn, your bulb in emitting a sorry faint glow amid shoddy circumctances! It surely must be time to replace it!
Dear Shekhar
Sex is a direct expression of the need for power over, and acceptance by and from, others. (So what if it feels great, too.)
Remove sex from the article (and the novel, as well), and what's left? The real issues: power, acceptance, and the anger and frustration that result when these are lacking. Extremism doesn't grow in a sexual swamp. Rather, it creates one.
The Guardian article's reference to Atta and the striptease bar are supportive of a comment I made on Gotham's post today, where I said that the separation of men and women in Muslim society is what creates fanaticism in Muslim countries, more than anything else. And it's not lack of sex that's the issue, but rather the separation of men from half of human society. How deeply lonely and bereft these men must feel every day, yet they can't acknowledge or indulge in their need for women openly, gently and actively.
The article's (and others') premise that masturbation, and so on, cause violence is like saying fever causes illness. Sex is an expression and a symptom of the illness, not its cause.
imho.
Love, Heather
Hi Shekhar - The Guardian's seems to have gone out on a limb! The only part of the article I could relate to was about the "radical losers". I think the perception of oneself as a failure probably does damage a psyche badly enough to want to retaliate. Repressive, authoritarian ideologies tend to generate losers so if we have to add two and two, those are the factors I would think one could correlate.
The whole bit about homosexuality was utterly ridiculous and simplistic. It's easy to dig out a few examples from history and generalize.
I agree with most of your analysis, except that most people do not really ponder about absolutes and live out their lives in spite of their frustrations without turning into ticking time bombs. Frustration (not just sexual) is an integral part of life.
Hi Shekhar,
just a few comments. I'm not sure how they connect.
Making love is a physical expression of our desire for unity. I don't think you can experience that unity in the context of an unequal relationship.
Feeling ashamed about our natural desires including our desires for expressing our sexuality can cause us to feel hatred towards ourselves which can be turned inward or outward. There are a lot of ways to express hatred. Different people and different groups express it in different ways. And some of us have others act it out for us and then we wonder "where did that come from?"
Love, Kristin
Aloha Shekhar
I agree it is to identify vs. compare. There is no separation. There is no them and us. It is them and us and much much more. It is about context not content. Birth is the opposite of death and life is the opposite of totality. We all fall into relationships because we fear being alone. It is to die today so we don't have to die tomorrow. We live in a culture that denies death. We are reincarnating all the time, while practicing living in the moment in eternity. It is a Love that is kind:) love patty
Shekhar,
I see your point and the point made by the other author. I have been playing the same tune where sexual repression, or suppresion of the Life Force causes conflict, we know because that is where we find it. There is also the suppresion of feminine energy.
What you did not note is that in your examples it is by personal choice, in the other world examples it is forced by society and peer pressure, it is a part of being accepted which is like a distorted form of Love.
The real key difference is Love, that is what is missing. Perhaps the real cause is the unfufilled need for Love?
Perhaps sexual repression also creates a Love less condition.
Perhaps someone else can see what I am saying.
“Masturbation, repressed sexuality and homosexuality”! Boy this guy has them all covered!
“Does masturbation lead to suicide bombing”?
Any sex therapist will tell you that 95% males and about 70% of women will end up as suicide bombers, sorry, are masturbating! How can anyone sane even ask that question? Doesn’t masturbation relieve sexual tension? A better question probably would be: Does no masturbation lead to suicide bombing?
“Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next”.
-- Richard Dawkins, "Religion's Misguided Missiles" (September 15, 2001)
Especially since Muslim virgins are really known for great sex!
RIDICULOUS.....
You are RIDICULOUS AJ, infact there are two words that sum you up nicely son... The word Arse & The word Hole
I have met in my short life two people who are enlightened...
One of them said "If you ever get the choice to win the lottery or become enlightened, then take the the Money, because it wont matter to you afterwards"
The other one said lots of things including saying that talking about spirituality and talking about being enlightened was a form of masturbation because if you are realy enlightened then it realy does not need to be talked about at all, but one thing this person said was and it rings home for many of us on a spiritual path of understanding including Deepak Chopra for Deepak is not an enlightened man,,,he is only a realised man at this stage in his life,
so the second enlightened person i met said "You can know everything in the blink of an eye, you can be such a realised being that you can be aware of the entire universe in the time it takes for a heart to beat, but putting that in to practice is another thing!"
to know it is not to be it.
hummm
just as I was about to engage with Shekhar...
so very happy to see him again ...
here in wonder chopra land ...
aware of the absolute intensity...
of his magical...
awesome...
creations...
I adore ...
what do I read ???
oh dear ...
what the hell is this ???
is this really from Shekhar ???
terrorism and masturbation ???
geez ...
where has he been ???
what is this about ???
oh yes ...
just a hit
to the narrowness of my mind ...
hee hee he
got me ...
but
getting there ...
humm
some raw old stuff showing up here ...
in need of some deep breath ...
reminding me ...
what 's up doc???
it is all natural
like the air we breath ...
noticing the soft smile of my face ...
no big deal !!!
just need to keep myself open
and to listen ...
with wonder
in my heart...
terrorism and masturbation ...
what an unsual concept ...
worth pondering about ...
when so much stuff has already showed up..
before I read one word ...
how limiting can we be ...
when we forget to floss
the decay in our minds ???
no wonder we are at war ...
no need to look very far ...
Yogi, you said:
"It is not the denial of sex or frustration rather preaching of hatred that makes all this self made bombers.
Yogi
"
Yes, it is in preaching hatred indeed!!
And corruption/greed.
Human beings can be so easily "made" to become like Pavlov's Dog;
such as in the examples I offer in my above post from this one;
in that they are "trained" to hate; even so far, as to degrade the very gender, which borned them;
even
to refuse to budge and "allow growth" from thousand year old testimony, to fit with modern advancement(frown.)
Religion is no longer an elixer for the troubling mind and heart of the soul and spirit;
but rather now,
has become(and maybe always was)a somewhat perverse and firm control of force and manipulation?
May we all, BEcome unfogged.
North
simon, since the journey of evolution from self to self is cyclic there come many landings of enlightenment on the way. and some of them are quite conspicuous. there indeed one goes beyond the phase of 'to know and talk' to the phase of 'to be and be silent'. but then the next cycle starts.
and the sexual energy at comparatively coarse level and love energy at subtle is the very energy which propells our evolution or propells us to do all things including sex. naturally, if it is in one's scheme of things to go to the higher rung of the ladder of evolution it will not be utilized/wasted in lower-rung jobs...including sex. which from the outside may look like one is in sexually repressed state.
it is said "great talents ripen late". obviously such great talents will face what to others will look like failures on every step on their way to that 'late' stage. but from their perspective only their energy was being saved from getting utilized/dissipated at lower levels for the sake of that level where their talents were to really come to their own.
harb.
and yet
deep underneath there is a yearning ...
like this young man I worked with yesterday ...
struggling to find his place
in a world judging him by his sexual preferences ...
often bypassing the extraordinary powers of his wonderful mind...
and the deep caring of his angelic loving heart...
trapped in a world of self destruction
he has come to realise
I need to find my soul .. to bring meanign into my life ...
we tracked down his addiction to alchool ...
"when I drink I become abnoxius ... I become this arrogant "I know it all " ... I feel in control .. it relaxes me.. even if afterwards I feel awful "
As I worked with his body I had this striking image of a very sensitive , highly creative force suppressed to its utmost in order to fit in ...hungry for connection of a very different kind...
as his mind's energy had the fluidity of a baby heartbeat , cradled by vibrations from infinity.. wanting to flow through like a river ...
Unsupported by the absolute concrete , paralysed force mirrored by his legs ...
as if he had invisible chains trapping him deep in the underground...
an energy he has made his home ...
realizing how much energy it takes to keep us suppressed in our inherent power of creation ...
the ultimate betrayal we are experiencing today ...
with so much knowledge at our feet ...
and yet so frail in our backbones ...
this crisis of values I keep encoutering ...
in search of deep meanings
like the bread we eat ...
in our daily lifes ...
teh reason maybe
why I firmly beleive
we are facing a crisis of poor leadership ....
of too much talking without examples to pass it on ...
to assist the formation of character ...
we have become starved of ...
how can the world change when we fail to model what is we aspire to see in the world ?
the deepest conflict I have come to know ...
to know better but to choose otherwise ...
" if you bring forth that which is within you , that which is within you will save you.
if you do not bring forth that which is within you . that which is within you will destroy you ."
somehow I keep seeing an institution that contributes to the formation of character to the leaders of tomorrow ...
a place where parents and chidren can grow ...
as I watch the absolute ignorance of alternative models to what we come to know ... as necessary for the survival of the fittest ...
listening to this woman 's words who was suicidal not long ago ...
driving jaguars and yet trapped in a world of family deep conflict and destruction ...
two of my daughters had a fight in Christmas ...
because one of them gave a present to the other worth less money ...
a mirror of todays world
in need for a deep re-evaluation
and new begginings ...
You know that 72 virgins story was made up. It is not written anywhere. Someone in the media just made it up. I don't think they actually believe that. Why would someone have sex in Heaven?
Leave it to them dutch girls.
Harb, thanks for your balancing and nurturing insights. I do hope your book will be understood by many, many...
Love, Mieke
And Shekhar, i saw on North´s site a beautiful picture wishing you happy birthday.
Happy birthday from me too:)
Mieke
Hi Mieke, that was Shekhars birthday card from months ago(giggles)
it's not his birthday for another year almost....
I found the card in my old files;
and when I posted Gothams the other day,
I found Shekhars and thought I'd add it too(smiles.)
but, Shekhar, Happy Birthday, every day!
North
North, congrats to your countrywomen, they won the majority of the 24 medals that Canada collected in Turin. Cindy Klassen alone won 5 medals in "your" discipline, speed skating. An added bonus, these girls still look and behave like girls!
Lol North, i saw the date on it and i really thought it was Shekhars birthday. Anyway a lighter note here cannot do any harm i suppose. Shekhar have a nice day anyway, a happy day :)
And yes North and Skeptisch, both the Canadians and the Dutch did very well in the speed skating discipline.
Mieke
lol Skeptish...define still look like girls? lol thanks for the Canadian nod we are all quite proud of these girls/men whom won medals; and those too, whom did not, because they gave their all for a passion and a dream, for the sport!
Mieke, I"m sure Shekhar got a giggle from this...
North
Quoting the scholar Freejohn, "You are RIDICULOUS AJ, infact there are two words that sum you up nicely son... The word Arse & The word Hole."
Well, ladies and gentlemen, you have just read a rather inspiring, intelligent summation from one of the 'brighter bulbs' on this blog.
You see Freejohn, it obviously must take a bigger arsehole to know another, right?
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And Freejihn, this in an arena reserved for the bright and the beautiful (and the smart and the savvy, too!). But, am afraid, dunces, oafs and dimwits don't fare too well. Awaiting your next intelligent salvo, Einstein! Is the kitchen heating up yet, chef?
AJ, if you would only express yourself a little clearer!
Some people get upset by the idea that homosexuality may not be a choice but is dealt to someone at birth by whoever is handing these things out!
it would be nice to keep the blogs above bar-room mental-statements and name-calling?
This stuff is getting hard to read guys/girls?
women and children walk here too!
let us all strive to be gentlemen and ladies, shall we?
let us demonstrate how tall adults can walk; when children are here too; and watch, and learn from us?
anger should not be a shared abuse,
but its strength can be formed to move mountains for the weak.
Since the London bombings there has been a gradual but perceptible change in the British press on the subject of terrorism and Islamic militancy. In my opinion not for the better. Sadly, they seem to be grabbing at straws - gone is the balance, the debate and in many cases even the subtle humour.
On 'The Dutch and their 'culture'..'
none!, whatsoever, no kidding, no exeduration,
23 freakin' years under my belt, so I know what I'm talking about,
'Tolerance' is another side of the coin of indifference, Ego-centrism, egoisme,
When I tell the story of Van Gogh, to my Polish friends: yes, there was this big-mouth director
dude, loved to pound over and over on muslims, and then one day, one stabbed him, my polish friends look like:
huh? was he stupid or what? - no, he was very much into freedom of speech.. this guy...
(and health.., too, you should see footage..)
anyhow, The Dutch.., they wouldn't last a week in East Europe, (or any other country where it takes some brains, common-sense and mannors to survive)
If it wasn't for the the overseas kolonies, and nations they plundered, they still be peasants!,
cultural, spiritual, social, this country is more
poorer than Poland in the Commie days!
Don't believe in fairytales,
With Love, Passion! from the Erasmus University Rotterdam!
P.s. so by the way, Shekkar, are you going to court over that screw-over that science fiction novel serie thing, a couple of blogs ago?
Ego and Ego-doing.s..;)
With Love, Passion,
Dear Marek, i believe you are too general in your opinion, or it depends with what Dutch people you are acquainted with :)
There is quite a difference in mentality in our country and it strongly depends on where you are living here.
Mieke
Dear Mieke, good people, you have everywhere,
and even in the Netherlands, ;)
That is not, my point,
but it does take contrast or bi/multi cultural to see, differences, it's like;
Individualising Society Vs. Compulsory Solidarity,
or: ask any arabic student what they think about
their dutch 'tolerant' student 'buddies...'
With Love, Passion, it's a different generation,
Mieke, ;)
Thank you Marek for your comments. Yes it is a different generation, gosh i wish it wasn´t all soo commercial, materialistic and individual.
You are not that far away from our town though. If you can manage before you leave come and visit us and i will personally bake you a real Dutch applepie. Mail me at miekepoll@hotmail.com
I want you to leave with a pleasant memory.....
I wish you the best of luck then in your own country, when you are settled there, let me know, i will come and visit you there :)
With love, Mieke
Mieke, girl.. you leave me..speechless..
I also just recieved a 'fun' mail from the intl.
law firm, that they wish to..settle out of court,
haha, that's the seccond already!, gonna miss the legal fun and games in Legal Smurf Country Holland..so, just two casu left and I'll be..let me rephrase that, me be
chased by Polish girls..;)
We have a date, Mieke, thank you very much,
whenever you're in the mood for a good studentparty, drunk we are all the same..;)
I'll make a cool Blog of the Polish Pie when,
I'm settled, that or a calender..or academic dating agency..? or In-Spiritual Dating with Passion..? ..field of infinite..;)
You got a friend in Poland, Mieke, anytime, girl,
Love, Passion!
Marek, thank you :)
Love and Passion!
Mieke
“The Dutch.., they wouldn't last a week in East Europe, (or any other country where it takes some brains, common-sense and mannors to survive)”
“cultural, spiritual, social, this country is more
poorer than Poland in the Commie days!”
A little harsh, aren’t you?
Skeptisch..
Dude..
here, a nice quote, and a cool link, have fun, ;)
Use the world to strengthen your mind and personality, deepen your understanding. Use the world for an education and a schoolroom, but never believe in its reality—it has none. Our kingdom is not of this world. We find ourselves in it, that is all.
A Game Play
It is all play. Play! God almighty plays. That is all. You are the almighty God playing. If you want to play on the side and take the part of a beggar, you are not to blame someone else for making that choice. You enjoy being the beggar. You know your real nature to be divine. You are the king and play you are a beggar. It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practise it. The whole universe is a vast play. All is good because all is fun.
From: Vedantic fun, or are you skeptisch..?
Now don't get all..'cognitive dissonace', after Magic..?
http://www.experiencefestival.com/
I'm off to the gym, unless you are a Spiritual girl, with, ah, let's say..
Love, Passion!
Girl on girl,
Who killed Jessica Lal?
Confession!
Somebody is watching.
Story teller,
What’s the spicy story of India?
Terrorism and masturbation?
Or we only torture bad guys?
I am single because
I was born that way.
As the dark closes in,
Like old friends,
A girl goes on a girl.
If you can’t take the heat,
Stay the f@#$ out of kitchen.
Is it possible?
There is something about India:
Racism is OK.
Mohammad cartoon controversy,
Forward it with organisational art-
It’s the politics of snobbery.
Intentblog bloggers,
You are of some sort!
Your blogs’ titles make verses.
Living cartoons in heart?
Is masturbation a dirty word?
Greedy & Corrup Leaders, masterbate the minds/hearts/spirits of their people as a method of control.
"Keep them confused, is not an uncommon use of terrorism."
Once these three traits/attributes are broken; leaders then can demonstrate their corruption, rape, murder and pillaging at free will.
IF people would stop letting leaders masterbate their minds/hearts/spirits....
leaders would have NOthing to masterbate, would they?
North
Shekhar:
In the context of Hindu Philosophy - where this "world" is called a vicarious pleasure.. while the real "pleasure" and bliss awaits one on the other side of the consciousness -
...wouldn't it be true to say that LIVING itself is but an act of "Masturbation of Consciousness"??
.... only the "organ" one uses to induce vicarious pleasure is different.. :-)
What say?
Cheers,
Desh
Drishtikone.com
"So is there an Absolute we can use to mirror ourselves and our behaviour ? I think so. That Absloute is Death. For Life exists only in the context of Death. Ambition and Sexuality. Spirituality and the search for one's Soul. The search for ones individuality. All exist in the context of Death."
First of all there is no one absolute, all possibilities that anyone can think of are possibilities that simultaneously co-exist for the same outcome. Someone who doesn't get that concept shouldn't even be writing such articles AND why isn't anyone asking who wrote the article, what makes them an expert in making such a sick judgement and does he/she have a PHD in masterbation?
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Girl on girl,
Who killed Jessica Lal?
Thank you Harb for your Guide, Positive energy you are and negative has been my comapny of late which has took much meditation and feeling to transend.
Sorry AJ, I am sure you are the brightest bulb on here and best of Luck with your shining example.
Peace, Love Simon xxxx