tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182727146794633180.post3608676272003673361..comments2023-12-03T23:26:00.501+05:30Comments on THE DIARY OF A HOUSEWIFE: Seeking AllahNirjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18156852513874646808noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182727146794633180.post-18284678732132329392016-07-09T16:25:08.994+05:302016-07-09T16:25:08.994+05:30Well written article! Shows how a man becomes a te...Well written article! Shows how a man becomes a terrorist, why he's willing to give up his own life for "jihad". I heard somewhere that every human being has 6 basic fundamental needs that keep her happy in life. Those six needs are: <br />1. Certainty<br />2. Variety/Uncertainty<br />3. Significance<br />4. Connection/Love<br />5. Growth<br />6. Contribution<br /><br />It is said that a person likes to do something that fulfills at least 3 or 4 needs at 8 or above on a scale of 1-10. Looking at it from a terrorist´s point of view:<br /><br />1. He is quite certain, specially people like Rashid, that he will feel the calmness and tranquility that he was looking for and that it will give him "jannat". <br />2. Uncertainty: fulfills it at a level 10 since he's not sure what his fate will be or how many "people who have been led astray" be brought back to the right path. <br />3. Of course, when he has the remote control to the lives of so many people, he is significant at a level 20. <br />4. Connection: yes, he's going to be connected with Allah. <br />5. Growth: growing from a mere human being to a martyr. <br />6. Contribution: he's contributing in such a huge way to his religion. <br /><br />No wonder, he's a terrorist. Yes, a lot of it has to do with how his brain works. It has been conditioned to believe that he will go to heaven, that he would have contributed to show people the path of Allah and so on. Yours and my brains work differently because they have been conditioned in a different way. Change your conditioning, change your life. <br /><br />This article doesn't talk about the aftermath. What happens after the button has been pressed. Long long peace for Rashid, for sure, but what mayhem was caused to other people, the families of those who died. Does/did it really help Rashid´s religion? Did he really go to heaven after killing so many of God´s children. I don't think so. <br /><br />Well, we're all objective people and we need to use our own objectivity to understand what's right and what's not. The beauty of the article increased a 100 times by just leaving it beautifully vague. Keep up the good work. Vikas Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08543239417902518644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182727146794633180.post-35244125033091501602016-07-08T16:13:30.051+05:302016-07-08T16:13:30.051+05:30Life is about our ability to remain objective in a...Life is about our ability to remain objective in a very much subjective world. We all have varied perspectives rooted in our life experiences including our deprivations. All this makes our world look good or bad to us. Even the family of a thief or a corrupt politician loves him/her because they provide for them. At the same time we despise a strict teacher even though he is out there risking his reputation of no one liking him and continues with his best intentions to teach us important lessons.<br />We curse even God when faced with tough situations for he landed us into those. While all the saints say, God will give you difficult situations so that you learn, it is his love for you and he is there to ensure that he holds your hand in those situations. I for one do not believe in God the way most do. <br />All these are perspectives. Our subjective thoughts. It is also our subjective blindness. We fail to see the objectivity of any situation. <br />The situations we are in are own creation. We may either choose to call names to a foul mouthed boss who penalises you for being late for work or choose to skip a late night serial that made us go to sleep late. We may blame it on the train that went slow or the traffic jam, or take an educated opinion of how much time it takes to office and keep a safe margin from that. We may reach early to the office and hate that only you reach early everyday and everyone else comes late or keep a plan for that time to clear trash from WhatsApp and Facebook. The choices are ours. In short we could be watching fun vedios on Facebook etc or making a change to our lives, is a choice we make everyday. Mostly wrongly.<br />The terrorists and such ppl are not finding Allah or Jannat and we can be very objective about it. Humans by nature are blessed with survival instinct. We as a reflex cannot kill ourselves. There are handicapped people begging on the roadsides living the life of maggots and insects, yet they do not kill themselves. To be able to do what terrorists do one needs to be brainwashed. As armchair experts we may think of these people finding glory and allah or pity them for their situations like what your article suggests or tries to give their perspective and deprivations in life, the fact is that there are a plenty of people using very scientific techniques brainwashing them. And very objectively. Those are people who are at times better experts than all the militaries of the world combined in doing their job. Their strength? They look at things objectively. Their victims are those who tend to look at things subjectively. Aided by arm chair empathisers.<br />When we think of such issues, we need to look at them objectively, without emotion. The last thoughts through any terrorist's mind are never about his deprivatoins in life. His thoughts are about killing others for they are depraved in their thoughts. Those are unbelievers. <br />So let's not have any sympathies or empathy towards them. They are here to brainwash and kill your children. For their objectives. Even if we want to we cannot understand their thoughts for they are brainwashed.<br />If you see people with such thoughts around us, we need to report rather than empathise. <br />Who doesn't have a tough life? Everyone's is equally tough when we come to experience it. So there is no reason to have any empathy towards any terrorists because they had such bad lives.<br />Like all religions say: improve the world by improving yourselves first. Alas, those <br />Who call themselves religious are pretty much non believers in religious thought.<br />My two pence writing from an IPad, forgive formatting and spelling mistakes.<br />Love.Subhashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03867462740630566947noreply@blogger.com