Sunday, October 9, 2011

Doubts allowed



"Humanity follows two world-wide sects:
One, man intelligent without religion,
The second, religious without intellect."

"But some hope a divine leader with prophetic voice
Will rise amid the gazing silent ranks.
An idle thought! There's none to lead but reason,
To point the morning and the evening ways."

"A little doubt is better than total credulity"

The world was seen that way 1.000 years ago by Abul 'Ala Al-Ma'arri a blind philosopher and poet born in Syria.

The world remains intolerant, based on power relationships, governed by leaders who think they possess the truth and inhabited by subjugated peoples.

Subdued by the power of arms.

Subdued by the power of ignorance.

Subdued by the power of capitalism and consumerism.

And subdued by a system designed to the measure of the powerful, in any form of social organization and government. A system that does not support the doubt, because doubt is born of reason and the reason is the source of dissidence.

The change starts in each one of us; no one will lead us but the reason and the power of love.




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