Why one has to be citizen of any country?

Many people are and want to be citizens of a country. One may like this one or that one although most are citizens of the country they were born in. (Kind of like religion although they claim later in life that this is a divine situation and only that religion guarantees salvation while others will bring you hell. Some then are even willing to die to 'safe' others and hardly ever occurs to them that it is rather pure coincident that they were born in this and not another religion)

One may feel very strongly about his/her country, but does it really matter? Or think of it this way, if one sees a person primarily as "white" or "black" and pays so much attention to that fact that it skews his view of other attributes of the object, then most people will agree there is a problem.

Try to think from larger perspective, if you were born French would you not like it because there is something in you that is American? Or is it the society and culture that makes us who we are? And then, as that seems rather obvious, can we 'change' by submerging and accepting another culture, perhaps one that we truly like despite seeing also the other's culture shortcomings. But most importantly here, is or would be such act some kind of "sin", some kind of act that should be punishable by society? formally or informally?

In any way, in addition to my soon to be 2 citizenships, I think I want to apply to become a citizen of Pitcairn Islands ... will be 51st person

Sincerely,
Shamick P. Gaworski


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_citizen

Religions do not exist. Time neither. God does.

Listen to this excellent speech about GOD!!!

I was raised as Catholic. Today I only recognize God more or less as a Universe and all that surrounds us. (It is complicated and I do not want to offend some very GOOD religious people.)

Here is a passage from the book of Parker Lochiel Johnstone "Origin of the Universe, Life, then religions" that most closely resembles my religion.

"This man's God does not demand prayers about his weaknesses or demand supplications of his desires. This man's God does not expect him ever to be perfect, but rather allows him to do the best he can by following his own Conscience.

This man's God does not have to communicate with him through intercessors, ministers, or saints, or angels, but rather, through the quietness of his own mind, the beauties of his garden, the refreshing rain, the whispering breezes through the trees, the warm touch off a loved one's hand, the innocence of the questioning look of a child.

This man's God is all Nature of which he is truly a part. To talk with Him, then, is to talk with himself, and be aware that God's presence is constant. To him, this is what is known as 'prayer.'"

Here is another way to make my point

There were 4 good man and by good I mean they all were faithful to their wives, love and respect their children and did all the universally good things that most people immediately recognize as good (as oppose to bad) and do not need any special definition of what those good things are.

You get the picture.

The 1st man was Christian, 2nd Muslim, 3rd was Atheists, and last 4th one was African Bushman whose village was only relatively recently discovered by "white man" and till today he does not have electricity in his village.

Here is a question. Which one is GOOD? Which one is THE one?!

See according to religion, they all cannot be completely equally good ... 3 of them ALWAYS miss this 'one thing' .. Jesus, or Allah or XYZ, or The Sun God. God would only let 1 one of them to Heaven. The other 3 will (according to Religion[s]) burn in Hell.

So, until this situation changes, I am staying out. Sorry.

Sincerely,
Shamick Przemek Gaworski

All the respect to all who disagree ... pray for me then, let your God have mercy on me after ... well, you know after what. The good news is that if you pray for your God and allow others to pray to others Gods, then practically, there isn't that much difference between you and me.

We just may be both Good Man.

And here is more deeper and physical aspect that I like to tackle when thinking of God on the large scale. What does "omni-present", "timeless", and "infinitive" really means?

To start, you must read this article (no matter how much your head may hurt; my did!)

Discovermagazine.com Newsflash: Time May Not Exist

If time and space is like waves and light and not continuous, if it is getting closer to be explained by quantum mechanics, if time is just an illusion, approximation on the large scale, then the idea of infinitive and omni-present (universe; God) is suddenly much more understandable.

How trivial is "bible studying" in this context? Do we really believe that studying silly texts written by people 2,000 years ago are going to get us closer to the nature of God than asking the real questions, the difficult ones? What a primitive God it would have been that chose 200 pages long obscure book to sum up her existence and nature!

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
Albert Einstein

What impressed me about USA in 1993 (& Today holds)

Another blog asked: describe some of the culture shocks you experienced when you came here to the USA from Poland. I thought why not include it here as well. Here it is. It is hard to remember, some may be more general impressive things than those from when I came here, but here is the best I can come up with. (FYI, I am Polish Immigrant, first-generation, living in the USA)

1. my independence and ability to start life with very little money completely on my own
2. people not jumping to conclusions and judgments
3. optimism and general understanding that everyone has an opinion (although I did not express any controversial [political] opinions at the beginning)
4. mature capitalism, respect of the law (contract), and entrepreneurial spirit of most people even if they do not engage in entrepreneurial activities
5. nicely cut grass and grass cutting industry
6. air conditioning
7. do-it-yourself culture (why hire a person to put tile if you can do it yourself)
8. respect of the student, his/her rights, and ability to plan and choose classes. Lack of “God Professors” who can negate the entire semester of your work because of their humor during the final only one exam. Instead, students earn their grades throughout the semester and it is often possible students could skip finals and still get B (4) …
9. incredibly hot girls! (as a father today, I see them a bit as little naïve College Girls but I was 13 years younger then … )
10. genuine care of my well-being by many and no Mr. I know it all bureaucrat that is meaningful to you in some office just … because he or she feels like it. (Related to rule of law)
11. ability to seriously and realistically plan for the future
12. Overall general respect of one's work, even physical – a contrast to Polish culture of fast cars and cool fast money that was present at that time in Poland. (And is perhaps to some degree today)

FYI, I can write about 100 points that I do not like here, but you probably will hear about it sooner or later so let me just finish here. (Example) Sincerely, Shamick Przemek Gaworski