I know the topic is old. But I think in the end Iranian women “won” in the end. Many are now able to walk in the streets without a headscarf and describe this as “comfort” and “freedom”.
N.B.: These things are absolutely uncomfortable in the summer. That dress was designed for medieval goat-herders in times when sunscreen was not even invented. So women + men had to cover themselves in order to not die from sun-burns and dehydration. The way M.B.S. is dressed is exactly how one should be dressed in an arid desert environment. Yet in our days, not allowing women to loosen up in hot weather is a form of child abuse. + did you try not wearing a hat in winter? These things are completely inappropriate for cold climates.
In some districts some 70% of women are now not wearing the hijab. Many school girls are now taking it off as soon as they leave the school building and their parents are simply not forcing them to do otherwise. Here is a nice article on that:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-hard-lin...00983.html
/ İnstead of creating a new thread I also want to comment on yesterdays (Thursday 29th of June) Koran burning events. I think it has become important for ordinary people like me to speak on these issues. So:
1) The “soul” as we call it does not have any sexuality. So the shape of your sexual organ cannot determine how you are going to live your life. It’s just a mechanism that nature invented to allow us to make new bodies. That’s the only thing it means. + in the Dark ages, society became frightened of what we call “feminine power”. So it started to designate as witches (or same word with a B) any type of female energy that did not entirely surrender to male / patriarchal energy. That’s why they put mushroom picking / herbal remedy using old-hags on the stake that’s why women are been killed in sex related violence in countries like India, that’s why the life of Mahsa Amini ended about a year ago without any logical reason.
So from a spiritual perspective, we believe in this balance between male and female (Yin and Yang) energies. There are typically “female” and typically “male” elements in the spiritual jargon. But there is no “Cassandra’s box” or “Eve’s sin” or anything like that, that endorses some “male” cosmic personality with a female “anti-cosmic personality”. These are errors, That’s not how it works.
2) On the Koran burning event: As I said before this is nothing but a childish provocation that is giving an excuse to Emperor Belisarius of Constantinople to further delay the adhesion of Sweden to the NATO alliance. Scriptures are texts that need to be studied thoroughly in order to gain some spiritual understanding. So you might as well take a car and burn it. Mosques, relics, books, geographical locations, pilgrimage sites etc. I am not saying these are unimportant for a person of faith. But I won’t pay like 6000 / 12,000 euros or Dollars to go to the Haj when kids are unable to be fed properly or go to school and get an education. If I had that cash I would probably use it to plant trees. That’s the way I would use that kind of money.
So again. If you take a book and burn it instead of trying to learn something from it, that’s your problem / not mine.
3) Place of worship are supposed to be just that: Places of worship. No one needs a place to make a prayer. You can pray or meditate in a hospital, in the bus, on a spaceship, whatever. That Inner Reality being within you, you have the ability to reach it even if all the temples of the world were raised to ground in this very moment.
The only benefit of temples is that ancient people (like the Hittites / ancient Indians, Egyptians, Mesopotamians etc.) knew about the earth’s magnetic fields and energies and were therefore good at locating ideal places for our own energies to become more active. I really felt that in some places in Egypt. So when you go to those places with a devotional attitude (by the way, later temples in Europe etc. were usually built on the site of ancient pagan temples) you become a little more likely to create those spiritual changes that are aimed in many spiritual traditions.
Yet: there is no point fighting for it. Fighting for religious sites is an Ego-based political problem. Since there is but one God (and no “my God” vs. “Your God” or “My true God” vs. “Your fake God”) these are just completely un-evolved attitudes and I will not take any part in any of these attitudes.
– Does anyone define any temple as “A temple to a false deity”?
- As I said. Raise it to the ground if that will make you happy. Do you really think I need stone wall + a roof + a priest of some sort to connect with the Force that created me + the universe + is making everything function in complete perfection? That’s really absurd. So If you want to raise it to the ground and build something else instead than maybe you should try doing so just to see the final result.
Conclusion: As I said. In our times, no one should simply believe anyone who claims to speak “In the name of God, or the Holy book, or “The One true Religion” etc. Most of these guys are idiots who can be very smart in intellectual terms, but on a spiritual level, they are like little children. If anyone choses to listen to these people to understand something that is defined as “The Infinite” I really wish good luck to these people
N.B.: These things are absolutely uncomfortable in the summer. That dress was designed for medieval goat-herders in times when sunscreen was not even invented. So women + men had to cover themselves in order to not die from sun-burns and dehydration. The way M.B.S. is dressed is exactly how one should be dressed in an arid desert environment. Yet in our days, not allowing women to loosen up in hot weather is a form of child abuse. + did you try not wearing a hat in winter? These things are completely inappropriate for cold climates.
In some districts some 70% of women are now not wearing the hijab. Many school girls are now taking it off as soon as they leave the school building and their parents are simply not forcing them to do otherwise. Here is a nice article on that:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-hard-lin...00983.html
/ İnstead of creating a new thread I also want to comment on yesterdays (Thursday 29th of June) Koran burning events. I think it has become important for ordinary people like me to speak on these issues. So:
1) The “soul” as we call it does not have any sexuality. So the shape of your sexual organ cannot determine how you are going to live your life. It’s just a mechanism that nature invented to allow us to make new bodies. That’s the only thing it means. + in the Dark ages, society became frightened of what we call “feminine power”. So it started to designate as witches (or same word with a B) any type of female energy that did not entirely surrender to male / patriarchal energy. That’s why they put mushroom picking / herbal remedy using old-hags on the stake that’s why women are been killed in sex related violence in countries like India, that’s why the life of Mahsa Amini ended about a year ago without any logical reason.
So from a spiritual perspective, we believe in this balance between male and female (Yin and Yang) energies. There are typically “female” and typically “male” elements in the spiritual jargon. But there is no “Cassandra’s box” or “Eve’s sin” or anything like that, that endorses some “male” cosmic personality with a female “anti-cosmic personality”. These are errors, That’s not how it works.
2) On the Koran burning event: As I said before this is nothing but a childish provocation that is giving an excuse to Emperor Belisarius of Constantinople to further delay the adhesion of Sweden to the NATO alliance. Scriptures are texts that need to be studied thoroughly in order to gain some spiritual understanding. So you might as well take a car and burn it. Mosques, relics, books, geographical locations, pilgrimage sites etc. I am not saying these are unimportant for a person of faith. But I won’t pay like 6000 / 12,000 euros or Dollars to go to the Haj when kids are unable to be fed properly or go to school and get an education. If I had that cash I would probably use it to plant trees. That’s the way I would use that kind of money.
So again. If you take a book and burn it instead of trying to learn something from it, that’s your problem / not mine.
3) Place of worship are supposed to be just that: Places of worship. No one needs a place to make a prayer. You can pray or meditate in a hospital, in the bus, on a spaceship, whatever. That Inner Reality being within you, you have the ability to reach it even if all the temples of the world were raised to ground in this very moment.
The only benefit of temples is that ancient people (like the Hittites / ancient Indians, Egyptians, Mesopotamians etc.) knew about the earth’s magnetic fields and energies and were therefore good at locating ideal places for our own energies to become more active. I really felt that in some places in Egypt. So when you go to those places with a devotional attitude (by the way, later temples in Europe etc. were usually built on the site of ancient pagan temples) you become a little more likely to create those spiritual changes that are aimed in many spiritual traditions.
Yet: there is no point fighting for it. Fighting for religious sites is an Ego-based political problem. Since there is but one God (and no “my God” vs. “Your God” or “My true God” vs. “Your fake God”) these are just completely un-evolved attitudes and I will not take any part in any of these attitudes.
– Does anyone define any temple as “A temple to a false deity”?
- As I said. Raise it to the ground if that will make you happy. Do you really think I need stone wall + a roof + a priest of some sort to connect with the Force that created me + the universe + is making everything function in complete perfection? That’s really absurd. So If you want to raise it to the ground and build something else instead than maybe you should try doing so just to see the final result.
Conclusion: As I said. In our times, no one should simply believe anyone who claims to speak “In the name of God, or the Holy book, or “The One true Religion” etc. Most of these guys are idiots who can be very smart in intellectual terms, but on a spiritual level, they are like little children. If anyone choses to listen to these people to understand something that is defined as “The Infinite” I really wish good luck to these people
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