It also helps , if you just access facebook using your batteries, if you’re using a laptop, as i know you can’t resist it for more than one hour …
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Well, that’s all.

Ok, so imagine you’re having one of those long and witty debates with your group, be it you’re friends, coworkers, colleagues or family. Debates in general are healthy and good for your brain; however this is only if YOU let them be that way.

Subjects of debates could range from the smallest things such as which tire on your car you’re using, to very important scientific facts for example. Now the issue here is how the behavior of the debate would be like.

How you perceive a certain view on an issue is totally under your control, you can take the view seriously, you could deny it out of factual reason or utter ignorance, i.e. be in denial. You could also work up an argument that would leave you hurt and wounded, or you could just gracefully accept the view as an external gesture to entertain the person spelling out his mind to you, without truly accepting it. On the other hand you could truly accept the view to be your own and build on that mutual perception with the person that you’re having the debate with.

Now, most people ignore this fact and tend to feel the need to impose their views on others, or that they are inclined to accept the other’s view as their own. This is outright WRONG. One of the most important virtues of a human being is the ability to express his point of view efficiently and to handle other’s point of view with care, as to not hurt others and most importantly, not to hurt himself. That been said; let’s go on to the important part.

Humans are extremely complex in nature, they tend to build their own characters through information derived from their mediums, be it a political group, a society, a country or even a planet as some whackos would suggest, we will disregard the planet part in this piece however. Due to this, humans have developed labels for themselves; take for example conservatives, liberals, environmentalists, also cults, nationalities and tribes in some parts of the world.

Some people would consider these labels to be boundaries among us which are only good for creating unsolvable disagreements regarding interests that might cause wars for example. This is true, and you can never fix it as it’s a result of plain history accumulated over thousands of years, unless you are attempting to reprogram the human brain. However, you could always say that the glass is half full rather than saying its half empty and work with what you have.

You could use these labels for you benefit, by understanding the background of the person or the group you’re having the debate with, you would know which approach to take when posing you’re point of view, In fact , you could know if you’re even to bother giving your point ! As you’re completely confident that your perception of a certain issue will not be accepted or even considered.

Continuing, suppose you did pose your point of view to others, and they did not accept it. What is the most common scenario?

You see, most humans have egos that need to be kept happy, that is a fact that we cannot deny whatsoever. Now, when posing a view that is not accepted to a certain human, he or they will do something called CRITICISM!

Let’s see now, criticism, what caused it, and if it’s good.

Criticism can happen for a number of reasons, it could be you’re teacher helping you in learning something the right way, you’re father trying to raise you correctly, you’re doctor trying to help you keep healthy or YOU’R PEERS DISAGREEING WITH YOU ON A CERTAIN ISSUE.

The latter is the most relevant to our subject. Depending on your peer’s perception of the world around him/her or his/her relationship with you, criticism will vary from constructive to destructive. Now the perception of criticism will vary from person to person based on the same reasons mentioned above. Some people will take criticism lightly and some might be hurt by it.

Why? Why are we sometimes hurt by criticism, the fact is, we’re not hurt ourselves, rather our ego is hurt. Ego is a human killer; Ego could make you hurt people and hurt yourself. It could make you do the most unintelligent things you could ever think of, for example, CRITICIZING SOMEONE based on your EGO!

Now, How are you to handle criticism?

Well, the first point is giving criticism, you should ask yourself very clearly before doing so, WHY are you criticizing? Do you really need to criticize? And is you’re criticism going to be constructive, because to tell you the truth, there are no good consequences out of destructive criticism, you will only make enemies. Even if you’re criticism is constructive, will it hurt the person being criticized and is it the right time to give such criticism? I must have said criticism a gazillion times in the last paragraph but never mind.

When giving criticism, you should truly assess yourself before doing so, is it worth it? I’m I benefiting from it? Only the answers to these questions should give the green light to criticize, other than that, keep a tight foot on the breaks, or you could hurt someone really bad.

Moving on to the second point, which is perceiving criticism, before taking it lightly or even actually accepting the criticism being handed out, you should ask yourself , who is the person criticizing me? What are his credentials? Is he known for his constructiveness? Is he trying to help me or is he just trying to impose his ideology on me? Would I benefit if I replied, negatively or positively? Is he criticizing others in the same manner without distinguishing between the people being criticized?

Answering these questions and many more, could prevent you form hurting yourself with useless nonsense criticism or actually improving factors of your perception of something by accepting the criticism being given.

In conclusion, I would say that this doesn’t even cover one tenth of the topic, but the bottom line is to keep an OPEN MIND, an open mind which doesn’t allow itself to hurt others or to hurt itself, an open mind that will keep you at peace as a productive human being that is able to express himself freely within the boundaries of his medium without stepping over the lines that others have put. And to accept the expression of others even though they have crossed the line, in a positive manner.

Led by Conspiracy theorists who in turn gain more popularity the more the radical their theory is.

They are spawned almost always whenever the subject of politics is drawn up from within a long conversation about the financial or religious issues surrounding us.

The question is , why ? that’s right, WHY ?? The issue at hand is not whether one believes in a theory or not. The issue is why have these theories become so entrenched in people’s minds, why have they become a regular topic? has one’s life become so uninteresting ? isn’t there anything better to talk about, or even better, DO ??

Now let me explain where this is heading. Consider the following,

Consider your self an opportunist. Ask your self now, what are the main characteristics of an opportunist ?

An opportunist is a person who constantly seeks opportunities, an Opportunity is an instance in life which enables you to execute a certain action for personal or public benefits if you hold a leading position in society.

A question you need to ask yourself, is whether these actions are moral, or if they conflict with your personal beliefs, or your religion. However, that’s not our subject..

What better way is there for you to be a great opportunist, and execute the necessary actions in order to achieve your personal goals than something called “collaboration”, collaboration with a group of people that hold mutual interests…… BEHOLD, our CONSPIRATORS !!

Now, do you see?? To me , Conspiracy theories signify one thing, FAILURE, that’s right, COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE to successfully achieve your goals in life, as a person , or as a group, and envying the opposite group.

What i mean is, just because a group of people organized themselves and collaborated to achieve their goals, and have done so successfully, whatever that goal maybe, good or evil , doesn’t give you the excuse to … well… how should i put this?…

doesn’t give you the excuse to MOAN about your mishaps… yes, i believe Moaners is the correct name to give to conspiracy theorists.

My point is , stop blaming others for your misfortune, in other words, they’ve had their way, why not have yours ?!

Stop asking yourself why other groups are controlling the world around you, and start asking yourself why YOUR GROUP ISN’T ! whether its a corporate group, a religious group, or whatever.

Conspiracy theories only bring pain, they are just a reminder of failure, repeating them over and over is not productive at all ! That’s right, Conspiracy theorists should work on becoming productive !!

I’m a 100% sure that if all the Conspiracy theorists gathered and decided to CONSPIRE AGAINST THE CONSPIRATORS , that they would OUT-CONSPIRE them … funny sentence, but it’s absolutely true in my opinion…

its not about you, its not about them, its all about INTERESTS, whether it’s religious , financial, political etc.

Perhaps a theory called the Delta-W that was developed by my good friends eyas and ahmed, that complements the matter at hand is in the following blog post:

http://hamidaddin.blogspot.com/2007/11/delta-w-theorem-of-efforts-part-ii.html

I conclude by saying that People should wake up from their immense sleep and smell the coffee, i mean really smell the coffee… People should act and stop talking… and if you can’t act, then it’s your problem, and no one Else’s, so man up and stop theorising about people creating problems for you …

Abstract as always, I’ll try my best to define humans and their mentality according to my perception.

Humans are living creatures, most of whom live clueless as to why they are here and what their purpose is. If by a miracle they do have a purpose, then its one merely limited to their own materialistic reality and does not by any means exceed their obituary date.

They rarely think about where they came from or what will happen to them directly after their demise.

They gained a materialistic mentality after years of saturating their materialistic ideas into their scientifically proven to be limited minds. Hence the dreaded debate over a super being, one which is beyond their materialistic conception . How could they claim such complex comprehension ?! Cant they see that their reality is smaller than a molecule of an iron that makes up a dust particle on one of the billions, maybe trillions of planets in the vast
universe(s) that we strive in ?!!

Wow, and to think that people could live positively with no worries, how could they ?!
If Human beings claim intelligence, why would they even think for a split second that their reality is under their control, or that they could merely explain everything materialistically ?!
Can’t they see that all this will eventually come to an end ?! it’s merely the commonsense of a materialistic mind !!

Can’t they see ?! its all “rigged” as one would say. Everything in this reality of ours consists of variables. These variables hold the secrets of reality as we know it. They are kept constant for a reason. In fact they are accurately kept constant, and the precision of their accuracy resembles throwing a dart from the surface of the moon, to hit a “Bulls eye” on earth,
that is 1/1000 000 000 in diameter , SPOT ON !!!
These were not my words, but the words of a materialistic minded scientist !!

If these variables change, then we are NO MORE …

Now, back to the human race!, that’s right, the tiny creatures that live on what i believe would be a minuscule thing in your doomed to be a physically limited mind by now, called earth.

They seem to have forgotten the complexity of their environment and built their own complex characteristics within them. Race, Aristocracy, Conspiracy, Organizations, Democracies, Kingdoms, Politics, Ethics, Morals, Religions, systems and more complex systems within systems.

I could go on forever. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not promoting an unintelligent lifestyle, I’m rather amazed at how humans could get caught up in such systems in a meaningless manner. A meaningless manner which causes them to impose these systems by killing each other regardless of the fact that they are but one species which have no right whatsoever in doing so.

We cannot deny the fact that we are the same beings, or that there is by no doubt a superior being, one which is noted throughout history in authentic scriptures that some bewildered ones carelessly and ignorantly deny. We all know that all this will end and someday, some hour, we will be no more.

I conclude by saying,Why not keep this in mind, what will happen to you when you are no more ?!
The facts are, humans will only live once, and die once. So for what it’s worth,why not try to think about these facts when interacting with your fellow colleagues in life, Think about where you came from, where you’ll go after this ends, Who gave you this life, Why not admit that your mind is limited and cannot comprehend the things beyond your reality. Think clearly, and neutrally. Not positively or negatively, and you will see that the human race is clueless, except in my opinion for the few that worship the carelessly debated superior being, The one which is hinted everywhere and in everything around you …