Saddam's Execution - The Fall Of The Rise

Saddam is gone, hanged, I have just heard on BBC news. But the world isn’t any better; and wont.

Like most people around the world, I do not support Saddam’s wicked tyranny and as well not his hanging. Both are sheer inhumanity.

In this age, I think no one should go to death as punishment. But my voice or whoever’s is just nothing to contest with the wicked hopes of the Bushes of this world.

While there are dangers of releasing him, such as him starting up commotion if left free, there could have been a better way to avoid death. But like the sound judgement that Bush and Blair missed in solving the Iraq’s myth of Saddam’s days, hanging Saddam isn’t the best sound decision either. I think house imprisonment for life would have been much better to tame him.

Like I began this discuss, there are still many Saddams to hang. But unfortunately, this world is ruled by these Saddams. George Bush isn’t any good to lead any country, neither is Mugabe of Zimbabwe nor Obasanjo of Nigeria my own country; and many more. But then, I am not in support of hanging any of these evil leaders; they are our plague and we got to endure them. Fact is, life is all about these imbalances and opposites.

Yet, Saddam’s should be a lesson for each and every leader – good or bad. It strengthens the saying that ‘no condition is permanent’. Beware!

May Saddam’s soul and those of other victims of wickedness, rest in peace.

End Of A Session; Any Unsatisfied?

You know what? I have been thinking, what does it take to make a satisfied man? I mean, can a human ever be OK at ay point in his life and think; ‘mhh… ‘have done/achieved it all, now I have to rest’. I doubt it.

Life is all about the struggle, the pains, the sorrow, the laughter, the happiness, the joy, the LOVE, the contempt; life is just a bed mixture of roses and thorns. Think you know it all? Hang on! I will say you don’t. And now this calendar year has come to end; well, three days to go, and it will be it. As it is made, man will start counting anew and feeling afresh as if there is any difference between the night-morning of 18th /19th November, and night-morning of 31st December 2006 /1st January 2007; obviously none. But aren’t we made to follow the trends?

So do you feel fulfilled in the ending marked period? Or do u feel a failure (anyway, right word will be unaccomplished)? Some will actually feel neither. Life is about trying. If it has not gone well in 2006, I bet you are ready to correct those mistakes by adding ONE hoping it works. So, take it easy. Don’t kill yourself yet. Someone somewhere still needs you no matter how foolish or wise you are. Don’t think its all over; it’s NEVER. And I mean, its NEVER over until you die. And if you think death is the cheap way out, think again! There is still a lot to enjoy, to see, to experience, both good and bad. But I bet you will like to see most, regardless of what they are and you wont mind tasting and experiencing them either.

Now, let me tell you something, a real human takes responsibility and that means waiting to face the WHOLE consequence. Once this year, I considered suicide, but then I knew it’s very irresponsible and doesn’t solve the problem, so I gave up. Moreover, I was too chicken-hearted to harm myself; the thought of it was so appalling I hated to get near a kitchen knife thereafter. Baaaaaah! Unlike Michael C/Howard, I wont ask you if you are thinking what I am thinking, No; but to think what I am thinking: square up and face life. That’s it.

They Wont Work Out!!!

Ok. Now there are things I think are foolish for man to pursue; we barely can make changes, why wasting our time.

Global Warming: I think that we are either or not the cause of global warming. It looks like chasing the shadow when we think and worry about this thing. If they earth is as old as they say it is, there is chance that this is one of the big seasons of the earth, something like that… I am sure you don’t understand, never mind.

Why do they want Africans (or rural dwellers) not to clear woods to farm when they come to developed countries and say we must eat vegetables? Foolish! Well, they also want us to wear organic materials now, and I doubt where we can get the cottons when they are even making laws forbidding people to hunt.

Talking of hunting, I think it is foolish to stop people in Britain to stop hunting; man has done that as long as we exist. Even they don’t want us to fish. Arrant nonsense! The world is built on creatures eating others. The lion eats the dare, the dare eats the grass, the snake eat the eggs, the birds eat the worms, and man eat animals; only on these terms does the world go on. These days, man is getting troubled about lion finishing or the sea becoming empty of fishes.

Also they call the rural dwellers primitive without cars, electricity, etc, yet they are complaining people shouldn’t own cars by way of out taxing them. These are a whole lot of irregularities that cannot help, instead sapping us of energy. We all need to travel, and yes, by air because you wont expect me to go visit my family in Nigeria on my foot. Please tell them to make sense of their wishes. But, you see what? This things keep the wheel of the world oily and rolling.

Religion, My Present Decision

Dear acquaintance,

Now to the main issue; I had not wanted to tell you this on the phone or by text as I am sure you wont understand or may be, might not want to go with it, which will be normal. But to be point blank, I have made a decision to stop going to church for now (I know you're in shock and disblief). This is a hard decision of course, owing to how far I have gone through it all 27 years that I have lived. But it is essential that I do it since it is a personal conviction. I have battled with this decision for close to or about 4 years now and I know that the best thing would be to just do it and be true to myself. It does not stop me from acknowledging the existence of God but from attenuating to a religion. I have problems with religion, because I do not any more assent to any of them. I have come to the understanding that God isn’t religious and can not be claimed through it. Now this is a broad issue if I should go on, but yes, I have had the problem of cutting off because I am so used to the church and especially church music which I still play and it remains my best music; and who wouldn’t be? Almost having grown up in the church, practiced it and abided by its tenets, I could even pass for what one can call a church boy and if only that’s a ticket to go to heaven (wherever it is). So in the past 4 years, I have tried to evaluate religion and how and why each thinks they are best. I have also tried to examine the foundations of religions and how they operate. With many things I have seen in them, especially in the one I have spent my whole life in, having been quite deep in it, I can say, at least for now, that it really does not make the actual sense – Actual Sense; is another big case.

I do appreciate my late mother for mapping a foundation for me through religion, but at this level I wish to live my life and not the one my mother planned (may be) by choosing a religion for me – obviously just fulfilling her parental role anyway. Well, the church isn’t where God lives nor the only place God can be found, and my understanding of God is no more of a person sitting up somewhere counting every step I take but a FORCE that is above all others and accentuates to each creature. It is a tree to a tree and a man to a man. In a short stating from my view, God is a fact but not a figure.

In the past year especially, what has kept me going back was to sing those hymns. They are gorgeous, mostly filled with words you can purely see were not written out of human intelligence. So I am not banning myself from entering into a church but I am banning myself from a routine of going to church or feeling an allegiance to her. At the moment, I cannot claim to be a Christian nor belong to any religion and thus, I am just a Godian – might not make sense but may be I will find a human word soon or sometime in the future that well defines that, so in a nutshell, I just mean, I worship only God and God alone. I will go into a church when I feel like or into a mosque or a temple or anywhere, but not because I want to find God there because I know that he is everywhere and always with me.

I do hope you understand what I am saying, acquaintance. I have worked and struggled the past 4 years to arrive at this decision comparing many things to others and trying to find a balance and sense in most of them. I have ploughed through things and I have come to know that God is there for those who obviously seek. And God is great, above all. Regardless of what a man invents or claims to know, it is usually and always lopsided to suit the ways of man. All allegiance claimed to be commanded for God is nothing but shams. What I find so difficult is where those who found religions plucked their authorities from and what makes them think they are right and better than others and to think that their decisions are best to control others. I once asked my vicar a question about the missing books of the Bible, he told me that “those” who compiled the book decided that the missing books were not genuine enough. And I have always wondered what authority or better intuition they had to know what is best for generations unborn and to have come up with what we read today in the name of holy books all of them included from all the religions. But no work apart from creatures, are God-made, so all other inventions have that human imperfection and dent.

So in the short and long run, I need to stay and see this side of life. A life not pledged to any routine of religion. I will miss it a lot and I am already, but com’on, life is about getting used to things. I will support the church if I need to. I will accept what is right from it and I will still love to be an Anglican having got all what I knew from it. Rather in the overall issue, I owe my life only to God and It is him alone I can link to and not another man. I long for an impartial world, where men will not tie themselves to religion and over ride the emotions and lives of others claiming they, and only they know The way. It is absolutely wrong and an elusive cleverness.

My dear acquaintance, what religion have failed to do is to make people aware of God and leave them to make a connection; instead religion has insisted on how human can relate with God therefore making a whole sect and bunch of paranoid people who does not think over issues but accepts it just as it has been said and ready to fight and kill others for it. But God is much more complex and simple than those flimsy wicked fanaticism.

The Changing Face Of London

The Shard of Glass

The thing that has kept the City of London always attractive is its ever-changing skyline. After the great fire of London in the 17th century, when the present St. Paul's Cathedral was designed and built by Sir Wren. It retained the tallest peak in the City for a long time before challenges came from modern designs first being the Post Office (now BT) Tower followed by NatWest (now Tower 42), etc. So far, the rapid transformation will even surprise King George VI. And today, the London Eye, The Gherkin, Canary Wharf, etc stand among architectural designs that have dwarfed the churches which defined London of the early 19th century with Canary Wharf being the tallest presently. But in 4 years (2010), the Shard of Glass will once again re-define the skyline of this so much sought-after city.

When the Shard of Glass is finished in the third quarter of 2010, the above picture will be the new view of London - a most outstanding skyline I must say. With its complete glass exterior, the night view will be something totally galaxial. Is someone thinking of the ozone layer? It will surely be pierced this time.

I have sourced some info in this blog from wikipedia and shard website. Images were downloaded from http://shardlondonbridge.com/

Archbishop Akinola is Fanning Corruption In Nigeria Too

Reading The Church of England, a newspaper of the Church of England which has been published since 1828, the headline of the December 8th Edition calls for a question. It says “Row as Archbishop ‘banned’ in Sheffield” and talked about the ever controversial sentimentalist Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Akinola.

That case isn’t any worry to me anyway. I am no Akinola supporter and wouldn’t bother at his issues. But I must say that if there were any discrepancies regarding his preaching, such must not be encouraged.

My concern and what most drew my attention was the reason the righteous Primate was actually in England this time; funny! That he came for medical treatment is just as appalling and sinful in my own eyes as his regard for tolerance in the church.

For a country as rich as Nigeria, it is shameful that corruption has aided lack of proper medical system that the hospitals are just… well not existing would be the appropriate word. And what do they do? The rich, who has parasitized the once plump country use the money to get better treatment in foreign country. Akinola is not one of them (?)

One might think. But he obviously is directly or indirectly part of the evil that is destroying what belongs to all of us. He knights the devils emissaries in Nigeria politics and other questionable wealthies, gives them private services in cathedrals and chapels, attends their chieftaincy titles made from bribery and all ill-gotten wealth. And the poor in his church? Where do they go when they are ill?

He heads the righteous church where money is the deciding factor. Where the church only attends funerals of those whose yearly dues/levies are up-to-date, where baptizing child is only possible if his parents are 'financial' members; a church where the poor are never recognized. But he is the holy of holiest telling others what to do and declaring who could come into a church or not. Akinola must be God.

If you know him, tell him that seeking medical attention in England when his own country is suffering from stunted medical usefulness is also sinful. If God is not only sourced from Canterbury, let him know that medical attention can also be done locally with what is available.

You Must Integrate, Excellent Speech

Last Friday, the Prime Minister, Tony Blair made what I think is his best ever bold speech as a premier. I so much loved that speech about integration that I cant but listen to it over and over on the BBC website. Excellent; well done Tony.

Well, I’m sure you might be wondering why I should say so. But if you have followed my blog for some time now, you will know why. I have always believed that Britain’s stance on immigration had been sooooooooooooooo weak that the rich culture of this great nation is threatened; in fact had almost been run over.

Sometime in October when Australia proposed a law to make people adapt to their culture or remain strangers, I blogged and pointed to britian’s laid-back manner in such (see Comformity) I bet they’ve read it (praising myself sort of).

But in all, Tony Blair had made that sentence that is most feared, eschewing political correctness and taking the bold plunge. Now what remains of it is the practicality or it will all amount to a waste of breath. Someone tell him please.

We must not loose this great nation and the rich culture of freedom it posses. The monarch should remain; tolerance and openness too.

Long live the Queen. Long live Great Britian.