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salah Mateus · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 614

ETHICS THAT IS WHAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT.

I HAVE WRITTEN MANY OF MY THOUGHTS AND WHAT LITTLE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT LITTLE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE I HAVE.

THROUGH OUT MY 75 YEARS I HAVE PASSED THRU MANY DOORS. LOOKING FOR WISDOM AND BETTER UNDERSTANDING.

I AM SURE THAT I AM NOW SPEAKING FOR MANY CABOVERDIANOS AND PERHAPS FOR MANY PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

MY INTEREST IS WITH THE FOLK OF MY ANCESTRY WHO CAME TO THE SHORES OF NORTH AMERICA FROM CABO VERDE.

NOW MY DEAR FRIENDS AND CAMARADAS I AM GOING TO CUT THROUGH THE CHASE AND GET TO THE POINT.

MOST OF MY INFLUENCE CAME BY THE ORIGINAL THOUGHTS OF MY ELDERS FROM CABO VERDE IN TERMS OF ETHICS OF HARD WORK,RESPECT & DEUS. THEN MY INFLUENCE IN THE GREAT NORTH AMERICA. TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS AND CONFUSION.

I WENT TO AFRICA BECAUSE OF PAIGC AND NAMES LIKE AMILCAR CABRAL & ARISTIDES PEREIRA & RAPHAEL BARBOZA AND MANY OTHERS WHO WERE MILITANTS FOR THE LIBERATION OF GUINEA BISSAU & CABO VERDE.

THAT IS A HISTORY THAT CAN NOW BE READ IN MANY BOOKS.

I WAS IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING BIGGER THEN MYSELF.
1,TO HELP MY PEOPLE IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE LIBERATION OF AFRICA BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY,PAIGC.

I WILL NOW COME TO THE POINT. IT IS 2008.
MY HOPE WAS IN WHAT IS CALLED SEARCH FOR A GREATER UNDERSTAND OF LIGHT AND WISDOM & TRUTH AND WHAT ETHIC IS ALL ABOUT. NOW THE WORD ETHIC IS A SMALL 5 LETTER WORD WITH DEEP PROFOUND MEANING.

THE ONE ALONG OTHERS IS A THEORY OR SYSTEM OF MORAL VALUES.
THE OTHER IS THE PRINCIPLES OF CONDUCT GOVERNING AN INDIVIDUAL OR A GROUP. THAT IS THE ASPECT OF RIGHTNESS.
A GUIDING PHILOSOPHY; A CONSCIOUSNESS OF MORAL IMPORTANCE.

DEALING WITH WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS BAD.

WHILE I HAVE CONCLUDED IN MY OWN MIND WHAT IT IS OR OUGHT TO BE,I AM NOT SURE THAT WE IN CABO VERDE HAVE BROUGHT THIS IDEA OR THOUGHT INTO A ONENESS OF MIND. IT SEEMS THAT WE ARE MOVING IN A WIND THAT BLOWS US IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS WHICH IN FACT IN MY OPINION DOES NOT BRING UNITY OF PURPOSE.

I TRULY FEEL LOST IN THIS SEA OF CONFUSION.

WHAT WAS MY EXPECTATION AND MY DESIRE MY HOPE.

WHEN I SPENT TIME FROM SENEGAL,GAMBIA,GUINEA & CABO VERDE TRYING TO GET A READ ON WHAT I WAS ABLE TO PIECE TOGETHER INTERMS OF ENLIGHTENMENT FROM MANY PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE.

IN ALL OF THE MANY DIFFERENT CLASSES OF STUDIES IN THE GREAT NORTH AMERICA.

THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT ABOUT AMILCAR CABRALS PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE AND THAT OF PAIGC. IT WAS ALSO A BEACON OF LIGHT IN TERMS OF THE UNITY OF GUINEA BISSAU & CABO VERDE AS WELL AS OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES.

I WAS IN HOPE THAT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LOGO THAT IS THE COAT OF ARMS OF THE REPUBLIC REFLECTS OUR ETHICS.
CIRCLE WITHIN A CIRCLE A PLUMB LINE A PYRAMID WITH A TORCH FLAME OF LIGHT. THAT IT IS OUR FRATERNITY TO OUR UNITY IN TERMS OF ETHICS. A SYMBOL OF A NEW MOVEMENT.

BUT I DON'T HEAR ANY ONE TALKING ABOUT IT AS A TOOL TO MOBILIZE AND ORGANIZE OUR PEOPLE INTO THE ONENESS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE CONFORMITY OF OUR EXPERIENCE OF DEUS IN A FORM FOR OUR BROTHERHOOD & SISTERHOOD.

WHEN I SPEAK OF ENLIGHTENMENT I MEAN THE REJECTION OF WHAT WAS NEGATIVE IN THE PAST AND TO BRING A NEW EMPHASIS OF A GREATER LIGHT FROM THE TRUE VICAR OF CHRISTO, FROM THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK. THE BEST FROM THE BUDDHA,THE BEST FROM MALIK AHMAD (MUHAMMAD).THE BEST WHICH WE WOULD EXTRAPOLATE FROM ALL THAT IS GOOD FOR PEACE,LOVE & HARMONY.

I WENT FROM RELIGION TO POLITICS WORLD WIDE,FOR A TIME IT WAS THE CALL OF MARX & LENNIN,COMMUNISM,SOCIALISM,CAPITALISM AND DEMORCRACY. AND WHAT I FOUND IS THAT THEY ALL FELL SHORT.

THEN MY SEARCH BROUGHT ME TO THE REALITY OF CABRAL AND WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE MEANT IN HIS THEORY OF THE LIBERATION OF THE MIND IN REALITY FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF OUR OWN STRUGGLE AND LIBERATION MOVEMENT. HE EVEN SPOKE OF A FAKE GENERALIZATION OF A PHENOMENON WHICH IS REAL BUT LIMITED SOCIETIES.

HE SPOKE ABOUT IMPERIALIST DOMINATION CALLS FOR CULTURAL OPPRESSION AND ATTEMPTS EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO DO AWAY WITH THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF THE CULTURE OF THE SUBJECT PEOPLE. HE ALSO SPOKE ABOUT "PROGRESSIVE ASSIMILATION" AND THE FALSEHOOD OF CERTAIN THEORIES.

I HAVE MADE IN DEPTH STUDY OF THE TORAH,BIBLE,QUR'AN AND THE SUTRAS OF THE BUDDHA (SIDDHARTHA) THE GREAT TEACHER GAUTAMA.

I FINALLY CAME ACROSS THREE CHARCTERS:
kHIDHR- ZUL-QARNAIN & MELCHIZEDEK.

WHICH IS METAPHORICALLY AMILCAR CABRAL & PAIGC/PAICV.
THERE IS MUCH MORE TO THIS HIDDEN STORY THAT HAS YET TO BE UNFOLDED.

CABO VERDE & GUINEA BISSAU & PORTUGAL HAVE AN INTRICATE PART TO PLAY FOR WHAT IS A ENTANGLEMENT (PAR NU DIS EMBRASSA)
i WILL LEAVE IT AT THAT FOR NOW.
ALLAH ALI AZIZ DE DEUS
ALLAH,BUDDHA CHRIST,DEUS,ELOHIM.
A REALITY OF GRANDE FOCUS VIDA DE UNIVERSE FORCA SUPERIOR ASTRAL.

I WILL CONTINUE THIS THOUGHT AS THE HOLY SPIRIT OF ACTUALITY MOVES ME TO DO SO.

I RECEIVED A MEDAL THANK YOU. BUT THERE IS MORE THEN A MEDAL FOR THE GREATEST PRIZE IS YET TO COME.
DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING YOU ALL.
WITH LOVE AND KINDNESS TO ALL.

I HOPE THAT IN MY LIMITATION OF EDUCATION I HAVE MADE MYSELF UNDERSTOOD.

DEUS KU NOS.

D.E.U.S.

VIVA POVO CABO VERDE

salah Mateus · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 614

SOMETIMES I WONDER OF THE IDEA OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

IN WHAT I HAVE SEEN TO MUCH FREEDOM CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS.
NOTHING IS COMPLETLY FREE. THERE ARE BOUNDRIES TO EVERYTHING.
THAT IS A FACT OF REALITY IN ALL MATHEMATICS. EVERY THING HAS A CERTAIN LAW AND ORDER OR ELSE WE CAUSE CONFUSION AND CHAOS.

ARTICLE 48 IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CABO VERDE.
(FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE,RELIGION AND CULT)

TO HAVE A RELIGION OR NOT TO HAVE A RELIGION AND TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ACT OF CULT AND FREELY EXPRESS HIS FAITH AND TO DISSEMINATE HIS DOCTRINE OR CONVICTION,PROVIDED THAT HE DOES NOT CAUSE HARM TO THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS OR TO THE COMMON GOOD.

I WONDER IF WE ALLOW EVERY TOM,DICK & HARRY TO COME WITH THEIR RELIGION INTO CABO VERDE DOES THAT NOT BRING CONFUSION OF THOUGHT AND IDEAS THAT AT SOME POINT INDIVIDUALS WILL THINK OR SAY YOUR WAY IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY,WILL NOT THAT CAUSE HARM TO THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND DISTURB THE COMMON GOOD?

IT SEEMS EACH HAS DEVELOPED IT'S OWN MYTH WHAT SOME MIGHT CALL "NATURAL REIGION OR CULTURAL RELIGION. DESPITE ALL THE REVOLUTIONS WE STILL HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS.

SIMPLICITY OF UNIVERSAL LAW OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR HOW DO WE ESTABLISH SUCH FOR THE COMMON GOOD?

IT SEEMS LIKE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS & AND THE MINDFULNESS TRAINING OF THE SANGHA OF THE BUDDAH IS A GOOD PLACE TO START. TO TAKE THE BEST OF ALL AND TO MAKE IT ONE THAT WILL SERVE THE NATION. THIS IS WHAT IS MEANT BY DEUS; THAT IS DIALECTIC ECLECTIC UNIVERSAL SCIENCE FOR SALVATION FOR ALL MANKIND. TAKE FROM WHAT WAS AND WHAT IS AND FROM OUR EXPERIENCE TO BRING HARMONY,PEACE AND LOVE WHICH WE CALL MORABEZA AND THAT CABO VERDE WILL BECOME A CENTER FOR THE UNIFICATION OF THE BEST THAT THEIR IS FOR RIGHT&GOOD & FOR THE INTEGRITY FOR ALL HUMANITY. WHY NOT I ASK? CABO VERDE THE HEART & SOUL OF THE GLOBE. THAT IS AZIJAH.
IN ALL EARNESTY, THAT IS A SERIOUS MIND SET FOR THE FUTURE. BEING PRAGMATIC. A PHILOSOPHIC DOCTRINE.

WHAT IS OUR PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE? IS IT BEING TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS TO OUR CHILDREN.

salah Mateus · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 614

SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?

HOW CAN YOU HAVE SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE WHEN IN FACT THE LAW AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION OVER POWERS THE LAW
OF THE STATE,FOR IT IS TAUGHT AT THE EARLIEST FORMATIVE STAGE OF THE YOUNG MIND OF OUR CHILDREN.

BY THE TIME THE CHILD GETS TO SCHOOL HIS MIND HAS ALREADY BEEN SET ON A COURSE OF ACTION AND IT IS THAT STATE OF MIND WHICH CONDUCTS THE STATE OF AFFAIRS. IF WE ARE TO HAVE OUR STATE OF AFFAIRS TO BE CORRECT IN LINE WITH GOOD GOVERNMENT WHY NOT THE LET THE STATE CONDUCT OUR STATE OF MIND I ASK?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR KINDNESS.