Random thoughts -- no specific agenda at hand musings

[Guest guest]

Religion and culture are often closely related, twin souls some may

say, intertwined. Both are based on and incorporate elements of

belief, of harmony or at least homogeneity, oneness and similarity in

lifestyle, food preferences, language often, thoughts and thinking

for sure.

 

Both have enriched human beings, individually and in their

clusterings that we term societies -- and yet, while on one hand they

have brought us further out of and further away from where it began --

in some cave as anthropologists say -- these most enrichning

bounties: culture and religion have also been responsible for nearly

all wars, senseless and massive killings, second only to the wrath of

nature (earthquakes, tsunamis and pestilence and plagues!).

 

Contrary to what one would presume, there seems to not be any

security in numbers when it comes to the insecurity that religions

feel. It has always been the dominant religion, historically

speaking, that has gotten insecure, and reacted -- in their God's

name and started the oppression, the killing, the eradication, the

genocide!

 

Like anything in astrology, this hypothesis or observation would not

be 100% accurate, I am sure, if one really looks at the history of

mankind (wow -- we can still say that eh? Mankind, as if we all do

come from a common origin, a cohort that is biologically one, as in

capable of reproducing amongst ourselves -- tersely put as indicative

of genetic similarity and hence common origins! Although I am sure

someone will bring up the example of mules! But they cannot reproduce

further and hence are a biological chimera!) ...

 

But getting back to the point, it is my sense that it is always the

dominant religion (in pure numbers!), the mainstream

religion/culture -- in any nation that gets nervous, overreacts and

initiates what leads to blood being shed. BLOOD that is senseless and

tersely put, wasted because it could have been transfused and could

have been life-giving across nationalities, across societies, across

religions, heck -- even across genders (yes, being a bit sarcastic

there!)!

 

WHY IS THERE NOT A SECURITY IN NUMBERS, DEAR JYOTISHIS in this world

of ours?

 

RR

 

And yet, why the insecurity