Month: December 2011

Who are you without a history, where did you come from?

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Oh I am mad right now!

Just been on a website reporting the felling of a historically and spiritually eminent tree in Harare were a lone woman is pictured with her head bowed down in deep meditation or prayer and on the web site is a whole host people berating her actions as demonic! The people are judging her actions as demonic go even  further to suggest that she should be baptized or cleansed of her demons!

Since when has one’s faith and belief in whichever higher being become demonic, the bigotry of these “Christians” is shocking, does the bible not teach tolerance and not to be judgmental? Besides how does their knowledge of a bibles that has less than 200 years in history of Zimbabwe become more important than her beliefs in a culture that has been a part of the African people since the beginning of time?

Stop acting like people without roots, all your roots are the same as that woman, do not mock what you can’t understand based on little knowledge. Live and let live because for all you know, we all speak to the same god but use different channels to do so just like Christianity is different to Islam, Bhuddism, Hinduism and all the of the world’s other religions.

Pheeww, calming myself down!

Oh bugger!!, did he just say “credit crunch”?

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It’s doom and gloom again and the recession is coming to your economy in the not too distant future!

Merv King, UK money man, as the Jamaicans would put it, has said that the western world is in the middle of a credit crunch, no banks want to land money to other banks and banks that are struggling for money could well collapse because of it. Deja vu or, didn’t this happen to Lehman Brothers, some fear that this time it might be a European bank collapsing, I hope it’s not the one I keep my money in! The UK government posted some more gloom in the autumn report, everything is pointing to a slow xmas.

This mgiht be the right time to think of leaving the western world, Angola is making pesos, Brazil is making pesetas, China and Russia are making something, they won’t say how much but they are! The lure of new money will get some of us out of this never ending misery of reactive economic decisions and chase some sunshine while getting paid!

So there was a big walkout on Wednseday and people voted with their feet as one BBC reporter put it. I struggle with the concept of striking, because after the one day stay away, everyone filed back into work, pensions are still not resolved and they were pleased with themselves that they had showed the government that the man on the street will not take shit lying down. As if! nothing has change and probably won’t change until there is change, in government.

Too much politics

How strange is this winter? It’s december and temps are still above 10!, I fear for everyone after january, I bet nature is sunning us into a false comfort, only to drop a huge winter past xmas, no white xmas here this year. Still, bugs everywhere though people sneezing on the bus kills me coz their bugs join the general environment of the bus and I can’t avoid them after that, today might have been my last bus ride till the end of winter, people are starting to avoid daily baths which makes these modern no opening window buses rather inhospitable! Suffering a concortion B.O and bugs  undermines the health benefits of my 2 mile walking roundtrip from home to the bus station!

On that smelly note, have a great weekend, start taking notes of hints about xmas presents!