2008-08-20T19:20:24Z Sarah Christin Kastner Copyright 2008, Sarah Christin Kastner SPHPBLOG
But, is it the love to own any material thing? Or is the love to be satisfied by the attitude (conduct) of all the people near to me? Or it is satisfy my desires without consider how is it done? Or is the necessity of be with other person to satisfy each other? At the beginning, this can be how the love is shown. But, what happen? It seem like something is absent....

The things, the life, the world, for almost all, nothing have changed, and maybe those become to be worst and worst, due to the lack of true love, which is the unselfish love. This is more than the "convenience love", more than do an effort (selfish) almost always, to go on with someone (friend, partner) or to try of obtain his or her "love", It is something more than write poems or tell beautiful words of that special person, something more than identify himself or herself with songs considered as "romantics"

The true love is that one which is free of interest, free of manipulation, free of control, is that we give them, it is not anything to have merits or something that we have to win. It is something that simply gives itself; the love is a universal human value. Probably, you are in the group of persons that already reach this step or already your are living the unselfish love and all your life is OK, or maybe you begins the way to arrive at this step or maybe you are of the people that unappreciated read this strange things or you see as an human being's debility to say this ideas. But, what we obtain when we live a life without unselfish love? We get a life free of selfish attitude, free of envy, free of resentment, free of emotional charges, free of take care our shoulders each day, free of poverty, free of power ambition. An example: A man, a rich man, who is an successful businessman, have to get his healthy making and selling a product that he produces, to continue being rich, he has to sell more and who buy the product, must have money to but it, in other words, the purchaser must leave the poverty. If the purchaser is poor, he can not buy anything, because he does not have money… so why, if all of us can be rich, the poverty exists? If we eliminate the poverty all of us win. Why it can be eliminate? The response is because there is selfishness…

The fights, the envy, the intolerance, the destructive criticism, the resentment, the hatred, are something that makes grow our ego, why? Due to the lack of love, not only love to myself, but also (and more important) lack of unselfish love.

Why we can not share the knowledge, our experience, and our spirit with all the people? by envy? Why I have to increase my personal importance and also my selfishness? It is necessary to live in this way, when the entire things can go in the right way? I think that it does not cost much to understand that this is the human being’s essence.
We can act with unselfish love, free of selfishness.
Maybe you see this message adequate, or optimist, or pretentious, or lovely or outside of the reality. After all, each one decides the way of see it, as an opportunity to grow, as a problem, as a challenge, as a group of word without sense……
I hope that you have had a merry Christmas, where the love have born again ant these one confirm itself today and all the days.

Juan José Puente Valdez]]> http://www.speakuponline.org/english/blog/index.php?entry=entry070102-122010 2007-01-02T00:00:00Z 2007-01-02T00:00:00Z
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SpeakUp!Online.org]]> http://www.speakuponline.org/english/blog/index.php?entry=entry061110-121126 2006-11-10T00:00:00Z 2006-11-10T00:00:00Z All this information is written in the just published “Statistic yearbook of the Federal Republic of Germany 2006”. With thousands of facts and tables, the Statistic Federal Office as the publisher, wants to draw an exact picture of the German reality. The average German is exposed. Why are things like that, the statistics don’t explain, there are just the bare numbers.
In the debate about education times for fathers, the statistic shows that for men, children are no cause of impediment for their professional activity. Of all men with children (no matter which age), 85 percent are employed – instead, the average for women is just 61 percent.
The statistic confronts the immigration debate with an emigration trend, because more and more Germans leave their home country. 150,667 Germans looked for their luck abroad in 2004. Destination number one was the United States, followed by Switzerland and the sunny Portugal.

Sometimes the statistics show also surprising things: Neither managers nor people from the bank work the longest, but independent farmers, fishers and forest rangers, who work an average of 53,9 hours a week.

When a German comes back home after work, he spends as much time playing computer games as summing up in cinema, concert, zoo, circus as well as home-mechanics. One hour and 53 minutes a day, he sits in front of the TV or watches videos.

At least the German reads 37 minutes a day, 7 minutes of which, in a book. In their leisure time, women allow themselves a fifth more time for doing nothing than men.

But this seems to cause no harm to the women: While 41,5 percent of the female Germans are overweight, the average for men is 57,9 percent. And it continues like that: One year ago, at first 38 percent of the women and 54 percent of the men were over-weightily. Regionally, there are only small differences, but in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the people tend more to overweight, in Hamburg and Berlin the least.
Concerning the body size, the average man with 1,78 meters towers above the average woman by 13 proud centimeters.

Most of the Germans try the step to the altar or marriage register office later and later. In average, the man marries at 36,2 years, and the bride is just 33 years old then. In the 80s, couples married five years earlier. When the couple has children, the daughters are called Marie or Sofie, sons are called Alexander or Maximilian. 42,6 percent of the people inherit or buy an apartment or a house sometime. The single-life becomes more and more popular: 14, 7 million people live alone – this is almost three times more than in 1970. In average, a household consists of 2,1 persons. In the modern communication age, almost every household had a telephone (99,3 percent) and 68 percent a computer.
But not only the German averages are shown in the statistics. The book offers also curiosities. 290,864 people got drunk and after their exaggerated consumption of alcohol followed by bad behavior and after they had to be taken to a hospital. Who had to go to prison, was put in a cell that was crowded to 119 percent. In the southwest (Freiburg/Breisgau) it rained almost a third more than in the north. And in Lower Saxony (where I was born) have lived almost as much pigs as inhabitants (8 millions each).

Now it's your turn to tell us something about your country, its people and its culture. It's a possibility to decrease prejudices and stepstone for intercultural exchange and community. :)

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article found on www.gmx.net]]> http://www.speakuponline.org/english/blog/index.php?entry=entry061030-204425 2006-10-30T00:00:00Z 2006-10-30T00:00:00Z “The cars nearly never honk. For sleeping the people don’t use wool blankets, but cover themselves with bags full of feathers”, as an Argentinean declared surprised.
”On the meadows each blade of grass is cut accurately, everything is in law and order”, reported a journalist of the Croatian boulevard magazine “24 sata” its readers.
The visitors of the soccer World Cup discover Germany as a country full of strangeness.
The Iranian Mohsen Motamedkia was surprised that it’s not possible to talk with the German police. “We are used to discuss with the policemen until we achieved our goal. But when a German policeman says ‘no’ then it’s definitely a ‘no’. They can’t even be persuaded to a ‘perhaps’.”
A journalist who writes about the World Cup for the press agency ISNA has all summed up a good impression of the host country: “The air is cleaner than in Teheran. Here you learn what oxygen and correct breathing really means.”
Argentinean journalists observe with scared admiration that: “Blond tall thin girls as well as big light-blue-eyed women drink beer like water.”
The correspondents who convey their World-Cup-reports to the whole world agreed extensively that the Germans prepared a friendly welcome for them. But some of them had the impression that there hasn’t been a real World-Cup-fever in the initial period. “It seems that for many Germans the fate of brown-bear Bruno is more important than the World Cup,” said the Czech radio reporter Jiri Hosek. The Portuguese Jorge Matías of the newspaper “Público” noticed that, “There are hardly German flags to be seen in the windows. The World Cup came to Germany, but the Germans haven’t arrived yet. They prepared the stage for the celebration, but it seems that the others will celebrate.”
A guy of the London “Time” has exactly the opposite impression – that for the Germans it’s only about celebrating: “A victory of the German national team would be nice, but the people doesn’t have big expectations. What everyone wants is to have a good time – a journey where the way is more important than the final destination.”
The journalists of the international press praise quite unanimously the organization. “I got my accreditation within five minutes”, said the happy Gabriel Cazenave from Paraguay. The correspondent of “ABC Colo”, which is the most important newspaper of his country, has been pleasantly surprised about the World-Cup-hosts: “The prejudice that the Germans are ‘cold’ and keep back feelings proved to be totally wrong. The welfare service and attention that they give us is overwhelming.”
The correspondents of “The star” in South Africa have been even so impressed that they were glad that the organization of the World Cup 2006 has been awarded to the Germans and not to their country: “If the World Cup would take place in our country now then there would be an enormous chaos with considerable probability.” However, there has been also some complaints; for example that the beer is more expensive in Germany than at home.
Serbian journalists, who report from their team-lodging in Billerbeck (Westphalia), has been occasionally “on the rocks”, because many restaurants close already early in the evening.
And their French colleagues of the "Journal du Dimanche" criticized that it’s quite complicated to buy tickets for the subway in Hamburg or Cologne and that besides everything is explained only in German.
And last but not least: The completely negative impression of the Italian Vittorio Zucconi goes a little bit off the beaten track. “In my opinion, concerning the World Cup 2006, Munich seems to be more arrogant and colder than Tokyo which seemed to me already sterile in the World Cup 2002,” observed the World-Cup-correspondent of the Roman newspaper “La Repubblica”.

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