Happiness and curiosity
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On Thursday my sole purpose for the day was to attend a Spiritualist Church service, not to get messages or anything but just to chat to the Spirit Medium about his beliefs. So after the meeting I joined him and his wife for a cup of tea and we discussed and debated, agreeing that many of our ideas are the same and we share similar experiences. Not knowing anything else about me, before I left there the medium wished me luck with my spiritual journey and commented about me consulting witchdoctors. (When living in Zimbabwe I had visited a 'white witchdoctor' about 5 times, she was indeed a fascinating woman.)
On my walk home, a nearby bar had brilliant live music playing (Times Like These by the Foo Fighters) so I decided to stop in for a drink, ordered a lemonade then found myself a seat. Right away the guy sitting next to me turned and stated 'You look familiar'. It was a fellow Zimbabwean that I'd bumped into twice before, once last year when organising my charity fundraising evenings and another time on Arthurs Seat whilst I was doing photography. Within a couple of minutes we were talking politics, philosophy and religion, and it lasted all evening. So to sum it up .. there are higher powers at work in the world wherever we are but, as humans, we do have free will. Somewhere along the line people made a bad choice and allowed Mugabe into power. Somewhere along the line people forgot that we are here together, not for ourselves. 'Why would God build something up just to destroy it all again?' Victor asked. He built this beautiful planet for us, does he now need to mollycoddle us too - is it not up to us to take responsibility make the world a better place rather than expect everything to be done by him?
On Thursday my sole purpose for the day was to attend a Spiritualist Church service, not to get messages or anything but just to chat to the Spirit Medium about his beliefs. So after the meeting I joined him and his wife for a cup of tea and we discussed and debated, agreeing that many of our ideas are the same and we share similar experiences. Not knowing anything else about me, before I left there the medium wished me luck with my spiritual journey and commented about me consulting witchdoctors. (When living in Zimbabwe I had visited a 'white witchdoctor' about 5 times, she was indeed a fascinating woman.)
On my walk home, a nearby bar had brilliant live music playing (Times Like These by the Foo Fighters) so I decided to stop in for a drink, ordered a lemonade then found myself a seat. Right away the guy sitting next to me turned and stated 'You look familiar'. It was a fellow Zimbabwean that I'd bumped into twice before, once last year when organising my charity fundraising evenings and another time on Arthurs Seat whilst I was doing photography. Within a couple of minutes we were talking politics, philosophy and religion, and it lasted all evening. So to sum it up .. there are higher powers at work in the world wherever we are but, as humans, we do have free will. Somewhere along the line people made a bad choice and allowed Mugabe into power. Somewhere along the line people forgot that we are here together, not for ourselves. 'Why would God build something up just to destroy it all again?' Victor asked. He built this beautiful planet for us, does he now need to mollycoddle us too - is it not up to us to take responsibility make the world a better place rather than expect everything to be done by him?
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