This is my first try to reach another kind of audience to my articles and thoughts. Some of my articles will be posted in English. This will help me to improve my English skills, and world wide the discussions on Theology, Philosophy, religion and politics from our Modern Context blog. Feel free to comment my grammar and vocabulary mistakes, as also the topic itself.
I believe that when a question like this cross our minds we obviously seek for a name in the modern history. People who made our world what it is today. But I would like to go a little further, in fact, back in remote history. I would like to know personally Moses. I know, it's a Bible person. Although I am not Jew, I like very much the history of this legend. Who is considered strongly until today in the Israeli's culture. The Christians has some guilty on his fame too, but It all started in the Egipt’s great period in history.
What calls my attention most, in the history of Moses is his commitment to help his people and obey his God. I feel that we have less committed persons in this world with the good direction of old values. We are more interested in live for profit, peace and happiness. And looks like Moses was not thinking in this at all. Yes, he was trying to take his people to a peaceful place, a profitable land and a happy living. But was much more than this. His history tells us that he died without receive his final reward. He did not give one single step into “promise land”. But history, and when I say "history", I mean tradition and Bible itself, says that he died with God. Wich means that he's values were even more strong and in a high priority place than his personal wishes. He was able to die without yell for his own life. He maybe yelled, but never argued, or turned against His God, Who was literally deciding his life to end.
That is not usual in our context anymore. People just care for it´s own belly Button. Where can we find committed persons worried with the meaning of life or his own relevance to this world and history? There are too few. We complete lost our hope, now we don´t want to “loose” our fading time dedicated to what don´t makes us feel “alive”! We must FEEL the life the more we can cause soon or later we won´t gonna feel anything anymore. That´s assuming death, while living. We are waiting for the worst and living like that was inevitable. In another words, we changed the view from the outside values to the inside values. We stopped to look for an answer out of us, and conformed to our own and single existence like if it was the end in itself. Then, of course, we´ll never more feel hope, cause humans aren´t the reason of life.
I have to confess now, I believe in Moses. And the Jewish tradition and also the Christian, says that Moses is alive. No, he is not Elvis. He is alive for real, in Heaven right now. But we are not talking in life after death here, Jude said in his canonical book, that God raised Moses from dead and taked him alive to Heaven. In another words, I believe for sure that one day I will meet Moses. You can call it bullshit or childish thought, I call it faith. Moses call it the same. And even been a beautiful legend that you might never believe, It still was the reason to a complete committed person with real values of life. It still inspire us. It still show us, that this life worth living and spending for greater good, and has no values on humanity itself. It´s beyond us.
What calls my attention most, in the history of Moses is his commitment to help his people and obey his God. I feel that we have less committed persons in this world with the good direction of old values. We are more interested in live for profit, peace and happiness. And looks like Moses was not thinking in this at all. Yes, he was trying to take his people to a peaceful place, a profitable land and a happy living. But was much more than this. His history tells us that he died without receive his final reward. He did not give one single step into “promise land”. But history, and when I say "history", I mean tradition and Bible itself, says that he died with God. Wich means that he's values were even more strong and in a high priority place than his personal wishes. He was able to die without yell for his own life. He maybe yelled, but never argued, or turned against His God, Who was literally deciding his life to end.
That is not usual in our context anymore. People just care for it´s own belly Button. Where can we find committed persons worried with the meaning of life or his own relevance to this world and history? There are too few. We complete lost our hope, now we don´t want to “loose” our fading time dedicated to what don´t makes us feel “alive”! We must FEEL the life the more we can cause soon or later we won´t gonna feel anything anymore. That´s assuming death, while living. We are waiting for the worst and living like that was inevitable. In another words, we changed the view from the outside values to the inside values. We stopped to look for an answer out of us, and conformed to our own and single existence like if it was the end in itself. Then, of course, we´ll never more feel hope, cause humans aren´t the reason of life.
I have to confess now, I believe in Moses. And the Jewish tradition and also the Christian, says that Moses is alive. No, he is not Elvis. He is alive for real, in Heaven right now. But we are not talking in life after death here, Jude said in his canonical book, that God raised Moses from dead and taked him alive to Heaven. In another words, I believe for sure that one day I will meet Moses. You can call it bullshit or childish thought, I call it faith. Moses call it the same. And even been a beautiful legend that you might never believe, It still was the reason to a complete committed person with real values of life. It still inspire us. It still show us, that this life worth living and spending for greater good, and has no values on humanity itself. It´s beyond us.
If you understand Portuguese, go to our Portuguese version blog at http://contextomoderno.blogspot.com The content is not the same, although I’ll start to translate my previous posts in Portuguese to post here.
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