possibility of another perspective

Submitted by the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan (Australia), May 16, 2009 at 01:22

berk akk (pbuh) writes
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"Our dear BERK " "irrogant" "the turk"" Turk who is used to lies""Turkish gobbledygook"etc....

Thank you for your valuable time consuming for me up to now .i am morally collapsed and i am in a sorrow so i cant write any comments for your letter.I wish great success in your life."

I think part of your problem Berk is that you are stuck in Turkey and an Islamic perspective - and find it impossible to really appreciate looking at thigs from any other perspective. You need to get out more . You may well be an engineer and appreciate the need to look at things objectively - but your indoctrination is so complete that you cannot really see anything clearly from another perspective. Therefore - when you encounter some criticism - your world falls apart. But look at the situation really - what has changed? You've seen some characters in a screen - your mind has interpreted them one way or another - and somehow that has shattered you? This shows that you do not have a solid sense of your own identity. And people who have been fed on lies will have this problem.

There is no need to feel sad if someone disagrees with you - or indeed if someone criticises you. You should instead look at what is being said - is there actually some truth behind it? If there is not - then no problem. But if there is - and you are holding on to attitudes and erroneous beliefs - then you do indeed have a problem. But you also have part of the solution - which is to begin to suspect that you might actually be in error. Only then can your attitude change. Without going to the extreme of crippling yourself with self-doubt - always ask yourself 'what if I am wrong'?

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