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Dear 10News
readers
Some hopefully useful words from our latest New Year
letter (if you like it, feel welcome to translate and
spread):
"Many people in Europe and also some in the rest of the West are
preparing themselves for living in more violent societies. In Sweden
there is an increase on weapon sales, in Germany pepper spray is sold
out, and still more women and men learn self defence. Hopefully many
will join their country’s national guard.
One can not go wrong with any of this, as long as it all happens
within the frame of democratic law.
But while doing all these outer activities, we should also remember
our inner values and development. What we are and what we become
inside, will be the future of coming generations.
Countless things can be communicated through books and computers. But
transmission of values and outlook on our inner and deepest levels is
only possible through a human-to-human connection: From person to
person, from parents to children, from one generation to the next.
Therefore we not only have to protect our outer society and culture,
our democratic rights and humanistic norms. We also have to protect
our inner life, and here anger and fear are great obstacles. A
professional policeman and an angry or fearful policeman are two
completely different things.
One major problem is that irresponsible politicians and our own
laziness and attachment to a comfortable lifestyle is letting things
get so much out of hand, that we might feel the need to brutalise
ourselves in order to rectify our leader’s historical mistake.
If we come out of this clash of civilisations with more anger in our
minds and less respect for human dignity, we will have lost the very
basis for what we are fighting for.
Therefor we should not only see ourselves as outer protectors of
society. We must also remember that we are carriers of an important
human transmission of inner values and outlook on very deep,
psychological levels, that has taken centuries to realize and
solidify.
It is a psychological fact that our emotions are the strongest
driving factor for our actions. In other words: people behave the way
they feel. When people behave bad it is a sign of painful inner
states or very wrong ideas that will lead them into filling their own
lives and mind with suffering.
This does not mean that we should take pity on misbehaved Muslims and
remain passive while they try to compensate for low self-esteem, rid
themselves of the pain of anger or sexual frustration, or strive for
divine reward, by harming others. One should stop their behaviour and
hopefully with the maximum amount of pedagogical effect.
But always with the minimum amount of damage, and with as little
anger as possible. We can do that by holding on to the wish that they
will be happy in the future – possibly far away – and thus one day
find surplus and an outlook that will be the basis for more positive
actions, that will fill their lives and surroundings others with more
love and happiness.
In short: There is an omelet to be made, but it must be made with the
least amount of broken eggs and with the continuous wish for long
term win-win situations. This leaves no space for unnecessary
brutality or feelings of revenge or hate.
Keeping the style in difficult times takes a calm mind, mature and
wise compassion, and a very broad view, but while doing what is
necessary on the outside, we must never forget to protect our own
human development and our ultimate wish for the happiness of all
beings. If one should find oneself in a situation where aggression is
needed, the best inner support is probably to think that one does it
for the benefit of others and to stop one’s opponent from inflicting
further harm on others and himself.
There is no other way of protecting our inner, cultural transmission
than by cultivating it, being it and showing others by example that
it is really possible to remain so, even in troubled times.
So claim and live up to you and your generation’s responsibility. And
be that courage, joy and love that you wish future generations to
experience and build their life and societies on."
Yours,
10News Team
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African
migrant publicly urinates and defecates in Berlin subway train
Not for the
faint hearted. Video here.
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Survey:
Migration has negative impact on “life quality … happiness”
(Above:
Statistics from the survey
Via Daily Mail:
“European
cities in countries hardest hit by the migrant crisis say the arrival
of foreigners has had a negative impact on their communities,
according to a new survey.
A
wide-ranging study by the European Commission in 83 cities analysed
people’s quality of life by asking them to rate factors from
education, housing, happiness and the impact of migration.
When
asked whether foreigners have been well integrated, less than half of
respondents agreed in 33 cities – around 40 per cent of the places
surveyed.
The
highest levels of discontent were found in Athens (76%), Greater
Athens (75%), Malmo (65%), Roma (64%) and Istanbul (64%).”
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