5) Smaller writings
(translated by Bence and Rainer)
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Again I’ve got
shipwrecked on the hard ground of reality!
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The great thinker
(translated by Bence)
A great sage was sitting
under a tree, deeply plunged into his thoughts, he looked into the distance
with empty eyes. Once a young man approached and addressed him: "Great
sage, excuse me for daring to disturb you in your thoughts! But tell me! How
do I become as great a sage as you? "The scholar stared in the direction
from where the voice had come. He opened his mouth to say something, but
immediately closed it again. Only in his eyes one could read: "Go out
into the world, hear the singing of the birds, do everything your heart
commands you, but do not become a slave of yourself. And then, sit under a
tree and wait until a youngster approaches and asks you: "Great sage!
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The decent character of a
personality
(translated by Bence)
The hare lived with many
other very different animals in the forest. There was the badger, the frog,
the deer, the fox, the raven ……….. By himself, he thought shattered one day:
"How can I have a distinctive personality here in the forest, where
there are so many different animals. Each one is outstanding in its own way.
I have to look for a more suitable area." So he set off to leave the
forest. He came into the desert. But there was no animal to whom his
personality could have been expressed. So he set off again to search. He came
to a meadow where many sheep grazed. "What is the name of this
land?" He asked the first sheep. The answer came promptly and was very
simple: "Baaah!" "This is the ideal place for me!" -
thought the hare.
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All losers consider
themselves brilliant and despised and hindered by society to be successful.
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The elite’s greatest
dilemma consists in the desire of being recognized.
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It’s better to kneel down
than to bend over!
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Sometimes it is a
compliment not to be loved by a certain person.
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As it is important for
parents and their children to quarrel in order to loosen their ties, the same
can be observed within friendships as to make it possible for them to get
married.
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Rules in society are only
necessary where the law of the strongest doesn’t help development.
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Life is fun! If it’s sour
for you, don’t blame the world! If others do well, it can only be your own
fault!
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Excluding oneself from
the functioning part of society leads to a kind of loneliness which
culminates in the feeling of belonging to an elite.
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I can’t fight for you if
I have to fight against you.
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Happiness is a
comfortable way for lazy people to satisfy very simple needs.
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As nationalism has its
origin in a lack of self-confidence it shows the desire to belong to a bigger
group which offers security.
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Use your lexical
knowledge not only to strengthen your point of view, but to get to more
appropriate conclusions.
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The greatest disadvantage
of autocratic systems, there are few getting their feet kissed and even more
kissing feet. In democracy one gets advantage because of ability.
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One is only brave, if he
does something he doesn’t dare!
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A woman: “Excuse me, but
I can’t cause less trouble than that.”
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Why should we expect
something to last for ever, which causes us nothing else but momentary fun!
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Don’t stand beside the
big ones, because you will be small! Stand beside the small, then you will be
grand! Don’t stand beside the powerful, because you will be their slave!
Stand beside the small, he won’t hurt you, he is glad not to be hurt by others!
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30) The history of the Catholic Church as a servant of the powerful
(translated by Bence)
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30) The history of the
Catholic Church as a servant of the powerful (translated by Bence)
How was it possible for
the Catholic Church as an institution to last for so long and to be so
successful?
Judaism, Christianity,
Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism have no unified institution and can be considered
pure religions. It looks different with Catholicism. After Constantin having
appointed the Church as state religion, she has been linked to the various
ruling layers and served them as organizer and henchman ever since.
At the time of
Diocletian, the first Christians or early Christians were forced to gather in
communities to better escape persecution. There were fewer slaves than
middleclass artisans and small traders who turned to this ideology, so they
often could read and write. Constantin made this small but throughout the
empire spread minority his allies. The previously persecuted now helped him
to control others. They fit well into the new system and made it their own.
The boundaries of the former Roman administrative districts can still be
partially recognized in the division of today's dioceses.
When the Western Roman
Empire collapsed, the Catholic Church without scruples offered the Germanic
barbarians their administrative services. Thus, from the kingdom of the Goths
to the Frankish kingdom, various kingdoms were created, all of which then
disappeared again; only the Catholic Church remained and served the new
rulers.
Slowly nation-states
appeared, which, as in 1906, constitutionally prescribed the separation of
Church and state. So she turned to those powers who wanted to continue to use
her services. England had her own Church, France wanted to live independently
and communism was anti-religious. So she had no choice but to join fascism.
Franco and Mussolini counted on her and Hitler concluded a pact of
"respecting each other" with her. Had communism not been so hostile
to religion, the Church would have served it as well.
But what is the situation
of the Church in the 21st century?
From a financial point of
view, it is pretty bad for Catholicism, though the Church is still one of the
richest organizations in the world thanks to the riches she’s been able to
accumulate over the centuries. In some states, such as Germany, there is
still a church tax, in others it is otherwise supported by the state and
believers still donate a lot of money. In order to manage her vast
administrative apparatus, the organization uses monks and nuns, for whom she
pays almost no tax, for example by curing them in her own hospitals and
transferring them to church-owned old age homes at retirement age, or by free
volunteer work by believers. Nevertheless, her importance is constantly
decreasing. The German Pope Benedict went back to the past, wanted to
reintroduce the church ceremony in Latin, thus creating a small but narrower
elite circle out of church fellowship. The Church did not want to follow him.
The question of women and homosexuals as pastors, paedophile scandals in many
educational institutions of the Church, unassimilated past (Inquisition,
Hitler pact, etc.), the right to abortion, slowly corrode her from the
inside. But the world is changing too fast for dogmas to adapt to these
changes adequately.
Amen!
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