In the previous post I asked you about peace. I gave a quote from Aristotle.
This post is connected with that one. In class this week we will watch a 7 min video from the BMW series. The question I want you to think about is from the video "Ticker."
"What would you fall on your sword for?"
In other words for what would you sacrifice yourself. For what would you put yourself on the line? What would you stand up for no matter the cost to yourself?
Heavy, but interesting and important.
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I asked this question to different classmates from diverse countries and cultures. One of the brazilians answered: "my family.. if something happened to my parents, I would be there even with my life". Another brazilian and the corean answered: "we don't know..." The last one, from Turkey, stated that honour would be the only possible reasson to sacrifice himself. After his answer, he asked me for what reasson I would sacrifice myself. I began to think about all the possible facts that could cause my reaction at the piont of dead, at the cost of myself.
My family... I love my family and each of its members with profound affection, but the honour of my family is something that I couldn't defend with my life, I don't need to demonstrate that honor to anybody.
My country... A country is an abstract human concept based on a portion of territory, a history, a population and the sovereignity of a common authority. Unfortunately, I don't believe nor in my country neither in any other. Too much lies, encountered interests, wars, fightings for power, corruption, selfishness, indifference...
What else? My beliefs? Even though I can be witness of the genuinity of my thoughts and my feelings, they are in a constant changing and evolution, they are moving, fluence, they are not the last truth and are not absolutely mine in deed.
Whith all the cards on the table, nothing from this world is sufficently genuine to put myself on the line. Science, Art, all the production of the human knowledge, religions.. all of theese proceed from the heart of the human being.
There is only one thing remaining in my mind, and the only one I can say doesn't came from my heart, but from an external truthful source: faith. Faith is different from certainty, one comes from God and the other from the human heart. One is beyond the human logic parameters, while the other one is what we need to make existance possible in this earth.
Once, God touch my heart outside any religious and cultural boundary. I began to know God in the name of Jesus, being his witness from something I had never experienced before. The same faith that moved Stephan and thousands of martyrs after, is the same faith that is actually moving me and the one and only reasson I feel as a truth in which I can stand up for no matter the cost of myself.
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