Courage for the truth of your state.

"Die Weisse Rose" was called a group of students that started to show resistance against the Nazi regime. They thought it wrong what Hitler and his followers did and printed off flyers stating what  the Nazis really were doing.

They met at night in the cellar of one of the friends, thought about the texts, typed them with wiriting machines and send them to intellectuals within Germany.

On the 18th of February 1943 (70 years ago) there were still some left overs from the 6th flyer, and Sophie and Hans Scholl (Geschwister Scholl) decided to distribute the rest in the LMU, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet in Munich.

They run up the stairs put them infront of the halls. The doors were still locked, since lecture was going on. They run back to one of the entrances when they decided to run to the top part of the University. They through down the flyers when the concierge saw them and turned them over to the Gestapo.

They were condemned to death.

What impresses me is the Courage that stands behind the whole action. You do not just continue living within a regime even though you stronlgy disagree with it. You stand up and you try to do something. I am sure the young students from the weisse Rose were also at times filled with fear, but they knew it was the right thing to do, therefore they did not hesitate.

How much can we learn from this generation. And how simple and small are our problems of today in comparison. How often do we stand up for something or someone? Is the easier way not always to go with the flow?

Sophie Scholl sais Goodbye to Hubert Furtwaengler, Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell, who were about to leavein order to fight at the east front.

Pure Advertisement - Heinneken ads in comparison

Very stereotypical. But it works perfectly. Or rather this is the reason why it works perfectly.

A travel through the history.

Virtual life vs. real life.

The one who tries to safe his own life will loose it.

Is following your interests, being ambigous already trying to safe your life, or is it rather trying to make the best out of your life.

It is a tough question where to draw the line. I believe that the most important thing of everything is to always have all the other human beings that share this world with us and their existence, their feelings, their neccesities, simply themselves in your highest priority.

We are not made to live by ourselves, we are made to share everything we have with others. Our thoughts and feelings as well as our belongings. In the end we are not happy if we keep everything to ourselves. It is the other persons happy ness that makes us happy. Sometimes we unlearn that but it defenitely is a truth that lies in the core of every heart.

Does our environment and the technological advances force that we more and more built our own world with MY i pad, MY i pod, MY apple, memememe everything is personalized and we spend an IMMENSE time with these things - on our own. It is nothing that socially cultivates you. You just have to press a button "I like" you do not even have to say why.

I believe there are many good things in the technological advances and in the ambigousness people create nowadays to get a good degree etc. The important thing, however is,  to never forget the people standing next to you. Because in the end it is them who make a change in our lifes. And it is together with them that we can achieve great, unexpected things.

There is nothing on earth that can compete with friendship and love.

In that sense....(well well well that << is a really horrible german saying)

love, peace and happiness

The Orang Utan

http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article107923152/Rauchender-Orang-Utan-auf-einsame-Insel-verbannt.html

German cult - die Toten Hosen

They are a legend since almost 20 years, they founded the band in 1984. And they are one of the few of this type of German rock bands who still have millions of followers today.

Illusion.

Is everything an illusion? What is real of that what we see? Do I see things different than others do?
Two people experience the exact same thing on the same time at the same place, when you ask them afterwords to tell you about the event, you will get two different stories.

They may only vary a little, but there also is the possibility, that they differ quite a lot from each other. That is because every human being has a different apperception. But which of the two apperception will be the right one in the end? Who is allowed to judge the rightness of these two subjective apperceptions?

Is everything always about being right or wrong? Or are there just many different views and solutions to one question?

Why does a woman in her 30s start to scream when her husband slowly starts to take off with his chair and flies towards the ceiling? And why does his 7 year old daughter just look at him as if it was the most normal thing.

The longer we life on earth the more our head distinguishes between things that are normal and work and other things that are not normal and simply do not work. We are a product of our world and the society that we live in.

If it has not happened for 30 years it must be something very strange. Why can we not take the openness and phantasy which every child has into our growing older?

Guess what?

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

“Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter – a girl brought up with the utmost care – to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

Oscar Wilde

 

Phantasy or knowledge

"Phantasy is more important than knowledge, hence knowledge is limited."Albert Einstein

Alice Amos, 3 years old and brigther than Carol Vorderman the Mirror;  

 3-jaehrige Alice Amos ist schlauer als Albert Einstein, die Welt