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Look what I found He!He!He!(looks like  me )    .

 There is a limit to what an individual may do to help children avoid or overcome the effects of media violence. Such a task requires a collective effort by society in general and media gurus in particular. The channel bigwigs, instead of resorting to shock tactics to increase viewership and advertising revenues, by broadcasting unwarranted images of death and gore, may, and should, show restraint and perhaps a bit of responsibility.The gruesome images of Saddam Hussein’s final moments barely managed to create ripples in our society and not shock waves as would normally be expected from any civilised nation of the world.

To say that the aired video was a violation of human rights and an outright breach of the code of respect for a dying person would be an understatement. It defied all acceptable norms of media self-censorship. Although there was a lot of hue and cry raised over Saddam’s execution, very few voices were heard condemning the recording of the entire sequence and then blatantly airing it.

The news pundits in a bid to outrun the other channels thrive on sensationalism and such is the lure of this cut-throat competition that anything from the scene of crime to the real time hanging may be aired with absolutely no distinction being made between genuine information and literal violence.

Media violence is certainly not a new phenomenon as is quite evident from a number of reality shows, movies and whatever runs in the name of ‘quality’ entertainment on different media. At any point in time, people between the ages of one and 90 may be seen watching television with the average viewing time falling between two and four hours daily.

According to a report, a 10-year-old child, Sergio Pelico, accidentally hanged himself in his Texas home while aping Saddam’s execution. He’d watched TV news and was inordinately curious about Saddam’s death. In Pakistan,  Rahim Yar Khan, a nine-year-old boy with the help of his 10-year-old sister, hanged himself from a ceiling fan in a tragic attempt to re-enact the hanging he’d watched earlier.

A 15-year-old Indian girl, Moon Moon, hanged herself “to feel the pain Saddam did during execution”. She’d become extremely depressed after watching the news (which she insisted on watching again and again) and refused food for two days before hanging herself. and so on list goes on etc.My friends they should have been protected we are not doing our job   Research conducted over the past,  by experts in the field of media violence, including television, film, videogames, music and the Internet, confirm that media violence has profound negative effects on children. The conclusion is simple, violence begets violence………………………………………"Protect a child ".

This was a reaction to two boys playing in the park trying to hang each other.WHY???And are you doing anything about it?

    I have  upset you enough! Have a laugh and a good week              "Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?" . He!He!He!

                                    I was thinking about my bad (horrible) habits I HAVE a number of nasty habits, and some goods ones too. I do not know from where I acquired them. Some say most habits are inherited; but my parents were an ideal couple,I have adopted some other habits (good or bad) after getting influenced by my elders, friends, countrymen — I mean the entire social fabric to which I am inextricably attached. Therefore, I cannot be solely blamed for the nasty things I do nor fully accredited for the good ones.Of course, I can be accused of not shunning, discouraging or condemning my despicable habits or praised for propagating and extolling the virtuous ones. What I need to say here is that there is neither universal acclamation nor ethical commendation of a few habits, which have become man’s second nature. Consider the following:

I once traveled on a bus sitting next to a person for 12 hours and she eat and eat and eat, through out the night and the next day she was doing the same.

She chewed loudly, slurps, and smacks her lips with everything  crunch,crunch… It drove  me crazy because she did it so loudly.
Almost all of us have bad habit:
Lying: This habit is acquired at any age from any strata of society, but parents and politicians are incorrigible trend-setters. Parents lie voluntarily or involuntarily in their own or their children’s’ interest, quite unaware that by doing so they are breeding a nation of non-dependable citizens.

"It can be anything from nail-biting or compulsively checking your e-mail or gossiping or hair twirling,".
I use to spit when playing football till one day a player from another team fell face down where I’d just spit and it was all over his face. That was that no more.

 Swearing: Environment and companionship play a vital role in the formation of the habit of swearing. If the family background of a person is a cultured and decent one, it is the contaminated social circle that inflicts the damage by injecting the habit of swearing in him. As swearing is quite close to a scuffle, the rising temperatures eventually lead to the eruption of a row, the moment foul language is used by two parties. What follows next is anybody’s guess: Fist fights (if unarmed), injuries (if lightly armed), casualties (if lethally armed), and fatalities (if auto armed).

I developed the habit of sneezing and blowing my nose in public using neither tissue papers nor a handkerchief.He!He!He( joke)

  Barring this habit, which is nasty enough, I am otherwise a well-dressed, good-mannered, obedient citizen of the world. He!He!He!

The sun never says to the earth,
‘You owe me.’
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights up the whole sky." …………….. Hafiz…

 I am on air He!He!He! Yes! oh Yes! My friends I am blogging.Hope you guys are all well.

 A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its parts, and through their good order to one another. It cannot be called good as a whole until it is finished. During the process all we can say of it, if we speak precisely, is that it is becoming good.

For the Muslim readers who are  getting ready for fasting .(Ramadan)

"As-salaamu alaikum" - "Peace to you from my heart to your heart"      For those looking forward to the Ramadan (fasting) in the ninth month of the Islamic calender.It begins at sundown or there about on sept 12 2007.for Muslims its a "month of blessing"marked by prayer,fasting,and charity…its focuses on self -sacrifice and devotion to Allah s.w.t.(God).Its one of the pillars of Islam. "Ramadan Mubarak" which means "Blessed Ramadan" He!He!He! (Want more?).

By nature Man is not to hurt others but to be kind to others; otherwise hatred will prevail and life will be distorted………..Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw).

To a person who is not willing to be blinded by faith, who is not willing to be a fanatic - this is unacceptable. To be blind by faith is not what faiths are all about. Rather, knowing and realizing the truth is what faith is all about.

As Jesus said in his own blessed speech: You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32)

I like this saying :

"When "I" and "You" are absent, I’ve no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple.

Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning,ur souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance.
Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

My friends  "peace comes from within.Do not seek it without.leave the past alone,do not worry about the future do not cling to the present and you will achieve calm.

  May all beings be happy and secure; may their mind be contented. let one’s thonghts of boundless love pervade the whole world - above, below and across - without any hatred, without any enmity