.i think therefore i am

My artwork

hamedthinks — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:35:27 +0000

I just put some of my artworks online.
I hope you’ll like them.

http://professorhamed.wordpress.com/artwork/

Heaven

hamedthinks — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:23:03 +0000

A lot of people ask themselves why am I alive? What’s the purpose of my life?
A religious person would answer: ‘Well if you are a good person in this life then you will go to heaven’

That’s sort of odd. If I’m in heaven and I have everything I could possibly want what’s the purpose of that. Am I going to be happy for ever, for an unlimited amount of time. That don’t make any sense to me. To be alive for ever seems more like hell then heaven.
I just can’t figure it out. I guess, I will found out sooner or later. Either it’s true or not. But then it won’t matter anymore.

Rageh inside Iran

hamedthinks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:04:57 +0000

‘Rageh inside Iran’ is a documentary about Iran by the BBC. I’ve got to say that it’s not that new, I think it’s at least a year old but this is the nicest documentary about Iran.
If you haven’t seen this before then this will be quite interesting for you.

My inspiration

hamedthinks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:50:04 +0000

I believe that everybody has his inspiration. I didn’t just want to write a blog to have a blog. I got inspired by a very interesting blog. This Blog by an ‘Iranian Girl’ actually made me realize that changes are necessary and a very critical look at our surroundings and ourselves is truly necessary.
I really admire her courage and her braveness, because she is an activist in Iran fighting for freedom and equality of women in Iran.
I wish her luck and hope she will be successful.

Her Blog IRANIAN GIRL

The art of of well-beeing

hamedthinks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:50:42 +0000

Today I came across something very interesting. In my phylosophy class we were talking about a book called ‘To have or to be’ by Erich Fromm. He is taking a critical look at the new evolved and experimantel society in the industrial countries. The people in such societies don’t seem to able to be happy, eventhough people in poorer countries can be happier and enjoy their lives a lot more, which does not seem to be logical since they don’t have enough money to live their lifes in a luxurious way. ‘So how come?’ was the question I was asking myself?

We came to the conclusion that we have a lot of wishes. We actually do believe that if we could make our wishes come true, we would be ultimately happy. But in fact life seems to become boring when there is no desire left, to live for.
A classmate of mine said: ‘Eventhough one has everything one desired, there still is a ‘black’ emptiness, which makes you think that you still haven’t reached ultimate happiness.’
Where pointed out: ‘I think that, that ‘emptiness’ can only be filled by our own. So if someone decides(!) to be happy, that person can be happy.’

As a conclusion I would say everyone is able to be happy. You decide.

Blog Tag – 5 things you didn’t know about

hamedthinks — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:23:32 +0000

I was reading some blogs as I read this click
It seemed to be quite nice so I decided to join

My list of 5 things you didn’t know about me:

Sometimes when I wake up I’ve got to think very hard to remember what has happened last night and to realize where I am
Sometimes I start singing in my head without realizing
It might be scary for some people but I actually enjoy maths
When I’m home alone I turn up the music and start singing… everybody does
I like telling unfunny jokes

My Question to the President

hamedthinks — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:19:55 +0000

Just today I bumped into the blog of Ahmadinejad. So I took a look at his blog and saw these comments on right side. Suddenly I remembered that my dad told me about this site. He also told me that you can actually send him a message, which sounded a bit strange to me because I never would have thought that you could actually talk to a president… I mean he must be quite busy ruling and doing the stuff a president does. Since then I wanted to send him an message just to see if he would reply. So this is exactly what I did. Just to give you a short summary of my attitude towards the whole Iran thing.

Do you like Ahmadinejad?
I would say no because eventhough I really like his attitude towards the western countries including the nuclear issue, I don’t like his national very strict islamic policy.
Nuclear Energy for Iran – Yes or No?
Defenitley yes as long as it is for the nuclear energy.
Headscarf – Yes or No?
I don’t hate headscarfs. I mean if somebody wants to wear it, thats fine. But I don’t like it if somebody commands you to wear one.
Is there going to be a military attack against Iran?
Don’t think so, unless somebody is dumb enough to do so.
Would you welcome an attack against Iran?
NO, I’d rather leave the Mullahs in power.

That beeing said, here’s the message I sent Mr Ahmadinejad, I will post his Answer as soon as I get it:

Hello Mr Ahmadinejad

I would not say that I like the way you are ruling Iran right now but there are certain actions, for instance the foreign policy, which are an enrichment for Iran.

I read your latest post in which you were pointing out to the islamic governance. Because of one reason I am not convinced and have to doubt that the Islam – which is a religion – can be used and can be understood as a form of governement, yet I am not trying to say that a governance cannot include many islamic philisophies.

Well the main reason I am talking about is that the Islamic religion actually does not allow to force any human beeing to believe in Islam.

I know that people in Iran who do not believe in Islam are not, at least not willingly, oppressed and actually are represented in the congress. But if a State is an Islamic Republic then a very logical conclusion would be that the people are somehow forced or maybe are somehow manipulated so that they believe in Islam. Which is not intented by Islam.

I myself believe that the there are some western countries, e.g. Germany, which have a very similar way of governing than the islamic governance (I am trying to point out to the social system), eventhough they might not realize it themselves.

That beeing said I see some problems coming up which need to be taken care of. For example the very little touristic business in Iran. If Iran was able to attract the attention of tourists than the iranians would be able take advantage of it.

The main problem why many europeans do not dare or do wouldn’t like to visit Iran, eventhough Iran has a huge touristical potential, is because mainly they are scared of Iran (middle East in general) and secondly headscarfs are a very strange thing to them and the female europeans couldn’t bare putting on a headscarf anyhow, therefore they think why going to Iran with that much of a struggle where I can go to Turkey for half the price.

I know my comment will be checked and might not even be published but it would be very nice of you if you would answer me somehow.

Thank you for your very valuable time.