300,000 years BCE, In a bright sunny day, a few Homo sapiens are taking preperation for hunting. These early people are hairy but not slow-witted as some future archaeologists may think. They are smart enough to find colors from nature. These early Michelangelos are making red color from Iron oxide, and black from manganese or charcoal, left over from the cooking fires.
Year 2004 AD, in a remote village of an Islamic country, a group of students is chanting a chorus. No, they are not singing or reciting a poem. Singing is prohibited in this classroom and it’s an unforgivable sin. He never laughs. Laughing is an unacceptable behavior in Islam and it’s against Mohammad’ teachings. |
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald