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Who said it is me or you!?
Recently I have been thinking over and over what to do, where to go next after my year as a volunteer in Austria.
I have been working in business environment and it was pretty a lot of fun, but there was lack of inner motivation that I am doing a good thing to world.
Due to Think about it project I got to know a lot of new approaches to life and living. Like what it means to be a vegetarian and to care about green world around us, care about global warming, being confronted with climategate, which wasnt information you as a climate change activist want to get to know.
Still living in one of winters with so a lot of snow and such cold weather (some palaces in Latvia even -33C) and still experiencing warm autumn days in late November.
And I also experienced that we do not choose where we are born, we do not choose what is political system we live in and religion we are forced to believe in. You could ask - why forced to believe in .. As I remember, noone asked me if I want to be a catolic, luteran or orthodox .. These are rules we can brake when we grow, but we are forced into them in times we do not have decision making abililty.
Recently I talked with my mother who told stories from Latvian employment environment.. Somehow we lack humanity, you can be just fired, your salary can be not paid as taxes and in the end you stay nowhere with children you have. This is reality.
Maybe I am an idealist and want to believe that people are good and they should act as good people, taking in consideration not only power and cash.. I want to believe in social systems that functions and people who care.
I just want to ..


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Insightful thoughts in this post, I really liked it.
About religion - do you think being born into a religion, or into any context really, is the same as being forced to be catholic/lutheran/muslim etc. ? I wouldn’t agree with that, as I think your nationality, religion and other identities is something you construct yourself. You might be catholic, but what that means is entirely up to you in the end.
And do you think a society where people are good to each other is possible without religion? Even Adam Smith wrote somewhere that capitalism works because people are afraid of their neighbours judgement and even more of God’s judgement, and therefor they don’t misuse the system to maximize their own profit.