I feel like privatising my blog. Im not too sure if blogger has this function, but if comes worst to worst.. i'll shift my blog to another domain that has the privatised function.
Not that I've been receiving unreasonable comments or insults but that only deserving people who respects my blog shld read it.
This entry most probably has to do with the word RESPECT.
I think the whole issue of respect is very important. See what no respect has led people to? In the recent case of the 2 bloggers who were fined and jailed because of their racist remarks on their blog and forum. They had no respect and thus led them to where they are. People with no respect also gets criticied because they end up being called rude, unfilial, not courteous, unfriendly, arrogant and egoistic.
And when u have a group of people who has no respect for others... u get gossipers and backstabbers. In the end, a status of an innocent soul becomes a victim of this group of people's gossip and ill mentioned. Perhaps among themselves they dont have anything real to talk about, like, the recent bombing in Bali and its impact on SEA, the recent natural disaster that hit various parts of the world and it's impact or even local news about fear of terrorism, or even stuff like family values, work ethics, the economy. But rather than to talk about all these, people with no respect will like to take on the assumption role and just tell one another about someone else habits or character. But the funny thing is that it's only one person's views that spread like wild fire among the rest. This is what happens when u have a group of followers who just listens and agrees with whoever says something. I would like to call this group dynamics, because everyone suddenly is in agreement with each other. This will then lead to everyone having a similar impression of a particular someone whose thoughts might be true or might not.
I think the understanding of your fellow neighbours is so important. The virtue of "Love Thy Neighbour" is so simple yet so strong in meaning. Imagine if people respect each other, would we have hurt? Just because everyone is bitching about someone... it doesn't mean you shld bitch about that same person too simply because everyone is. A perfect example would be what's happening in the world now, If every country respects and love each other, you think wars and terrorism will prevail now? Or if everyone has respect for the environment, you think natural disaster will attack us now? Same thing for families, if parents respect their children and vice versa do you think families will break up or have trouble? How about between couples, if there's respect you think there's things like unfaithfulness? How about among a group of friends, do you think people will fall out with each other if all has no respect for each other?
The theory of "love thy neighbour" and respect may be very simple to understand, but honestly, it's the hardest to implement. We are too self-centered to even notice the other party or everything around us. Too self centered to bother whether we hurt the other party as well.
As Black Eye Peas rapped it very well, "Where is the Love?".
