Voice Of The Oppressed

World No Tobacco Day!- Reflecting On Our Hypocrisy

By Neba-Fuh

Today, May 31 is observed the world over as "World No Tobacco Day". A day set aside to highlight  the health hazards caused by tobacco products. The theme this year is "Tobacco Health Warnings".

The hypocrisy surrounding the addictive habit of smoking is glaring in any part of the world you find yourself.

A 'Virgin' Tribe Discovered

By Neba-Fuh

'You can move a child out of a village but you can not move  the village out of the child' goes the popular adage! News of  the world's  recently discovered  un-contacted indigenous tribe came like a bombshell as anthropologists, sociologists as well as indigenous rights activists continually ponder on the possibility of more undiscovered virgin group of people, who may be seeing us as 'aliens'.

Recently, occupants of a hovering aircraft noticed a group of people in the heartland of the Amazon dense forest, just around the borders demarcating Brazil from Peru.
Later on, the people ran for their safety while their 'army' of  warriors- fewer in number and made up of hefty looking men emerged, all painted in red and aiming their traditionally  made bows and arrows at the aircraft, ready to defend their homeland. (see photograph ).

Complexities of Religiosity

Neba-Fuh

This is holy week. A week when Christians commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus-The Christ. The tenets of Christian belief center around the resurrection-the act of rising from the death. Religiosity is a complex phenomenon. This phenomenal aspect of religiosity is not what tilt us to our religious beliefs, but the simple fact that man is prone to be religious. What makes religiosity complex is the fact that it is centered on facts and beliefs. The aspects of religiosity that are not provable(not facts), are considered beliefs, making religion one of the  known concepts that ignores the proof paradigm. The logic aspect(logos) may or may not be as important as the non-logical aspect(pure belief borne from faith).