Revisiting Malirana

It's been long I guess, since I was back to good old High school of Mtendere, deep down Malirana in Dedza.I got lots of memories from them days. Most are generally good others actually outright hilarious!
One of the funny things was a sleep talking in the dorms. I lived in Shire house, I guess the most unruly House. There was a pattern I observed among perennial sleep talkers. All of us may sleep talk once in a while under special circumstances, but of these you can stay up late and you will surely record a funny sound. A person has to have at least 2 to 3 of these qualities (These are personal observation only)

1)      They are usually quiet people.
2)      Generally nice guys
3)      Mostly loners, or at least  reserved guys
4)      Generally religious
One  guy in particular, for the sake of himself and those who may know him I shall leave him unnamed but he lived  Shire 23 ,and later moved to Baghdad(this is for the initiated only).this guy was an eloquent  sleep talker. He was so talkative in sleep! He went on and on rumblings in very coherent Chichewa.

His all times great talk was one Thursday night. The tyranny of boarding school ,had already been in force; the lights  were off ,the dorm was quite except for some low chattering ,or  in-bracket chewing of   roasted maize!..Hahahaha...then our great friend began his all time talks. Starting with some little rumbling in a rather fast talk, and climaxed with an all time quote that has since haunted him. He exclaimed "Ndigula chigayo!"(I will buy a maize mill!) Then he went silent only to repeat "Ndigula chigayo!"
Everyone was stunned, and then a large roar of laughter followed. It was a night of laughter and a nightmare from then on for our good friend. It was always a punch line and an argument ender for him if anyone used it against him.

I guess I remembers this coz my roommate occasionally sleep talks. I have also been accused to do so. We are just not that perennial. I guess it's being far from home, some nostalgia and great memories.
NB:
Don’t mind me, I'm just reminiscing. Hope you look back too. We got so many things to be grateful for.


The Madman:The Death of God


 The german philosopher Nietsche wrote this story in his book  Die fröhliche Wissenschaft(Gay Science).Its a story that has been subject to major philosophical material.Check it out!

  Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!"   As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

  "Where has God gone?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? 


Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we not smell anything yet of God's decomposition? Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."


  Here the madman fell silent and again regarded his listeners; and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern to the ground, and it broke and went out. "I have come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. The tremendous event is still on its way, still travelling - it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves."  It has been further related that on that same day the madman entered divers churches and there sang a requiem. Led out and quietened, he is said to have retorted each time: "what are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchres of God?"


Explaining    Nietzsche's 'death of God'

"God is dead" never meant that Nietzsche believed in an actual God who first existed and then died in a literal sense. It may be more appropriate to consider the statement as Nietzsche's way of saying that the "God" of the times (religion and other such spirituality) is no longer a viable source of any received wisdom. Nietzsche recognizes the crisis which the death of God represents for existing mbecause "When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident... By breaking one main concept out of Christianity, the faith in God, one breaks the whole: nothing necessary remains in one's hands.oral considerations, "[1] This is why in "The Madman", a work which primarily addresses atheists, the problem is to retain any system of values in the absence of a divine order.
The death of God is a way of saying that humans are no longer able to believe in any such cosmic order since they themselves no longer recognize it. The death of God will lead, Nietzsche says, not only to the rejection of a belief of cosmic or physical order but also to a rejection of absolute values themselves — to the rejection of belief in an objective and universal moral law, binding upon all individuals. In this manner, the loss of an absolute basis for morality leads to nihilism. 
This nihilism is what Nietzsche worked to find a solution for by re-evaluating the foundations of human values. This meant, to Nietzsche, looking for foundations that went deeper than Christian values. He would find a basis in the "will to power" that he described as "the essence of reality."


Nietzsche believed that the majority of people did not recognize this death out of the deepest-seated fear or angst. Therefore, when the death did begin to become widely acknowledged, people would despair and nihilism would become rampant. This is partly why Nietzsche saw Christianity as nihilistic. He may have seen himself as a historical figure like Zarathustra, Socrates or Jesus, giving a new philosophical orientation to future generations to overcome the impending nihilism.

NB:
 I just gave you the take of the  issue from a very mild philosophical backdrop.I will dive in in part two to reflect on the Death Of God,as I see it and how it can or has happened ,unlike in …is quite literal,or almost literal.Check out part two.Part three will be athestic view of the issue and lastly I will bring in the christian leading thinkers and their comment of the issue,Is God Dead?








My Friend:A dedication

I just thought of my great friends over the years.Hope,jimmy,Allan,Gift and many others.This is for you!

My Friend

I feel like I've known you forever
Although I only met you sometime this past year
But our friendship will remain forever
No matter what shall cross our paths and hearts

The best thing that's happened to me
Is finding a forever friend like you
You're there to listen, help, and talk to
And best of all, I know I can confide in you

Some say the best love is one sprung from friendship
So I feel this is why we should try
Time leads us in this direction
Should we follow on down the line?

Friendship and love are always intertwined
Too close which sometimes causes confusion
But if we don't try, we will never know if it was meant to be
But forever you will remain my friend

I don't know if this is going to work
I'm not totally sure we should try
But I have all these mixed feelings
Bottled up inside

I love you both inside and out as my best friend
And I know that you love me that way too
So when I say "best friends forever"
That even means when I'm saying" Goodbye, I love you, too."

Miss you fellas ,and all others.You decorate my life!

Zodiak Radio Online

If  you are like me,i have been facing problems streaming Zodiak Radio.For some of you familiar with my blog,i had a widget of it and made quite a easy listen.So i took it up with them ,with my surrogate of coz..Check out  our correspondence

--- On Wed, 12/2/09, zodiakmalawi@mail.com <zodiakmalawi@mail.com> wrote:

From: zodiakmalawi@mail.com <zodiakmalawi@mail.com>
Subject: Re: Live 365
To: jimmyfranklinwhite@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 10:21 PM

Dear Lawrence Kwalimba,
 
Hope all is good with you. Well, about live365.com, we have terminated our contract and that if you want to access our online radio, please, visit our website http://www.zodiakmalawi.com and you can listen to our live radio from there. We have done this to recuce costs which were going as high as
$5,108.51 per month.
 
We hope you will not have any problems.
 
Best Regards,
IT Officer


-----Original Message-----
From: lawrence kwalimba <jimmyfranklinwhite@yahoo.com>
To: zodiakmalawi@mail.com
Sent: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 4:57 pm
Subject: Live 365

Dear Sir /Madam
 
I'm a malawian in diaspora,and love listening to Zodiak.Recently i can not find it in the Live 365,and the one on your page is not working.I hope you fix the problem because zodiak is the only dependable,neutral source of news for me and many of us.
Your Sincerely
Lawrence Kwalimba


Attitude


No matter how badly life has treated you, just walk tall with your head high.

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"Its not what happens to you but how you represent what happened that affects you"~Tony Robbins~

"Life turns out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out"
~Milton ~
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