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Are we safer now than we were immediately after 9/11, or have we just been lucky?

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Change in attitude is the key to unlock terrorism free world.

Let us ask ourselves that why do we get the intention to kill or hurt some one, sometimes?

The answer is clear, we are not happy with the way the other person or group has behaved in the past or some injustice which we think that the other person or group has done to us. And more over when cheated for money or on the basis of power and force all of us get temped, to go out of our control.

With these simple facts let's get to the real issue now. Are we safe after the 9/11 issue or we have been just lucky enough not to have some more acts of terrorism, and in fact I would strongly say that we were never safe even before this 9/11 issue and only have been lucky and are never going to be safe till we as an individual change our attitude.

Changing our attitude does not mean simply saying to ourselves that i will not kill anyone or hurt public property because, this will not serve the purpose, actually where we need to change our attitude is in the crucial areas like religious differences, technological developments, using of power, globalization, differentiation on the basis of money and knowledge, world heritage, and beyond this we need to have broader outlook towards life and its purpose if we have to reduce terrorism.

What i am trying to say might seem confusing now, so, let me take few area i have mentioned above to clarify.

Religious differences:
This has been a major cause of terrorism in many parts of the world. we simply do not understand that religion is only a road amongst various roads to feel the presence of nature(god).lets ask ourselves did we know on our birth that we are Christians ,Hindus, Muslim, Sikhs etc .answer is no no no and only no. This shows that nature does not know something called religion and they have been created only by us. secondly if we feel something is true which has been said in our religion and good for the mankind then instead of forcing it to be inculcated into others spread it across others specifying that this is good for the mankind and its possible reasons and leave it to the option of others to except it or not, and sensible humans will surely accept it if it is true. thirdly , lets question ourselves on certain beliefs which we have in our religion that, is it really true and worth practicing or we are blindly accepting it because some elder member in our religion has said it to be true. I am not saying don't heed


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