Our lessons for you - Addendum 1

31 • A simple yes or no should suffice. These two words should be set in stone. All honour and all one’s LOVE for the CREATOR should find the whole expression of the purest truth in these two words. * * * * * * * December 1958 A test of courage Students and university professors vetoed the use of sabres after World War II because they felt it was beneath their dignity to fight one another with sabres. – Times have changed since then. Things that were acceptable in the past are no longer acceptable now. Power and its associated brutality are number one again. No wonder then that spilling man’s blood is of little concern and in view of a sable-rattling politics, of no specific value, so valueless that people may be poisoned with strontium and radioactivity so they fall prey to leukaemia or total disintegration. Universities, well even courts of law have once again avow to academic sable rattling. Reason given: Students have to verify their prowess through duelling , that is to say, through bloody jousts, in order to attest their strength of character for the world to see. – The results of these attestations are clearly recognised by academics by a crooked mouth or disfigured facial features, ergo by thick and long scars, so-called “ Mensur scars ”. Not everybody holds the same opinion, but recent legal adjudications makes one fear the worst. Let’s see what the higher spiritual and refined WORLD of the HEREAFTER has to say: ARGUN : We reject the idea of academic fencing. It is unworthy for anybody to be disfigured in such a bloody way. What is even more beneath contempt is that one person inflicts permanent physical damage to another person. Inflicting physical injuries is covered by terrestrial laws and it is legally avenged. We are dealing with severe physical injuries with permanent disfigurements, visibly inflicted on another person. Universities and courts of law demonstrate here that they simply set themselves above civil codes of law by ignoring pertinent paragraphs. AREDOS : Fighting duels disgraces man made in GOD’S image and it is unchristian and generally unreligious , because it injures man’s countenance and therefore – in comparison – also GOD’S countenance. Universities must regard health and life sacred and this includes respecting people’s blood and the maintenance of GOD’S created harmony that is supposed to be reflected in people’s countenance. But the spirit of brutally fighting one’s brother, this alleged test of courage, is just a pretext, because the true reasons are found in people’s craving for recognition . The students are only interested in receiving an academic badge of honour on their faces that visibly indicates to others their membership of a caste and it is akin to the way brutal cattle owners mark their young animals with a branding iron. We are also aware of lots of self-mutilations. CHRISTIAN : Fighting a duel is not a test of courage, it is rather a test of cowardice. The lack of insight, particularly the huge gaps in true faith and genuine divine acknowledgments, combined with not comprehending the coherencies within divine creation, are supposed to be concealed through the predicate of “ Mensur