Monday, 4 May 2009

Eleven Minutes

questions on sexuality and love
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I guess everyone asks these questions sooner or later
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beyond how the world looks beyond those “eleven minutes”
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Love is a sacred gift from God, but the world has messed up so badly
it becomes a curse
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anyway reading that book, infusion of biblical and worldly precepts of love and sex
albeit rather pornographic in its descriptions...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
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Song of Solomon 2:7:
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and by the does of the field:

Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.
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its strange to tell a malay muslim guy I made friends with during my guard duty:
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I don’t worry, If God wants to give me a life companion, He will, if not He wont,
After all, God is Great (
Allāhu Akbar) , and He can do anything
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and he agreed.

2 comments:

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

    I remember reciting that in front of the class four years ago. I have read "Eleven Minutes" and it is one of my favorite books. May I ask, are you against that book?

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  2. not really, I feel that it is a very well written book...

    some of the values in the book don't really tally with mine though(in regard to how the author juxtaposed sexual promiscuity with religion), but its just a personal view... other issues the book points out in regard to love and sex are very insightful though

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