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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #292929; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Even if the world goes down, my </strong></em><a class="new" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Handy&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" title="Handy (page does not exist)"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>handy</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> will save me" , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas (100 x 100cm)</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em> If we don’t counter the onslaught of the insidious triviality of transgression in our daily environment, and if we gradually lose grip on the pervading taint of apathy and disrespect, we need irrevocably restructure our thinking, and adjust the mechanism of our action.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Taking everything for granted and accepting anything uncontested might generate disjunction, arouse extreme heartbreak and, finally, turn our living into a scourge.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>If people skirt around the essence of things and dodge the real substance of their words, they are twisting the core of the message that they are expected to deliver. If we are not prepared to spell out clearly the content of our thinking or to ‘name’ undisputedly the quality of the cold hard facts, we deserve to be disentitled, intellectually.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>The addiction to our mobiles may insidiously unlock evil actions by helplessly surrendering to the plague of blatant indifference, arrogant inattention, and flighty bee-lining and sophisticated acts of revenge. Smartphones may unstitch positive points in our lives and incidentally enchant us by instant selfies, but, with some, they might inexorably trigger off shabby and despicable practices.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Martin Luther certified that he would plant his tree today even when the world goes down tomorrow.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Today‘s generations are convinced that their mobiles will save them under any circumstances.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>The Smartphone has become a young divine embodying the ultimate desire and saving us from droopiness or lack of care and concern. It is the epitome of happiness, encompassing pleasure and contentment, but for sure does not allow woe and depression.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>Technology has become a new divinity and is expected to be the ultimate savior. The processing methods of the IT manufacturers will never disappoint their believers as they will unrepentantly fine-tune their coveted hardware and software gifts.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>However, in a world where happiness has become a social duty, and sadness a public offense, life opens inevitably into a kaleidoscopic masquerade and a muddling carousel of faking.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>As long as we keep the elephant in the room and we persist ignoring it, we won’t be capable of unlearning people from ‘phubbing’ their way through life.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><strong><em>The embroiling algorithm of happiness may leave many bewildered or lost in translation while they snubbingly fall back on the smartphone, as a shield against intrusions from the outer world</em></strong>.</span></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: God and technology</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Girl hovering with mobile</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p>

Even if the world goes down
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>“No cherries anymore in winter time” , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> , oil on canvas, (80 x 100 cm)</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>When we have a privilege to pick them from a tree in the garden, cherries are so eye-catching and can be very poetic too.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>In wintertime, however, our trees are bare, and the taste of cherries does not desert the neurons in our brains.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Since many seem to be dependent on the savor of their cherries, they cannot help taking resort to fly them over with fast and polluting airplanes from countries where the climate allows picking the selected fruit abundantly.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>While they have to fly thousands of miles for our pleasure, we may forget to bear in mind that they set free, gentle airborne fine particles and hazardous volatile organic compounds.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Some might perhaps struggle with mixed feelings, and the cherries may leave a sour taste in the end.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>The ecologic importance of this issue must be added to the dossier about sustainability and belongs to our "Zeitgeist," the spirit of our time. </strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Air pollution</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Woman with cherries</strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p>

No cherries anymore in winter time
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><strong><em>"Sorry insufficient funds, goodbye!" , by </em></strong><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong><em>Erik Pevernagie</em></strong></span></span></a><strong><em>, oil on canvas,100 x 100 cm</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Banks and the financial world are always courteous and well-mannered but intransigent and intractable. "Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money." murmurs J. Edgar Hoover.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>The repetitive words " insufficient funds" sound very familiar in the ears of most people: "I'm sorry, you have insufficient funds in your account," "The cablegram of doom: insufficient funds in the bank.", "Long-standing local pastry shop at Helena: "I'm sorry if you're not getting the donut you wanted: insufficient funds is the main hurdle."</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>If consumption is the main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Since consumption is seen as a promising way to fulfillment and happiness, it has become an essential manner to impress the world around. Thus, financial status and outward appearance have become required proof of self-accomplishment and success.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Credit institutes have desperately been trying to seduce people and make them buy unnecessary things. To the insolvent clients that they have been attracting lightheartedly, they will give an ironical and harsh reply: "Sorry! You have insufficient funds! Goodbye!". Michael Moore made a stingy remark about this state of affairs: "</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things."</strong></em></p> <p><br /><strong><em>Phenomenon: Credit institutes, </em></strong><a class="new" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Consumption&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" title="Consumption (page does not exist)"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong><em>consumption</em></strong></span></span></a></p> <p><strong><em>Factual starting point of the picture: women </em></strong><a class="new" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Home_banking&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" title="Home banking (page does not exist)"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><strong><em>home banking</em></strong></span></span></a><strong><em> in front of PC</em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p>

Sorry unsufficient funds goodbye
<p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">"What do they think behind their dirty aprons?"</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> , by </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" lang="FR"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #663366; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Erik Pevernagie</span></strong></a></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /><em><strong> The global Corona conflict has rammed people into trenches. Invisible, lethal, viral weapons have replaced visible whistling bullets and thunderous bombs. As we don’t know who is calling the shots, it is difficult to tell how we can call a truce with imperceptible enemies.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>How will we ever know who is responsible for worldwide calamity? What do all those lab technicians think and feel, behind their dirty aprons? What is in their mind as they are dissecting, or making tests with mice, rats, dogs, bats, or viruses?</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>We may often wonder what butchers, surgeons, vivi-sectors, or epidemiologists feel when they are at work and if they comprehend the antecedents or the consequences of their acts.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>The rapture of an ‘innocent moment’ or an “unsuspected instant” can overwhelm us at any time, throughout our lives, and surprise us with a storm of liberating waves of good vibrations.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Do those people "with their dirty aprons" know the “innocent moments” that give the “sound vibrations?” Will they operate in the same mood after experiencing deadly diseases or disastrous plague?</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>While people are retracting into their snail shell's security of “stay home, stay safe,” distrust has become the top concern on the list. A climate of suspicion or denunciation is taking hold, gradually destroying the strings of sociability. In the aftermath, every singular person must find out how to reweave the ties of trust and confidence in their community's social tissue.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>The frightening assaults of pandemic terror have vastly increased our vulnerability. At the outset, hope and humor were able to alleviate the sabotage of our living together, until bit by bit, the raging roars and the thundering crashes of the death toll called the shots. The ground zero of our mental structure must inevitably make us re-found another thinking pattern.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>With the dawning of a new age, after pandemics have done their work, we find ourselves at the watershed of singular considerations about how to handle the changes that revolutionize our lives and trace the silver lining in a new reality.</strong></em></span></p> </p>

What do they think behind their dirty aprons?
<p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">" No longer in the middle"</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> , by </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" lang="FR-BE"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; color: #3366bb; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Erik Pevernagie</span></strong></a></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">, oil on canvas, (100 x 80 cm) xx</span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /><em><strong> Please, let us not stick to our comfortable confirmation biases, seeking out our holy truths based on our preexisting beliefs. Viewpoints differing from our own are a blessing to tear open the canvas of ignorance covering our lives.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>When our thoughts are plagued by ill-considered shortcuts, we must watch out for pitfalls in our thinking patterns. Only if we regularly challenge our entrenched assumptions can we steer clear of common biases and irreparable errors.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>The church used to be in the middle of the village. It represented a beacon in man’s existence and was supposed to symbolize god’s presence on earth, permanently reminding the primary goal in man’s life.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>In many circles of the Western world, the church is no longer the main preoccupation.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Because of measurable “bread and butter” realities, more essential items like consumption, housing, and health have drawn religious matters into the background. The church is no longer in the middle of the village and is no longer at the center of their concern.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>The excessive speed of globalization has brought another god to the foreground, namely the god of consumerism. His exacting demands and the to-and-fro swinging from one period to another and from one domain to another cause emotional heartaches. This situation may cause people to feel like individuals “with no sense of belonging” and “characters without qualities.”</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>On the other hand, if we don’t guard against those who try to sell justifications for letting the gory constructions of their criminal instincts run wild and concoct pretexts for malicious acts, we might fail to see how they impersonate god and usurp the spirit of religious beliefs.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Believing is easy, but thinking is difficult. Thinking about why we believe this is still more complicated.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Phenomenon:</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> </span></em><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" lang="FR-BE"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Religion" title="Religion"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; color: #0645ad; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Religion</span></em></a></span><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> and sense of belonging.</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 6pt 0cm; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point of the picture:</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> Church in abstract </span></em><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;" lang="FR-BE"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Landscape" title="Landscape"><em><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; color: #0645ad; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">landscape</span></em></a></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></p>

No loger in the middle
"A Thousand times touched." by Erik HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie"Pevernagie, 100 x 120 cm, Oil on board A thousand times people may wonder about the real worth of their relationship or the true value of their encounters. A thousand times people may question the quality of their being together with others. Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the fresh energy of new boundaries and pick the blossoms of poetry welling up along the path of our life, and enjoy the innocence of the little wonders of every day. If no signal ever awakens any smoldering desire or seething passion in the wasteland of our mental universe, only a third eye may throw inspiriting light on the path to good vibrations. "Cordial or commercial", that is an essential question in relationships. How heartwarming is it when we experience the instantaneity and radiance of a sunny smile or scent an air of unexpected willingness. In contrast, how smashingly disheartening is it not when everything appears to be merely contrived or profit-driven and anything but cordial or empathic. The magic of authentic emotions is precious. We should cherish it and keep it uncorrupted. Faked feelings can only be ignored.

A thousand times touched
"Not on the shortlist" , by Erik Pevernagie, (100 cm x80cm), Oil on canvas When people have not learned to interpret the past, to read the present, and to imagine and empower the future, they are living a life without a punch line. They remain clueless about the story they are embarked upon. If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in the authentic life challenges. Some are wrestling with the permanent obsession of not being on the shortlist of people’s attention and are depressed as they have never and ever nominated them for luck. This sense of powerlessness cripples their lust for life. It saps each initiative they would like to take, creating a sentiment of unbearable exclusion and a feeling of the disintegration of their personality. The fact of missing the presence of heart-warming people and uplifting opportunities makes them uncomfortable in their skin. Not being lucky or not being on the shortlist of one’s wishes or dreams may be incredibly dispiriting. Never being on the shortlist of people’s attention may arouse a sense of desolation. However, if we take the compelling circumstances as expectant challenges to excel and exceed ourselves, unexpected power can inflame our inner self. It may incite us never to give up, and to hit the ground and run, ever since life may offer an astounding window of opportunity to assert oneself in a land of contention.

Not on the shortlist
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