5 Comments

• 1. uccf  |  March 16th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

  Inequality…discrimination…prejudice and personal bias…all such important things in this world…thanks Sachi for showing us the way we think so much of the time…even tho we profess to be Christians…
  And about living lives of purpose…how difficult it is…our purpose isn’t easy to find is it?…A quick solution is not found in “Purpose Driven Life”…its a lifelong quest…What is our purpose, how do we find it? How should we react to people from different walks of life? Should it differ? Well…guess the answer to these are not just blowing in the wind…there are some hard answers found in the Bible…

• 2. Anushke  |  March 20th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

  I have always wondered why we are never honest with ourselves… is it because of what society has burdened us and conditioned?
  If so how did society get to place these values etc on itself in the first place… a never ending cycle that rolls on without ever being properly validated/redefined/challenged and re-aligned…
  How many times have I let myself be swayed by the personal bias I have been conditioned with, even more so important when have I noticed those bias’s to correct them and re-align…
  One thing I can assure you… the more I find them and try to fix, the more I want to stop acknowledging that I had it in the first place…

• 3. Diyan  |  March 26th, 2007 at 10:00 am

  Hmm..

  Sounds very familiar to me, coming from Kelaniya!
  In my faculty it was kind of a joke to everyone else when they saw Arts Students Talking in English! They even tried to imitate them with the little broken English they knew! I had to make sure that I do everything to try and relate to them by not popping out with English terms like we did in School.
  (Anyway something that always bothers me is that even Jesus didn’t know English! It would have been really hard for Him to take his furniture to a shop if he was in this day and age)

  on the other hand, most of my batch mates will find it hard to get into a job! That’s the sad part of the Sri Lankan Society.
  Anyway it has always been a struggle I think, thinking of this issue of “English above all others” even the popular Baila song goes like “English kama nathi Karanna English la ma Goda gahila” (A bunch of Englishmen have got together to diminish the “way of English”)

  Well… yes! the reality these days is that you can barely survive with out English, knowing high rank people and being in high society!

• 4. Noeline  |  April 20th, 2007 at 4:44 pm

  you know i’ve come to realise that the so called “committed Christains” half the time dont realsied how prejudiced they are. it was shocking to realise this week, that i myself am… Did christ not break barriers at the cross? What kind?

• 5. fernando  |  May 21st, 2007 at 3:56 pm

  There are many people around us in uni who needs love, acceptance. As christians we are neither blind nor deaf to problems. Many are trying to get their identity by achieving success…..It may be academically ,politacaly etc. As christians we have lot more to do to break this chain .

  Take time ,talk with someone and learn the struggles of emptyness, lonliness ,future desperation, anxiety, stress they are facing.
  Share the God’s word of hope.
  So my dear friends we as a fellowship has lot more to do in uni.
  Think about it.!!!!!