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Interest 1 Reading - · Reading has been one of my greatest
interests since my early ages in my life. From my early childhood there is a quest in me
to know as how this Universe happen to exist and where do I go when I die. This quest
leads me to look for books related to astronomy and religious books. To understand the
meaning I went further to reading books on physics and chemistry and to learn mathematics.
Traveling through my mind and disregarding the distance I first thought about the endless
galaxies in the universe and wondered as how they happen to be there. Could it be true as
some of the scientists say that it all started from highly dense matter with zero radius
(where there is no such a thing as time and space or time-space) and by means of slight
crack (which is the beginning of time-space) and followed by explosion known as the Big
Bang the universe continued to expand ever since creating in its long process the galaxies
and the stars that we see by night with our naked eyes in this vast universe. Leaving
aside all the rest I thought about our Milky Way Galaxy and disregarding the other
millions of suns in it, I thought about our sun and her satellite planets. And then I
thought about our tiny planet Earth on whom I am standing and thought about myself as one
person amongst the over six billion of its inhabitants without counting the dead
ones. Looking into my physical body which is built by about trillion of
cells including my brain cells each one of them working hard to survive and obeying
instruction from my brain by means of the nerve cells to accomplish their tasks.
Surprisingly, any one of my cells has nucleus in their atoms. Further breakdown of the
atoms will take me to subatomic levels, which will take me to the dense minute worlds.
Having made the extensive travel I ended up without answer to my quest of how and why
should I be here as a thinking man. I read the Bible, the Koran, the Bghavatagita, Raja
Yoga, the Great Initiates by Edouard Schure, and the Synaxarium by Sir E.A.Wallis
Budge and even read the Sign and the Seal, the Sphinx the Finger Prints of Gods By Graham
Hancock. It so appears that science is concerned only with the physical and material world
and is incapable to answer the inner minds of man. And in today's world the religious
order imprisoned in its dogma and urge for worldly wealth does not seem to understand the
true meaning and message of the teachings of its founders. In my opinion, which I say
to myself, if these cells in my body obey instructions from my brain to do their bodily
functions from the system built within my body and with an additional power to THINK
it could also be possible that the whole system in the entire universe is obeying
instruction from a higher being capable to be within the system or stand alone. That
system however is not limited with power to think but it is omnipotent all knowing and
everlasting with power to create and destroy all matter as opposed
to the saying by the scientists who claim that matter/energy can not be created or
destroyed. Perhaps it may be his reason to create the thinking man in his image to
understand him through his creation and to love him. If so then, that being is GOD.
Now that I found my creator and the answer to my quest let me say a little bit
about myself. I am born from families who are followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo
Church. I have been baptized when I was 40 days old. I took my first education at the
Swedish Evangelical School at Entoto. Even though it is a Protestant School and we were
taught the Bible in the protestant way there was a high zeal in me, which tells me to
remain faithful to the Holly Orthodox Church to this day. I am now 63 years old and still
go to the Tewahdo Churches. I have respect to all the other Christian churches but I have
decided to remain where I belong. Similarly, I have respect to all other religions and
have received great inspirations from their teachings. Therefore, as the great prophets
including David who said that 'Kedamiha Le Tibeb Feriha Egziabher' (meaning, the
fear of God is the beginning of wisdom) taught men to obey and worship God. I pray to God
to show me the way, to guide me to follow and understand the teachings of the holly
fathers who sacrificed their life and wealth for the love of God the Father, God the Son
Jesus Christ God the Holly Spirit One God.
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Interest 2
Hobbies. |
Swimming and Fishing. Click here to see Photo Album
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Interest 3
Traveling |
In 1979 I visited Greece, Russia, France and United
Kingdom as tourist. Again in 1981 I
visited United Kingdom on Company business and USA as tourist. In 1983 I visited Italy the
United Kingdom and USA as tourist. In 1985 I visited West Germany for exhibition, the
Netherlands and U.K on Company business and USA as tourist. In 1990 I visited
with my wife Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and Greece on pilgrimage. In 1992 I visited with
my wife U.K. and USA as tourist again in 1996 I visited Germany for Cibit Exhibition,
visited U.K and joined my wife in USA we spent our holidays with our children and
came back to our country Ethiopia. We still have desire to visit our children in USA and
perhaps other countries as well. |