070707 - SPECIAL DAY?

I have nothing much to add today except to say that its 070707 and what makes this a special day? Hmmm, let me look outside for awhile...

Looks like any other day....so I guess all this hype about this occurrence of numbers and dates are just what humans like to attest to them? I'm not sure but correct me if I'm wrong.

Quick cap, what is so special with the number 7? According to Christians, 7 is the perfect number...why?

God completed his creation and rested on the 7th day. Thus, the Sabbath has always been known to be holy. (Jews worship on the sabbath which is the Saturday and Sunday is to them, the beginning of the new week, note, not Monday)

To this day, Christians also adopt Sundays as the beginning of the new week and why Christians got to church on Sundays is because Jesus was resurrected on on 3rd day after Friday (JC died on a Friday and 3 days later, i.e. Sunday, Jesus is resurrected)

7 is mentioned 187 times in the Bible; the phrase seven-folds occurs 70 times; & the number 70 occurs 56 times.

There are 7 deadly sins:- lust, greed, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy & pride.

There are 7 holy virtues:- chastity, abstinence, liberality, diligence, patience, kindness & humility.

There are 7 holy sacraments:- baptism, confirmation, holy Eucharist, penance, anointing of the sick, holy orders & matrimony.

** (source Star Two)

For Muslims, the number 7 also is important to them.

Muslims need to go round the Kaaba 7 times.

Muslims will take 7 pebbles to stone the Devil's Stone.

Their prophet, Muhd, whilst in Jerusalem, was taken to the 7th heavens.

Hence, the number 7 represents something wonderful to different faiths and to different peoples.

However, to my opinion, these are all meaningless if we still do not honor & respect each other. Fundamental rights and civil liberties must be respected and the moral compass of an individual is solely his / her responsibility.

No one can take that away from that individual. Not the state, a holy person or even anyone, for whatever choices we were given, we have the right to exercise it.

Its only when people impose their own views and then force others to follow them & then condition them, then this is is un-principled guidance. Not even God from his mighty throne has come down and with shouts of thunder and brim stones denied a person's choice in life.

Nope, only humans with their lofty knowledge that they think they act on behalf, is the one's who are more guilty. What can they do? Counsel and teach, but if at the end of the day, the individual is still adamant in wanting to stick to his or her choices, we have to respect that, not force them to some rehabilitation home (sound so Communist) and in there, re-education methods will be used.

Where is the freedom of conscience? Where is the freedom of choosing your path of life? I'll ask for today that the will of the silent majority out there, voice out without fear and trample on all this inequalities that exists in this nation of ours...(for when silence is condoned, it means consent has been given)

come and VOICE out in choosing your way of life...