TEBOHO PIETERSEN

The banks are charging you a large sum for interest for the place where you are staying, the government is charging you tax, you are working your life away, but you are too busy watching tick tock to face this and have any energy to do anything about it. You are being entertained. The bank systems are automated, they don’t need a human to screw you over anymore, even the humans working at the banks are taking out mortgages, they have no idea about the mechanisms of the institution they work for.  Its success to own a home, drive a big car, get married etc the commercial world has got us occupied with these ideas while the bank and government are also taking their piece of your life. Its not a system that requires single drivers there’s no one person to blame, it’s us, its always been, even if any of you would become president tomorrow you won’t change much of this at all, its an automated system it doesn’t need human intelligence to operate, the original creators are long dead and ...

  Love is not a recipe Love is not a decision  It has nothing to do with effort  love is not respect or forgiveness  I t not bound by time  it’s not stubborn   it’s not ownership, it’s not contractual,  it has no authority   You don’t fight for love  Love knows no aggression Love knows no jealousy  No doubt   No certainty  No regret  No fear  Love is not dependent  It’s not pathetic  It’s not ambition  It’s not hope  It’s not known   You can’t describe it with words It’s not academic  It’s not limited by words  It’s not analysis  It’s not to be understood  It’s not a thesis  You don’t have to earn it  It can’t be bought  Love is not a conclusion Love is when we have a relationship without the past  When we see each other with innocence  Love is relationship  

  We live our lives based on already existing ideas. If we live this way are we really living? Its  already done, it’s not new.  So let’s start by looking at how our relationships are structured in an already existing pattern. When you look at romantic relationship as an example, the term dating is used to describe the way in which we do engage as romantic partners. So dating means a lot of things but essentially it is a commitment to our engagement with each other. We commit to communication, to intimacy, to other more significant and superficial rules of engagement. Now having agreed to a way of behavior it is apparent that there is already a pattern in which I am behaving and having a relationship with you in this instance. Is it possible to have an absolutely fresh relationship with your partner when there are rules and ways of behavior that are predetermined? Why do I need rules of engagement? Is it that we don’t trust each other to be there tomorrow and so I have to...

We are asking if there is living in freedom  It has been asked from the days of extreme slavery to the days of apartheid we have asked this question.  Why do we not ask this question so much now. Is it because we are distracted by social media and all that?  We obviously live enslaved, we live under authority, we spent our days in anxiety, it goes on. We have accepted this way of living rather than push against the contracts, we sign them.  We rather enjoy living under the promise of success, achieving this and that. Standing out as more successful than the other. Arriving in an expensive car, medical aid, pension plan. If we don’t have these things some of us we think something is missing, we cry ourselves to sleep. Majority of people live without these things, yet minority of people allow these things to force them into slavery. Nothing is wrong with having good things absolutely not, when you afford it.  There is something to be done about the environment tha...

Love is not selfish it does not own another. That which I own I cannot love.  Love wants the best for the other, it does not envy. Yet we have called this love the ownership of another the jealousy over the other and we are quite serious about this and we impose it on others with all our years of attending church we impose our jealousy and ownership on another who has no dealings with our limited beliefs.  We wish to own someone who is capable of doing some thing for us. If you can do something for me then I wish to own you. I doubt if I will wish to own you if you do nothing for me whether it is sex or money or emotional support or whatever else I wish to have for myself. Wishing all these things for myself I am lead into desperate need to own someone who can give me all these things or help me to reach these things. Help me to escape my misery my loneliness, my worry.  Desperate to escape I hold onto another with the intense hope that they will fulfil me give me so...