Apologies

A very personal word from me February 2009 To any one who knows me!

Due to the many reactions I have had in the last year or two, about some of the things I have said to some people, or written to, or written about, I feel that it is now imperative for me to write this.

Who was it that said “I am who I am”! In my case I am Clive Compion. Born in Zimbabwe, educated in South Africa, and around the rest of the world. I now live in the South West of France. This is not so important, what is important, is what I have said to some people, and what I have written. It seems that some people were, or are, offended, some hurt, some insulted, and some confused. So I will try to explain. I sometimes say things to provoke people, The one and only reason I want to provoke people, is because I want to change things for the better. I want a better world for every one, for the future, and for future generations. I get so frustrated sometimes, when I look around me, and see all the problems of the world. Wars, Poverty, injustice, apathy, indifference and the list goes on, selfish, greedy, uncaring and corrupt people! I want to change this, I want for all of us to be better and better. It is just my nature and character to react like this. I know many of my friend’s feel the same way but they feel they cannot do much, and do not react like me. I cannot be silent! and do not want to be silent, and so I shout from the rooftops. I so much want to see every one happy, content, satisfied, prosperous, healthy, intelligent, (meaning not ignorant) and truly free.
When I discuss with some people, and hear, anti Semite remarks, or racist or discriminatory remarks, I go mad. When I see people abusing or using or belittling other people, I always feel obliged to react. And that is when I start to “talk” to provoke people, it is not because I want to challenge peoples intellect, or look for a debate to show them down, of upset them, all I want is for each and every one of us, is to be able to stop and think, before we do, and say, some of the things we do and say. If only we could live in true peace and harmony, not hurting and judging people, but rather encouraging, uplifting, helping, accepting, forgiving, building, and loving each other.

Remember I grew up in Colonial Africa, where I saw raciest injustice and war, since the day I was born. I then moved to South Africa during the peak of the Apartheid area, and there I saw injustice in its truest form. It was from this background that I began to write and talk, and seek to understand why people are the way they are, and why they do the things they do. I once knew a woman who worked with me, whose husband beat her, and she stayed with him. This went on and on for years, and I could not understand why she stayed with him. I had to talk out against this kind of atrocity, and so I began my “quest;” to talk to people, to provoke responses and reactions, from those whom I came across. I have been arrested in South Africa and beaten because I could not, would not be silent against the horrors of apartheid. I have been thrown out of meetings, lost bonds with so called friends, and have even made enemies with some folk, who do not understand where I am coming from. I never want to insult or hurt or humiliate any one. I desire only true Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Justice, Peace and Love for all men and woman everywhere.
So if you are one of those people who may have been offended, hurt, humiliated or confused by what I have had to say, I ask of you please try to understand it was not, and is not, my intention to offend, hurt, insult, or be pretentious or superior. When I wrote about Ignorance I received a lot of feedback by people saying that I was pretentious, high and mighty, superior, because I thought that I was more enlightened and superior in knowledge and less ignorant than others. This is not the case at all, I too am a victim of ignorance, and suffer from it as well, I only strive to be less ignorant, by taking time to try and understand things, I question everything, to try and work things out. This takes time, and study, soul searching, and effort, to find enlightenment, to “know” to understand the claim of Him who said “I am the way, I am the Truth, I am the Life”. Understanding and knowing what is TURTH is very difficult in this day and age. We are bombarded, confounded, indoctrinated, brainwashed, and manipulated by the media, governments and society, to where most people have an information overload, and they just shutdown, and go on living.

On a more personal note, I would like to declare, and openly confess, that I believe In God, that He does exist. Not any God, not the God Buddha, or Krishna, or Allah, but the one true God, the Only God, the God of Moses, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The God who sent his only son Jesus Christ to fulfil the prophesies of old, to be born for us, to die, to be resurrected, and to ascend to be seated at the right hand of God the Father. I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and that he has given us the choice of salvation, and I have accepted this choice, and will, and do, try to live according to His will. I believe that Jesus Christ will return to this earth, as it is written in the Bible prophesies. I believe that the Bible is the word of God, and I believe every thing that is written in it.

There you have it, all clear and out in the open, I quote once again, as I have in the past, the residing Judge of the Nuremberg trials, after presiding over the horror of the Nazi Holocaust trials, said, “All it takes for evil to exist, is for good men everywhere, to do nothing.” I cannot be silent, Apathetic, or indifferent to the problems I see around me, I believe I must do what I can, to try and make this a better place for us all, do my little bit, set an example by my own life, talk out, write and “shout”! All in Love, made only possible by Gods love, for only

God is Love