• Main Page

• Tours on Bike

  • Road, Traveler and the Comrade

  • Preparations

  • South Europe

  • Balkans

  • Northern Europe

  • Altays | Russia

  • Taurus Mountains

  • From South to North Turkey

  • All over Ukraine

• Courses

  • Philosophy of Education

  • Statistics Social Sciences

  • Principles and methodas of Teaching

  • Curriculum Development

  • Planning and assessment of Instruction

  • Analytical and Critical Thinking

  • Training of Personality and Values

• Various Activities

Who are you? 

If someone tries to describe him or herself, just know that he or she is describing the image of him or herself on his or her mind. The answer of this question may get thousands of pages but I don’t think a unique or single answer can be given.

Because I don’t think this question can be answered by several words or generalizations. Who you are for whom? Who you are for when and where? How many “who you are?”

I believe there is no single or unique perception of anything. I mean, nothing is the same thing for all of us but it is the thing how we perceive it. Thus I’m the one as you perceived me for yourself.

Believing?

Believing gives the meaning to our lives or all our lives are shaped by our beliefs. There is very few things about what we are sure of but things about what we believe that are so. All we do is believing either by our observations or by our feelings, some are right and some are wrong. All our lives depend on how we believe or how we want to believe.

All our facts, knowledge, values and beliefs are those what makes us ourselves and distinguish us from others. In short, what we believe forms our personality. And the reflections of our beliefs on our behaviour make us ourselves. If you want to question yourself, question your beliefs about life, morale, virtue, knowledge and facts.

Time?

Time is the witness of the very beginning of everything and also of the very last moments. It witnesses every piece of all the experiences. Is it only the witness or the cause of everything? Time is the creator and destroyer of everything. We come to life in a moment in time and die in one another. Time is the independent variable of all phenomenon. Time gives a piece of herself to you and you spent it as your life either good or bad. All our loves, dissatisfactions, happiness, sadness and ambitions are lived in it.  We achieve in one time and lost in another. Time is all we have and we are all depended on time. Time is the chance you are given, time is your life and time is your fortune however you spent. Perhaps one day, you may be questioned about the time you are given. But beforehand, you should question yourself about how you spent your time because you may never have another time.

Dün ile Birgün’ün Hikayesi (a poem)

Mağrur ve eğilmez,

otururken Dün,

Çekingen ve belirsiz,

 Birgün uğradı.

Soluk pembe dizelerle çizilmiş,

imkansızlık resimleri yaptım.

Olmazlar bahçesine yine de tohumları ektim,

diye gürledi dün.

Sonbahar yağmurlarıyla suladım.

Bulutlardan güneş çaldım, yapraklarına.

Yaşanmışlıklar üstünde ölümsüz kaldım.

Bana bir gün borçlusun, dedi Dün.

Ve Birgün fısıldadı, 

sende gördüm.

Her yolun her yere çıkacağını,

herkesin bir yerde kavuşacağını,

ve her sonun bir başlangıç olacağını.

Sende bildim,

her çaresizlikten bir çıkış olacağını,

aşkın ise hep yaşayacağını.

Ümit oldukça bende ölümsüzüm, 

dedi Birgün.

Böylece ölümsüz kalırken,

 Dün ile Birgün,

Fani olmakta ise çaresiz Bugün.

Çünkü Bugün, dün Birgün’dü,

Yarın ise olacaktır, mutlaka Dün.

İsmet ŞAHİN

Nature?

Time and universe is the main architects of cosmic existence. Then galaxies and the third existence circle mey be considered to be the solar systems and planets with their nature which feeds thousands of living eco systems. For some cultures in which all aspects of life heavily depends on nature, soil is the mother, sky is the god or father, seas are brothers or sisters and mountains are the home. Nature is magnificent and powerful, it represents smartness and kindliness and if you are careless it becomes brutal for all of us. Just imagine yourself on top of a high mountain, in the spring of a river, at the end of a valley, near the sea side  in a warm spring day or a very cold winter day, or when it’s sunny, cloudy, foggy or raining heavily. The nature is habitat of all our dreams, we came from it and will go back to it at the end. As for a Shaman, an Indian or an Aborigine, the nature is the source and the energy of our souls.

Zamandan Bağımsız Aşklar

İsmet ŞAHİN ( a Poem)

Frames?

Consider a day is the frame of your daily routines, you wake up, change oyur clothes, have breakfast, go to work, lunch,  chat a few friends and back home and bed. And the other day, another day, and hundred days later, if you put the frames on top of each other, you face a single frame, as if you lived only a day and 99 of the other have not been lived at all. Do you want to live only a single day and die? If you look the people around and their lives you see that many of them has a routine and rarely get out of it. But if can make a little change in everyday routines, a new place, a new person, a new feeling and taste after a hundred days we will have 100 frames that not fit each other. İf you live all your life in this manner when you turn back to your past you see a life full of experiences lived at the most.

Soul?

Do you believe there is a soul, out of our physical existence? 

Do you believe the migration of soul to an eternal world after the death of our bodies? No one can be sure but we can only say “I believe or not.” We have a tendency to believe because the idea of being extinct, lost or disappeared is not very tasty.

Perhaps all we accept as the soul is the liveliness of the body that is caused by the micro volt electricity travels all around the nervous system. Who knows! May be we are all the clients of a superior wisdom. We may die and disappear completely but our experiences may be filtered and stored in that wisdom forever. Who knows! You can only believe or not which ever you want.

Justice?

Is there a divine justice in the world or is it only a human expectation. For Plato, justice is what wise man or man in power says it is just. For those who are not wise or powerful, justice is to obey what is said to be just by the wise ones. For me there is no divine justice. If you want. justice you should get it either by your wisdom, by paying or by force. If you are poor, there is nothing you can do except wishing to get it by the God. Democracy not as a concept but as it is lived in the world is similar. You can get it only if you are in power, or wise. İf not you can only wish to get it from the powerful. The system of democracy all over the world turned out to be power centered democracy. If you are powerful or near the powerful ones you get it, if you are not you lose it.