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Dear Future Wife: Here are the difficult truths you should know about your future husband This letter is written with the hope that my future wife will read it. With this I also want to make my readers sure that I don’t intend to become the next apostle Paul. I.e. I am not a celibate. I really want to have a family in the future. I also want to make it plain that I don’t really know yet who that woman will be. In this letter I have tried to introduce myself to my future wife with the hope that she will read this piece someday. (Notice: I have written this letter with a high level of honesty, you will find some new things as usual) Feb 2019 Dear future wife, I’m deeply sorry that I started my letter of salutation by admitting that I don’t know you yet. Don’t worry. This letter isn’t about you. It’s about me. I want you to understand some difficult things about me so that you won’t find them offending or strange in the future. So many times I had thought that I met ...

If I were to deny the existence of a supreme being, there has not been a good time than recently. I had everything in front of me to help me surrender my faith. I was the best candidate to be the Ethiopian version of Charles Templeton. (FYI Charles Templeton was a co-evangelist with Rev. Billy Graham who finally gave his faith up and became an atheist) Thank God I didn’t end up him. In this short piece, I am going to tell you how I survived. Before I tell you how I survived I think I need to let you know the situation I have been in. In short, I was both physically and mentally not well. Hidden Physically I had suffered from an abdominal pain that started some 8-9 months ago that turned out to be a kidney stone. Normally a kidney stone has a weird kind of symptoms. If the stones descend down to the renal pelvis and ureter, the pain will be unbearable, even worse than labor. Physicians describe such kind of pain as “colicky”. Thankfully, I was yet to experience that l...

You might have been invited by a friend or saw the ad on a social media group or you were directed from Naol's Perspective telegram channel or you might be a long fan of Naol's writings. Are you sure you want to read from Naol Befkadu this time? Why am I asking you this? Well, I want you to understand that Naol is neither a political activist nor a religious man anymore than you are. You don't find him as a good literary man either. He won't satisfy your epistemological search in the end. Why would you want to read from Naol then? Naol doesn't flow with the majority but also doesn't identify himself with the minority. He won't prove to you anything, neither he denies anything. He is neither hot nor cold these days. Would you read from a lukewarm? Anyhow, since you've ended up here, let me help you discover who Naol is. Naol is a man who struggles to find a meaning in life by cross puzzling between faith, culture and politics. He is in quest to...